Helldivers 2 Beats Destiny 2's All-Time Steam Peak, Gaining on Palworld | Push Square

20.02.2024 - 00:42 / pushsquare.com / Sony / Nintendo

Helldivers 2 is the 2024 hit no one saw coming – well, at least since Palworld, anyway. The game just keeps getting bigger and bigger on PC, where it’s now surpassed Destiny 2’s all-time peak players total by attracting 333k concurrent users overnight. It’s worth noting that with PS5 owners added in, the game’s highs are even higher.

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In fact, such is its success that it’s now gaining on the aforementioned Palworld. Obviously, interest in the Pokémon-inspired survival game has dipped a little bit since its unfathomable highs, but it was doing about 535k users on Steam when Helldivers 2 was hitting the records mentioned above, so the gap is closing between the two – even if they are ultimately radically different games!

Arrowhead has said it’s ramping up recruitment as it looks to expand its post-release plans, and it’s going to be interesting to see if Sony moves to acquire the Swedish studio, seeing as this is the first effort in its new live service strategy and it’s already become a colossal hit. Obviously, the platform holder’s placed Bungie in charge of its overall GAAS initiative – but Helldivers 2 is bigger than Destiny 2 right now.

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Imagine being as arrogant as Bungie and getting ran over by a random swedish team.

The community narratives on social media about the imbalance in troop deployment are hilarious too. «Malevelon Creek is f****d! Release it on XBOX! We need reinforcements!» sent tea out of my nostrils.

I tried to log on last night but kept getting the servers at capacity message. All I could think was, I'm not even mad. That's amazing.

So much for these types of games being a saturated market.

Having to play solo right now as matchmaking is well not working right now.

Perhaps the Live Service Center of Excellence or whatever it's called should be run by Arrowhead instead of Bungie

Interesting, in the context of Sony's comments about April 2024 — March 2025 I wonder if perhaps this year ends up being PS5's Splatoon moment.

For context, Nintendo 1st party lineup slowed down in 2015 regarding big existing IP as Nintendo started focusing on creating a very strong lineup for the Switch but that gave smaller and new IP the chance to grow. The new IP Splatoon (released May 2015) benefited the most from that approach and is currently one of Nintendo's biggest franchises.

It could probably do about 500k on Steam today but Server space is capped at 450k across steam and PS5 unfortunately since the servers can’t currently cope with more people.

Anyone playing today