Whereas its affordable to count on remasters to draw extra gamers than the unique variations, exceptions occur from time to time. The unique Horizon Zero Daybreak vs the latest PS5 and PC remaster is amongst these exceptions.
Push Sq. took to Steam to check the participant counts between each variations of the Guerrilla Video games 2017 hit. Of their findings, the 2017 Horizon Zero Daybreak had concurrent gamers peak at 2,588 in comparison with the remaster’s peak participant rely at 2,251. These numbers have been collected through the span of 24 hours. Moreover, the all-time document for the unique model of Horizon reached 56,557 gamers in comparison with the remaster’s 2,538. Based mostly on these numbers alone, it appears on the floor that the remaster (at the very least on PC)… isn’t attracting the quantity of gamers and that gamers have far more curiosity within the authentic.
As of this posting, the 2024 remaster was simply launched final week on Halloween. Although it might nonetheless be a degree of concern for the remaster’s developer Nixxes, there’s nonetheless loads extra time forward to observe and see whether or not or not the concurrent participant counts will enhance for the remaster. Afterall, these are simply PC participant counts for each authentic and remaster, PS4/PS5 participant counts will not be included. Granted for PS4/PS5, console participant counts will not be generally tracked in the identical manner as Steam participant counts.
Although if participant counts for the remaster don’t enhance over time, there might be quite a lot of the explanation why the unique Zero Daybreak nonetheless sees extra gamers than the brand new remaster. One potential clarification is how Sony elevated the unique’s worth from $19.99 to $39.99, making this a possible deal-breaker for some followers. On the identical time, current gamers have been supplied a $9.99 price to improve to the remaster. There have additionally been combined fan critiques to the remaster on Steam, as reported by PC Gamer. Followers criticized the PSN account necessities along with numerous glitches and efficiency points which may be limiting gross sales (and thus the concurrent participant rely). Lastly, there’s the consideration that followers could view the remaster as pointless or made too quickly as a consequence of Horizon Zero Daybreak getting ported to PC just some years in the past in 2020 (through GamesRadar).
Regardless of the case, solely time will inform if the remaster will appeal to extra gamers and if the present comparatively low participant rely will have an effect on Sony’s technique of porting PlayStation exclusives to PC (together with their remasters/remakes).
What do you assume? Is it too early to sound the alarm on the Horizon remaster’s participant rely, or is that this an early signal for bother heading for the remaster? Tell us beneath!
