Black Myth: Wukong preloads smash Steam's all-time bandwidth records, beating Cyberpunk 2077's enormous peak as 70 terabytes are downloaded every second
Cyberpunk 2077's peak was 51TB per second
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There are clearly a lot of people excited aboutBlack Myth: Wukong, as it has managed to beat Cyberpunk 2077’s peak download bandwidth usage on Steam ahead of its release tomorrow.
While bandwidth usage might not be the stat that we often look at on Steam, with many often focusing more on concurrent player counts to judge a game’s popularity, before and during a game’s launch the site’s bandwidth is a solid indicator of how many people are rushing to download things. We saw this back in 2020 with the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 –as flagged in this Reddit post at the time, the site’s download bandwidth spiked to 51TB per second on December 12, the Saturday following the game’s launch.
It’s worth noting that this bandwidth usage is across Steam as a whole, so there’s bound to be some usage in there …
