The somewhat-awaited launch of Last Fantasy 16 on PC is right here, practically 15 months after the sport’s preliminary launch on PS5. The PC model arrived on Tuesday, obtainable for buy on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer.
Up to now, the reception has been… pretty lukewarm, even in comparison with the already small blip its predecessor, Last Fantasy 15, achieved at its launch – at the very least taking a look at it by way of the Steam prism.
In its first few hours of launch, Last Fantasy 16 peaked at 16,947 concurrent gamers on Steam (by way of SteamDB), which is a reasonably low turnout for such a excessive profile recreation. That determine began out even decrease than that, and grew over the course of a number of hours, earlier than it plateaued. It could properly develop right this moment and over the weekend, however there’s solely a lot we are able to anticipate for such a gradual begin.
Examine this to Last Fantasy 15, the Home windows Version of the sport (that’s what Sq. Enix calls it) peaked at a a lot greater 29,498 concurrent gamers on Steam when it launched in March, 2018. Below 30,000 isn’t itself an achievement, nevertheless it’s virtually double that of Last Fantasy 16’s.
The 2 titles can be found in about the identical variety of international locations, although Last Fantasy 15 does have a slight benefit there. It’s value noting, after all, that Last Fantasy 16 can be obtainable by way of the Epic Video games Retailer, so some proportion of gamers received’t present up on Steam’s tally.
Last Fantasy 15 was launched on PC earlier than the Epic Video games Retailer launched, so the viewers wasn’t as scattered. Nonetheless, the writing was just about on the wall taking a look at Steam’s international prime sellers, a listing of 100 video games that doesn’t have Last Fantasy 16 anyplace on it.
That is all sure to disappoint writer Sq. Enix, and it doesn’t bode very properly for the eventual launch of Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The corporate just lately revealed its intent to desert platform exclusives and give attention to publishing its video games on as many platforms as attainable. Certainly, Last Fantasy 16’s PS5 gross sales have been deemed already beneath expectations, so it’s not just like the PC launch would’ve made waves anyway.
person evaluations, gamers look like pleased with the port, at the very least, although perhaps the viewers isn’t large enough for these freaky mods the sport’s producer warned in opposition to to exist.
