Apex Legends' popularity is rubbing off on its spiritual predecessor, Titanfall 2. Respawn Entertainment are on a roll as not only their battle royale surfed past the competition, but also boosted the popularity of their older games. Titanfall 2 is a universally loved game as both critics and players loved playing it, even though it didn't sell well. As a result, news of a Titanfall-based battle royale named Apex Legends quickly spread after a leak during the weekend before the official announcement and release on Monday, 04 February 2019. Since then, Apex Legends has enjoyed massive success, managing to get over two million concurrent players in just one week of its existence, but the success wasn't limited only to this title. Apparently, Apex Legends inspired Titanfall fans to revisit Titanfall 2 which resulted in revitalised numbers of concurrent players. One Redditor managed to take a screenshot when the on Xbox One. This is a major increase, since the last time so many players were enjoying Titanfall 2 at the same time was back in 2017. The Reddit post inspired even more players to reinstall the game so the number might even go up further in the coming days. Meanwhile, player count is a bit lower on PC, with a peak standing at 3.423 concurrent players. It's not as much of a drastic increase as for Xbox One, but it is still almost triple of the concurrent player peak captured in January 2019. You can check the player count movements who followed them since Titanfall 2's release. Unfortunately, there is no tangible data for PlayStation 4 yet, but the moment we get any info on PlayStation 4 Titanfall 2 concurrent player numbers, we will update this article. Respawn Entertainment Titanfall 2 Whether, or how long, these numbers hold up is uncertain now as this could be just a nostalgia wave among Titanfall 2 fans, but it could potentially spark some more interest for the game as the entry barrier for new players isn't that high - the game often finds itself on sales when it costs only $5 on Origin.<doc-sep>The success of Apex Legends has given Titanfall 2 a boost. It’s no secret that Apex Legends is a very popular game right now. In just seven days, Respawn’s first battle royale shooter attracted 25 million unique players, and peaked at 2 million concurrent. But Respawn’s success with Apex had another side effect: giving the excellent Titanfall 2 some much needed attention. Over the past few days, players on Xbox One, and PS4 subreddits have been sharing screenshots of the boosted player counts. Titanfall 2 is one of a few multiplayer games today that continue to display a tally of the number of players online at any given moment. It’s something players used in the past to determine its health, but since Apex Legends’ release on February 4, these numbers have been growing. True Achievements reports that Titanfall 2 is now the 37th most played game on Xbox One. This is hardly earth-shattering, but when you look at its previous spots in the 60s and 70s, the jump is quite significant. Watch on YouTube Though PlayStation 4 doesn’t have an easily accessible list of the most popular games on PSN, it’s easy to see the surge in player numbers through fan posts on online forums. Likewise, the PC player base too expanded over the same period. It’s worth noting that Titanfall 2 was recently on sale for around $5, but that’s hardly the first time the game has been heavily discounted in the last six months, let alone since its release in 2016. Though Apex Legends doesn’t feature Titanfall’s signature Titans or wall-running, the two take place in the same universe. It’s easy to see how players, impressed with Apex’s gunplay and movement, would want to venture out and see where it came from.<doc-sep>Apex Legends’ phenomenal early success has sparked renewed interest in the wider Titanfall IP. As eagle-eyed Redditors on the Apex Legends sub discovered, concurrent player counts for Respawn’s Titanfall 2 hit over 10,000 players on Xbox - a figure not reached since 2017. Concurrent players haven’t quite blown up so high on PC but are still impressive. At the time of writing, there are 5,830 live players on PC - up from Sunday's 3,400 users - representing a significant increase over the title's more typical concurrent user figures which lie at just over 1,000 people. With over 25 million players in its first week, Apex Legends has undeniably put Respawn back on the map. The studio’s battle royale being loosely placed within the Titanfall universe may also have convinced players who are less keen on the genre to try a single player game in the same setting. For some, it may seem like a welcome side effect to Respawn’s third-time-lucky success. Both Titanfall games hardly flopped, but it’s surprising to see a game within the IP find as monstrous a success as Apex Legends. The original Titanfall launched in March 2014 as an Xbox One and PC exclusive, releasing just four months into the lifecycle of a console that wasn't selling particularly well, which certainly hampered its commercial potential. Meanwhile, Titanfall 2 was set up to struggle from the beginning for its 2016 launch. Despite this time coming to the hugely successful PlayStation 4 - as well as PC and Xbox One - the game was released week-for-week between EA's own Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Respawn might not be working on an outright third numbered entry in the Titanfall series, but there’ll be more spin-off games before the year closes. EA confirmed during a conference call that multiple games are coming from the studio this year. One of those is set to be Respawn’s Star Wars project Jedi: Fallen Order, with EA CEO Andrew Wilson promising a premium entry in the Titanfall franchise in 2019, too.<doc-sep>Apex Legends has crossed the 25 million player threshold in just a week. At the same time, Titanfall 2, a two-year-old first-person shooter also by Respawn Entertainment, is seeing a resurgence in popularity alongside growing obsession with Apex Legends. EA announced this week that Apex Legends, which came out on February 4 has more than 25 million players and had "well over 2 million concurrent players at our peak" in its first weekend. In case you've missed all the news about Apex Legends over the last week: it's a new free-to-play battle royale made by Respawn and published by Electronic Arts. The game differentiates itself from the likes of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in several ways, some of the biggest ways are its respawn mechanic and an emphasis on fast-paced movement. Titanfall 2's Resurgence The game was instantly popular. It reached more than 1 million players in under eight hours and hit 10 million in less than 72. It's also become a fixture of Twitch and YouTube, although that's also been true of other titles, most of which then faded into near-obscurity as many content creators moved back to games like Fortnite. But the point is that calling Apex Legends a success (at least at launch) would be an understatement. And it seems like much of that success has trickled down to Titanfall 2, Respawn's preceding first-person shooter. The game debuted in October 2016 and was mostly praised for its single-player campaign. It had multiplayer as well, but it wasn't nearly as popular as competitive-focused titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch even at launch. However, according to Games Radar today, Redditors have reported that the number of Titanfall 2's concurrent players has risen across the board since Apex Legends debuted. The PC version's active users jumped from an average of 1,000 up to 3,500; the PlayStation 4 version's rose from 3,000 to 5,000; and the Xbox One version's doubled from 5,000 to 10,000. All told, that's an extra 9,500 people. Those numbers pale in comparison to Apex Legends, of course, but any increase for a two-year-old game is notable. It's not like there's a community event going on, which sometimes happens for less-than-new titles, either. Folks just like Apex Legends enough to check out Titanfall 2. The good news is that Respawn and EA have both said that a "premium" game in the Titanfall universe is set to debut later this year.<doc-sep>
Apex Legends has now reached 25 million registered players, with Respawn's free to play shooter is already breaking Fortnite records in its ascension to the top of the battle royale food chain. Better yet, this success has had a delightful knock-on effect on the studio's previous first-person shooter of 2016, Titanfall 2, a stellar sequel that famously undersold after being squeezed between the releases of Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Reddit users have posted screenshots of Titanfall 2's current player count across PC, PS4, and Xbox One, which has seen huge spikes in recent days, presumably as a result of Apex Legends fans rediscovering the game to find out how their new favourite battle royale title is connected to this underrated series. Read more The best Apex Legends weapons, and how to use them On PC, one Redditor shows the Titanfall 2 multiplayer userbase sitting at around 3,500, which is more than a 200% increase from its usual average of 1000 players online. Similarly, the PS4 version of the game has seen numbers close to 5000, up from 3000, while the Xbox One Titanfall 2 community recently reached a whopping 10,000 concurrent players, double its pre-Apex Legends average of 5000. This is great news for Titanfall 2, which has never been given the proper attention it deserved as a multiplayer shooter, though it remains to be seen whether this new influx of Pilots will stick with the game for long, or return to Apex Legends as soon as they've seen everything it has to offer. Even so, Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts have both promised that more Titanfall is on the way this year, with a new "premium" game set in the same universe is due to release in the Fall, though the former has confirmed that Titanfall 3 isn't yet in the works. Hopefully Apex Legends continued rise to dominance will be enough for EA to give that threequel the greenlight. Titanfall 2 is one of the best online games of all time, but find out where it lands in our ranking alongside the likes of Overwatch and Fortnite!