Speaking of the beta…peaked just under 2400 concurrent players. It wasn’t all that long before release, though I’m not sure how far they could have pushed it while still having something that would qualify as ‘beta’; but not an encouraging result.
I’d be fascinated to know what the breakdown was between at least somewhat active disinterest(either installed and abandoned or at least looked at steam page and couldn’t be bothered) and pure ignorance or indifference so great as to not even look it up was; but those figures are obviously hard to come by.
Purely anecdotally; I know I saw zero about it pre-launch; and I get hit with game ads reasonably frequently(anything for a hero shooter is either mistargeted or just being blanketed; but I’ve definitely seen some of those); which leads me to suspect that Sony was either astonishingly overconfident or had already given up by launch day.
