Until Dawn Is One of Sony's Worst Performing PC Ports to Date

I honestly don’t think the juice from the PC-experiment is proving worth the squeeze. Sales of even the bigger Sony games have dropped off and there has to be a point on the cost vs revenue chart where PlayStation exclusivity is the more desirable option from a business standpoint. Don’t think we’re quite there yet but a few more soft releases and we might well get there.

The problem with all of these PC releases of PlayStation games is that there is a good chance that you already own both a PC and a PS4/PS5. Is there any legit reason to buy it again besides some slightly improved graphics?

Got to think this remake/port was part of spinning up the team to make the sequel, otherwise just patch the original...

It is a pretty niche game to lean in on, although the movie tie in is about as obvious as it gets.

Just dont see how selling 30,000 copies over time is worth the squeeze on these things. They will port this to PC but wont spend the resources to port remaster the PS3 trilogies to modern hardware

How can Totokoi, Nishino, Hulst and Co still believe that the PC is worth it with these numbers?

Sony please wake up before it's too late!

Guess we’re gonna have to keep waiting until dawn 😫

@KawakiisaFraud while I agree with you.. the issue is that one day not too far from today, Sony PlayStation won’t actually be a physical console but a platform that operates on PC. Hence the recent dalliance… it’s been a way for Sony to dip it’s toe in the water to test the temperature. The trouble is that Steam fanboys are far more fervent in their devotion than Sony (and Microsoft for that matter) ever considered them to be (well that and… the percentage of gamers who choose not to pay shall we say). Therefore the results of the temperature check… stone-frikkin’ cold and that’s the bottom line!

Meanwhile in the site to download cracked games it's in number two just after Silent Hill. This game eventually will get a price cut just in time for the release of the movie and will sell another bunch.

Who would have guessed that the worst part of Sony releasing their games on PC wasn't the possible decrease of PS value but the obsession with Steam player count and Reviews.

Makes me value Astro Bot release even more.

Outside Helldivers 2, i think it's crystal clear that the PC master race doesn't want to play Sony games.

It's because the price is absurd, full price for an old game on pc was never going to fly especially when you can get BG3 and games that aren't even out like DA veilguard for cheaper.

I'm very interested in playing this as i played the original version on PS4 and really enjoyed it but at the current price it's just not worth it. Supermassive never did better than until dawn imo, man of medan was too short and the quarry i couldn't get into it at all.

The sooner Sony's PC bubble bursts, the better.

@naruball

Why? Who is it hurting? They bought nixes to exclusively deal with pc porting old games so it's not taking resources from playstation studios

@somnambulance was about to say pretty much the same thing.

They should have just kept it on PS4 and 5. We appreciated it

Releasing next to Silent Hill 2 wasn’t the greatest idea ever.

The ps5 version isn't very good either, Welp Welp, triple welp. Waste of time and money. Make Concord 2.

@Anthony_Daniels for one thing, the brand, another would be sales of ps games. Plenty of people state they'd rather get the PC version whenever it comes out. And considering how many people pirate games, they may end up losing money instead of making more.

Also, keep in mind that several ports were made in-house, thus taking sources away from new games.

Good thing PC isn't Sony's main focus.

What a shambles. I hope Sony cools it with the pointless remakes after this and Horizon.

$60 for a 9 year old game. Who could have possibly thought this wouldn't sell well?? Hmm...

@naruball doesn’t seem like its generating profits either if its only bring in under 3k concurrent for pc. Whats the burn rate of nixes like

I really hope we are inching closer towards old Sony, where exclusivity mattered

The problem isn’t the PC ports, it’s the games they’re porting.

Anyone here thinking that until dawn’s pc sales aren’t a reflection on the fact that it’s an expensive remaster of an average ps4 title rather than the fact PlayStation titles don’t sell well on pc is deluded. This won’t sell well on PlayStation either, does that mean PlayStation games don’t sell on PlayStation too and Sony should quit that strategy?

If Sony wanted to actually shift pc copies, they’d release first party titles day and date on steam. As it is they’re trying to have their cake and eat it - they want to sell copies on pc, but they expect to delay the majority of their first party output by years and still have the same success on steam that they do on PlayStation.

Anyone on pc that hasn’t got a PlayStation yet because they’re holding out for the pc release was never that interested in getting a PlayStation to begin with. I have a pc and a PlayStation, the only titles I play on my pc are those that are added to PlayStation plus extra. I’d rather wait and pay the money for the game on pc to play a significantly better version. If PlayStation abandoned pc, I’d still just wait for titles to hit PlayStation plus extra - I’m not paying a premium to play an inferior version of a game. (I can pick up most new titles on pc digitally for about £40 vs £70 on PlayStation).

@somnambulance off topic, just realised that your user name is the medical term for sleep walking!

Damn, why didn’t I make that connection sooner 🤔

£60 for a mediocre horror film where you sometimes make choices is way too much, especially when it's almost a decade old. Particularly in the PC ecosystem where games tend to be cheaper, and these "cinematic experiences" tend to be looked down on way more than on consoles.

If you're a PC gamer, like me, who also enjoy Playstation games, then we've already played the games, as we also own a PS console.

A game like Until Dawn, isn't exactly in the same league, as God of War and Ghost of Tsushima.
Finished the game once, on PS4, and don't feel the need of another playthrough.

Damn so they already make a "remake" of a game nobody was really clamoring for and it runs like crap to boot? Bold move Cotton, lets see how it pays off for them.

A remake no one wanted, a terrible remake at that and a premium price so yeah what do you expect?

The hard truth is nobody cares about Sackboy or Until Dawn outside of this console ecosystem.

I assume this is also another game that requires you to connect a Playstation account, which is also going to alienate a portion of their potential audience.

Who signs off on these release dates in Sony? Insane to launch this with SH2. The mind boggles.

The thing is, the type of game like Until Dawn isn't going to appeal to a lot of players, that mixed with the game originally releasing 9 years ago and being full priced, it's going to release with low concurrent player numbers.

The poor performance of the port doesn't help things either.
Helldivers 2 released simultaneously on PC and PS5 and the game was really popular, despite it not having a true single-player campaign.
Two different games to compare but releasing games on both platforms day one helps with sales and player count.

@colonelkilgore Yeah, if Sony's intent longer-term is to set up a launcher and storefront on PC, it's not going to end well. If they want to keep tapping the PC audience, it really is just better if they drop games on Steam without third-party account requirements or, god forbid, try and mandate a third-party launcher like some companies.

PC is a huge market, but it's largely Valve's territory now, outside of services like itch.io and GOG that rarely directly compete with them. A huge chunk of the PC gaming audience just ignores games that aren't on Steam.

The issue is that Sony's games cost so much to develop now that they're not satisfied with merely the 1 - 10 million units they're selling on PS5, and PC ports are one of the less expensive ways of leveraging their IP to find new revenue streams. Probably the same reason they're licensing out movie and TV adaptations of all their properties now.