PUBG Hits 30 Million in Sales, Player Count Experiences First Big Dip

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It was inevitable. The wildly popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) revived a genre and inspired fellow developers to follow suit when their chicken dinner savvy game first hit the market. Since then, it has continued to smash through records, come out of Early Access on Steam, and made its way onto the Xbox One platform. But, what goes up must come down and as the crew celebrates one milestone, the inevitable climb back down hits.

The game continues to hit big with the PC gaming crowd as the team over at Bluehole celebrate over 30 million sales this past week. That being said, the overall player count has seen a significant dip with a declination of several million active players since January.



We're sure to see that dip come back up if the latest hint from the PUBG community manager is anything to go by.

In a recent tweet Kang mentioned: "Our dev team has been working on a dev roadmap for early 2018 in the past few weeks. It's about time we update you on what's happening and where things are at. We will share this roadmap with you soon once we have finalized all the details."

As per our previous coverage:

There have been rumors going around that the next new map will be of snowy plains, a vast difference from the previously released desert map. With the two new PUBG mobile games out now in China, perhaps we might even see a western version included in this expected outline?

With the team actively looking at bringing the online title to the PlayStation 4 platform, we know that there is still a lot of work to be done before the full title can be released on Xbox One. With the completed version on Steam, the updates between the two versions of the game have been vastly different. Hopefully included in this upcoming roadmap will be a timeline of completion for the Microsoft platform so that the two versions can sync up a bit more in terms of update and content release.

Until then, all we can do is speculate as to what the massive update outline will bring but we're sure it's going to be huge for all players. The game has been on a constant roll of success since launch, it even received a nomination for Game of the Year despite not being out of Early Access at that time.

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2019Posted:

Dang that's a lot of people! They've created a new wave.

SophPosted:

Huge dip in players b'cuz everyone isbflockong back to the og battle royale "Minecraft: Hunger Games" nuff said. Fortnite & PUBG is garb..

TOXICPosted:

Looks like everyone is coming over to Fortnite now then lol. I mean Fortnite is 100 times better than PUBG. PUBG to me is just way overrated, and for some reason, Fortnite didn't get as much attention as PUBG. But the last few weeks I have seen more and more players playing Fortnite. Like even my buddies from work would always be grinding on PUBG and now his on Fortnite non-stop lol. I'm just happy alot of people have now realised how great Fortnite is. I mean let's be honest here, PUBG is complete shit on console lol.

SwiftPosted:

Why are they not mentioning it being the Lunar New Year? Chinese people are not playing games this month.

SladrenPosted:

Im going to assume that the big drop in users are the ones being pulled in to the Fortnite wave.

QTPosted:

22q I've started to play fortnite on Xbox more because it's less buggy. I feel like I die more in pubg due to lag. Fortnite has less problems overall in my opinion.


Fortnite has alot of problem but most of them are being fixed daily.. PUBG is gettting their bugs fixed just not as fast as fortnite...

Both game are really boring after a while.

TuskPosted:

I've started to play fortnite on Xbox more because it's less buggy. I feel like I die more in pubg due to lag. Fortnite has less problems overall in my opinion.

ZydrinPosted:

Big dip is due to free games like fortnite. Once fortnite starts charging like they already started people will flock back to the game they already bought.

QTPosted:

Tom Like potion said probably due to cheaters being banned but also the popularity of fortnite atm


Fortnite will always be more popular than this game I would think. It pretty much is the cartoon version of it with building....

Waiting for fortnite to lose popularity any week now lmao

lbreadsticklPosted:

Potion Big dip in players because they banned over 1 million cheaters last month.

I'm also betting it's cause of the fortnite updates, unless that's a steam graph only. I've seen a lot of my buds go back to fortnite on console. I'm the only one that hasn't