Helldivers 2 sold 60% on PC, wouldn't be a top 20 game without it.

Didn't see this posted so just doing my part. Day and date incoming?

"Hellish sequel Helldivers 2 is already the seventh highest grossing Sony published game in history, and it's not because of the PlayStation 5, it's because of PC. Without the PC version, Helldivers 2 wouldn't even be in Sony's top 20"

Understandable. PC is where it's at, the PS5 cant even convince PS4 owners that it's worth purchasing.

Release live service/multiplayer titles on pc so the community is larger, but leave singleplayer titles exclusives to PS5 because pc gamers aren't worth it.

Day 1 Sony games on PC is going to be the norm. Time for Sony fannies to accept the inevitable.😂

EDIT: Someone got triggered then deleted their comment.😂

Posted this in the other thread, but Mat clarified his comment

@SolidGame_basic: So even with 60% less units sold, it would have sold more than Rebirth.😂

@SolidGame_basic: Understandable, but doesnt invalidate his previous comments.

It still sold more on PC and wouldnt be currently top 20.

Im glad the game sold well, I bought on PC btw

@navyguy21: it literally says the PS5 version alone would still make it the best selling game in the US lol

Sony is generating more revenue from the PC version of this game than PS5, so you must understand the need to damage control. 🤭

Both can be true...........Im hoping you realize that........right?

It could be the best selling game of the year.............but not be in Sony's top 20 games, which makes sense given Sony's reliance on big budget first/third party titles.

I hope Im just misunderstanding your point, and not you just being willfully ignorant.

Damn! The PS5 version would have been the top game of the year so far alone?! Just how many copies did it sell? It's a juggernaut! Sony stays winning!

Would have been except PC outsold it.😂

And given the PS5 is significantly more popular than the Xbox, goes to show the popularity of console gaming in general.

Yeah. It's like PC has a vastly larger userbase or something. Go figure.

You don't use that argument when console games typically outsell PC.🙃

Going multi platform just keeps on making more and more sense.

Yep! The future is multiplatform. The kryptonite to platform loyalists.

You mean like when Starfield was on Xbox and PC and was number 9 overall for the year 🤣🤣

You mean the game that is available on Game Pass.

@Pedro: Indeed. Gaming is changing and some people are having a very hard time accepting it.

Have the developers became greedy bastards yet?

It’s all good for PC enthusiasts but call me when GOW, TLoU, Spider-Man, or the Horizon series sell more on the PC vs the ps5.

Well that's awesome news to hear regardless of PS5 or PC, the game itself is what we gamers are here for. Another victory for Helldivers 2.

The same could be said for Palworld.

I wonder what the split would have been if PS+ wasn't a requirement for multiplayer. I imagine there's plenty of pc/ps5 gamers that might like games on playstation but don't bother with subs forcing their multiplayer purchases on pc. Or perhaps cases like mine where I just play singleplayer games and I don't pay for subs, but probably could have been convinced to hop on the train if it wasn't a sub+ a purchase.

Not at all. In fact they've been doing nothing else but supplying the game with free content.

For me a game gets ruined when these sort of skins start appearing:

Helldiver skins and skin shop (which has been there since the start, so nothing shady) all stick to a certain style and this really pays off.

Forgot the game was on console. I disabled crossplay the first thing I did.

@Litchie: What time do you get off work? Let's liberate some planets from the tyranids tonight 💪

And that didn’t change anything 😂

Why call you?

Cuz he just met you

I am a ps4 owner.... They've not made a compelling ps5 in my opinion.

This is crazy....

Corporate lusting gamers who can't disconnect their worldview from the identity of their favorite plastic box have locked themselves in a cage... They demand bloated, expensive content, but then when their company can't recoup expenses they feel betrayed by that content going multiplatform.

At no time do these gamers think about the studio trying to survive or the millions of new gamers that now get to experience that content.... They are damaged by a great game being available to gamers outside their world view of battling corporations.

Because then one will have tangible evidence that the ps5 may be looking at it’s time no more day one exclusives.

Poo cows. lol :P

What are Lems celebrating here? You guys are so miserable 😂

I’m not coming from the fanboy perspective because I can’t relate to that. But this post is missing the point of what exclusive content is and why it exists. Millions of new gamers won’t get to experience “that content” because, “that content” won’t exist. We are getting fewer and fewer games as these console become more “united.” With fewer chances to strike gold, publishers won’t bother investing in anything risky or innovative. We’ll just continue to get COD, AC, Madden and Football/Soccer games with even less in between.

Jez Corden spoke on this topic last night on a podcast. He is saying 100% of Xbox content is going multiplat, and likely even day one. But it’s not out of some forward thinking strategy. Xbox is selling FAR fewer games than they anticipated. Far less than they did in the Xbox One era. (They’re selling less hardware too). Xbox’s software sales are so bad right now that this dude is throwing in the towel, saying consumers are willingly giving PlayStation a monopoly and he is blaming Xbox consumers. He has since walked that back a bit, but this much is clear. If consumers can spend less money, they will. Thats not a good thing for an industry that relies on money to fund and market new games. Publishers aren’t gonna accept those losses. They‘ll just make fewer games.

@navyguy21: The future of Playstation is "Day 1 on PC".

The game is sold for $40 so its moving a lot of units to reach that status.

Hmmmm...is that him? Color me intrigued.

Ironic. There's no platform that has more freedom than PC. Continue the fight for Freedom fellow Helldivers.

Looks like there's a clear benefit to get expanding your software to more customers..

Congrats to Sony and that dev team on the success 👍🏽

I think it’s time to entertain the idea that this newer generation of gamers might lean heavily PC. I spoke about this back during Christmas time. I have a 9 year old who exclusively plays on PC as do all his friends. My 8 year old nephew too. I think the popularity of Twitch and YouTube gaming have something to do with this as well. We might be in the early stages of a shift where consoles are for boomers. (Millennials actually but you know what I mean) The financial/business analysts are starting to take notice as well. Then go look at your local Best Buy stores. The console gaming sections have shrunk while the gaming PC and accessory aisles have exploded.

Gaming on PC just makes sense now as it's more diverse and having an open-house is always great for a gamer.

Just don't use it for piracy and cheating please.

The reason why pc gaming is growing so quickly is the social media, especially the streamers. Literally all of them are using high end pc's, and they are always trolling and meme'ing consoles. You have a 10y old that joins a stream on twitch, and sees this on daily basis, you can bet your ass his undeveloped brain would want what is being suggested to him on his screen. You remove all the streamers/content creators, and pc would be more irrelevant than it was in early 2000's.

A lot of games that kids like such as FNAF, Roblox and Minecraft had their start on PC and were very popular before making it over to consoles. While not necessarily a game something kids love nowadays is Skibidi Toilet which is heavily based on Garry's Mod and SFM animation community animations and humor. I would see kids playing Fortnite and Minecraft on public library PCs. Most games and genres that are groundbreaking and started trends originated on PC for the past decade. We are also seeing PC gaming move into the handheld space. Every Best Buy I have been to has the ROG Ally on display.

And how relevant would consoles and their games be if you took away the multi million dollar mass marketing campaigns with the billboards, public transit ads, tv commercials/super bowl ads, food promotions, "free" copies to reviewers and whatever else they paid out of pocket to have it get promoted?

I'm not disregarding your points, but these companies have baked so many internal issues into their development process, from costs, to lacking innovation, to not finishing products and giving customers value for their dollar... It feels like this scenario of multiplatform games has been fed by a current model that no longer works. At least that's nearly all the evidence we are seeing is saying.

To call multiplatform games the boogie man bringing down the industry but ignoring all the steps taken by corporations to bring us to this point is selling it short.

Less games and less innovation is our future, except right now we very low innovation in AAA games. We survive on the indie model to move gaming forward and yet we covet the lazy experiences that don't deliver... If we do in fact end up in a scenario where there are less games and they are mostly fifa cod and assassin's Creed then the entirety of the market will move on to value indie games that much more....

If publishers believe that they will make forever profits by just selling these aforementioned games and that's it, I'd like to see then try and we can see how long they remain viable and also how quickly gamers revolt and reject them all together....

This game was specifically designed for pc lol at playing on consoles