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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart peaks at less than 9k concurrent players on Steam, third worst PC launch for PlayStation game (gameworldobserver.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pgetsos@kbin.social to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's $60 for what is ultimately a really good tech demo but a pretty short and forgettable Rachet and Clank game. I'd say it's worth about $30. Also makes the same mistake as Uncharted, it's the 16th game in the series. Lots of people are discouraged playing that deep into a franchise.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sony keeps making the same mistakes:

Full price for an old game
Little to no marketing
Crap ports making people wary
Releasing a sequel when the original is not on PC

I think the first one is the biggest problem, I'm not paying full price for a 3 year old game that is heavily discounted on the PS5.

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep. The last one is my biggest problem. I was fully aware of it, honestly probably willing to pay $50-$60, and heard it's a decent port, but being that I'm not a PlayStation gamer, I never played the originals, so I'm not ready to play this one. If they had released the Ratchet & Clank remake first, I would have snatched that up.

[–] Deathsservant@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fourth one is the biggest offender to me personally. I'm not gonna play one random game out of a series of like 10 games if I can't play the others.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the same reason gears of war 5 did poorly on PC, the game looks cool but I have no idea what is going on.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, I found Gears 5 worse than 4. Less tight, more bloat and filler, and a totally unnecessary and slow "Open World" section where you slowly sail around a big winter map looking for collectibles and places to go. Killed the flow for me, and I couldn't finish it, even though I was playing it on Game Pass for a fraction of the box price.

The storyline was totally ridiculous as well, total shit. And yes, that's even considering that this is a Gears of War game.

Edit: If you want to know what's going on in Gears of War by the way, the first game (which is remastered I think) is a good place to start for the original trilogy, and the 4th game is the start of the "New" trilogy, which is not yet completed. I'm sure Gears 6 will be out eventually, but for now it's not out yet. If I had to choose between Gears 4 and Gears 1, I would say 1 is the better game.