[STEAM] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Outperforms Modern Warfare 2 and 3 on Steam, Though Still Falls to Warzone

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Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 has outperformed both Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 on Steam but falls short of Warzone 2.0's peak player count.

Data from player tracking website

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shows the Call of Duty app saw a peak concurrent player count of 306,460 in ****** Ops 6's first weekend on *****. It peaked at 263,174 during Modern Warfare 2's opening weekend in 2022 and just 190,707 for

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Warzone 2.0 still has the best debut of a recent Call of Duty with a peak of 491,670 players, but the free to play battle royale is much more accessible than the $69.99 ****** Ops 6.

This SteamDB data is the best indication of how ****** Ops 6 is performing, as neither Xbox or PlayStation release player numbers for their consoles and publisher Activision Blizzard hasn't shared any figures yet either.

Further comparisons are also difficult due to Call of Duty bypassing Steam for five years between 2017 and 2022, when Activision Blizzard opted to release ****** Ops 4, Modern Warfare, ****** Ops: Cold War, and Vanguard exclusively on its own

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on PC.

These Steam numbers do indicate a bump in popularity though, and ****** Ops 6 has performed well critically too. Fans of single player shooters in particular are enjoying a return to form, as

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. "An excellent string of missions that offer variety and flexibility come together to make ****** Ops 6 the best Call of Duty campaign in many, many years," we said.

The launch of ****** Ops 6 is also special as it marks the first Call of Duty game to come to Xbox Game Pass on launch day.

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new users, but at the cost of six million lost sales.

If you’re jumping into Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 multiplayer, check out our

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