Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart peaks at less than 9k concurrent players on Steam, third worst PC launch for PlayStation game | Game World Observer
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the latest PlayStation game ported to PC. While it got attention thanks to the use of DirectStorage 1.2, its launch numbers are quite unimpressive compared to SIE’s other first-party titles on Steam.

Launched on July 26, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart only peaked at 8,757 concurrent players (CCU) on Steam (via SteamDB).

It currently holds a “Very Positive” rating based on 670 user reviews, with 84% of them being positive.

This makes Rift Apart the third worst launch on PC for a PlayStation game, only above Returnal (6,691 CCU) and Sackboy: A Big Adventure (610 CCU). There is also a PC version of Helldivers, with 6,744 peak CCU, but its developer Arrowhead is not SIE’s first-party studio.

  • Kinglink@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    I really wish we could stop talking about concurrent players when talking about single player games, it’s a weak (and mostly meaningless) metric.

    But also this game felt like it got no marketing, and I don’t think Ratchet and Clank is as well known as Uncharted or The Last of Us, so just on name recognition it was never going to pull the same numbers. Hopefully Sony doesn’t stop the PC ports, because I’m loving the fact these games are finally on PC.

      • EhList@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Don’t forget a subset of incels were bothered by this game because of the fact that there is a female Lombax character and all the Lombax’s in Rachet’s universe are extinct (Rivet is from a different universe where she is the only remaining Lombax). It’s dumb but they haven’t forgotten or at least the guy who went on a 15 minute rant as he sold me my ps5 hasn’t.

        • CosmicApe@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          They’re getting upset about a female version of the main character from a different universe? That’s like the main alternative universe trope

          • EhList@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yes and it’s really odd because the game handles the shift to Rivet really well

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Right!

      I remember seeing articles when the concurrent player base for Hogwarts drop down. Like no duh. It’s a single player game with a finite number of quests. The concurrent player metric only matters when it’s an online game and you need multiple people to play with.