The most recent Sony first-party launch to make the leap from PlayStation to PC is Ghost of Tsushima. The Director’s Minimize model of the sport arrived on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer in a single day to a really constructive reception from gamers.
The PC port doesn’t seem to have any main points, and by most accounts, the sport runs nicely on quite a lot of configurations. However what about participant turnout? Nicely, it’s good, however nonetheless falls beneath a sure launch from 2022.
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Minimize is the twelfth PlayStation first-party recreation to go away the confines of the console. Sony’s initiative to deliver extra of its video games to PC began off with Days Gone in 2021, adopted by the God of Battle 2018 reboot, which launched on PC in 2022. Since then, the platform holder has been steadily placing increasingly more of its video games out on PC.
Surprisingly, nevertheless, participant numbers haven’t at all times stored up with this improve in output. Excluding Helldivers 2 – God of Battle stays Sony’s most performed first-party recreation on Steam, peaking at 73,529 concurrent gamers at launch.
A number of video games have been launched on Steam since, corresponding to Returnal, Spider-Man Remastered, The Final of Us Half 1, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside, and the Horizon video games. The closest a recreation has gotten to dethroning God of Battle has been, unsurprisingly, Spider-Man Remastered, which peaked at 66,436 concurrent gamers.
Tsushima presently sits beneath Spider-Man Remastered, making it the third most performed recreation (not together with Helldivers 2), with a peak of 57,934 concurrent gamers. Out of all of these video games, Tsushima is the one one with a significant multiplayer element, so it must be positioned to do higher than this.
Nonetheless, Sony’s current PSN account-linking fumble with Helldivers 2 has resulted in Ghost of Tsushima additionally being unavailable for buy in over 170 international locations and areas, which means Sony has misplaced out on numerous curiosity and gross sales from gamers in these locations. Figures might at all times enhance over the weekend, or after Sony places it again on sale in additional international locations, nevertheless it should be disheartening for builders to see so many gamers miss out on what’s finally a predominantly single-player recreation as a result of they couldn’t entry a aspect mode that requires a PSN account.
We’ll maintain you up to date if the state of affairs adjustments over the approaching days.
