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If you’ve been itching for proof that this year’s Battlefield 6 launch is kinda going to explode, well, the beta’s got a basket full. Over the weekend, its first open trial really took over on Steam. Not kidding.
Just days after the invite-only launch smashed some records for the series on Steam, things only, well, they just started. Even had those weird cookie settings that I didn’t fully get. Anyway, over the weekend—Saturday, yes, and Sunday—the whole thing opened up for everyone without needing a fancy code. And what happened? The player numbers went through the roof on Steam, like, could it really go any higher?
The Battlefield 6 beta was hanging out in Steam’s top three games, with a whopping 521,079 folks playing at the same time. Is that huge or what? Because no other Battlefield game on Steam ever saw something like that. Even crazier, Call of Duty’s hugest moment didn’t hit that mark either. The Call of Duty app, housing many entries, peaked with 491,670 players, including Warzone. That’s hefty competition!
Especially wild when you think about Call of Duty’s big return to Steam with Modern Warfare 2 in 2022. Black Ops 6 was a hit last year but didn’t touch MW2’s numbers. Dreams, right? But it’s not just Steam for Battlefield 6; it’s on EA’s app, Epic Games Store, every nook and cranny basically, and certainly don’t forget consoles like PlayStation and Xbox.
No matter how you look at it, Battlefield 6’s beta figures are impressive. Even if October 10’s full launch doesn’t hit those same dizzying heights, there’s a rumored free-to-play mode that might just blast it off again—probably past the moon. Or the stars, who knows?
