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Activision says Destiny: The Taken King sets record for day one PlayStation 4 downloads

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision Publishing and game developer Bungie announced today that Destiny: The Taken King is the most downloaded day-one game in PlayStation history.

The expansion to last year’s online shooter launched yesterday. It also set a new day-one franchise high for both total players and peak online concurrency. In doing so, the Taken King surpassed the original Destiny launch day last September, which was itself the biggest new video game franchise launch in history.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.