Stellar Blade released last April exclusively on PS5 and sold over one million copies in just a few months. However, developer Shift Up has even higher hopes for the PC port, which is due sometime this year.
"In the triple-A game market, PC devices have a higher market share than consoles, so we expect the performance of the PC version to exceed that of the console version," Shift Up said during its latest earnings report (as reported by VGC). "We are particularly observing trends such as the significant expansion of the single-player action game market in the Asian gaming industry."
This is likely a reference to Black Myth: Wukong, which launched last August to an eye-watering 1.4 million players on Steam, a number that only continued to skyrocket until it landed an all-time peak of 2.4 million players, earning it the second-highest concurrent player count on the platform. There's certainly a market for games like Stellar Blade on Steam, but a rocky PC port could bring those hopes crashing down.
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