Either way, there’s no point beating around the bush: these PC numbers are terrifying. We’re not sure what the platform holder can do to turn things around at this point, but it’s going to have to do a huge amount of internal review, since it went from one of its biggest hits ever with Helldivers 2 to one of its biggest flops ever.
Original article: There’s so much to unpack in Firewalk Studios Concord’s debut shooter that we may need to write a full post-mortem. But now is not the time, as the title officially launched only yesterday for PS5 and PC. As expected, the game is doing exceptionally poorly on Steam, where peaked at just 697 concurrent players.
That’s significantly lower than other high-profile flops like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (which peaked at 13,459 players) and Red Fall (which peaked at 6,124 players). The other substantial release this week, Black Myth: Wukong, peaked at 2.4 million players. It’s not a fair comparison, since it’s a completely different type of game, but it does give you a different perspective.
It is worth noting that these numbers Just includes Steam and judging from our anecdotal observations, there are much more people play on PS5. Although crossplay can be turned off, we left it on and noticed almost All players have the PlayStation logo next to their username on the results screen. Of course, this is purely commemorative and we still don’t know exactly How many of them are played on the Sony system.
