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Death Stranding Surpasses 10M players across all platforms (Update: 20M as of March 2025)

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I think the PC version of the game is guaranteed to be 505 Games biggest sales success at this point and a major addition to its portfolio for the future
 
Vault-Tec said:
Game Pass PC and PS+ Extra gave the game a huge boost.
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Huh? Game was sold at least 6 million copies as of end of 2021, IIRC. I don't think these services gave a huge boost, though. Already vast majority played it before it came to services
 
Salesman said:
Huh? Game was sold at least 6 million copies as of end of 2021, IIRC. I don't think these services gave a huge boost, though. Already vast majority played it before it came to services
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Is there a source for these 6 million ? Game had basically no legs left in retail/digital before it joined those services and the number of 5 million sold on PS/PC combined was very underwhelming.
 
Vault-Tec said:
Is there a source for these 6 million ? Game had basically no legs left in retail/digital before it joined those services and the number of 5 million sold on PS/PC combined was very underwhelming.
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Huh? Game appeared on services this year., not last year. Sold through +5 mil as of March 2021. Surely much more shipped ( 6 mil. is from my head). Also, that +5 mil. figure was a year before Directors Cut release. So, yes, vast majority played already. On +5 million copies sold, you can bet there were at least 7 million players. Game didn't get any big push through services this year IMO.
 
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Huh? Game appeared on services this year., not last year. Sold through +5 mil as of March 2021. Surely much more shipped ( 6 mil. is from my head). Also, that +5 mil. figure was a year before Directors Cut release. So, yes, vast majority played already. On +5 million copies sold, you can bet there were at least 7 million players. Game didn't get any big push through services this year IMO.
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Yeah, the last big numbers we got were well before the directors cut of the game which gave it another big boost. I doubt that many people played it on pc gamepass, ps plus, maybe accounting for a lot of those player numbers but not 4 million
 
This game was such a roller coaster.

-The whole kojima/konami debacle
-WWE style entrance at E3 with wild announcement trailer that spurred even more wild speculation
-Somehow developed in like 3 years
-Then half of players distraught as they came to the realization of how the game was developed so quickly (lot of emptyness and walking) and the other half giving it 10/10
-I guess now its a one and done franchise despite that being extremely rare in modern AAA development
 
the addition to the sub services will be pretty useful for the brand awareness and, consequently, for the sequel's sales
 
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    • Due to the A24 Movie announcement, Kojima Productions released new players figures for Death Stranding.

    DECEMBER 14 2023
    16M players

    Connecting with over *16 million Porters across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC, DEATH STRANDING is an award-winning videogame that has captivated players from all over the globe.
    *Includes PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, PC, and free access as part of subscription services such as PlayStation®Plus and PC GAME PASS.
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    Edit : https://www.kojimaproductions.jp/en/A24-announcement
     
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    • Evilnemesis8 said:
    Due to the A24 Movie announcement, Kojima Productions released new players figures for Death Stranding.

    DECEMBER 14 2023
    16M players



    Edit : https://www.kojimaproductions.jp/en/A24-announcement
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    Heck yeah! Well deserved, for one of the best and most unique AAA games of the past decade. And in a decade with BOTW, Nier Automata, and Armored Core VI that's really saying something. Death Stranding has such a pair on it, I'm glad to see more and more people discovering it.
     
    Going by their very statement the sub on PS+ and PC GamePass are probably pretty relevant for this jump, so they didnt update the sell-through
     
    @Astrogamer Last Christmas, it was "initially" the Director's Cut. Due to the website having issues being accessed immediately (no surprise), it became a game of luck in regards to getting the Director's Cut. Epic fully changed it to the original version in an hour. The original version was free in May. You are correct regarding the last sentence.
     
    These numbers are less impressive when you know half of that number are just people testing it for 15 minutes and uninstalling it.
     
    Baobab said:
    The game was also free on epic game store if I am not misremembering
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    Yup, that is how I got it, and if I remember correctly there was a leak that said the most claimed titles like battlefront 2 reach up to 19M claims.
     
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    Drblitzk said:
    Yup, that is how I got it, and if I remember correctly there was a leak that the most claimed titles like battlefront 2 reach up to 19M claims.
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    @Ryuichi Naruhodo has a thread cataloguing some of the giveaways that have shared numbers and, yeah, even the smaller less known games get >5 million claims, so Death Stranding should be a lot higher. At the same time, since this is player numbers I assume they only count the ones that have actually opened the game at least once and not just having claimed it, which I believe from some leaks is known to not be a very high percentage (at least overall for the entire storefront).

    www.installbaseforum.com

    Epic : Small EGS Freebies gets between 6.5M and 7M Claims , Bigger Freebies gets between 20M and 25M Claims ( Latest : Payday2 12M Claims )

    Thats according to Steve Allison , The VP and general manager of the Epic Games Store in an interview with The Verge that was dedicated to EGS Freebies strategy The free games can be really beneficial for developers. “The smallest free games on any given week get between six and a half and 7...
    www.installbaseforum.com www.installbaseforum.com
     
    Baki said:
    That data is almost 2 years old.
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    GT Sport 14 million players vs 12.7m sold through, early 2022 for both.

    DS 16m porters and likely 7 shipped by now. So many people have played it for free, it will be interesting to see how many turn out to buy DS2 early on. Probably not many.
     
    Iraiza said:
    @Ryuichi Naruhodo has a thread cataloguing some of the giveaways that have shared numbers and, yeah, even the smaller less known games get >5 million claims, so Death Stranding should be a lot higher. At the same time, since this is player numbers I assume they only count the ones that have actually opened the game at least once and not just having claimed it, which I believe from some leaks is known to not be a very high percentage (at least overall for the entire storefront).

    www.installbaseforum.com

    Epic : Small EGS Freebies gets between 6.5M and 7M Claims , Bigger Freebies gets between 20M and 25M Claims ( Latest : Payday2 12M Claims )

    Thats according to Steve Allison , The VP and general manager of the Epic Games Store in an interview with The Verge that was dedicated to EGS Freebies strategy The free games can be really beneficial for developers. “The smallest free games on any given week get between six and a half and 7...
    www.installbaseforum.com www.installbaseforum.com
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    And want to add that it was offered twice as a freebie on EGS

    I personally am one of the people who claimed the game but didnt download and therefore didnt Played it yet , so i am not one of the 16M yet
     
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