I didn't include bad company 1 because it didn't get a pc release. ever since it started releasing on console/pc simultaneously, followed by xbox, and pc.
Heck, even boot up bf3 on the ps3 and 360 today, it will have significantly more players than pc.īattlefield has the highest player retention, and sales on playstation since bad company 2, i.e. Each game with steam+origin combined numbers currently, is ridiculously lower than xbox concurrent players. The server browser will be populated and lobbies filled up quickly, because of the sudden burst of players. That's why you felt that there are more players and anecdotally believed it sold more on pc. There was a recent surge in bf1, bfv and bf4, yes, but that was because of the steam release. It was the reason some developers at Dice got salty at them, and EA wanted to shut them down and eventually they did sometime ago and bf1's launch. Not of those horseshit from steamspy or vgchartz. BFstats, till it existed, wasn't the exact amount of players, but ridiculously close. Above 500,000 players for the first 5 months on playstation, close to 400,000 on xbox and around 280,000 on pc.
Literally empty lobbies.Ĭoming to bf3 and 4, I clearly remember the bf4 launch, because I bought bf4 during the christmas sale for $25 on ps3 and EA gave a free next gen upgrade copy. After gamespy shutdown, there was a surge through gameranger, but just boot up now and see how much are left. They all started going back to unreal and quake 3. I remember asking the regulars (americans, and players from uk) and they said they weren't seeing that many concurrent lobbies either on the browser. Maybe it's my region and gamespy servers not connecting me to insanely high pings, but I used to play with mostly the same faces, again and again. There was a dearth of players worldwide after a few years. It's an absolute shame because all these 3 games were better than bf1, v, hardline and even bf4, in my opinion of course. The original games, 1942 (slightly above 3 million), vietnam and bf2 (2.25 million), all sold under 3 million (granted digital distribution didn't have a single client back then or even star to become mainstream until steam). It was the reason why they didn't launch 2143 (remake of 1942 which released on 360's xbox live arcade games and ps3). The only saving grace for pc here is that it's not embarrassingly low sales like most third party games, because bf (like cod) started on pc, but one of those rare franchises that sold units which can sustain online play for a while, unlike all the others.Ģ142 bombed on pc, under 1 million LTD and is the reason they didn't continue that line of bf games. Most of them on playstation, xbox, and pc, in that order. which I suspect most people will be playing on, it looks fantastic. Irony of telling others that are misinformed.ģ (ps3, 360 and pc) sold 17 million and 4 (ps3, ps4, 360, xb one, pc) sold 15 million. Breakthrough featured in both Battlefield 1 and 5 and has served as a. Imagine saying this with a straight face. Lmfao, you really think that it sold more than console. While this doesn’t necessarily mean it was the most popular period in Apex history as the pre-season before Season 1 is not included, it goes to show that many people still play Apex Legends and.