Destiny 2 surpassed Destiny’s records for engagement and digital sales in launch week. "With franchise pre-order records broken, and record day-one performance on PlayStation Store, it’s exciting to see engagement at the highest ever week-one concurrency for the franchise. Destiny 2 is off to a strong start as the #1 console gaming launch week of the year to date," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision. "With the PC version yet to ship, Destiny 2 sets the stage for being one of the biggest video game entertainment events of the year."

Bungie CEO, Pete Parsons, said, “We hit some great milestones this week with our community.” He added, “We are blown away that we’ve had eight days in a row in Destiny 2 where we’ve seen more than one-million concurrent players grace our worlds. It’s equal parts inspiring and humbling, and we’re looking forward to showing everyone what’s coming next!”

For the third year in a row, Destiny is the #1 console-only game viewed on Twitch by minutes watched. Destiny 2, including its two betas, had more than 600M minutes watched on Twitch before the raid, a fan-favorite, endgame, 6-player gameplay experience started. The raid, called “Leviathan,” went live for players on Sept. 13 and immediately shot to the #1 position on Twitch based on total concurrent viewers.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170915005228/en/Destiny-2-Delivers-Biggest-Console-Video-Game

Biggest launch but no numbers??

I assume they aren't as big as shareholders/studio wanted, hence no mention of them.

Huh? I thought its sales were a lot lower than the first game?

In UK it was less than half the first destinys sales on first week, so what are this guys telling me??

Destiny's sales were massive, so theres a wide margain to sell way less and still get the top launch of the year.

Maybe I read wrong, but isn't he talking about digital sales on consoles?

How do you "deliver" the biggest console launch of the year? Usually articles like this are like "Nintendo delivers the best 3D platformer of the year". How, as a consumer, is Bungie personally sending this to me?

Love that no data was presented for this argument.

Additionally, I think its safe to argue that had ZeldaBOTW launched on a userbase even half of what Destiny 2 did, this article wouldn't exist.

"Deliver" makes it sound like its to retailers, not consumers.

Regardless, I'm betting this game goes on sale quickly. If it sold like half what Destiny 1 did, I'm guessing retailers overstocked this and will be wanting to clear inventory of it for other holiday games.

seems like they're bragging more about record 'engagement' and activity than actual sales. However you have to spin it to make your shareholders or bosses happy I guess