Whereas Sony in the end backtracked on Helldivers 2’s PSN necessities on PC, it’s held agency on Ghost of Tsushima: Administrators Minimize. This contains delisting the sport from Steam in international locations the place the PlayStation Community isn’t out there. Regardless of that, its launch on Steam has been a giant success for Sony.
Ghost of Tsushima tops Steam best-sellers
The PC model of Ghost of Tsushima launched on Thursday, catapulting it to the highest of Steam’s top-seller listing. This places it forward of Counter-Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, American Truck Simulator, and PUBG. Helldivers 2, by comparability, is at present in fifteenth place in the event you exclude the Steam Deck from the listing. Whereas that listing doesn’t give an actual variety of gamers, SteamDB studies a peak of 59,244 gamers as of this writing. Steam gamers additionally appear fairly happy with Ghost of Tsushima’s PC port. It has a person overview score of “Very Constructive,” with 85% of customers recommending the sport.
In fact, not everyone seems to be proud of the PC launch of Ghost of Tsushima. Fairly a number of adverse critiques cite the sport’s PSN necessities and inaccessibility in lots of international locations because the supply of their criticism. Nonetheless, gamers solely want an account to entry the multiplayer and PlayStation overlay, not the single-player content material. That could be a part of the explanation that it hasn’t seen as a lot pushback as Helldivers 2.
Initially launched on PS4 in Ghost of Tsushima in 2020, it follows the samurai Jin Sakai on his quest to free the island of Tsushima from Mongol invaders. The Administrators Minimize contains this single-player Iki Island DLC and Legends multiplayer DLC.