The newly-released Doom: The Dark Ages has apparently brought in over three million players to date. 

That's according to parent company Bethesda, which announced the sales milestone on Twitter, adding that the game was in fact developer Id Software's biggest launch to date. The firm said that Doom: The Dark Ages reached three million players seven times faster than its predecessor, 2020's Doom Eternal. 

As pointed out by The Games Business's Chris Dring, data firm Ampere reckons that more than two million of those three million users played the game on Xbox, likely via the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. 

Doom: The Dark Ages has been popular on PC; the game was the second highest-grossing title on Steam in its debut week, beaten only by Counter-Strike 2. It is worth noting that engagement for Doom: The Dark Ages is massively down on the platform compared to Doom Eternal; that title managed 104.9k concurrent players on its opening weekend – as reported by SteamDB – while Doom: The Dark Ages has reached just a height of just 31,470 simultaneous users. 

It's not exactly a fair comparison as in March 2020, when Doom Eternal came out, large parts of the world were either in – or about to enter – COVID-19 lockdowns, so people were stuck indoors looking for ways to pass the time. But it does point to Doom: The Dark Ages being slightly weaker than Doom Eternal commercially. 

At the time, Bethesda said that Doom Eternal was the best opening weekend for the series yet.