2024-02-19 09:34:19
The success of the launch of Helldivers 2 has become indisputable. The new game published by Sony PlayStation breaks record following record and already surpasses GTA V.
After an excellent year for video games in 2023, despite an increasingly terrible crisis, the year 2024 is off to a flying start. In January, Palworld’s success helped break a number of records, including the biggest launch in Xbox Game Pass history for a third-party game. In February, it’s happening at PlayStation with the launch of Helldivers 2.
Helldivers 2 surpasses GTA V
This Monday, February 19, the game developed by Arrowhead Studio and published by Sony PlayStation brought together more than 409,000 players on Steam, not counting players on PlayStation consoles. This allows the game to slip into 24th place in the Steam ranking of games with the most simultaneous players in history, ahead of GTA V, Starfield or Team Fortress 2.
Helldivers 2 is now the highest Concurrent Players ever for a Sony or Microsoft game on Steam
It has passed the previous highest for each console maker, Destiny 2 and Starfield
All-Time Peak
• Helldivers 2 – 333,827 and growing
• Starfield – 330,723
• Destiny 2 – 316,750 pic.twitter.com/aIjKG04I9O— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) February 17, 2024
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According to analyst Benji-Sales, this makes it the biggest launch for a Microsoft or PlayStation game on Steam in the platform’s history.
This success should continue to push Sony to invest in the deployment of PlayStation games on PC.
Sony did not anticipate success
The successful launch of Helldivers 2 took everyone by surprise, even its developers and publisher. Since launch, Sony and Arrowhead have struggled with server saturation. This weekend, players faced queues and error messages preventing co-op play, a fundamental component of the game.
Despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues. We are once more working without delay to improve the issue and we hope to have a fix in place as soon as possible. Thank you
— HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) February 17, 2024
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The Arrowhead studio has been multiplying messages for several days to apologize for the problems encountered. The developers are continually trying to increase the game’s capabilities to accommodate the influx of players.
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