1.5 Million Detroit: Become Human Players Have Played 20 Million Hours
Detroit: Become Human’s success was already apparent from its sales figures and records before now. However, new information has been revealed which puts that success into context. More than 1.5 million people have played Quantic Dream’s latest game. In fact, they’ve managed to amass a grand total of over 20 million hours of total Detroit: Become Human playtime.
20 Million Hours of Detroit: Become Human Playtime
The figures were posted in a Tweet by the Detroit: Become Human Twitter account yesterday.
You are now well over 1,5 million worldwide to have played @Detroit_PS4, totalling above 20 million hours of playtime!
— Detroit: Become Human (@Detroit_PS4) August 3, 2018
Detroit: Become Human has enjoyed strong sales figures since launch. The title passed one million units sold within its first month. It also managed to outpace Heavy Rain, the studio’s last successful title, by over 20%. The studio hasn’t provided any updates to their sales figure since May, however; most likely because they will have slowed down dramatically. Taking things like pre-orders and so forth into account, most games tend to have extremely strong first weeks and then see a sharp drop-off in sales. Of course, there are exceptions, like God of War, but most tend to follow the same pattern. If the studio is suggesting now that 1.5 million players have played the game, then it seems likely that they have sold around 500,000 units since May.
20 million hours of total Detroit: Become Human playtime is certainly an impressive figure. Quantic Dream has never before produced a sequel to one of their games. However, they have also never had a game succeed as well as Detroit: Become Human. The studio head stated that they might consider a sequel around a month ago. Unfortunately, Quantic Dream has been mired in controversy of late. The French studio recently lost a court case against a former employee. Several French-based journalists published a report which accused the studio of an extremely toxic workplace culture, and the studio heads of turning a blind eye to racist and sexist behavior among their staff.