The free-to-play hero shooter managedto crack just under half a million concurrent players on Steam during its launch.
Then,in early January, it smashed its own record by attracting over 600,000 gamers.
Overwatch 2 needs a competitor, not an executioner.
That, admittedly, has put the developers behindOverwatch 2under some high pressure.
“There is pressure on the Overwatch team, and a lot of it is internal.
It’s [asking] how do we make the best possible game that we can?
And we’ve been feeling it for a while.”
All of that seemsin response to a near 40 percent drop in player count since Rivals' launch.
But if you ask Keller, competition is a good thing.
“There’s actually something kind of exciting about this, for a few reasons,” he explained.
Specifically, competition has forced function on his team.
“This is no longer about playing it safe,” he affirmed.
If any PlayStation game needed a PC release, it was this one.
