The Last of Us Is One of Sony's More Popular PC Ports Despite the Flaws

Playing it on Steamdeck...hard to deny, but it's rough. The fps is all over the place. There's no optimization done. Even the default mode is barely playable with about 20fps, before dropping settings further. I've read there's a bad memory leak in the DLL, but I've only just started with it. Uncharted is in verified status and plays terrific, not sure why or how TLoU went so poorly. Should have been an easy hype release. I'm still waiting for Ghost of Tsushima and the 2022 release of Horizon and GoW. Ghost especially. I'm sure GT7 will be in there a some point, but it's online always style is a non-starter for me.

That's a low rating for a excellent game.
I mean Returnal.

This is disgraceful. Sackboy deserves more success on PC than this rushed pile of dung

I'd love to see Gran Turismo 7 make the jump to PC and The Last of Us 2 is an obvious choice as well.

If they get this into a better state I'll probably get it on PC as well, so I'll keep an eye on its progress

@Milt to be fair Sackboy was poor at launch as well, not sure how it is today

"What do you hope Sony brings to PC next?"

Most likely they will explore recent games but I wish they ported more 'olderish' ones like Until Dawn, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian.

Even ports of previous generations would be neat, retro collections, etc..

With Miles Morales releasing 3 months after Spider-Man 1, I expect Part II to drop soon. After that, I'd assume Ghost of Tsushima & Ratchet & Clank (2016, Rift Apart or both) are next because of the Nvidia leak. And well Polyphony did say GT7 could be on PC.

Hope they learned their lesson and never give iron galaxy anything to port ever again.

@Americansamurai1 very true wouldnt have Iron galaxy port anything in future

@trev666 yeah I don't know how they keep getting work

@carlos82 Not really. It was among the top-selling games on PS Store when PS5 came out

I think next up will be TLoU2 to prepare PC players for Factions 2. Outside that, in no particular order I think these will come to PC this year:

• Ghost of Tsushima
• Demon's Souls (PS5 remake)
• Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Gran Turismo 7
• A bunch of unannounced live service games

GoW Ragnarok would probably be an early 2024 PC release.

@Americansamurai1 must be because Adam Boyes formally of Sony is CEO of Iron galaxy.

@Americansamurai1 @trev666 Naughty Dog did the vast majority of the work on the port, not Iron Galaxy.

@Milt I meant it's PC performance/optimisation

@LiamCroft yeah but don't know how much I believe that just like they said Guerrilla Games and firesprite developed call of the mountain but you know it was probably mainly firesprite

@trev666 yeah I was thinking that might be the case

Yikes, that screenshot. It looks like some kind of Joel and Ellie fever dream, or some new multiverse IP about Sony characters supernaturally quantum traveling.

All these numbers look horrible. What's the average peak of launch games on Steam?

I want Bloodborne and Demons Souls so that my Steam Deck can play all the Soulsborne games.

I don't care if we get the original DS or the remake, as long as it runs well on the Deck. Playing Sekiro, Elden Ring, DS3, etc on there is such a great experience with only minor tweaking.

These numbers are awful and there's no way they're actually happy with them.
Imagine a meeting with Jim Ryan: "we're gonna put our legendary acclaimed exclusives that usually debut with millions from our loyal console players, on PC and peak player count will be about 40K." Flop after flop, the PC community has rejected this whole PC push.

Controversy sells!

It may be a decent showing but you have to imagine that ultimately this was an absolutely disastrous launch. What could have likely been the best port showing of a ps studio to date was likely hampered by this.

The only thing that probably salvaged some of the early adopters was the conveniently late reviews and tech analysis done post launch. Although it has been mentioned by several outlets that the code went out very late, so perhaps ND or iron galaxy, whomever put the final touches before release, knew the game was not in an acceptable technical state.

Sony really need to reel it in and take stock. Been a weird last few years and some weird vibes, or lack thereof coming from the company

@SlySnake0407
Me too.
PC comunity is a long away from me.

@Americansamurai1 doesn't really matter how much iron galaxy was involved. It doesn't make sony or naughty dog less responsible or accountable for this messy port. This is their baby and they should of taken care of it. End of the day, ND and Sony were ultimately in control of Quality Assurance and what was being released and they clearly dropped the ball.

@veryhoudini11 yeah I don't disagree and I think they wanted to get it out before this fiscal year ended