Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the latest PlayStation game ported to PC. While it got attention thanks to the use of DirectStorage 1.2, its launch numbers are quite unimpressive compared to SIE’s other first-party titles on Steam.
The real problem with these is the price point. A $60 game on PS5 and a $60 game on PC are very different things, and for a 2-year-old game to launch on PC at $60 is just fucking insanity. At $40, I’d probably have bought it, but like… I waited 2 years to play it already, I can wait another year for it to be 50% off on a sale, and if it never is… eh, whatever.
It’s $60 for what is ultimately a really good tech demo but a pretty short and forgettable Rachet and Clank game. I’d say it’s worth about $30. Also makes the same mistake as Uncharted, it’s the 16th game in the series. Lots of people are discouraged playing that deep into a franchise.
Sony keeps making the same mistakes:
- Full price for an old game
- Little to no marketing
- Crap ports making people wary
- Releasing a sequel when the original is not on PC
I think the first one is the biggest problem, I’m not paying full price for a 3 year old game that is heavily discounted on the PS5.
Yep. The last one is my biggest problem. I was fully aware of it, honestly probably willing to pay $50-$60, and heard it’s a decent port, but being that I’m not a PlayStation gamer, I never played the originals, so I’m not ready to play this one. If they had released the Ratchet & Clank remake first, I would have snatched that up.
Fourth one is the biggest offender to me personally. I’m not gonna play one random game out of a series of like 10 games if I can’t play the others.
It’s the same reason gears of war 5 did poorly on PC, the game looks cool but I have no idea what is going on.
Honestly, I found Gears 5 worse than 4. Less tight, more bloat and filler, and a totally unnecessary and slow “Open World” section where you slowly sail around a big winter map looking for collectibles and places to go. Killed the flow for me, and I couldn’t finish it, even though I was playing it on Game Pass for a fraction of the box price.
The storyline was totally ridiculous as well, total shit. And yes, that’s even considering that this is a Gears of War game.
Edit: If you want to know what’s going on in Gears of War by the way, the first game (which is remastered I think) is a good place to start for the original trilogy, and the 4th game is the start of the “New” trilogy, which is not yet completed. I’m sure Gears 6 will be out eventually, but for now it’s not out yet. If I had to choose between Gears 4 and Gears 1, I would say 1 is the better game.
