| Spade said: ^^^ That has xbox spin written all over it. lmao. They belong together. |
Eh, I would have preferred if they gave players or sales instead of hours, but you can still get some pretty strong information from what they gave, including a rough estimate of players. Here is one interesting comparison:
-Diablo 4 early access launch (required preordering the $90 or $100 edition)- 93m hours in 4 days
vs
-Diablo 4 combined stats from the 2 beta weekends- 61.5 million hours in 6 days
So, that means that a $90 launch beat it's free open beta weekend by a substantial margin, 30m more hours played over 2 less days.
That's nice and all, but how about some actual player stats? Well, we know that Diablo 3 sold 6.3m copies in the first 5 days. Now Blizzard is saying that Diablo 4 is the fastest selling launch in their history, meaning that in 4 days, one day less than Diablo 3, Diablo 4 has sold more than 6.3m copies (and it did it at $90-100, Diablo 3 was $60).
Well, how many more copies than 6.3m did Diablo 4 sell so far? Well, we won't know for sure unless Blizzard decides to tell us, but we can get a rough estimate. The people most likely to have preordered the $90 or $100 edition are definitely core games and big Diablo fans, a good many of which will have taken off work a few days just to play the game. That means that the average playtime per person over the 4 days is probably pretty high, lets guesstimate an average of 14 hours played per person over the 4 days. 93m hours of Diablo 4 played so far with an average of 14 hours per player comes out to 6.6m players. That is not that much higher than the 6.3m for Diablo 3, but you have to remember 2 very important things 1) Diablo 4 managed that number in 1 less day than Diablo 3, and 2) Diablo 4 managed that number from the $90 and $100 editions alone, the $70 edition released at midnight last night, so Blizzard didn't include any statistics from that launch in this data today, they said the data is from the 4 days of early access only. The standard edition launch may nearly double the numbers from the early access launch, quite possibly bringing the sales up to over 11m sold in the first 5 days (4 days early access plus first day of the actual launch), and probably at least 13m sold in the first 7 days (4 days of early access plus 3 days of the actual launch). This will quite possibly be a bigger launch than both Hogwart's Legacy (12m in 2 weeks) and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (10m in 3 days), making it the biggest launch of 2023.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 06 June 2023
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