Halo: The Master Chief Collection is currently the top-selling game on Steam, proving that the demand for Halo on PC is alive and well in 2019. As VentureBeat notes, the recent release of Halo: Reach on the platform (the other titles in the collection will be coming in 2020) has seen the series jump straight to the top of Steam's best-sellers chart.

Halo topping the Steam charts is wild for a couple of reasons. One, it has been five years since The Master Chief Collection was released on Xbox One. Two, that initial release was riddled with technical issues. Those issues have been ironed out over time, but one would assume the negative association with the brand would stick.

This proves that PC players never gave up hope for the series' eventual return. While Halo hasn't been completely absent from PCs, only the original and its first sequel ever made the jump. Despite Microsoft investing heavily in the franchise, Halo never quite found its footing on PC.

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What's also interesting to note is that the concurrent player count on Steam is fairly high. As the time of writing, Halo: Reach has 140,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. CS: GO and Dota 2 are the only other games to have more players actively playing. Suffice to say the long-awaited release of Halo on Steam has been a rip-roaring success. With only Reach currently available, there is still so much more to come.

Titles exclusive to one particular platform have been a point of controversy in gaming for years. While the pros for the platform creators and developers are there, the need and the want of the gamer is ignored. Marvel's Spider-Man being a PS4 exclusive is great for Sony's potential console sales but leaves the Xbox One owning Spidey fan pretty peeved.

Perhaps the most recognized platform-exclusive title to date is Halo. An entire franchise of games Xbox players can rub in the face of those enjoying Spider-Man. Since Xbox is a Microsoft creation, most PC players likely assumed Halo would also be released on PC. While it never quite happened the way gamers wanted, at least we can rest easy knowing the series has finally come home.

Source: VentureBeat

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