It's no secret that Black Myth: Wukong has been a rousing success since launching earlier this week. According to the data housed at SteamDB, Black Myth: Wukong has achieved a 2.4 million all-time concurrent peak, which is good enough for second all-time on Steam, beating out the likes of Counter-Strike 2 and Cyberpunk 2077.
What's more, Game Science, the team behind the smash hit, revealed on Friday that 10 million copies have been sold. But between all those statistics is an even more unbelievable number.
It's not a waste of money!
Over the last seven days, China has accounted for 1.2 Exabytes of Steam traffic, amounting to nearly 60% of all global traffic. For reference, the United States has accounted for 256 Petabytes, or just about 12% of all global traffic.
You've likely heard of gigabytes and terabytes, but an exabyte is something else entirely.
If 1,024 Megabytes equals one Gigabyte, and 1,024 Gigabytes makes one Terabyte, then an Exabyte is made up of 1,024 Petabytes. It takes 1,024 Terabytes to make a single Petabyte. In other words, that's an enormous amount of data. Of course, not all of it is exactly attributed to Black Myth: Wukong,...
