Stellar Blade becomes Sony's most successful PC port in under 24 hours

In brief: Many of the PC ports that Sony published for formerly PlayStation 5-exclusive games struggled to gain traction on Steam, and some suffered from performance issues. Shift Up Corporation's Stellar Blade seems to have easily avoided both pitfalls, becoming an immediate hit with Steam users.

Barely a day after Stellar Blade launched on Steam and the Epic Games Store, the hack-and-slash action game has blown past all other late PC ports from PlayStation Publishing LLC, Sony's PC conversion label. SteamDB estimates that it accumulated over 180,000 players, more than the next two highest-ranked games combined.

Helldivers 2 is the only Sony-published title that technically stands far ahead, having peaked at over 450,000 players, but it benefited from launching simultaneously on PlayStation 5 and PC last year. All other Sony games came to PC long after debuting on PlayStation, sometimes years later, which clearly impacted their ...