Splitgate PlayStation Player Count Has 'Gone Up' Since Halo Infinite Release - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2022 / 2,040 Views

The CEO of Splitgate developer 1047 Games Ian Proulx in an interview with The Loadout said that Halo Infinite and Splitgate will help each other in the long run as both games are arena shooters.

“I’m actually glad [Halo Infinite] is out," he said. "I honestly think that, in the long run, Halo Infinite and Splitgate will help each other.

"I think that there’s just so much noise and so many battle royales right now, and [these two games] are bringing people over to the arena shooter genre. You know, there’s a lot of kids who have never played Halo, right? There’s a lot of kids who have never played Quake or Unreal Tournament. They’ve never played this kind of game. And getting them exposure to that I think is just a good thing for the genre as a whole."

Splitgate PlayStation Player Count Has 'Gone Up' Since Halo Infinite Release

Proulx added the player count for Splitgate on PlayStation consoles has "gone up" since the release of Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer on November 15, 2021.

Splitgate released for PC in Early Access in 2019 and saw an open beta release in July 2020, along with a release on Xbox and PlayStation consoles. A version of the game optimized for the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 will be released later this year.

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5 Comments

aTokenYeti (on 04 January 2022)

This makes sense, it’s been a dormant genre for a while and Infinite got a lot of people back into it. And now people want to give similar things a go

G2ThaUNiT aTokenYeti (on 04 January 2022)

There's been a lot of rumors that id Software is reviving Quake next! If only Epic would do the same for Unreal Tournament......

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Chazore G2ThaUNiT (on 04 January 2022)

I imagine they will, but only, and only when the genre brings in the big money, then they'll jump all over it and act as if they were interested the whole time.