I don't mean to speak for you, dear reader, but I think I can safely say that, if you're a PC gamer, you're probably sodding tired of console exclusives by now—even if (sales-driving wizardry aside) multi-platform launches are increasingly the norm. .
Well, good news: Sony's just had further confirmation that it should keep bringing its titles to PC—as per Steam DB numbers spotted by our friends over at GamesRadar, Ghost of Tsushima has hit an all-time concurrent player peak of 77,500 at the time of writing. That's already beating out Marvel's Spider-Man (66,436), God of War 2018 (73,529) and The Last of Us Part 1 (36,496).
treading lightly, and it's not dodged negative reviews entirely.
If I were to dwell on why this is happening, I might be able to offer an answer—Ghost of Tsushima is a pretty good game and I think a lot of people wanted to play it but couldn't. Sage wisdom, I know.
In all seriousness, this feels like further vindication for Sony's success of Helldivers 2, which has an all-time peak of… jeez, 458,709. Even with Ghost of Tsushima's stellar numbers, it's still pulling almost 1/6th of Arrowhead's co-op phenome-numbers.
All in all, Ghost of Tsushima feels like another bell rung, tolling the death of console exclusivity—especially as big publishers like Square Enix also giving up the ghost. Whether that'll translate into side-by-side releases, or the annoying one-to-two year wait we've been enduring for games like God of War Ragnarök, remains to be seen. Eternally frustrating as it is for me, it's not as if multi platform development is as simple as snapping your fingers, though.
It is, regrettably, far easier for developers to optimise their games when they know the exact hardware specs their players will be running on—and it is a risk considering how (justifiably) furious we get about cruddy PC ports like the shambling mess of PC gaming refuses to die.
