Whereas its affordable to count on remasters to draw extra gamers than the unique variations, exceptions occur every so often. The unique Horizon Zero Daybreak vs the latest PS5 and PC remaster is amongst these exceptions.
Push Sq. took to Steam to match 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 depend at 2,251. These numbers had been collected through the span of 24 hours. Moreover, the all-time report 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 could nonetheless be a degree of concern for the remaster’s developer Nixxes, there’s nonetheless lots extra time forward to look at and see whether or not or not the concurrent participant counts will enhance for the remaster. Afterall, these are simply taking a look at 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 means as Steam participant counts.
Although if participant counts for the remaster don’t enhance over time, there may very well be quite a lot of 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 value from $19.99 to $39.99, making this a possible deal-breaker for some followers. On the identical time, current gamers had been provided a $9.99 charge to improve to the remaster. There have additionally been combined fan opinions to the remaster on Steam, as reported by PC Gamer. Followers criticized the PSN account necessities along with numerous glitches and efficiency points that could be limiting gross sales (and thus the concurrent participant depend). Lastly, there’s the consideration that followers could view the remaster as pointless or made too quickly attributable to 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 depend will have an effect on Sony’s technique of porting PlayStation exclusives to PC (together with their remasters/remakes).
What do you suppose? Is it too early to sound the alarm on the Horizon remaster’s participant depend, or is that this an early signal for bother heading for the remaster? Tell us under!