Reddit’s ‘NotQuiteFactual‘ has collected and shared some interesting stats about Bandai Namco’s latest fighting game, Tekken 8. According to the latest stats, the PC platform is the most popular one in Tekken 8. Yep, you read that right. Tekken 8 has more PC players than PlayStation and Xbox players.
Going into more details, NotQuiteFactual gathered the data by looking at the replays list in the game and sorting by recent. This month’s report is based off of 765015 replays gathered between 2024-05-10 and 2024-05-11.
Now while these aren’t official stats, they should be able to give us a pretty good idea of the playerbase. In my opinion, the user should have gathered data for at least 3-4 days. Still, since Bandai Namco hasn’t shared any official stats, this is the closer we’ll get to them.
According to the stats, Tekken 8 has more PC players than PlayStation and Xbox players. As we can see, there are 53.18% PC players, 39.35% PlayStation players, and 7.47% Xbox players.
The most popular character appears to be Jin, followed by King, Reina and Kazuya. My main, Hwoarang, is in fifth place, followed by Steve, Dragunov, Lili, Bryan Fury and Law. To be honest, I’m surprised to see Dragunov and Victor in lower places than Hwoarang or Steve.
Most players in Tekken 8 appear to be of a Garyu rank. Mighty Ruler and Fujin are the next two most popular ranks. Only 1.94% of players appear to have hit Tekken King (that’s my rank) and only 0.28% and 0.31% are Tekken Lord Supreme or Gods of Destruction, respectively.
In my opinion, Tekken 8 currently suffers from lots of issues. Right now, this is a casino 50/50 fighting game. Not only that but some characters are intentionally made better than others. Then we have the game’s bugs that somehow got worse with the latest patch (sometimes the game won’t even execute a Rage Art even after pressing the key), as well as its awful netcode. After hitting Tekken King, I’ve been experiencing matches with major latency issues and rollback frames. And that’s with “4 or above” connection bars. And then we have the cheaters who mostly use auto-blocks and auto-throw breaks.
At this point, I don’t expect the devs to fix most of these issues. It’s a shame really because underneath all those issues, there is a really good game.
Anyway, at least the game appears to be a success on PC, so that’s good news for all PC fighting gamers!
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Wait for someone to port Tekken 3 on PC just like CTR and then compare graphs again. It will blast tekken 8 totally. And boy if it has online support it will doom Tekken 8 for sure.
Probably because of mods.
This is just my unscientific observation, but most of Playstation youtuber nowadays mostly came from PS3 as their first gaming machine they able to enjoy (probably they play PS2 but too small to trully enjoy it). Someone like Mystic in youtube, an avid PlayStation youtuber, have very weak knowledge regarding to PS 1 and PS 2 library in most of his video that even me as casual PS1 gamer back in the day able to recognize.PS1 gamer seems nowadays come to PC gaming like me myself