Nobody wants to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC

Red Dead Redemption 2 sales on PC have not been great

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We had to wait an entire year forRed Dead Redemption 2 to make it to PC, but apparently the wait was too long, as the game’s sales are not doing so great.

In the first month of its launch,Red Dead Redemption 2was exclusive to theEpic GamesStore and Rockstar’s own storefront. And while we have no idea how many people bought it directly from Rockstar, a report fromSuperdatastates that the game only sold 408,000 units via Epic – an extremely low number.

But Red Dead Redemption 2 is no longer exclusive to Epic, though, right? Well, even though itlaunched on Steam a little while ago, it seems to be faring even worse on Valve’s platform.

There aren’t any exact sales numbers available right now, but the all-time peak concurrent player count is only 51,403 players, according toSteamCharts. To put that number into perspective, Rockstar’sGrand Theft AutoV’s peak concurrentplayer base is 360,761–that’s seven times the players.

When compared to the game’s landmark console launch, where it sold over 17 million copies over its first 12 days, according to a report fromPolygon, this PC launch seems a little underwhelming.

Ok, but why?

Grand Theft Auto V had an amazing launch on PC, along with a PC port that basically showed other developershow it’s done. However, between the Epic Games Store exclusivity and the rough state that Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in (we couldn’t even play it for the first few days), the cards weren’t exactly in Rockstar’s favor.

Even after Rockstar patched the game to make it playable, many users experiencedproblems with performance, so the game has had a rocky reputation. Luckily, all of thathas been addressedand Red Dead Redemption 2 is genuinely a good port now, it just took a month to get there. With time, andRed Dead Redemption 2 cheatsto extend the lifespan, it may bounce back.

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We have seen the game get price cuts across both the Epic Games Launcher andSteam, where it’s currently on sale, something that we never saw for Grand Theft Auto V so soon after its PC launch. Who knows, though? Maybe the draw of the constantly-updated Red Dead Online will slowly grow the PC playerbase over time – but right now it’s not looking so hot.

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