Portal-style shooter Splitgate surpasses 600,000 downloads on console in first week

The market is making room for another free-to-play shooter. While players continue to show up for Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone (and hype builds for Halo Infinite and Ubisoft’s XDefiant), developer 1047 Games’ shooter Splitgate surpassed 600,000 downloads on consoles. The Portal-style competitive game was able to move past that milestone in under a week since its launch on Xbox and PlayStation platforms.

“I want to sincerely thank every single player who has taken a chance on our game,” 1047 cofounder and chief executive officer Ian Proulx said. “From its small beginnings as a student project when we were in college to today, where we’re on the verge of launching across two generations of consoles, this is a dream come true for me and the result of incredibly hard work by everyone at our studio.”