So a while back I wrote a little code snippet that checks the bf4stats.com website and extracts the number of active players on each platform about every hour. Here are the results of total average players playing on each platform through Feb 21 and March 6th. In total I have collected 184 samples, I had to throw away some data since my internet was unstable and at times I would get 0 players playing across all platforms (which obviously doesn’t make sense).
PC---- 42353.081522
PS3— 39457.282609
PS4— 47923.244565
X360-- 29981.065217
XONE-- 24921.853261
Some interesting results for the PS4/X1 community:
Total 360/PS3 community distribution
PS4 makes up ~26.0% of the BF4 community … In fact, PS4 is the most active platform for BF4 (what are those PC guys talking about eh?)
X1 makes up ~13.5% of the BF4 community
So in total the current gen makes up about 39.5% of the BF4 community.
When are the most people playing BF4 on X1/PS4?
PS4 - 13:00-17:00 Eastern Time averaging at about 58,000 players
360 - 16:00-21:00 Eastern Time averaging at about 32,000 players
Let me know if you guys want to see any other details from this data and I’ll run the summaries for you. Also, do you have any other suggestions for data collection projects? It’s pretty easy to do, so I don’t mind spending an hour out of my day writing some code to answer some data-related questions for the community.
Here is the link to my data set: BF4 Active Player Data - Pastebin.com [pastebin.com]
Here is the link to the Python code used to collect the data: BF4Stats Player Count Miner - Pastebin.com [pastebin.com]
EDIT - As of March 29 2014
Here are the updated player averages across all platforms.
PC---- 34922.640257
PS3— 34591.462527
PS4— 42250.338330
X360-- 24338.509636
XONE-- 18650.394004
So player counts have dropped on all platforms since the last time I posted this thread, PS4 still reigns supreme. What’s very surprising is there are times when there are less than 2000 players total playing on the X1 (2014-03-27 07:00)… that’s like a barren wasteland. Must be hard finding full servers for the game modes / maps you want considering players are split across DLCs and different game modes.
As it stands now:
PS4 makes up 27.3% of all BF4 players
X1 makes up 12.0% of all BF4 players
So PS4’s share of the BF4 market increased, while X1’s share decreased since last posting
I’ve posted the updated dataset here: date, PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE2014-02-21 13:00, 63317, 47408, 44950, 32332, 22 - Pastebin.com [pastebin.com]
EDIT2: Here is a graphic showing the average daily player counts on X1 over time, notice the significant dropoff in player counts when titanfall released
