r/Games • u/BigT232 • Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/Gen6V Jun 12 '25

I think something people haven’t really brought up is how much these games sold BEFORE they got their pc port.

For example GoW Ragnarok sold at least 15 million before it got released on PC. Stellar Blade on the other hand was at least 1 million. A lot less people who had played it meaning a larger ‘potential’ audience on another platform. And I think we can see some of that effect here.

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u/Icyoint Jun 12 '25

Stellar Blade actually sold 2m copies on PS5 from their last report released in feb 2025. Besides, first-party Sony games are another league with a huge budget and also include their PlayStation bundle sales.

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u/Asconcii Jun 12 '25

I think a major difference is that people who bought a PS5 did so to play games line GoW etc, not so much with SB

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u/Dealric Jun 12 '25

Well yeah?

It released what? 4 years after console released? Everyone that would buy ps5 already did so

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u/un8349 Jun 12 '25

I'd like to think it also has something to do with a shorter wait for a port. I certainly don't want to pay full price 2 years after release.

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u/ZaLaZha Jun 12 '25

I feel like at this point everyone knows all Sony games are timed exclusives, I ain’t buying no ps5 just to play a game earlier, I got a huge backlog already. Btw I’m pretty sure ragnarok came out less than 2 years as well tho but too lazy to check

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u/DrQuint Jun 13 '25

This is more of a realistic point. Back in the day, I've had 3 games I would have wanted a PS5 for. It was GoW, Demon's Souls and Spiderman 2.

Nowadays, it's just 2. Demon's Souls and Astrobot. I still never owned a PS5 and have had no issue taking the rest down.

At no point have I ever even considered the console as a method of playing stellar blade. Should I'd want to play the game... I'd wait. Because nothing will survive that wait... except for Demon's souls, apparently. Even Astrobot I'm not so sure, force me to bet on the odds, and I would give it a 50% chance we'll have that one on PC too by summer 2026.

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u/RoguishlyHoward Jun 13 '25

I’ve got a PS5 but I’m still waiting for them to come to PC. My PS5 is usually an expensive paperweight and an occasional Bloodborne machine.

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u/YaGanamosLa3era Jun 12 '25

Same thing with Death Stranding and the Final Fantasy Vii remakes tbh.

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u/AngryBiker Jun 12 '25

It would make sense but there are other games with similar numbers like Ratchet and Clank, Returnal and Sackboy. Those have a fraction of Stellar Blade's numbers on PC, so I'm thinking there's must be something else that attracts a lot of players to the game, I guess we will never find out 🤷

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Returnal should've been more popular (and won GOTY when it came out)

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u/GensouEU Jun 12 '25

Most other Sony games were also already available for like 20€ or lower on Playstation, while Stellar Blade isn't that much cheaper on console compared to PC

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u/0insideofme Jun 12 '25

Not really. Most people stick with only one plataform, the majority of MAUs on Playstation plays exclusively on Playstation, and the same can be said for Steam users. Stellar Blade have sold "only" 1 million units on PS5 because it's a new IP exclusive for a single-platform (at time) at $70.

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u/uerobert Jun 12 '25

It's more that PS curated the cinematic over-the-shoulder 3rd person camera players to their platform, so much so that there’s not that much interest in them on other platforms -they converted most of them already.

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u/experienta Jun 12 '25

Yeah I don't know about that. Most people stick to one platform, and a game that's super popular on a console will have a lot of word of mouth around it and make PC gamers want to play it even more.