Stellar Blade, the action-adventure title from Korean studio Shift Up, is being thought-about for a PC launch in 2025, the developer mentioned in its newest monetary earnings report on Tuesday. The sport launched completely on PS5 in April and bought over 1,000,000 copies as of June. Shift Up additionally reported an working revenue of KRW 36 billion (roughly Rs. 216 crore) within the third quarter, whilst Stellar Blade gross sales declined in comparison with the earlier quarter.
Stellar Blade PC Launch in 2025
Shift Up reiterated its plans for platform enlargement of Stellar Blade and mentioned that it anticipated the sport to carry out higher commercially on PC. Within the Q&A bit for its Q3 FY 2024 earnings name, the corporate mentioned it was contemplating a 2025 PC launch for Stellar Blade.
“The discharge is being thought-about inside 2025. Contemplating latest tendencies similar to Steam’s increasing market share within the AAA sport sector and the worldwide success of Black Fantasy: Wukong, we anticipate the efficiency on PC to exceed that on consoles,” the studio mentioned.
The corporate additionally offered an replace on its debut sport and mentioned it deliberate to keep up the recognition of the IP till its PC launch. “After its launch as a PS5 unique title in April, gross sales continued at a stabilized stage by the 3Q. To boost the IP worth and preserve momentum, we now have been persistently releasing content material patches and updates, which has helped maintain the sport’s recognition,” Shift Up mentioned. “With the addition of the Nier: Automata DLC and ongoing advertising actions, we plan to keep up the IP’s recognition till the platform enlargement.”
Earlier this week, the developer introduced it could roll out a brand new replace for Stellar Blade later this month, which would come with particular gadgets from Nier: Automata and a much-requested photograph mode.
The replace can also be set so as to add new costumes, lip-sync help for extra languages and minor gameplay options. PS5 customers will get the replace on November 20.
Again in June, Shift Up confirmed that the sport had bought over a million copies on PS5. The studio additionally revealed it was reviewing plans for a PC port of Stellar Blade. “It was launched as a PS5 unique, however the variety of PS5 distributions and activation ranges weren’t as excessive as that of PS4,” Shift Up CFO Ahn Jae-woo had reportedly mentioned on the time. “And not too long ago, the principle shopper of AAA video games has shifted to PCs. We’re at present reviewing the PC model of Stellar Blade, and if we launch the PC model, we anticipate the worth of the IP to extend as soon as extra.”
Stellar Blade launched completely on PS5 on April 26. The sport follows the story of Eve, an excellent soldier despatched to rescue planet Earth that has been overrun with monsters. In our evaluation of the sport, we praised its “enjoyable fight and slick presentation,” however mentioned that it was “persistently held again by nearly every thing else.”
