Ultimate Fantasy 7 gamers have clearly been keen to seek out out what occurs to fan favorite Aerith, as Rebirth sees far more gamers at launch on PC than Remake.
Look, I will not spoil something for anybody that hasn’t performed the unique Ultimate Fantasy 7 or its remakes, however most of us know what occurs to Aerith, it is just like the Darth Vader “I’m your father” of online game spoilers. So, with Remake implying that issues is perhaps totally different going ahead throughout its ending, there have been plenty of questions surrounding whether or not or not she would survive in Rebirth. And it looks as if now that the sequel has been launched on PC, people who wish to know and do not personal a PS5 (or have simply been holding off) have flocked to seek out out. Earlier at present, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth hit a concurrent participant rely peak of 39,857 gamers, simply three days after it launched on the platform (through SteamDB).
For comparability, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade launched on Steam again in 2022, and solely had a peak of 13,803 gamers. There’s a few causes as to why the sport did not do all that nicely in comparison with Rebirth, one notably being that it had been launched on the Epic Video games Retailer half a 12 months prior, so there may need been PC gamers who had already picked it up there. The opposite cause is perhaps that the Steam Deck had solely been launched that 12 months, so there’s all the time the prospect that plenty of gamers have picked up Rebirth as a result of there are extra that personal a Steam Deck three years down the highway.
It will clearly be excellent news for Sq. Enix, on condition that final 12 months it realised it actually must take a multiplatform strategy if it really needs to make any cash as of late, and primarily based on some feedback from final month, we will in all probability count on the third and last half to come back out on different platforms too.