Bluehole and Brendan Greene announced today that PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has sold more than one million units on Steam Early Access in 16 days. According to the press release, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has remained in the top three concurrent user count on Steam, peaking at more than 89,000 simultaneous active players at a given time.

The battle royale chart-topper has over 150,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch with more than 2,000 streamers streaming every day. To date, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has been featured on more than 39,841 streams for a total of 5,168,180 minutes streamed since launch.

Brendan Greene said:

“We couldn’t have reached this milestone without the dedication of our players and we are truly humbled by their passionate response. As we move to make improvements and deliver new content we will actively engage this growing fan base.”

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is being developed with full transparency and is planned to be in Early Access for less than six months.

Source: DSOG - http://www.dsogaming.com/news/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-has-sold-one-million-copies/

That's a pretty insane amount of money to make from ane arly access title in just 16 days. I mean Day Z was popular some years ago and H1Z1 picked up a bit of Steam, but just 16 days for this game alone is insane. The game isn't even fully polished or complete, yet it's attracting the likes of levelCap, Jackfrags and FrankieonPC.

I'd like to play it, but it's not really my cup of tea due to the battle royal type design.

That's pretty crazy. I've not played Day Z or H1Z1 (could never find the time), but i might pick this up in a couple of months once i'm a bit more caught up with my backlog.

Is Day Z still popular? I used to hear about it from friends all the time, but it feels like it's dropped off the map a bit.

Afaik it's dropped off the map over time, especially the dedicated version (Creator even disables his own comments sections when showing progress, meaning he doesn't like any form of feedback). Battlegrounds seems to be the new meat that people have been looking for, so they must have done something right if they managed to net 1m in just over 2 weeks. 

Ah fair enough. But yeah, Battlegrounds has somewhat stormed it'd way onto the scene. If things are still looking good in a few months, it looks like it'd be a good place for me to jump into the genre (sub-genre?).

Yeah, it looks like it'll be picking up over time going by it's first few weekly sales and the popularity it's been gaining on youtube. I'll watch folk like Levelcap, Jack and Frankie play it here and there, but I'll still be waiting for that game that tries to do by making a better Day Z, but without the big focus on PVP.

In a nutshell

I saw some streams on the game and been thinking of buying it or bulletshot.