And just to kill the ideia that af 9.5 million are Bungie.net accounts.

http://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/254/8546057

This is the lastest registered user...

Total: 8,546,057 users registered in Bungie.net

"Sure. Well, first of all, I think by any measure, Destiny is off to a great start. As I mentioned, we are the largest new franchise launch of all time. And despite the large investment, which Dennis will talk about -- maybe because of that large investment, we are able to be profitable from day 1, and we think it's only a matter of time now before it becomes our next billion-dollar franchise. I also mentioned some pretty incredible engagement numbers. The average player is investing over 3 hours of gameplay per day. And to date, we have over -- we have 9.5 million registered users. Of course, there's a relationship to sell-through. It's not exact because some people have more than one identity. But obviously, that's directional. So it's a highly engaged audience that is hungry for more content, and we've had that. We think we've been good at providing them with more content to satisfy that demand, which we're planning on doing on December 9 with our first expansion pack. And I also mentioned that we are also already underway on our next full-game releases. So we've got a great pipeline of content, a great plan, a great development partner with Bungie, and we're very bullish on Destiny."

im one of the registered palyers, but never bought the game.
registered for the beta and not even played it :D

VGC shows Destiny sales at 6,8m.

By my estimates they are minimum ~1 million off... undertracked.

I expect adjustments soon.

You are not.

There is 8.5m bungie accounts and over 9.5m unique PSN/XBL accounts registred in the game.

PS. Unless you come to a friend home and created a character in his Destiny copy with your PSN/XBL to count like a Destiny registered user.

A lot from these 8.5m bungie accounts never played Destiny too

vilanger is not sure how he feels about this

is that ur thought, or did activision said that?

because the bungie accounts are linked to xbl or psn accounts. u can even use ur xbl or psn to log in.
and as u can play the game without an bungie account?, ofc there could be more unique destiny players, than overall bungie accounts

Meh, saw this coming day one, once the sales hit.

Going to be another Call of Duty, Assassins Creed, Skylanders, Battlefield (*insert annual/biannual series in here).

Not to necessarily say that's bad thing.

You can link you Bungie account to Facebook too... it is not PSN/XBL exclusive.

There are ~8.5m Bungie accounts... a lot not linked to any PSN/XBL.

To play without an bungie account you need just turn the game and play it lol

9.5m are the number of players registered to Destiny's servers... not Bungie's accounts... that means if you bought the game, played it, traded it, and other guy bought it again... it will count like two registered users and only one copy sold... same for "family" or friend sharing... one copy can have two or three guys playing.

Said that... 1.5m for multiples accounts is a lot... so I estimate ~8m sales right now.

I think you're likely both correct.

Activision would be including people who linked their PSN and Xbox Live accounts to Bungie - thats everyone that played the Alpha and Beta.

Then you'd have multiple players on consoles, multiple traded in copies etc.

If the sold numbers were incredible, they'd just have told us those instead.

On topic

Hopefully they can deliver a game that more people are happy with the second time around, or it will be a much smaller (and shorter) franchise than they've told us the last few years.