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Over half of Helldivers 2 sales have been on PC in the US

Already the 7th highest grossing Sony published game in history.

Helldivers 2 is already a bigger success in the US than Horizon and The Last of Us.

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thorstein18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

2 platforms. Almost half on PC. Then where would the other half be?

Author thinks that the game would be as successful without PS5 sales? Really?

The game is played by and enjoyed by players on both platforms. The matchmaking is great. Why try to make a divide over some silly metric like "sales on a specific platform?"

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darthv7218d ago

Over half on PC... not almost half. And yes the game is still successful even if you remove either PC or PS users.

And now Sony has decided to make it mandatory for PC users to have a PS account to play. That may seem pretty standard but its not going over so well with many of the PC users that made it successful. It was initially optional, now... not so much.

thorstein18d ago

It's not that bad. Sony has already shown the overlay for their games. No launchers but the ability to have a PSN profile, trophies, and whatever else they envision.

VersusDMC18d ago

Don't know why people keep saying this is the proof of every PS game is coming to PC day 1 as it's an anomaly as all the other PS games on PC sell significantly less. Live service games day 1 on PC is what's happening from now on and i believe was already confirmed.

But i was surprised that ghost of tsushima was in the top sellers list just below spider man and god of war games. I didn't know it sold more than horizon and last of us in the US. Go sucker punch.

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Tedakin18d ago

They sell less because by the time they reach PC they're old news. If they had put out Spider-Man 2 day 1 on PC it would have double its sales.

Moegooner18d ago

More impressive that half are on PS5 tbh. Expected PC version to sell much more given the install base.

Kekewei18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

Multiplatform trend goes both ways. Games like Diablo, Baldur's Gate which used to be primarily designed for keyboard and mouse, are now selling pretty well on consoles too, I don't hear people saying console is eating up pc.

neutralgamer199218d ago

We are all gamers regardless of the platform. Instead of dividing ourselves we should stay as one community so that greedy publishers can’t take advantage of us

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Helldivers 2 Optimized Settings for Low-End PC: AMD RX 6600/NVIDIA RTX 4060

Helldivers 2 is among the most-played games on Steam. We have spent hours in-game, playing, testing, and tweaking different graphics settings for optimal performance.

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New Helldivers 2 leak shows a four armed enemy from The Illuminate

The Illuminate are set to come to Helldivers 2 in the future, and a recent leak gives us a look at an enemy called Guy,

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Helldivers 2’s “second galactic war” begins after this huge failure

The real fight begins for Helldivers 2 players after failing a huge Major Order, as Arrowhead ushers in the next chapter of warfare.

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Palitera2d ago

If only the game wasn't so barebones. Out of the super fun core gameplay, the game is a barren land. They better make much easier "major orders", because the player base has mostly moved on.

Domkakop2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Think people are stupid? What's your favourite thing to do besides lying?

RaveTears2d ago

I think that A lot of the player was snap out of existence, after 177 regions was forced to go dark.

rippermcrip2d ago

In those regions in which they took the game down... that was only for new purchases. Anyone who already bought it could play just fine.

gold_drake1d 15h ago

im not sure where u get your numbers from, but there are still a massive amount of people playing ha

ironmonkey1d 8h ago

The Walmart shelf stocker giving advice.

anast1d 8h ago

The player count is huge.

Magatsuhi1d 7h ago

Looks like they're struggling to get 100k on steam. A far cry from the 458k peak.

anast1d 5h ago

Games never stay at the peak.

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Bronbron921d 21h ago

I really hope they expand the war to where our foes get to super earth like in helldivers 1 I’d imagine the game by then would have tons of stratagems and the vehicles by then

MIDGETonSTILTS171d 17h ago

It’s important to establish both successes and failures in order to make community engagement feel genuinely impactful, and not just a predetermined outcome on rails.

They obviously have a bunch of content waiting for deployment, and they plan to trickle it out at whatever pace keeps the community at their desired size.

The game is still much, much more popular than they ever planned. And antitank mines feel like small potatoes compared to the vehicles and new enemies we know are down the road.

Buckle up for a long term plan.

gold_drake1d 15h ago

i love how they do this, real consequences etc.