https://wccftech.com/new-world-had-over-1-million-players-on-day-one-character-transfers-coming-next-week/

Amazon Games finally launched a successful game with New World, as the company confirmed a few hours ago that the game registered over one million players just on its launch day.

We already had an inkling of that due to the high concurrent users tracked by SteamDB, according to which New World peaked at 758.5K around thirteen hours ago. This makes it by far the biggest launch of 2021 on Steam, way ahead of Valheim's 502K peak (though of course, that game was comparatively an even greater success considering that it was made by a very small studio).