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With Treyarch’s Black Ops 6 set to bust down the FPS genre’s doors soon, most of the community’s attention is slowly drifting toward the upcoming CoD entry. And with XDefiant continuing to bleed players steadily, Ubisoft’s shoot ’em up could have an even harder time living up to its “CoD beater” moniker once BO6 makes its way onto multiple gaming platforms in October. Following a solid opening week in which it saw a peak of eight million unique players (per ), that number has steadily dwindled, with XDefiant on PS5 and Xbox Series falling from 7th to 10th on Circana’s US Player Engagement Tracker (via ).
Unfortunately, figures for its PC player base remain scarce since the game isn’t available on Steam and is exclusive to the Ubisoft Connect app. Circana US Player Engagement Tracker Top 10 Titles by WAU – W/E June 15 2024 -xDefiant dropped to 10th on PS5 & XBS -Dark and Darker jumped to #6 on Steam, it launched in early access on June 7. -Deep Rock Galactic was 8th, up from #34 in the prior week.
Predictably enough, this significant drop has some XDefiant fans worried, with even claiming that “BO6’s release will be the killing blow to the player population.” In addition, the myriad problems it’s faced throughout launch and beyond, like its ongoing , haven’t made things any better. Although the XDefiant dev team h.
