Whereas its affordable to anticipate remasters to draw extra gamers than the unique variations, exceptions occur every so often. The unique Horizon Zero Daybreak vs the current 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 had been collected in the course of 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 (a minimum of on PC)… isn’t attracting the quantity of gamers and that gamers have rather more curiosity within the unique.
As of this posting, the 2024 remaster was simply launched final week on Halloween. Although it might nonetheless be some extent of concern for the remaster’s developer Nixxes, there’s nonetheless a lot 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 unique and remaster, PS4/PS5 participant counts are usually not included. Granted for PS4/PS5, console participant counts are usually not generally tracked in the identical method 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 the reason why the unique Zero Daybreak nonetheless sees extra gamers than the brand new remaster. One attainable 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 similar time, current gamers had been supplied a $9.99 payment 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 that could 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 entice 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 suppose? Is it too early to sound the alarm on the Horizon remaster’s participant rely, or is that this an early signal for hassle heading for the remaster? Tell us beneath!
