Summary
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zerohas only been released to a portion of its potential players, with the game’s Ultimate Edition dropping Tuesday, but it seems like it’s going to go onto big things.
The opening 36 hours for the first title in the Budokai Tenkaichi series for almost 15 years has seen a number of records tumble, including the most-played fighting game inSteamhistory.
Sparking Zero Beats Street Fighter 6 And Tekken 8 As Steam’s Most-Played Fighting Game
According toSteamDB, Thursday night in the US saw a whopping 91,005 players jump into Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero on Steam, a phenomenal effort for a game that has yet to fully launch.
This number has seen the game eclipse the previous record for the most concurrent players in a fighting game on Steam, which was set byStreet Fighter 6in June last year. At the time, Street Fighter managed70,540 players, meaning Sparking Zero has achieved an almost 30 percent increase.
Comparatively, at their peaks,Tekken 8had46,139 playerson Steam, and the most popularMortal Kombatgame,Mortal Kombat 11,had 27,301. Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, which released last month, peaked at just over2,000 players.
Sparking Zero’s 91,000 players also easily makes it the most-playedDragon Ballgame on the Valve-owned platform. Previously,FighterZheld the record with44,234 players, withKakarotandXenoverse 2getting25,715and13,570players, respectively. The original Xenoverse garnered a peak of22,782concurrent users.
With the cheaper Standard Edition set for release on Friday, it will be interesting to see just how high this number eventually goes. Let’s just hope those players have abit of an easier time with the game.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
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Considered part to the Budokai Tenkachi series, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is an in-development arena fighter developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by Namco Bandai.
