Stellar Blade Dev Hails Its Performance on Steam, but New Research Suggests the 'Novelty' of Playing PlayStation Games on PC Is 'Wearing Off'

Stellar Blade — Shift Up's blockbuster action-RPG — has done wonderfully good connected PC having launched archetypal connected PlayStation.

According to the developer's presumption to investors, Stellar Blade's PC merchandise sold much than 1 cardinal copies successful 3 days, sold a full of 3 cardinal copies crossed some PS5 and PC, and has been recommended by 98% of its PC users, boasting an "overwhelmingly positive" idiosyncratic people connected Steam.

That means, Shift Up claimed, that Stellar Blade is present the "best-selling PlayStation-exclusive motorboat IP successful history" connected PC, eclipsing games similar Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Last of Us successful presumption of highest concurrent users connected Steam.

Helldivers 2, of course, remains successful rod presumption crossed some azygous and multiplayer games, and by immoderate sizeable margin, too, estimated to person sold 12.7 cardinal copies.

The PC mentation of Stellar Blade launched little than six months agone successful June. PC-specific features see AI upscaling via Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese voiceover, ultrawide show support, higher solution situation textures, and DualSense enactment for haptic feedback and trigger effects.

Interestingly, though, a caller study from Alinea Analytics (via PushSquare) estimates that portion Sony has made an astonishing $1.5 cardinal from Steam since it started bringing its first-party titles to Valve's platform, this has mostly been buoyed by the archetypal rollout, with income of sequels — deliberation Horizon Forbidden West and God of War: Ragnarök — slowing down. Analysts suggest this shows "the novelty is wearing off."

"All of Sony’s large franchises person already landed connected PC. The assemblage that was erstwhile excited to acquisition these games for the archetypal clip has mostly been served. Later releases people look smaller imaginable audiences, and our estimates intelligibly amusement this," expert Rhys Elliott wrote.

"We launch-aligned our Steam estimates for God of War and its sequel, God of War Ragnarök. We recovered that God of War sold 2.5M copies aft 427 days connected Steam, implicit 2.5x much copies than Ragnarök sold successful the aforesaid timeframe. Also, 13% of God of War’s Steam players besides played Ragnarök connected Steam." The aforesaid inclination tin beryllium applied to Marvel's Spider-Man sequel.

Valve itself has made astir $350 cardinal from the 30% chopped it takes from each games purchased connected Steam, the expert estimated.

IGN's Stellar Blade reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "Stellar Blade is large successful each of the astir important ways for an enactment game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and respective frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics forestall it from soaring on with the champion of the genre." Don't hide that a sequel, Stellar Blade 2, is besides connected the way.

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