![]() ![]() Its a 'win/win' for Sony and their devs who see a 'bump' in sales, interest and money coming in from very little work. For a game that's no longer selling, no longer making Sony money, the Marketing has generated 'sales' on PC and on console, renewed interest in buying a Playstation as it reminds them what 'games' they can play today, don't need to wait until GoW:R or SM2 to release. ![]() Its more about giving those games a '2nd' marketing cycle after they have basically faded into 'sales' obscurity. If Steam is your 'main' platform, then they aren't buying 'multi-platform' PS5 versions, not spending time and money in the PS ecosystem regularly - if at all. Maybe pick-up a used console and some used exclusives towards the latter life span when there are 'enough' exclusives to warrant buying. Those people that will wait for it to come to PC aren't really likely to buy a PS and 'games'. Its not that different from waiting a year to play Deathloop or Ghostwire on Xbox/Game Pass but Sony are counting on you wanting to be 'hyped' for their games, hyped to play them day 1, hyped to spend £/$70 on to be amongst the first to experience their Story before its 'spoilt'. Mon 31st Oct I'm sure there will be some that will happy wait a year or more to play their games on the Platform they prefer.Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 610 (15 hours ago).Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection - 10,851 (eight days ago).Horizon Zero Dawn - 56,557 (two years ago).Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered - 66,436 (three months ago).Significantly older ports like Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone all have thousands more active users recorded over the past 24 hours and appear higher in Steam's best-selling charts.Īs of 31st October 2022, Sony's PC ports have recorded the following highest concurrent number of players: ![]() Of course, player counts do not necessarily translate into hard sales, but SteamDB has Sackboy: A Big Adventure tagged as the 121st best-selling game on the platform. Compare this to the 10,851 peak the Nathan Drake remasters recorded and it's immediately clear how unpopular Sackboy has proven on PC. Across its first weekend on sale, the highest number of players it had at any one time was just 610. After the PC port of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection set the record for the lowest player count of any Sony game at launch, Sackboy: A Big Adventure has come along and beat it by an alarming margin. ![]()
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