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Launched on July 26, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart only peaked at 8,757 concurrent players (CCU) on Steam (via SteamDB).

It currently holds a “Very Positive” rating based on 670 user reviews, with 84% of them being positive.

This makes Rift Apart the third worst launch on PC for a PlayStation game, only above Returnal (6,691 CCU) and Sackboy: A Big Adventure (610 CCU). There is also a PC version of Helldivers, with 6,744 peak CCU, but its developer Arrowhead is not SIE’s first-party studio.

Here are the top 5 tiles from PlayStation Studios by peak CCU on Steam:

• God of War — 73,529 CCU, 96% rating (based on 75k reviews);
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered — 66,436 CCU, 96% rating (based on 51k reviews);
• Horizon Zero Dawn — 56,557 CCU, 87% rating (based on 74k reviews);
• The Last of Us Part I — 36,496 CCU, 59% rating (based on 20k reviews);
• Days Gone — 27,450 CCU, 92% rating (based on 43k reviews).

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What about Rift Apart’s technical state and the SSD buzz?​

One of the key features of Rift Apart is the ability to hop between different dimensions, which was marketed as something only possible thanks to PS5’s fast SSD, i.e. technically impossible on PS4. Although the PC version can run on an HDD, the experience is definitely not the same (or, frankly said, really bad).

As clearly seen in Digital Foundry’s test, there is not much difference between using 3.5GB/s and 7.1GB/s NVMe drives, but those dimension-hopping sequences get extremely painful with slower SATA SSDs or HDDs.

Rift Apart also became the first PC game to incorporate GPU decompression through the DirectStorage 1.2 API to speed up load times and asset streaming. As Nixxes told Digital Foundry, larger assets such as textures are decompressed using the GPU, while smaller assets like models are decompressed on the CPU.

 

[Sentenza]

Sony's answer "Oh yeah? We still aren't going to release Demon's Souls and Bloodborne".

 

[Zathalus]

Maybe release the games that actually sell well Sony?

 

[lh032]

good, hopefully it drops to 0 and all Sony games remains exclusive on Playstation once again

 

[joeygreco1985]

I'm just waiting for it to go on sale

 

[V1LÆM]

it's a silly kids game with mediocre rtx. PS5 players minds were blown but on PC it is a junk game. £50 for this? lol no thanks. let me know when it's <£10.

 

[Zathalus]

good, hopefully it drops to 0 and all Sony games remains exclusive on Playstation once again

Why are you so insecure?

 

[rofif]

4th.
You forgot sackboy

 

[Chukhopops]

To be fair it’s a weird choice of port to make, I’m actually surprised it beat Returnal which makes a lot more sense as a PC game.

Never seen anybody port beg for a Ratchet game, like ever.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[Three]

It's a relatively short single player game. I'm not sure who expected high concurrent players to begin with.

 

[mrmustard]

They need day1 releases to profit from the marketing. I hope some of the GaaS with day1 pc releases will show them the difference.

 

[Kilau]

good, hopefully it drops to 0 and all Sony games remains exclusive on Playstation once again

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. They need to do a better job with the ports and making the games still feel like a part of PlayStation not apart from PlayStation.

 

[Sanepar]

Bring gt7, ds remake and horizon 2.

 

[Senua]

good, hopefully it drops to 0 and all Sony games remains exclusive on Playstation once again

 

[Zannegan]

What, Returnal bombed? That game looked great and seemed like a good fit fot the PC audience. Was it the difficulty turning people off?

I'm sad now.

 

[Three]

Third worst is also probably wrong because I'm sure the likes of Sackboy likely did lower concurrent numbers and they're not on your list.

EDIT: I see you mentioned it but didn't show it in the image and excluded Helldivers from the list. My mistake.

 

[OverHeat]

Why are people claiming for exclusive what do it change for ps console owner if we get the same games???

 

[Gaiff]

Wasn't it established that concurrent players aren't a reliable metric? I vaguely recall Sony confirming that Uncharted 4 did well on PC despite low concurrent players.

Also, those Returnal numbers hurt my soul. The game is a fucking blast and one of the best new Sony IPs in years. Is it because the protagonist is a middle-age not-so-attractive white woman?

Also, people who cry about open-world and cinematic-driven games will cry for a long time. Look at the top-sellers. When Sony does try different stuff, you ignore it and keep buying the same shit over and over again. No wonder they keep churning out those games; that's what people want.

 

[T4keD0wN]

While not great its far from bad with more context:

• old port at high price
• zero previous presence on the platform
• been given away for free elsewhere
• unpopular genre on the platform
• people who were in a rush to play it already did
• kids might see it and buy it on Epic because they have been conditioned to put free things into their cart every week for few years and then go through the checkout process, Tim Sweeney is banking on the process of slowly programming kids to get used to going through the buying for free process in order to get them to eventually start buying games for real? Maybe that time is now (hilarious, i know, it was too late to stop typing)

I am more surprised it managed to reach 80% of what uncharted and 65% of what miles morales did.

 

[Xtib81]

There's never been a huge demand for Ratchet and Clank, even on PlayStation.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I doubt it had higher numbers on PS5 at launch so... These topics mean nothing and are plain stupid. It's not a huge title, it's not even a multiplayer and its a game most ppl will prolly finish in a 2 days or so.

 

[T-Cake]

Personally I’ve just been conditioned over many years to only buy PC games when they’re extremely cheap (<£10) or wait until they are part of a bundle. So although I love the PlayStation ports, I won’t be buying them at full price. Which obviously isn’t ideal as I might be shooting myself in the foot if sales are bad and Sony stop doing PC versions.

 

[OverHeat]

Bought the game 3 times once on ps5 twice on pc I did my part.

 

[fart town usa]

What's important is that the game is available for others to play. Even if it's a small crowd.

 

[proandrad]

Maybe Sony should stop releasing year old games on PC at full price.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I can't imagine that many PC gamers know about or care about the R&C franchise. To be fair, even most PS gamers don't know about or care about it.

 

[Three]

Wasn't it established that concurrent players aren't a reliable metric? I vaguely recall Sony confirming that Uncharted 4 did well on PC despite low concurrent players.

For a multiplayer or GaaS type game where continued engagement and retention is important it's a good metric but for a single player game I'm not sure what useful information it would provide. Can you guage sales from it? You can just look at sales charts to try and get an idea of sales performance instead and it's currently middling.

Steam Charts

Top selling and top played games across Steam

store.steampowered.com

 

[Facism]

They really want £50 for a year-late port of a game

 

[Mownoc]

It's a 3d Platformer on PC. Comparing it to other titles in the same genre:

Sonic Frontiers - 19,181
Racthet & Clank Rift Apart - 8,757
A Hat in Time - 7,312
Yooka-Laylee - 6,508
Spyro Reignited - 4,198
Crash Nsane Trilogy - 3,755
Sonic Forces - 2,058
Sonic Generations - 1,686
Crash 4 - 454 (Launched much later, originally battle.net exclusive)
Sonic Lost World - 252
Sonic Colors Ultimate - 90

What were you expecting?

Even ignoring that 3d platformers are an underperforming genre on PC compared to Consoles these numbers are still reasonable in comparison to GoW for example. GoW sold over 20m on PS4, 70k peak on Steam. Ratchet games typically sell 2-4m lifetime on PlayStation consoles, so why would it's peak be anywhere close to titles like GoW, Horizon or Spider-man.

 

[winjer]

These type of platformers are not particularly suited for the PC market.
It's nice that Sony ported this game. But there are many other games in Sony's catalog that are more desirable.

Curiously, Remnant 2 is doing 10 times the player count.

 

[Kenpachii]

No sponsership. Saw absolutely nobody play it on twitch on release.

 

[Three]

They really want £50 for a year-late port of a game

Compared to PS+ where you can currently play it for "free". What a deal. The best deal in gaming™.

Spoiler

I expect my cheque in the post Sony.

 

[mrcroket]

I doubt it had higher numbers on PS5 at launch so... These topics mean nothing and are plain stupid. It's not a huge title, it's not even a multiplayer and its a game most ppl will prolly finish in a 2 days or so.

 

[ZehDon]

Years late and launched at close to full price, this was never going to do well.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

see PCMR is a myth.

 

[Horseganador]

I would like to know how many people are playing Ratchet: Torrent apart in a pirated way, does Sony really pay off these ports? They are ridiculous sales figures compared to what he sold on PS5.

 

[mrmustard]

I doubt it had higher numbers on PS5 at launch so... These topics mean nothing and are plain stupid. It's not a huge title, it's not even a multiplayer and its a game most ppl will prolly finish in a 2 days or so.

I bet it had much higher numbers. Marketing vs. no marketing.

 

[Umbasaborne]

good, hopefully it drops to 0 and all Sony games remains exclusive on Playstation once again

Are you a child or something, or just a corporate boot licker?

 

[bender]

Not terribly surprising which is a shame as it is one of the better game that Sony's ported to PC.

 

[Captain Toad]

"Everyone will just wait to play on PC".

 

[Umbasaborne]

Why are people claiming for exclusive what do it change for ps console owner if we get the same games???

Insecure bitch ass console warriors who have tied their identities to a box because they have nothing else going for them

 

[Kakax11]

 

[Roufianos]

Should have spent the dev time porting Bloodborne to PS5.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Played it on Extra Big Ass PS+. Seems pretty overrated. Not surprised PC brehs passed. It’s also way too expensive at $60.

 

[GHG]

All according to plan then.

Bonus money is bonus money.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Nobody was asking for this and it had flop written all over it from day 1

 

[onnextflix5]

Pc gamers port begging everywhere, when it comes to buying they are nowhere to be seen,

 

[Shut0wen]

Does rachet ever sell well? Never saw the appeal even on the ps2 days, loved spyro and everyone of insomnia games except the rachet series

 

[Senua]

Pc gamers port begging everywhere, when it comes to buying they are nowhere to be seen,

Not sure many asked for this one, mate