It has been practically three weeks since Insomniac’s glorious Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was launched on PC to what may optimistically be described as a lukewarm reception. Effectively, now that the mud has had time to settle, it is clear that the powers that be at PlayStation have to placed on their pondering caps and return to the drafting board; Spidey’s newest journey is formally amongst PlayStation Studios’ most catastrophic releases on Steam, which is saying one thing.
Fortunately for this scribe (whose concern of numbers is matched solely by his love for phrases), TheGamer took a protracted, laborious have a look at the figures, evaluating graphs and information, finally calculating that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the third-worst launch on Steam Sony has endured thus far, crushed out by solely The Final of Us: Half I and Returnal. The outlet used SteamDB information to look at each PS Studios launch thus far, excluding remasters, factoring in common participant rely and constructive evaluate rating percentages over their respective two-week launch home windows.
Spidey 2 averaged round 13,638 gamers and managed 67 constructive critiques, which sounds respectable sufficient till you contemplate that Days Gone racked up 20,708 and 93, respectively. For comparability, 2018’s God of Battle leads the pack on PC, with a median participant rely of 47,142 and 97 constructive critiques, which makes it the best-performing PS Studios launch on the platform (in keeping with TheGamer’s parameters).
