20 million people have played Death Stranding
Kojima Productions also shared some new figures. Hideo Kojima's studio announced that the audience for the first Death Stranding has reached 20 million people.
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Important: the number includes both the buyers of the game and those who engaged with Death Stranding through Game Pass and PlayStation Plus subscriptions. Additionally, Death Stranding was handed out free of charge several times in the Epic Games Store, with those who acquired it during these giveaways factored into the 20 million.
Let's recall the previous milestones of Death Stranding:
- 5 million copies sold — March 2021;
- 10 million players — November 2022;
- 16 million players — December 2023;
- 19 million players — November 2024.
Death Stranding was released on November 8, 2019. Initially, the game was exclusive to PlayStation 4, but it became available on PC in July 2020. Four years later, in January 2024, Death Stranding also launched on iOS, and a few months after that on Xbox Series.
Currently, Kojima Productions is finishing the development of the sequel. The release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is scheduled for June 26, 2025, on PlayStation 5.