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Gameinsight Weekend Short-Takes: 12/7/12

This week, Steam comes to the living room with Big Picture, surprisingly the PS3 was the most used device for Netflix, Nintendo tries to justify the Wii Mini's very existence and also makes Gimmick 2.0 with the Wii Fit U, and Minecraft continues to soar while other indie titles struggle, this week on the Short-Takes.

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Ghost of Tsushima PC has 84% positive reviews and a peak online audience of 72 thousand people

On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.

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PrinceOfAnger1d 18h ago

69,477
all-time peak 3 minutes ago.

thorstein1d 18h ago

Nice. It's really cool that PC players get to play this masterpiece.

PrinceOfAnger1d 17h ago

It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.

itsmebryan19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.

RNTody1d 15h ago

Great, I loved this game. Definitely think it's Sucker Punch's best work to date!

rippermcrip1d 15h ago

Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.

Christopher1d 12h ago

Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.

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shinoff21831d 4h ago

I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5

GamerzElite1d 15h ago

This is good game and Ghost eliminate all fake outrage.

CrimsonWing691d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?

Fishy Fingers1d 14h ago

Im not sure how its confusing :\

72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.

A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.

But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.

shinoff21831d 4h ago

Lmao. How many swords swung. I was hoping for how many steps

wesnytsfs18h ago

And its how many years old from initial release.

Crows901d 13h ago

72k is concurrent
...that is not the sold figure.

Michiel19891d 13h ago

for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.

Plague-Doctor271d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI

elazz1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.

According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.

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VR MOBA 'Mecha Party' Is Now Available On Steam & PSVR 2

Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.

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Babadook714h ago

This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).

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Microsoft Store Hints At Upcoming Release Of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition On Steam

The Microsoft Store has hinted at the upcoming release of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Valve's digital distribution platform, Steam.

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OtterX1d 22h ago (Edited 1d 22h ago )

1 major advantage to this will be launching it straight from SteamVR. You have to make a custom shortcut to get it working right now in VR.

UltimateOwnage1d 4h ago

This is good news. It will be much easier to get it installed on my devices without using workarounds.