Helldivers 2's popularity continues to be immense, and one senior game designer at Naughty Dog has been gushing about what they believe to be the main reason why – its focus on immersion.
25.03.2024 - 16:45 / eurogamer.net / Hiroki Totoki / Sony
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition was released on PC last week, and has seen a respectable number of players flocking to partake in Aloy's latest outing.
The Horizon sequel and its Burning Shores DLC currently has a concurrent player peak of 40,462 on Steam — ahead of other big Sony games such as The Last of Us Part 1, which has had a peak of 36,496 concurrent players.
Forbidden West player numbers still sit a touch behind its predecessor Zero Dawn, however. The first Horizon game, which came to Steam back in 2020, boasts a concurrent player peak of 56,557. Meanwhile, no Sony-published game is close to surpassing juggernaut Helldivers 2, which quickly became PlayStation's biggest Steam launch ever and currently has an all-time concurrent peak of over 458,000 players.
Horizon Forbidden West PC vs PS5: Enhanced Features, Performance Tests + Image Quality Boosts! Horizon Forbidden West PC vs PS5: Enhanced Features, Performance Tests + Image Quality Boosts!Horizon Forbidden West is just the latest in a growing push from Sony to bring more of its titles to PC. As well as the above, the company has also ported other once PlayStation exclusives to an additional platform, such as Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Days Gone, God of War and Marvel's Spider-Man.
While there are several other titles rumoured to be making the jump from PlayStation to PC in the future, two that we know for certain to be coming are Ghost of Tsushima and Until Dawn.
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Image credit: Steam/EurogamerEarlier this month, Sony president and PlayStation chairman Hiroki Totoki spoke about the opportunities available in the company's approach to releasing first-party games on PC, saying it's «proactively [working] on» bringing more titles to other platforms as part of an «aggressive» profit margin growth plan.
As for Horizon's latest PC release, Digital Foundry took a closer look at Forbidden West's port earlier this month, saying its «got a lot going for it».
«Most importantly, it runs smoothly, without some of the consistency issues I saw in the launch versions of Marvel's Spider-Man or Ratchet and Clank — and general performance should satisfy users, especially if the default dynamic resolution scaling option is enabled,» Alex Battaglia wrote after going hands on with Horizon Forbidden West on PC.
Helldivers 2's popularity continues to be immense, and one senior game designer at Naughty Dog has been gushing about what they believe to be the main reason why – its focus on immersion.
Horizon Forbidden West update 1.2.48.0 is now available for download via Steam. This release further refines the Horizon Forbidden West PC port with some notable quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.
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Helldivers 2 no longer cleans up the blood on armor after missions, and players are enjoying this change not mentioned in the patch notes. For the unaware, the recent Helldivers 2 update has shadow-dropped some new content, including a charger meter feature for the LAS-99 Quasar Cannon. As it turned out, this update has quietly added two new enemies that belong to the Automaton faction, Gunships and Factory Striders.
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The back half of March was a big one for new video game released, with the likes of Dragon’s Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Princess Peach: Showtime!, and Alone in the Dark all hitting store shelves around the same time. Alongside those new titles, however, Sony also released the PC port of Horizon Forbidden West, which has got off to an impressive start on the platform.
There’s an argument that the novelty of Sony’s delayed single player PC ports has worn off, but Horizon Forbidden West is bucking that trend. The open world sequel, converted by Nixxes, has opened to a respectable peak of 35,168 concurrent users on Steam, making it the sixth biggest PS Studios launch on the platform to date – just a hair behind The Last of Us: Part 1. There’s a good chance it’ll overtake the Naughty Dog remake later in the weekend.
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