Black Myth: Wukong has been a huge hit globally, shattering the Steam record previously held by titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring. It is particularly popular in China, to say the least, and heavily focused on their culture and mythology – specifically the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Celebration of its release was visible when Nvidia AIB partners released Black Myth: Wukong-themed RTX Super GPUs in China, and whether they’ll be available globally remains in the air.
China downloads more than 1 exabyte of data in a week
According to Steam download stats, China has exceeded 1 exabyte of data usage in the last week – 1.2 EB at the time of writing. This number is so exponentially high that we’ll break it down to put it into perspective.
1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte, 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte. To make that clear, one Exabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes. According to the Omni calculator, downloading one Exabyte of data with a one gigabyte per second internet connection would take 25,8700 hours, 42 minutes, and 54 seconds, or approximately 29.5 years.
For comparison, the next highest region on the chart would be the United States, which clocked in 265.4 PB (Petabytes). Special shoutout to the gamer(s) in Antarctica that hit 1.8 TB of downloaded data.
This has almost certainly been spurred on by the release of Black Myth: Wukong, especially with the game hitting a peak of well over 2 million players as of late, according to SteamDB. We knew it was going to be big when we saw the download traffic from preloads. The game has clearly struck a chord within the region, and one thing is for certain: China’s gaming community is huge. This amount of traffic might be a record high for Steam.
