By Beats Call of Duty’s record for biggest player turnout
Battlefield 6’s open beta has exploded in popularity.
According to tracking on Steam—the lone storefront that publicly shares user counts—it reached a concurrent peak of roughly 521,000 gamers as we write this, landing it in the platform’s top-three most-played games right now.
Certainly, the trial doesn’t cost anything, and that no-doubt boosts turnout, yet most no-cost betas never pull turnout like this. Just ask Concord, if you fancy playing the masochist…
Naturally, these Steam logs reveal only part of the scene. Sony’s official numbers remain under wraps, but in North America the shooter is already topping PlayStation Store pre-orders, and across Europe it sits second behind EA Sports FC 26.
The Battlefield crowd traditionally leans toward PC rigs, nonetheless we’re anticipating sizable console counts as well. As one studio told us earlier, zeroing in on Steam alone can be misleading when the PS5 crowd is actually the dominant chunk of the audience.
If you hop into the Battlefield 6 open beta on PlayStation, you’ll snag a one-off bonus as a thank-you.
One wonders how the bean-counters back at Activision are digesting this data. The early test has lured a larger all-time peak than any previous record set by Call of Duty, even though the publisher recently doubled down, claiming its series is “too big to fail”.
In a pinch, they could always summon the Teletubbies, we guess…
[source steamdb.info]
Serving as Editor at Push Square, Sammy has spent fifteen-plus years dissecting the PlayStation ecosystem—from the PS3 right up to the PS5 and everything betwixt. An authority on PS Studios and wider industry trends, he specialises in sports titles and sims while sneaking in JRPGs whenever a lengthy save slot allows, plus he’s no stranger to the gacha grind.