Has Siege X spiked the Rainbow Six participant rely?

Opinions are like favorite titles; each gamer has them, so there are constructive and destructive views of Rainbow Six Siege X, relying on the place you look and who you communicate to. We’re not debating the advantages or in any other case right here, although. It’s clear Ubisoft delivered the Siege X replace with two clear issues in thoughts: freshening up a decade-old title and optimising its longevity.

Has it achieved both of these? Properly, it’s arduous to quantify the added lifespan Siege X will ship so quickly after the replace. However we will and can take a look at the important thing metric in that evaluation: participant rely. Has Siege X elevated Rainbow Six Siege gamers? We’ll delve into that and the important thing causes behind any change. We’ll additionally think about what the present longer-term development might be and what the longer term participant inhabitants may appear to be. The place can R6 Siege X go from right here?

Sure, Siege X has spiked the R6 participant rely. There’s the short reply, and it’s accomplished so considerably too. Naturally, this isn’t a mirrored image of sentiment as a result of even individuals who don’t just like the replace to R6 Siege should play the replace to know. However should you take a look at the ‘one month’ view on Steam Charts, you’ll see a transparent change in participant numbers. 

Main as much as the June 10 launch, R6 Siege seemed on a downward development from Feb/March 2025, peaking at roughly 66,000 gamers the day earlier than Siege X launched on June 9. On June 10, the 24-hour participant rely peak jumped to round 141,000 gamers, an enormous improve and a pair of.1x the day prior. Such an enormous soar could also be anticipated given a significant replace, and looking out on the longer view on participant counts provides extra context. However we’ll come to that in a bit.

So why did the Siege X/Rainbow Six Siege participant spike? Easy. Throughout its lifespan, Rainbow Six Siege hasn’t been alone in a particular destructive query being requested; Google Tendencies’ historical past of “is Rainbow Six lifeless” peaked in 2020, 2024, and…properly, that query hasn’t gone away. Avid gamers have been asking that query on Reddit, Quora, and there have been articles aplenty, and you will discover a dialogue for yearly from round 2019. Actually, there have been even rumours of its demise in 2016.

However Rainbow Six Siege isn’t lifeless, the sport retains going, has an lively esports scene, and receives common updates from Ubisoft. Arguably, it’s nowhere near dying, and so long as the servers are up, there’s an opportunity it will possibly bounce again to a participant rely excessive. Proper…? Perhaps. As a current instance reveals, even essentially the most liked video games (Fortnite) can fall to stunning lows. 

What’s a much bigger search time period than “Is R6 Siege lifeless”? The reply is “Is R6 Siege good?”. And that’s telling, as a result of logic suggests present gamers don’t put that into search bars. A title with a 10-year historical past and the place gamers nonetheless ask whether or not it’s good means it’s persevering with to be observed. New gamers are the lifeblood for older video games, and when these gamers be part of present, returning gamers, you get a spike just like the one on June 10.

However does that make Siege X, its new Twin Entrance mode, visible and audio overhaul, and different modifications a hit? In some half, as a result of half of the battle for on-line video games is getting folks into servers. That’s labored, and since June 10, participant peaks have been over 100,000. Success isn’t one thing outlined in days, although.

Approximate annual participant rely peaks, in line with SteamCharts.

The June 10 Siege X replace stands out as a spike, however it’s solely the best participant peak since March’s Yr 10 Season 1 replace, which topped at (an analogous) 145,000 gamers. Maybe there’s a component of summer season influence from northern hemisphere international locations, suppressing the Siege X numbers a bit from beating the March peak, however with out extra knowledge, June 10’s participant rely may point out a few issues. 

The primary is that it’s jump-start for a 10-year-old title. That appears a good view. However the second, file peaks like March 2024’s 200,000 gamers, is that the spike is a blip in a typically down-trending title that has had its prime. Referring again to Steamcharts, the times after the Siege X launch noticed good figures, however one week after the preliminary 140,000 peak, on June 17, the participant peak was all the way down to 127,000. Two weeks after, it was all the way down to 115,000, nonetheless above 100K, however exhibiting a possible downward development. 

So the preliminary reply is not any, the spike hasn’t been sustained. Ubisoft isn’t anyplace close to accomplished with Siege X, in fact, and there will likely be extra updates and promotional boosts, just like the Siege X collaboration with prime R6 Share professional bundles. But it surely stays to be seen if, post-summer, June’s participant spike was the beginning of one thing longer-term in a constructive path. Or a quick reversal of an unavoidable slide.

No matter’s subsequent for R6 Siege X, the Siege X replace, definitely (for a summer season launch) spiked the participant rely. It couldn’t beat March’s Yr 10 Season 1 replace, however the gameplay modifications of Siege X, the visible and audio overhauls, may give it a long-term increase. But it surely’s too early to inform if it will possibly see extra 100K+ participant days, or if the Siege X impact on Rainbow Six Siege does little to reverse a current downward development.