Battlefield 6 is the franchise's biggest game on Steam, with over 700,000 concurrent players within 24 hours of its debut.
While also available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S (for which player numbers are currently unknown), with 747,440 concurrent players on release day, it is now officially the largest Battlefield game on Steam and the fourteenth largest in Steam history according to Table of the most popular SteamDB games.
In 2020 EA has started reintroducing its gamesincluding the Battlefield series, to Valve's storefront. But EA's period of absence from Steam means that while we can compare the concurrent player numbers of 2021's Battlefield 2042, we can't compare the specific Steam launch numbers of other popular games Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5.
Battlefield 6 Stage comes just weeks after the Battlefield 6 open beta became the most popular game in the series on Steam.reaching a peak concurrent player count of 521,079 on its opening weekend.
Announcement about leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts by private equity consortium – which includes Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) Silver Lake and independent investment firm Affinity Partners, led by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner – caused shock in the gaming industry.
