Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has confirmed plans to launch the PS5 motion recreation on PC in 2025.
In a financial report, the South Korean firm pointed to Black Myth: Wukong’s unimaginable success on Steam, including it expects to see extra gross sales on PC than on PS5.
The Sony Interactive Entertainment-published Stellar Blade launched solely on PS5 in April and offered a couple of million copies in two months. IGN’s Stellar Blade evaluation returned a 7/10. We mentioned: “Stellar Blade is nice in all the most essential methods for an motion recreation, however boring characters, a lackluster story, and a number of other irritating components of its RPG mechanics stop it from hovering together with the perfect of the style.”
Since then, Shift Up has continued to replace the sport and even added crossover DLC with different online game franchises, most just lately Nier: Automata.
In its monetary report, Shift Up mentioned that after Stellar Blade’s launch “gross sales continued at a stabilized stage,” though it failed to supply an up to date gross sales determine. It did, nevertheless, present income instantly attributed to the sport: 25.8 billion received (approx $18.5 million) throughout the quarter Stellar Blade got here out (April to June), and 22.5 billion received (approx $16.1 million) throughout the firm’s third quarter (July to September). That’s a complete of 48.4 billion received (approx $34.6 million) as of the top of September.
For context, Shift Up’s different recreation, cellular motion RPG Goddess of Victory: Nikke, makes extra money than Stellar Blade (approx $51.9 million throughout the identical two quarters).
“To improve the IP worth and keep momentum, we’ve got been constantly releasing content material patches and updates, which has helped maintain the sport’s recognition,” it mentioned.
Shift Up plans to maintain curiosity in Stellar Blade on PS5 going till the sport launches on PC subsequent yr, what it calls the “platform enlargement.”
“The launch is being thought-about inside 2025,” Shift Up confirmed. “Considering current tendencies reminiscent of Steam’s increasing market share within the AAA recreation sector and the worldwide success of Black Myth: Wukong, we count on the efficiency on PC to exceed that on consoles.”
In July, Shift Up raised 435 billion received ($320 million) in its first day of commerce after an preliminary public providing. According to Bloomberg, that was the biggest within the nation for a gaming firm since 2021, when PUBG maker Krafton Inc. raised $3.8 billion from its personal IPO.
Shift Up has an unannounced multiplatform RPF codenamed Project witches within the works. It mentioned it plans to launch it sooner or later after 2027, with extra data due within the first half of subsequent yr. Given the success of Stellar Blade, it appears probably Shift Up can be contemplating a sequel.
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