God of War (2018) for PC Hits New Steam Record for a PlayStation Studios Title - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2022 / 3,595 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sony Santa Monica Studio released the PC version of God of War (2018) recently via Steam and Epic Games Store.
The game in its first day available reached a peak of 49,411 concurrent players on Steam and now as of this writing it has reached a new peak of 64,591 players, according to SteamDB.
This is enough to set a new record for a PlayStation Studios game released on Steam. The previous record was set by Horizon Zero Dawn, which peaked at 56,557 concurrent players.
Senior manager of technical production Matt DeWald in a recent interview announced PC port of the game has been in development for two years.
"I actually play most of the time on mouse and keyboard now just because I’ve been working on it for two years, and it’s just been my default," said DeWald at the time. "It feels super natural to me to play it on mouse and keyboard."
God of War (2018) was previously only available on the PlayStation 4.
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I played it for a few hours at 1440p at ultra settings and was averaging 70-80fps. This game is freaking gorgeous!!! Just the opening is something special. Can’t wait to keep playing!
Is this your first time?
Indeed it is! I played the original trilogy, but never got to play this.
You are in for a wild ride. One of the best games ever. Did anybody spoil anything for you, or are you completely blind going in? And what was the hold-up? No PS4, or did you not like the new direction?
From what I’ve played so far, I don’t doubt it for a second! Thankfully, no one has spoiled it for me, so I’ll get to enjoy it to the fullest :) I didn’t have a PS4. I saved up for a year to build my PC, so I’ve been playing here ever since. I’ll happily buy every Sony game that comes to PC!
What a treat! I hope you enjoy it. I am so glad that in a culture of soft and unispired reboots this game dared to be wildly different to the previous games and yet shares the same core. It tells a very different story while 100 % honoring what came before.
Day and date for Sony’s single player flagship titles is probably still not going to happen, and if it does it’s probably a generation or two away. But I think it’s clear now they are never going to reverse course on eventually porting games to PC. There is simply too much money on the table.
Sony is probably aware they have reached their market share ceiling and the remaining people that don’t have a PlayStation are probably never going to buy one, for whatever reason (large numbers of PC players will never buy any console, for example). They don’t lose anything selling software to those types of people
The console industry is limited to around 300m console sales per generation with slight increases over time. The world has over 7 billion people and more than half of that number have phones and PCs. Even Sony themselves said the console industry is a niche market. The only way to grow to extreme heights is to escape the walls of limitations and barriers.
TotalBiscuit would have loved this... I recall him enjoying this game on ps4...
Damn, bummed myself out.
now give us Bloodborne
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