Half-Life: Alyx Preloads [Mar 21, 2020, 2:54 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Preloads are now underway for Half-Life: Alyx
on Steam.
paving the way for Monday's launch of the new virtual reality installment in the
Half-Life series. This may be useful to more gamers than imagined at
first. Despite the fact that it requires a virtual reality headset,
PlayTracker reports more than 300,000 gamers have preordered the VR shooter
(thanks
VideoGamer.com). Here's word:
Valve's return to City 17 is poised to make sales record headlines next week. PlayTracker Insight tracking is showing Half-Life: Alyx has already surpassed 300.000 owners ahead of its launch on Monday, March 23rd.
This already puts the game within striking distance of the biggest Steam releases of 2020 so far like TemTem, Wolcen, Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus, and, amusingly, Black Mesa - Crowbar Collective's re-imagining of the original Half-Life game. Launch sales should propel the game into first place, pending a surprising over-performance by Doom Eternal this weekend.
VR owners account for only 1% of Steam users according to the Steam Hardware Survey, making this sales performance quite an impressive achievement.
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 21, 2020, 21:39:Retired wrote on Mar 21, 2020, 20:41:
Big misstep VR only.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a misstep.
I bet you people will be talking about this for 20 years.
Well, we have been talking about HL3 for how many years? So yea sure, but please, tell me how the 3D movie thing went........weren't we supposed to have it in every home?
VR doesn't interest me in the least right now. It is not that I do not like it, I think it is cool, it just isn't where I want it to be to invest time and money into it.
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