For a firm hellbent on extracting as much profit as possible from PC users, Sony’s not exactly doing a great job of it.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, already a PS5 best-seller, has really struggled since debuting on PC, attracting a peak player count of just 28k on Steam since its launch late last week. That’s less than half the original Marvel’s Spider-Man’s peak player count of 66k, and way down on the likes of Ghost of Tsushima and God of War.
The game’s getting hammered in player reviews, too. Of the roughly 5k appraisals thus far, around half of them are negative, with many pointing to poor optimisation and performance. “[The] game runs like a fat kid through molasses,” said one user who requested a refund.
Outside of the runaway success of Helldivers 2, which launched day and date on PC, the novelty of Sony’s PC ports appears to be declining. Sequels like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok have struggled to match the peaks of their predecessors, and other recent day one releases like Until Dawn and LEGO Horizon Adventures have failed to have any impact at all.