The again half of March was an enormous one for brand new online game launched, with the likes of Dragon’s Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Princess Peach: Showtime!, and Alone within the Darkish all hitting retailer cabinets across the identical time. Alongside these new titles, nevertheless, Sony additionally launched the PC port of Horizon Forbidden West, which has acquired off to a formidable begin on the platform.
Along with Horizon Forbidden West attracting a sizeable quantity of gamers on Steam upon launch, the sport additionally loved a major gross sales enhance. As shared by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella on Twitter, for the week ending March 23 (giving the sport’s PC model three days available on the market), Horizon Forbidden West one of many ten best-selling video games in america.
The week prior, earlier than it got here to PC, the open world motion RPG wasn’t ranked even within the high 100, so there’s a major (and blatantly seen) leap that may be attributed to the PC model.
Forbidden West’s PC efficiency doesn’t come as a shock, given how nicely its predecessor did on the platform. It emerged in December by leaked information from the Insomniac hack that Horizon Zero Daybreak had bought over 3.3 million models on Steam.
Horizon Forbidden West is accessible on PS5, PS4, and PC. Learn our evaluate of the PC model by right here, and the unique PS5 model by right here. The subsequent Sony recreation making the leap to the platform is Ghost of Tsushima, which is coming in Might.
One other robust debut for a Sony title on PC… Horizon: Forbidden West was one of many US market’s high 10 best-selling video games in the course of the week ending March twenty third after not rating among the many high 100 in the course of the prior week. (Supply: Circana retail monitoring service, greenback gross sales)
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) April 1, 2024
