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Player Count For Original Horizon Zero Dawn Eclipses Remaster

While its reasonable to expect remasters to attract more players than the original versions, exceptions happen every now and then. The original Horizon Zero Dawn vs the recent PS5 and PC remaster is among these exceptions.

Push Square took to Steam to compare the player counts between both versions of the Guerrilla Games 2017 hit. In their findings, the 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn had concurrent players peak at 2,588 compared to the remaster’s peak player count at 2,251. These numbers were collected during the span of 24 hours. Additionally, the all-time record for the original version of Horizon reached 56,557 players compared to the remaster’s 2,538. Based on these numbers alone, it seems on the surface that the remaster (at least on PC)… isn’t attracting the amount of players and that players have much more interest in the original.

As of this posting, the 2024 remaster was just released last week on Halloween. Though it may still be a point of concern for the remaster’s developer Nixxes, there’s still plenty more time ahead to watch and see whether or not the concurrent player counts will improve for the remaster. Afterall, these are just looking at PC player counts for both original and remaster, PS4/PS5 player counts are not included. Granted for PS4/PS5, console player counts are not commonly tracked in the same way as Steam player counts.

Though if player counts for the remaster do not improve over time, there could be a number of reasons why the original Zero Dawn still sees more players than the new remaster. One possible explanation is how Sony increased the original’s price from $19.99 to $39.99, making this a potential deal-breaker for some fans. At the same time, existing players were offered a $9.99 fee to upgrade to the remaster. There have also been mixed fan reviews to the remaster on Steam, as reported by PC Gamer. Fans criticized the PSN account requirements in addition to various glitches and performance issues that may be limiting sales (and thus the concurrent player count). Finally, there’s the consideration that fans may view the remaster as pointless or made too soon due to Horizon Zero Dawn getting ported to PC just a few years ago in 2020 (via GamesRadar).

Whatever the case, only time will tell if the remaster will attract more players and if the current relatively low player count will affect Sony’s strategy of porting PlayStation exclusives to PC (including their remasters/remakes).

What do you think? Is it too early to sound the alarm on the Horizon remaster’s player count, or is this an early sign for trouble heading for the remaster? Let us know below!

Guerrilla Is “Done With” Killzone As A Team

Killzone: Mercenary

Guerrilla Games putting a focus on the Horizon series and leaving Killzone behind was a deliberate decision by the studio. In other words, it was done with the series as a team.

In a Washington Post interview, art director Roy Postma, a 24-year vet with the studio, revealed the team simply didn’t want to work on the series anymore, wanting a refresh and the much more vibrant and colorful world of Horizon was its way of escape.

“We were done with it as a team, as a studio, we needed to refresh the palette. It was, by choice, the opposite of Killzone.”

Unfortunately this paints a very bleak picture to the group of people who held onto the very slim chance of the series coming back, but unless Sony gives the project to another studio, we highly doubt the series will continue and its legacy has ended with 2018’s Killzone: Shadow Fall.

Until Dawn Film Debuts Next Year

Despite stumbling with the remake, it seems Supermassive Games‘ Until Dawn is getting a new form of life as the film adaptation wraps up filming and eyes a mid-2025 debut. The film was revealed earlier in the year.

Sony’s Screen Gems dated the film for April 2025, as reported by Deadline. Filmmaker David F. Sandberg directs while Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler inked the script. This take on the psychological horror stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell, and Peter Stormare.

Beyond the film, though, we also have reports of Sony tapping Firesprite to develop a sequel to the 2015 hit.

LittleBigPlanet 3 Is Getting Delisted This Month

Arguably, one of Sony’s most important games within the PS3 era is getting delisted. Sumo Digital LittleBigPlanet 3, the well-known PS3 and PS4-era adventure, is going offline at the end of the month.

Taking to Twitter, the dev revealed that the game is closing its online servers, with only existing players able to access the content. Of course, this does extend to its DLCs and across all regions.

It’s not too surprising considering the onslaught of hackers and attacks the game has faced over the last few years, even leading to the game’s servers shutting down earlier in the year indefinitely.

LittleBigPlanet 3 shuts down on October 31.

Sony Raises Horizon Zero Dawn Price Ahead Of PS5 Remaster

Sony has been caught red-handed raising the price of Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition ahead of the PS5 remaster. The game has spiked in price from $19.99 to $39.99.

Eurogamer spotted this price rise and pointed out that Sony is offering existing players to spend $9.99 in order to upgrade to the PS5 version, which will retail at $49.99. Obviously, this is to curb people from buying the cheaper edition to then turn around and pay a small fee to get the game at a $10 discount.

The $19.99 price tag attached to Horizon Zero Dawn has been in place for years as the game’s a part of their PlayStation Hits collection.

Days Gone Director Unhappy With Astro Bot Cameo

As you may expect, Astro Bot contains Days Gone cameos, including a bot donning Deacon St John’s outfit. Unfortunately, this just didn’t sit right with former Bend Studio vet, John Garvin.

Taking to Twitter, Garvin, the same vet who bashed gamers for waiting for sales to buy the game, expressed his dissatisfaction with Deacon being “reduced to promoting other games” before trashing the studio. Of course, he’s become kind of known for his harshness toward people who disagree with him and his bluntness.

In a separate post, he brandished Astro Bot as a “small game,” despite what looks to be a large part of Sony’s marketing department backing the game. While we can understand his frustration, calling this a “cartoon schill” is a crazy thing before then telling people who think he’s overreacting to “sit down” and that “adults are talking.”