While PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is already popular, its mobile game seems to be eclipsing even the original game. PUBG Mobile player numbers have passed 10 million unique users, and the game is getting a new map as well in the form of Miramar, a larger but more barren desert map, to play on.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been known for its meteoric rise to popularity, with the game selling millions of copies long before it was even out of Early Access. Its success didn’t stop when it was fully released, and Bluehole releasing a mobile version to allow players to try and win chicken dinners on the go has also helped the game’s numbers.
PUBG Mobile player numbers reaching 10 million is a big milestone for a mobile game, especially one that’s not something like Clash of Clans and its various rip offs, or Candy Crush and other Bejeweled-like games that it has.
Miramar being introduced into the mobile version of the game will likely be a refreshing change from having to play Erangal again and again, even though that’s the quintessential PUBG map.
Miramar will be the second map coming to both the mobile version of the game and the Xbox version, while PC players will be getting PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’s third map, a smaller island known as Sanhok. Miramar came to PC players in late 2017, so hopefully Xbox One and mobile players will be getting it soon.
Whether the addition of a new map will bring in more PUBG Mobile player numbers or not remains to be seen, but if PUBG Mobile continues to be this successful, Bluehole will hopefully start giving it more content to play with.