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The team-based shooter is one of a scant few new first-party PlayStation games that's coming out this year. Sony released it on both PS5 and PC. The company doesn't typically reveal detailed player numbers for its own platforms. However, Steam does. The numbers there are not pretty.
The biggest mistake of all looks to be the price point. With players able to access so many similar games without paying a penny, having to shell out $40 forNo Man's Sky-seems to only be the one real sour note on what's actually been a quietly strong year for PlayStation overall so far. Sony's strategy of bringing its major exclusives to PC in the years following their PlayStation debut has been paying off over the last few years. It's released two somewhat older games on Steam this year in the form of. Both are excellent, faithful ports that perform well on my high-end PC as well as my Steam Deck. They were successful sales-wise too, with the former cracking the list of the top 10 best-selling games in the US in its first week.
And then there's the hardware side of the equation. In the first half of the calendar year, Sony sold just under 7 million PS5s. That’s down from 9.3 million over the same period in 2023, but a dip’s to be expected at this point in the system’s life cycle.
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