PUBG Hits 5 Million Sales In Only 4 Months
Continuing to rise and outshine the many similar games that have come before it, survival shooter Player Unknown's Battlegrounds has hit a nice milestone.
The marriage of development team Bluehole, Inc. and the creator of the DayZ: Battle Royale, Brendon Green aka PlayerUnknown, continues to bear major fruit. We reported that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had reached $100 million sales on 4 million units just a couple months ago and, as reported by PC Gamer, the game has now surpassed the 5 million unit mark.
The report is based on SteamSpy so it isn't an official announcement of the milestone, but Bluehole will likely speak on this sometime soon. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is
The incredibly intense game has grown in popularity not only for how fun it is to play but how fun it is to watch. The game sits right at the head of the pack on Twitch with 150,000+ viewers at the time this article was written and you're likely in the minority if you haven't seen a highlight video of some ridiculous feat in-game come across your social media at some point.
It did well enough right at launch in March of this year that it was welcome on stage at the E3 PC Gamer Show to show off its more ambitious future updates and break the news that it will be coming to Xbox One as a console exclusive.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available on Steam for $29.99 and will be coming to Xbox One in late 2017. Even if sales slow a great deal, the game sits in the company of DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike for concurrent players on Steam. That's some incredible company to keep.
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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, PUBG Hits 5 Million Sales In Only 4 Months
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They are doing usually one large patch a month and each one usually focusing on one large thing such as netcode, optimization of the game, server performance. The next one in I think the 1st week of August is supposed to add 1st person only servers, fov sliders and some other things that I can't remember.
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