Blizzard has revealed a brand new and fairly spectacular participant rely milestone for the Diablo franchise as an entire, but it surely nonetheless pales compared to the gross sales figures for a single Grand Theft Auto recreation.
In a publish on the official Diablo X (previously Twitter) account, Blizzard reveals that the Diablo franchise has hit greater than 100 million gamers, with that determine counting throughout all 4 mainline Diablo installments and cellular entry Diablo Immortal.
In contrast, nevertheless, Grand Theft Auto 5 alone has offered over 200 million copies eventually rely, which is double your complete Diablo franchise’s gamers. Even that quantity pales compared to the mighty Minecraft, which is sitting at a jaw-dropping 300 million gross sales at time of writing.
Issues get much more dire for Diablo while you notice that the 100 million determine is not gross sales, however participant counts.
That is nice for video games like the primary three Diablo entries, however Diablo Immortal is a free-to-play cellular recreation, which presumably implies that the various gamers who tried it for 5 minutes after which gave as much as go do one thing else are included in that 100 million rely.
Moreover, it is value noting that Diablo 4 is offered on Xbox Sport Cross; in truth, it was the primary Activision Blizzard recreation to be added to the service following Microsoft’s record-breaking acquisition of the writer.
Once more, that implies that presumably, anybody who gave Diablo 4 a attempt on Sport Cross can be included within the 100 million determine. As a reminder, the GTA and Minecraft figures are chilly, onerous gross sales, not participant counts, and the Diablo determine is for a complete sequence.
It is value noting right here that the Diablo sequence remains to be phenomenally profitable. Inside its first yr of launch, Diablo Immortal reportedly made Blizzard half a billion {dollars}, and Diablo 4 is seemingly Blizzard’s fastest-selling recreation ever.
This comparability merely proves the completely colossal presence that Minecraft and GTA 5 nonetheless have within the gaming trade. When a sequence as fashionable and influential as Diablo cannot even maintain a candle to the gross sales of a single recreation in a franchise, that franchise has taken over the world.
Rockstar is at the moment engaged on Grand Theft Auto 6, which is ready for launch subsequent yr. The debut trailer for that recreation achieved a whopping 90 million views in simply 24 hours, so it seems to be like GTA‘s dominance of the gaming world is ready to proceed. Keep tuned for extra.
