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Sony’s live-service hero shooter Harmony launched on PC and PlayStation 5 final week, and the early numbers are wanting grim.
In keeping with third-party information website SteamDB, Harmony peaked at a disappointing 697 concurrent gamers on PC on launch day. On the time of this writing, there are 252 gamers within the recreation. That is regardless of two beta durations, an early entry interval that started on August 20, and a public launch on August 23. Compared, Helldivers 2, one other PlayStation first-party, live-service recreation launched concurrently on PC and PlayStation 5, hit a concurrent gamers peak of 458,709 round launch. Six months in, it nonetheless rakes in tens of 1000’s of gamers.
Harmony can also be on PlayStation 5, and whereas Sony hasn’t launched its month-to-month prime downloads report but, issues aren’t wanting nice there both. In the event you go to the PlayStation Retailer and type the PS5 Video games web page by “bestselling,” Harmony is ranked thirty eighth on the time of publication. This doesn’t symbolize how many individuals are literally taking part in, but it surely’s a low placement for a recreation that simply got here out and was marketed closely by PlayStation.
There may be some Harmony exercise over on Twitch, with 505 viewers watching streams on the time of this writing. For comparability, Star Wars Outlaws, which additionally simply launched, has 112,000 viewers on the location.
Harmony is a 5v5 hero shooter developed by PlayStation Studios-owned Firewalk Studios as a part of the bigger firm’s live-service push. It’s reportedly been within the works for “round eight years,” in keeping with the lead character designer, and has been closely marketed by Sony because it acquired Firewalk in 2023. Evaluations, nonetheless, have been combined. Digital Developments’ Giovanni Colantonio wrote that Harmony has “enjoyable hero-shooter bones,” however that the sport “lacks unique concepts that elevate that promising basis.”
It’s unclear what the long run appears like for Harmony. On one hand, it might begin drawing in gamers with just a few updates. The builders have already dedicated to at the least three seasons that ought to take the sport to January 2025. It’s additionally simply one other launch within the live-service shooter market, which is closely saturated by long-running titles like Fortnite or Future 2, and is about to get the rather more anticipated Marvel Rivals in December.
