Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has fewer Steam players than Rainbow Six: Siege or Payday 2

This holiday gaming season is overflowing with blockbuster shooter games, and that is potentially limiting the appeal of one of that genre’s perennial hits … at least on PC.

Over the launch weekend for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the sci-fi space-battling adventure’s (read our review) player base dropped 76 percent compared to the launch weekend for 2015’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III, according to data-intelligence site Githyp. The new game only generated a peak player count of 15,280 people on Steam through Sunday where Black Ops III hit more than 60,000 simultaneous players through the same weekend last year. Infinite Warfare didn’t even do enough to break into Steam’s top-25 most-played games. Activision launched Infinite Warfare for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 4, which made it the last of a crop of shooters to debut over the last few weeks from competing publishers like Microsoft and Electronic Arts.