PlayStation Classic flops on Steam despite strong reviews PlayStation \/ SteamSony released \u2018Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart\u2019 on Steam on July 26, peaking at only 8757 concurrent players. This charts well below other PlayStation PC ports. Sony has continued to dominate the console wars with its direct competition of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox which have both shared similar hardware, games and therefore customers. Microsoft has recently acquired Activision Blizzard, further strengthening it\u2019s overall gaming arsenal, such as console leader Call of Duty. This has ultimately put more pressure on Sony as Microsoft has historically always been more dominant when it comes to anything PC related. Overall the company has struggled to gain any major success for PC games, such as when Rift Apart was released on PC. The critically acclaimed brand of Rachet & Clank has proven key for Sony for many years, with the latest PlayStation 5 release gaining huge critical acclaim and success. Despite holding a \u2018Very Positive\u2019 84% rating based on from 670 user reviews, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart according to SteamDB has only peaked at 8757 active users on July 26, the day it launched. With figures dropping even further in the days following, the game has no signs of being revived and is the third-worst PC launch for PlayStation. See below from PlayStation Studios the top games by highest players at one time on Steam: God of War \u2013 73,529K – Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man Remastered \u2013 66,436K – Horizon Zero Dawn \u2013 56,557K – The Last of Us Part I \u2013 36,496K – Days Gone \u2013 27,450K – Why are Sony\u2019s games flopping on PC? Sony\u2019s highest active players do not even make the top 100 on Steam, whereby the 100th-ranked game \u2018Tom Clany\u2019s The Division\u2019 has an all-time peak of 114,228 (via SteamDB). Speculation regarding PlayStation\u2019s failings mainly has revolved around the disastrous transferring of games made for consoles being ported over to PC. However, early reviews for Ratchet and Clank suggested this was not the case, with players praising the gameplay. Instead, the low sales figures have suggested it is more towards Sony\u2019s strategies to win over new customers who are unfamiliar with PlayStation\u2019s giant titles. After a long successful history, the dominant console and game developer may have to rethink it\u2019s PC launch strategy going forward if they plan to continue porting their exclusives to the platform. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is available now for PC and PS5 and to find out more about the game on PC, follow the link attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PlayStation Classic flops on Steam despite strong reviews PlayStation \/ SteamSony released \u2018Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart\u2019 on Steam on July 26, peaking at only 8757 concurrent players. This charts well below other PlayStation PC ports. Sony has continued to dominate the console wars with its direct competition of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox which have both shared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}