
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
2
swung
onto
PC
about
two
days
ago
following
the
announcement
from
Sony
that
it,
along
with
several
other
singleplayer
PlayStation
titles,
would
no
longer
need
a
PSN
account.
So
far
the
reaction
has
been…mixed.
Let’s
start
with
the
factual
data,
shall
we?
So
far,
SteamDB,
which
tracks
heaps
of
stats
on
Steam,
has
registered
a
peak
concurrent
player
count
of
26,218.
Usually
you
expect
to
see
the
highest
peak
occur
within
the
first
few
days
of
a
game’s
launch
before
they
start
to
decline,
especially
in
the
case
of
singleplayer
titles,
although
in
rarer
cases
the
numbers
can
continue
to
go
up
over
days,
weeks
and
even
months.
Helldivers
2
kept
climbing
for
quite
a
while,
for
example.

Of
all
the
studios
under
Sony’s
purview,
Insomniac
Games
is,
without
any
shadow
of
a
doubt,
currently
the
best.
Since
Sony
acquired
them
in
2019
they’ve
released
two
successful
console
titles
in
Spider-Man:
Miles
Morales
and
Ratchet
&
Clank:
Rift
Apart,
plus
a
solid
VR
title
in
Stormlands
and
a
remaster
of
their
first
Spider-Man…
Those
numbers
would
rank
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
2
as
the
10th
most
successful
PlayStation
game
on
PC
in
terms
of
concurrent
players,
just
a
thousand
people
shy
of
overtaking
Days
Gone.
Of
course,
concurrent
players
are
not
a
precise
measurement
of
actual
copies
sold.
That
said,
they
can
provide
a
pretty
reasonable
estimator.
For
comparison,
the
original
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
is
PlayStation’s
4th
most
successful
PC
title,
attracting
a
peak
concurrent
player
count
of
66,436.
Marvel’s
Spider-Man:
Miles
Morales
is
in
11th
with
13,539.
The
current
king
of
the
PlayStation
PC
hill
is
still
Helldivers
2
at
over
450,000.
In
terms
of
singleplayer
games,
Ghost
of
Tsushima
has
the
most
concurrent
players
at
a
shade
over
77,000.
The
Player
Reception
Has
Been
Mixed
Moving
on
from
the
hard
data,
the
launch
of
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
2
has
not
been
plain
swinging.
In
fact,
it’s
currently
the
lowest
rated
PlayStation
game
available
on
PC
with
just
55%.
Lego
Horizon
Adventures
is
the
2nd
lowest-rated
game
at
58%.
The
only
things
rated
lower
from
PlayStation
right
now
is
a
Pistols
&
Perks
DLC
for
Helldivers
2,
and
the
God
of
War:
Ragnarok
soundtrack.
So
what’s
the
problem?
Well,
at
the
time
of
writing
the
game
has
3,323
reviews
with
a
“Mixed”
rating
on
the
storefront.
There
doesn’t
seem
to
be
just
one
issue,
rather
a
whole
lot
of
them
as
users
are
reporting
low
overall
performance,
stuttering,
ray-tracing
not
working
correctly,
crashes,
potential
memory
leaks
and
more.
Even
people
running
the
game
on
monstrous
hardware
are
struggling
to
get
decent
performance,
it
seems.
The
good
news
is
that
the
people
who
have
been
lucky
enough
to
avoid
the
problems
are
having
a
good
time.
It’s
somewhat
surprising
the
game
is
having
such
a
hard
time,
as
the
PC
port
was
handled
by
Nixxes,
the
team
Sony
purchased
for
their
porting
skills.
Nixxes
has
had
a
fairly
good
track
record
so
far,
handling
the
majority
of
port
work
for
Sony.
However,
it’s
also
worth
noting
that
Nixxes
output
has
been
ramped
up
considerably
lately.
Since
2021
the
company
has
released
8
PC
ports
for
PlayStation,
with
3
of
those
being
in
2024.
They’re
also
handling
the
upcoming
port
of
The
Last
of
Us
Part
2
Remastered.
In
other
words,
is
Marvel’s
Spider-Man
2
just
a
rare
hiccup
from
the
team,
or
is
it
a
sign
that
Nixxes
is
being
overworked
and
taking
on
too
much?
Looking
forward,
the
reception
for
Spider-Man
2
will
likely
start
to
trend
upwards
as
Nixxes
will
almost
certainly
begin
patching
the
game.
Other
PlayStation
titles
have
had
rough
starts
and
usually
do
get
worked
on
at
a
rapid
pace,
so
I’d
expect
to
see
updates
rolling
out
soon.
But
that
doesn’t
excuse
the
poor
launch.
Sadly
these
days
PC
gamers
are
far
too
familiar
with
games
being
released
in
a
poor
state.