We'd love to be a fly on the wall at Sony sometimes to know what the bigwigs think of its vaunted first-party struggling to make a dent in the PC market. Like mobile, the platform is proving surprisingly tough for PlayStation Studios to crack, and it must be frustrating. Case in point: LEGO Horizon Adventures managed a peak concurrent player count of 602 on Steam in the almost two weeks since it launched. This past weekend, it barely made it to 200.
Now, the requisite throat-clearing. Obviously, LEGO Horizon Adventures is not a multiplayer shooter like Concord, so a healthy player population is less relevant. Also, this is ostensibly a game for children or the young at heart, gamers who are less likely to play on PC. Fairly dismal review scores certainly don't help. To those imaginary industry straw-men, we would retort that it has LEGO in the name and Guerrilla Games' and PlayStation Studios on the box, not to mention the full force of Sony's marketing power behind it; wouldn't you expect it to be doing bigger numbers?
