Per week after Warner Bros. admitted that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed to satisfy expectations, the sport’s participant rely appears to have dropped to regarding ranges. On Steam, Suicide Squad’s concurrent gamers are peaking at just a few hundred solely, and it appears that evidently issues aren’t any higher on consoles.
Suicide Squad participant rely doesn’t bode properly for its future
As famous by Forbes’ Paul Tassi, lower than a month after its launch, Suicide Squad noticed simply 593 concurrent gamers on Steam a day in the past, with the quantity dropping as little as 287. That is alarming for a reside service recreation that wants a sturdy participant rely to justify the price of retaining servers on-line.
PlayStation and Xbox shouldn’t have a system for revealing concurrent participant counts, however Tassi famous that he hasn’t seen Suicide Squad anyplace in Xbox’s high 50 for the previous week at the very least — not a great signal for a recreation that solely simply launched.
Suicide Squad launched to principally unfavorable opinions, with its PS5 model settling for 60/100 on Metacritic. Warner Bros. revealed in a current monetary earnings name that the $70 recreation has “fallen in need of our expectations,” leading to its video games enterprise seeing a “powerful year-over-year comp in Q1.”