Guerrilla's fan favorite expands to a new frontier today.
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition launches today for PC. Horizon Zero Dawn is set in a stunning post-post-apocalyptic world you can lose yourself in, led by a courageous hero who inspires the best in us, and full of captivating action against larger-than-life machines.
Over three years after its debut, and with its highly anticipated sequel Horizon Forbidden West confirmed to be coming to PlayStation 5, it’s a great time to introduce a new audience to this fan-favorite epic. For anyone who’s never owned a PS4, or those who’ve skipped on a generation or more, it’s a great example of the kinds of games we consistently aim to deliver.
Of course, the studio has taken steps to add options and features PC gamers expect: support for mouse and keyboard (or DualShock 4), ultrawide monitor support, higher frame rates and resolutions on sufficiently powerful systems, and more.
We’re confident PC players will fall in love with Aloy and her world. Then, when Horizon Forbidden West arrives for PlayStation 5 and it’s time to find out where Aloy’s journey takes her next, we invite them to join along!
“We’re confident PC players will fall in love with Aloy and her world. Then, when Horizon Forbidden West arrives for PlayStation 5 and it’s time to find out where Aloy’s journey takes her next, we invite them to join along!”
If you are using this port as a marketing tool to buy a PS5, at least provide a well optimized port. The PC port sucks.
What are we doing here this is the start of destroying PlayStation oh no i feared for this day it’s like yall at SIE are blind deaf dumb to the failings of Xbox they did this pc crap to the point where xbox is a complete joke i don’t like this new this new SIE has the worst leadership ever as i said yall are willing to destroy 25 years to reach other people (PC Crowd) that never cared or like yall im speaking my mind on this because yall are deviating from the Nintendo path that has been consistent for 35 years you guys at Sony can’t get upset that PlayStation fans might start doing things y’all wouldn’t expect. I’m not letting this slide.
This is game that’s most likely already sold the bulk of the copies it will ever sell on PS and there’s a sequel coming out so this may get PC players buying a PS5… from a fanboy perspective, it may make no sense, but from a marketing perspective, it makes perfect sense… it’s pretty much a guarantee we’ll never see NEW PS games on PC same day as PS, but older titles, why not? Sony just made more money off me from buying it again on PC for a second play through
My suspicion is that this exists to recoup costs that went into porting the engine to PC for Death Stranding.
I doubt we’ll see too much of this for the first party titles, but I guess we’ll see!
The biggest problem Microsoft did was release it on their garbage Windows 10 stores. Only with Gears did they start releasing the games on Steam and finally start seeing a tiny bit of sales success………. although Gears 5 was a flop even with physical, digital, game pass versions across 935 million Xbone and Windows 10 users, even more when you consider Steam too. But they killed Xbone sales since early 2016 because of this.
Also, all their games are mostly made on Unreal Engine because its very easy to bring to PC simultaneously that way. Never will a game be made for an Xbox console again, built from the ground up for the hardware.
The only thing that bugs me about Horizon Zero Dawn on PC is that it wasn’t handled by some port studio….. but how could Sony hand over Guerilla’s amazing game engine to amateurs?
So instead, we will have to wait a bit longer for the sequel because actual Guerilla Games employees’ time was wasted on this port.
It is really cool though for older games like this to come to PC………… IF it doesn’t hinder the developers like I said.
Jim Ryan was head of Sony Europe and under him, PS4 has dominated Europe over the Xbox One. The ratio is 4:1 in case you are wondering. And Hermen Hulst was the Game director for HZD. So from what I can see, they understand what exclusives mean. Alright then tell me about all these timed exclusive deals Sony is pursuing. Clearly Jim Ryan is pushing ridiculously hard such as Spiderman being limited to PS in the Avengers game and this is not the end of it. We know Project Athia will be a timed exclusive, Ghostwire Tokyo, Deathloop, FF7 Remake Part 2, and probably Final Fantasy 16 and some of COD BO Cold War will be timed exclusive as well. So Jim Ryan destroying the PS brand by pursuing these timed exclusives and basically tempting people to buy a PS5?
Also would like to add that with Microsoft’s strategy, they are going to reach more people because xCloud is going to be on the new Samsung phone which is only the start. Xbox is not a joke. Instead of being a console, it will be an ecosystem. Sony might do the same but focus on consoles as well still because it seems that Microsoft is not going to be a competitor when it comes to consoles at least. Also most people are not going to wait 3 years for Ps exclusives to come to PC. They will just buy a console. And with consoles starting to finally almost match PC performance, most people will probably switch to consoles because of the sheer convenience.
I just realise, it wasn’t Guerilla that worked on the PC port. Its “Virtuous” the team that did the Arkham Asylum/City remasters and AC Ezio collection too. I guess that explains the awkward optimisation on the PC release that is far from perfect.
And at least I know Guerilla Games weren’t being held up doing it ^_^
Exactly and I’ve been a PlayStation fans ever since 90s if they put every games on PC a week later or a year later l’m leaving PlayStation for good. I believe Nintendo will do the same thing too I know people don’t believe that right now But let’s be real people everything will come to the end eventually.