BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Post one single person who port begged for Ratchet and Clank
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart peaks at less than 9k concurrent players on Steam, third worst PC launch for PlayStation game
Post one single person who port begged for Ratchet and Clank
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Good. Learn to stop releasing sub par ports with full price.
The difficulty in missing the targets with that pathetic giant hit boxes with aim assist (bullet magnetism)...
The difficulty in missing the targets with that pathetic giant hit boxes with aim assist (bullet magnetism)...
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Their plastic box becomes worthless.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
It’s a great port too and benefits so much from m+kb controls. I’m surprised this flopped but Sony also doesn’t market these releases at all. They announced it at the pre show for TGA and then just dropped it on Steam a few weeks later.
ssringo
Member
Steam has like a dozen or more rogue-like/lites releasing every month and for much cheaper. Need something to really stand out. The middle age not so attractive white woman probably didn't help.
Edit: I've actually been interested in buying the game for a while but never did because of the price. Decided to check out the store page again to look at the trailer/screenshots. It looks fine but nothing really grabs me enough to overcome the price tag. It looks like a fairly typical sci-fi shooter with the bullet hell sequence in the trailer being the only thing that made me say "ooh, cool".
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
PlayStation gamers live in a bubble where their games are all must haves.
On PC there’s simply better options for that $60.
I’m not touching Ratchet until it’s $30 or less. It’s the same exact game I’ve played the last three generations. For $60 I’d buy Remnant 2 or Baldur’s Gate 3 over it.
On PC there’s simply better options for that $60.
I’m not touching Ratchet until it’s $30 or less. It’s the same exact game I’ve played the last three generations. For $60 I’d buy Remnant 2 or Baldur’s Gate 3 over it.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Amazing game, but it was also a bomb on PS5 - which people buy for Sony games.
balls of snow
Member
Ghost of tsushima would absolutely destroy. Graft in some ray tracing and people will just buy the game to admire the graphics.
Puscifer
Member
Long as these ports keep costing a drop in the bucket that'll never happen
fart town usa
Gold Member
Sad but true.
Puscifer
Member
I beat it in a couple playthroughs and took advantage of GameStop's guaranteed program and got my 70 dollars back, you're doing the right thing. It's a launch game through and through
Fbh
Member
This seems like a bad year to release a 2 years old port for nearly full price.
If you've got $50-60 to spend on games do you want to buy one of the highlights of the year so far (Hogwarts, RE4R, Jedi, Diablo, etc), one of the exciting games releasing in the next few weeks (Armored Core, Baldur's Gate, etc) or a 2 years old playstation game?
Maybe you can find success with this if you are releasing a really big and well known title like God of War. But not wit Ratchet and Clank.
PC has long been the superior platform with better visuals, better performance, more and cheaper games, more customization, mods, emulators, better ray tracing, better upscaling tech, etc.
The one argument console players have long used to defend their system is "exclusives". So now that those are also coming to PC they feel like it devalues their console.
And I say that as someone who still primarily plays on console, but the main reason to own one these days is a lower price of entry and a still somewhat superior "plug and play" experience.
If you've got $50-60 to spend on games do you want to buy one of the highlights of the year so far (Hogwarts, RE4R, Jedi, Diablo, etc), one of the exciting games releasing in the next few weeks (Armored Core, Baldur's Gate, etc) or a 2 years old playstation game?
Maybe you can find success with this if you are releasing a really big and well known title like God of War. But not wit Ratchet and Clank.
PC has long been the superior platform with better visuals, better performance, more and cheaper games, more customization, mods, emulators, better ray tracing, better upscaling tech, etc.
The one argument console players have long used to defend their system is "exclusives". So now that those are also coming to PC they feel like it devalues their console.
And I say that as someone who still primarily plays on console, but the main reason to own one these days is a lower price of entry and a still somewhat superior "plug and play" experience.
Holammer
Member
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
So they are only begging to piss off some console warriors...PC players keep begging for ps exclusives, but all they play are 20 year old f2p shooters and only buy games at discounted price.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Doesn't speak to how good the game is. Some games attract more or less media attention. Some are also more of what the PC base likes. Imagine if a Bloodborne poet happened? That would probably break records for Sony
Yerd
Member
Please explain how this release has affected you in any way.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Play 20yr old ftp shooter, or spend $60 for the same game we’ve played for the last 20yrs?
Stooky
Member
Zuzu
Member
It looks like a 3D platformer but it’s actually more of a 3rd person shooter. But most people probably think it’s a platformer. The platforming that’s in it is very simplistic and is secondary to the combat; it’s the shooting that’s the main gameplay mechanic. And it’s a great shooter - very fun on higher difficulties. I wish Insomniac would make a non-cartoony 3rd person shooter because this game shows they could make a really good one.
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TrueGrime
Member
It's a fun one and done game for sure, but you mean to tell me that PC players aren't going crazy over a two year old port that's $50 and has tech issues? Say it ain't so.
Guilty_AI
Member
High price for a genre thats known for being cheap and running on potatoes, not to mention it generally isn't considered to be a very good rogueli(k)(t)e. Also, its a rather average number for this type of game, its really only losing to the rogue big boys like Hades and Risk of Rain 2.
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Zathalus
Member
Uncharted is a game that came out 7 years ago and has been available for free on PlayStation as well. None of the previous games are available on PC either. Ratchet and Clank is a 2 year old platformer that has never had sales numbers like the big PlayStation franchises. It's also been free on PlayStation.
If Sony want larger sales then either reduce the gap or do franchises that are popular on PC like Demon Souls.
JimboJones
Member
It's because PlayStation fans are all furries.
You remember wrong. It underperformed. It didn’t even make the Best of Steam 2022 Bronze list.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
There are better free mods available to play on PC than this game. No wonder.
GT7, Demon Souls and Bloodborne would do very well on PC.
A PC release of Dreams even made much more sense than a Sackboy port, but alas.
mrmustard
Banned
I think it's more about losing an advantage over Xbox (for console warring purposes).
Low Moral Fibre
Member
It had tough competition from an actual banger of a game in Remnant 2.
Guilty_AI
Member
Its because its expensive and a bad roguelite. You can get Risk of Rain 2 or Deep Rock Galactic for a fraction of the price they ask.
JimRyanGOAT
Member
These 100 dollar 12-hour linear games Sony fans love are just not PC gamer's cup of tea
Just look at the Most Played Steam games
Its all Live Service games
Which is why I find it funny every time someone hates on Jim Ryan for trying to branch out Sony's horribly repetitive First Party output
Just look at the Most Played Steam games
Its all Live Service games
Which is why I find it funny every time someone hates on Jim Ryan for trying to branch out Sony's horribly repetitive First Party output
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Trogdor1123
Member
imagine begging for this game
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Yeah, even on PS5 it didnt sell all that well. Sold a million worldwide in a month and then dropped out of all charts. It was not in NPD's top 20 that year. Outsold by smash hits like Back4Blood and Mortal Kombat 2019.
the game was just a gigantic waste of time for everyone. Ratchet is a dying franchise and insomniac shouldve just focused their entire efforts on making spiderman 2 the biggest leap possible.
With that said, pc gamers dont seem to care about these sony exclusives. these are really bad numbers for everything other than maybe gow, horizon and spiderman. maybe day one they will be better. it's clear now that tlou, uncharted, returnal, ratchet, sackboy just dont have the same market they do on consoles. They need to realize that pc gaming is a different market and focus on releasing just wrpgs/lite rpgs like gow and horizon, or souls like games. BB and Demon Souls should do much better. on par with horizon and gow.
I wonder what nixxes is doing next. im guessing spiderman 2 will be ported within months because clearly this 2-3 year delay is not working.
the game was just a gigantic waste of time for everyone. Ratchet is a dying franchise and insomniac shouldve just focused their entire efforts on making spiderman 2 the biggest leap possible.
With that said, pc gamers dont seem to care about these sony exclusives. these are really bad numbers for everything other than maybe gow, horizon and spiderman. maybe day one they will be better. it's clear now that tlou, uncharted, returnal, ratchet, sackboy just dont have the same market they do on consoles. They need to realize that pc gaming is a different market and focus on releasing just wrpgs/lite rpgs like gow and horizon, or souls like games. BB and Demon Souls should do much better. on par with horizon and gow.
I wonder what nixxes is doing next. im guessing spiderman 2 will be ported within months because clearly this 2-3 year delay is not working.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Sorry if i dont want Jim Ryan to branch out to Wallpaper Engine and NARAKA : BLADEPOINT.
Fredrik
Member
I wonder what would happen if they had a simultaneous PC and console release. Tanked console sales but boosted game sales?
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Starfield. Forza Horizon 5 had 80,745 concurrent users on Steam but Gamepass is much bigger now and I’m thinking we’ll see that affecting sales, 30fps on console could help Steam sales a bit though.