Data from August 11, 2023.
Steam
- 48.4% of the daily CCU (Concurrent Current Users) is attributed to the top 10 games on Steam.
- The top 10 at the time of writing looks like this: CS: GO, DOTA 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends, Grand Theft Auto V, Rust, Team Fortress 2, Naraka: Bladepoint, and War Thunder. 70% are free-to-play games.
- The top 50 games account for 70% of the total CCU. And the top 1000 games cover 94.7% of the platform’s total CCU.
There is no open information about CCU on consoles, so Simon used his own estimation based on DAU (Daily Active Users).
Xbox
- The situation on Xbox is similar. The top 10 projects account for 46.1% of the DAU; for the top 50, it’s 70.5%.
- The top 10 games on Xbox by DAU are Minecraft (including the PC version’s DAU), Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (including Warzone), FIFA 23, Roblox, GTA V, Rocket League, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Forza Horizon 5, and Apex Legends.
PlayStation
- On PlayStation, the “heavyweights” have a slight advantage, with the top 10 games accounting for 52.5% of the DAU. For the top 50, it’s 76.1%.
- The top 10 on the platform includes Fortnite, FIFA 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (including Warzone), Grand Theft Auto V, Rocket League, NBA 2K23, Minecraft, Apex Legends, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, and Overwatch 2.
- The DAU of leaders on PlayStation is higher. For example, the Fortnite audience is more than 3 times larger, and FIFA 23 is 4.4 times larger.
- Overall, the competition for players on PlayStation is slightly tougher than on Xbox, despite having a larger audience.
