One other PC launch from Sony, one other tough across the edges launch, this time for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Earlier this week, an announcement got here from Sony to do with its PC releases that was truly fairly welcome: it can take away its PSN requirement from a few of its greatest single-player titles. That included Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which on the time of the announcement was a day earlier than it launched on PC. The sport is out now, and whereas I am positive many are comfortable they do not should sign up to a PSN account, opinions are usually not portray a fairly image. At present, throughout virtually 4500 opinions, the sport is sitting at a blended ranking on Steam, with many opinions criticising the sport for being poorly optimised. Many of the opinions appear in relation to the sport crashing, however simply over half of the opinions are literally constructive, so your mileage might range.
Critiques apart, although, player-count launch numbers seem like they may very well be doing a bit higher. In response to SteamDB, the sport hit a concurrent player-count peak of 27,775 gamers yesterday, and on the time of writing it is a couple of thousand below that now. There’s an opportunity it will beat that peak later at present, as playtimes usually do peak within the night, however for comparability, the primary sport within the sequence, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered reached an all-time peak of 66,436, greater than double of its sequel’s peak, and the fourth highest performed sport on Steam for PlayStation (Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and God of Warfare sit above it).
There’s lot of causes this may very well be the case; one is that a whole lot of gamers do not even realise that the PSN requirement has been eliminated, one thing that has grown increasingly notorious with every subsequent launch from PlayStation. Another excuse may very well be that a whole lot of these PlayStation ports have been tough across the edges at launch, which does not precisely instill confidence in gamers. I am positive an replace for Spider-Man 2 is on its method, ultimately.
