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Rhys Elliott

@superhys
Head of market analysis @alineaanalytics. 馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆伔鬆伂鬆伋鬆伩 Ex-@NewzooHQ & @nielsen. Analysis in @ign, @bbc, @guardian, @gamespot, @GIBiz & more.
Amsterdam, Nederland
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Born October 20, 1990
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    Dec 15, 2025
    Damn! Huge spike in Expedition 33 copies sold since the Game Awards (@alineaanalytics estimates) It sold an extra 200K+ copies since: 76% on Steam, 21% on PS5, and 3% on Xbox. Around 52K Xbox players accessed E33 via Game Pass for the first time, too. Free Substack link in bio.
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    Aug 27
    gamescom with the @alineaanalytics lads; legends 馃挌
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    Aug 24
    A couple of weeks ago, Sony announced that Helldivers 2 hit 22.9M registered players as of 9 August. Our @alineaanalytics estimate that day was 22.3M, a 2.5% margin of error. Today, our estimates have players split at 65.0% Steam, 27.3% PS5, and 7.7% Xbox. And since
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    Aug 24
    Modern Warfare 4 is approaching 400K pre-launch copies on Steam (nearly $21M) after its pre-order beta weekend (@alineaanalytics estimates) Steam has never been CoD鈥檚 main home, even within PC. Last year鈥檚 Black Ops 7 had sold a bit over 200K on Steam at launch, and MW4 has
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    Aug 24
    How to Fish, ANOTHER new friendslop phenomenon, has hit 1.9M copies sold (@alineaanalytics estimates) It鈥檚 a wacky fishing-sim spin on low-fi co-op, and it鈥檒l certainly pass 2M copies sold very soon. It hits all the right friendslop gates, being cheap ($4.95 with a 38%-off
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