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BraLoD said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Good start for Marathon on launch day. Looks like it's peaked at a little under 90K players on Steam so far. Solid user reviews so far as well on Steam and the PS Store. Looking forward to hopping on tonight. See how well the game performs over the weekend.

Where it should land in average daily for it to be a decent result? 90K doesn't sound like a massive number to peak at launch, but the first weekend may peak again yeah.

On the surface, it doesn't seem like a massive number. Granted, this is only Steam, but the Extraction Shooter genre is still pretty niche overall. Arc Raiders is the ultimate outlier primarily due to it being a slower-paced third-person shooter and its reliance on aggression-based matchmaking. So it really appealed to the casual market.

Marathon isn't really going for that kind of casual market. So reaching these kinds of player numbers in the traditional Extraction Shooter genre is pretty impressive overall. If it's able to average 30-50K peak players a day on Steam, after the launch-day hype mellows, that would be successful to me. Not sure what kind of numbers console would be putting up, but I imagine somewhere around the same vicinity.

Whether that's enough to appease Sony, different story lol, but that was the risk Bungie took in making Marathon in an overall niche genre.