

But while it looks great on a super-charged PC and impresses on hardware as weak as a Steam Deck, it's tough for me to comfortably recommend Spider-Man on midrange gaming rigs.
At its best, this game does whatever a PC rig can, delivering ultra-wide ratios, super-charged graphical settings, higher frame rates, and increased ray tracing depth. Such complaints might be moot when Spider-Man launches on Friday, August 12-and we sure hope so. As of press time, the Spider-Man version we tested doesn't necessarily surpass the mix of stability and impressive technical performance that developer Insomniac delivered on dated PlayStation 4 architecture. The thing about PC ports, of course, is that they have to work on a wide range of machines. We knew Sony was bullish about selling more games on PC in the current fiscal year, but we didn't expect a critically acclaimed gem like Spider-Man, which previously drove console sales as a PlayStation exclusive, to make the transition. In two days, the 2018 hit game Marvel's Spider-Man will break out of its console exclusivity and land on Windows ( Steam, EGS) as arguably Sony's biggest PC port yet. delisted has finally spoken out, and God of War Ragnarok leaks have apparently started hitting the internet.Sony / Insomniac / Nixxes reader comments 51 with In other news, a former Konami employee who was tasked with having P.T. For now, PC players will soon be able to enjoy yet another hit PlayStation-exclusive when The Last of Us Part 1 launches on the platform. If Sony’s first-party PC launches are any indication, there’s a healthy appetite for PlayStation exclusives on PC where it’s usually unheard of for games to have full price tags attached to them years after they first release.ĭespite this success, Sony has no plans to launch first-party games day-and-date on PC. This is a pretty impressive feat considering Spider-Man originally launched nearly four years ago and is listed on Steam at full price. Spider-Man did, however, manage to beat Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone, which peaked at 56,557 and 27,450 concurrent players at launch, respectively. As pointed out by Twitter user Benji Sales, God of War peaked at 73,529 concurrent players at launch. Despite being one of the world’s most popular superheroes, Spidey couldn’t quite beat Kratos.
