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The shocking numbers of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, unprecedented

We review the most relevant data about PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and its presence on Steam, which has been an unprecedented sales and player success.

Today we want to bring you five interesting data that allows us to see the dimension and importance that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has taken. It is currently the most sold on Steam, week after week and neither the launch of NBA 2K18 or Divinity: Original Sin 2 have made this game the best-selling game on the platform, which, all said, is in Early Access. Steam offers, some very succulent, have taken the first place on the platform and this is allowing impressive data and we are going to tell you about it.


OVER 13 MILLION COPIES SOLD


On March 23, it arrived at Valve's virtual store and in minutes it became the best-selling game on this platform, thanks to the Early Access program that the platform has. This game will arrive in full version before the end of the year, according to Bluehole, the developer of this title, and they also announced that it would arrive with an increase in price. It is expected that by that time, there will already be a new map and the 15 million copies sold will pass, since at the end of September we had more than 13 million copies sold.


MOST PLAYED EVER ON STEAM


Dota 2 held the record for the most played game in the history of this platform on Steam, but that is a thing of the past, since this title has left the 1.3 million players of Dota 2 and is in the 1.6 million players, practically 1.7 million players, since the current figure is 1 million players. We don't know where the ceiling is and we asked our community about how they saw the situation and most of them bet that this game would reach 668 million simultaneous players on this platform.


SIX MONTHS, 390 MILLION DOLLARS


The data does not lie and the income of the 13 million copies, would be around 390 million dollars of gross income. Logically we must discount what Steam remains, the salary of workers, servers and others, something that has high costs. Valve stays about 30% of the value of the game introduced in its catalog, but of course, it is worth it and not a little, at least in this case. These are the direct ones, because afterwards Bluehole takes some of the game elements sold in the Steam Black Market, so there will be more.


ONLY ON STEAM, FOR THE MOMENT


Right now it's only available on Valve's platform, but not for long. Microsoft has achieved the exclusivity of the game for the Xbox One in the console market, something that is not clear when it will happen, but it will be at the end of the year, according to a Microsoft press conference in Los Angeles. On the Sony console, the PlayStation 4, it should be viable in the future, after ending the console exclusivity agreed with Microsoft and that is why Bluehole talks with the developers of the PS4, so that the game is available.


BLUEHOLE VALUE: 4.500 MILLION DOLLARS


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has achieved that the Bluehole studio achieves an unprecedented value in practically record time and that is that it has been located at 4.500 million dollars. Surely the value of this developer company will continue to rise in the coming weeks and more when the game arrives on other platforms. The good reviews, the sales and that it is still in Early Access, have allowed it to generate a very great value for the company, the arrival on Xbox One would brutally increase the value of the company and it would reach the Sony console, predictably, next year, it will have the same effect.

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Robert Sole

Director of Contents and Writing of this same website, technician in renewable energy generation systems and low voltage electrical technician. I work in front of a PC, in my free time I am in front of a PC and when I leave the house I am glued to the screen of my smartphone. Every morning when I wake up I walk across the Stargate to make some coffee and start watching YouTube videos. I once saw a dragon ... or was it a Dragonite?

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