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How do we know this? Source.
How was this calculated? More info here.
Sony recently launched "My PS4 Life" allowing players to share some stats of their gaming experience.
Besides other numbers, they also disclose the exact number of players who received some trophy in some game. Combined with the % of people who obtained the trophy (this data is available for every game on the PlayStation website), we can estimate the total number of players in this game.
Say, 1,142,392 players earned the "Cradle" trophy in No Man's Sky. And on playstation.com they also reveal that 28,9% of all players got this trophy. Simple math: the total number of people who have played No Man's Sky on PS4 = 1,142,392 * 100% / 28,9% = 3,952,913.
The same trick can be done with every PlayStation 4 game - you just need to find a video where it's someone's rarest trophy. But better not too rare - 0.1% share doesn't give a good estimate.
Note: the number of players who have earned the trophy is not updated online, Sony probably took it somewhere between 20 November and 4 December. So it won't say much about recently released games.
P.S. About 3.5 months ago the number of players in God of War was calculated in exactly the same way when developers revealed the number of players who got the Platinum trophy. Sony must have overlooked that.
In case you're wondering how this stacks up to other titles:
Most Players: GTA V - 51,700,000
Least Players: VVVVVV - 28,800
Shenmue I and II had 106,000 unique players (anyone that played Shenmue II would have Shenmue I, so we're only using the amount of players for the first game) putting it in league with games like Hitman GO and The Talos Principle.
NOTE: This list *is not* exhaustive and only includes 98 games so far.
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