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JehutyRunner · Jul 30, 2014

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), and Bungie today confirmed millions of people have played their upcoming and award-winning game Destiny during their beta test to gather vital information in preparation for launch. The Destiny Beta included a sampling of major activities featured in the full game. The beta began first on PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 on July 17 and came to a close Sunday evening, with 4,638,937 unique players participating.

"This is the biggest beta of this console generation by a wide margin and the largest console beta ever for a new video game IP to date," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. "Hosting a beta at this scale is an incredible feat, so we're thrilled to see the phenomenal response. But the beta is just a taste of what's to come. We're counting down the days to our launch day, September 9th."

"We were totally blown away by the number of people who played the beta," said Pete Parsons, COO of Bungie. "We surpassed even our own goals and the feedback was invaluable. We cannot thank the community enough, the response was humbling and in the weeks ahead we'll be working hard to ensure that Destiny lives up to the expectations at launch."

PR just pushed by Activision. Good numbers.

Can't wait personally now for September.

LiK · Jul 30, 2014

Dayam

SocksAndShoes · Jul 30, 2014

Wow. That's a lot of space magic.

Jimmyfenix · Jul 30, 2014

This game you guys!

Nibel · Jul 30, 2014

Haters ya miss

Hoo-doo · Jul 30, 2014

Damn. This game.

Ray Wonder · Jul 30, 2014

I thought it would be somewhere around that. The biggest game of the year, open to the public. I can't wait to see what it sells.

x-Lundz-x · Jul 30, 2014

The thirst is real.

Drencrom · Jul 30, 2014

I'm one of those people!

darkwing · Jul 30, 2014

this game is going to be huge

maabus1999 · Jul 30, 2014

Not bad; question is will there be enough word of mouth to double that in sales to reach that rumored break even point of 10 million? Being not every Beta person will purchase, it will be a challenge for them.

If anything, they'll take a loss on this title but have the word of mouth and infrastructure to support the future titles (and DLC) to make the money back easily IMO.

JehutyRunner · Jul 30, 2014

Nibel said:
Haters ya miss

Perfect. XD

Opus Angelorum · Jul 30, 2014

Considering the numbers, everything ran very well. Encouraging for the retail release.

Ricky 7 · Jul 30, 2014

Wow this game is going to be huge sales wise.

Alcoholikaust · Jul 30, 2014

cannot wait for retail

Zareka · Jul 30, 2014

Huh, nice for them. Wasn't there goal 1 million or something?

Nibel said:
Haters ya miss

Hahaha this is amazing.

Dynedom · Jul 30, 2014

Beta sold me on the game, honestly. Going to be a lot of fun.

_DiGiTaL_ · Jul 30, 2014

Can't wait for retail, that is a lot of beta access.

ElTorro · Jul 30, 2014

Wonder how many of those still played on last-gen (and how many people played it on all their consoles and hence got counted multiple times).

Jigolo · Jul 30, 2014

This fall Activision will be swimming in money like never before.

Radec · Jul 30, 2014

The force is strong on this one.

Tobor · Jul 30, 2014

Excellent! Well deserved.

faberpach · Jul 30, 2014

it was free and is not like there are that many games to play on those consoles at the time.

impressive numbers but it does seem like expected being that anyone that has an xbox one or ps4 will have internet and the beta was easy to access.

Deadly Cyclone · Jul 30, 2014

Bravo.

kamakazi5 · Jul 30, 2014

Very surprised but that's extremely good. First month sales are going to be nuts.

burnfout · Jul 30, 2014

Award winning game?

Opus Angelorum · Jul 30, 2014

faberpach said:
it was free and is not like there are that many games to play on those consoles at the time.

And here we go...

purg3 · Jul 30, 2014

A console breakdown percentage would be interesting to see. But damn, this game is going to be a monster success.

IAmRandom31 · Jul 30, 2014

Not shocking at all.

I'm predicting a good Watch Dogs level 8-10 million sales first week.

PhatSaqs · Jul 30, 2014

Thats a lot of bandwidth.

PranooY · Jul 30, 2014

Damn. This is gonna sell a ton.

names2hard4you · Jul 30, 2014

Holy shit. Bungie got themselves a winner before the game even came out for real. Well deserved though, game is amazing.

CreeperBlocks · Jul 30, 2014

I think Destiny is gonna be a major Hit. After playing the beta i'm really considering getting the PS4 Version. I liked it, and I don't even like FPS as much.

Blueblur1 · Jul 30, 2014

They also opened it to everyone. I think it's safe to assume that onlookers jumped in after watching everyone else talk about it.

Opus Angelorum · Jul 30, 2014

purg3 said:
A console breakdown percentage would be interesting to see.

For the sake of my sanity (and NeoGAF servers) it really wouldn't.

n0tail · Jul 30, 2014

Consider also how many people are waiting for this game before buying new consoles as well. I have several friends picking up Destiny and a PS4 in September. Looking good for Activision and Bungie for sure.

MaulerX · Jul 30, 2014

The beta began first on PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 on July 17 and came to a close Sunday evening, with 4,638,937 unique players participating.

Funny how they didn't mention any of the Xbox platforms even though the numbers included them.

Kaako · Jul 30, 2014

Good amount of participants; I got a week in on PS4 version. Ran pretty well and liked the moon mission. That atmosphere was pretty nice.

LeonSPBR · Jul 30, 2014

Wow. Way more than I thought.

Kajiba · Jul 30, 2014

Damn. Can't wait for the full game.

Vegivo · Jul 30, 2014

Nibel said:
Haters ya miss

XD

ElTorro · Jul 30, 2014

maabus1999 said:
Being not every Beta person will purchase, it will be a challenge for them.

Most future buyers probably haven't even heard of the Beta. So even if only 2,5 million Beta players buy the game on day one, that would still be nuts for day one.

PAULINK · Jul 30, 2014

Sure, I tried it for 30 minutes, until I stopped because I was bored.

Team Filler · Jul 30, 2014

Games gonna be another WoW for Activision.

shandy706 · Jul 30, 2014

Beta sold the game to some family friends and one of our cousins. They tried it out on my X1 this past Friday and Saturday.

Tobor · Jul 30, 2014

Opus Angelorum said:
For the sake of my sanity (and NeoGAF servers) it really wouldn't.

We can already guess what it will look like. I doubt anyone would be surprised by a majority on PS4.

Percy · Jul 30, 2014

Opus Angelorum said:
And here we go...

Truth though.

Tfault · Jul 30, 2014

Were they all hiding in caves........

Good numbers though.

dark_prinny · Jul 30, 2014

I did my part and loved every minute of it. Can't wait for the final game.

JB1981 · Jul 30, 2014

Opus Angelorum said:
Considering the numbers, everything ran very well. Encouraging for the retail release.

It sure did. I never once had a problem or disconnect. PvE ran without a hitch and PvP games had pretty good netcode. Can't wait to get the full game. Might be the only game I buy this fall

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