{"id":101216,"date":"2016-08-15T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101216"},"modified":"2016-08-15T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:56:23","slug":"no-mans-sky-is-the-biggest-steam-launch-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101216-no-mans-sky-is-the-biggest-steam-launch-this-year","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky is the biggest Steam launch this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite divisive reviews and major performance issues, No Man&#8217;s Sky still had the biggest release of any other game this year, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/no-mans-sky-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports PC Gamer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on official numbers from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steamspy.com\/app\/275850\" target=\"_blank\">SteamSpy<\/a><\/strong>, around <strong>495 853 gamers have bought the game<\/strong> on Steam, with\u00a0<strong>422,191 of those subsequently having installed<\/strong> and played it since launch.<\/p>\n<p>With 212,620 people playing No Man&#8217;s Sky simultaneously this past weekend, it also makes it the <strong>biggest Steam release this year by over 46%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, this is how the peak concurrent player numbers\u00a0of 2016&#8217;s other releases stack up (all stats taken from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a><\/strong>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>XCOM 2 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>133,022<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dark Souls 3 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>129,975<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total War: Warhammer &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>113,019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Starbound &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>62,301 (after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-sci-fi-sandbox-adventure-starbound-will-be-out-later-this-month\/\"><ins>leaving Early Access<\/ins><\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doom &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>44,271<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hitman &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>12,582<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Are you playing No Man&#8217;s Sky? What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to build a custom PC gaming console for under R7,500\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100868-how-to-build-a-custom-pc-gaming-console-for-under-r7500.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to build a custom PC gaming console for under R7,500<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why Microsoft\u2019s new Beam streaming service is better than Twitch\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101124-why-microsofts-new-beam-streaming-service-is-better-than-twitch.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Microsoft\u2019s new Beam streaming service is better than Twitch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What actually happens to your brain when you pull an all-nighter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101110-what-actually-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-pull-an-all-nighter.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What actually happens to your brain when you pull an all-nighter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the ridiculous numbers behind No Man&#8217;s Sky release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":100489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,11828,143,241,85],"class_list":["post-101216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-release","tag-sales","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101218,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101216\/revisions\/101218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}