Report: Sony Is Turning Its Back on Porting PlayStation Games to PC
In recent years, PC gamers have been eating well, as not only have they enjoyed the benefits of Steam’s super-low prices, but they have also been able to experience Sony’s first-party games — albeit a year late.
It seems that’s about to change very soon, according to a new report, and it will even affect games that are already released on PS5.
However, it won’t mean the entirety of PlayStation’s catalog will be scrapped from showing up on PC, but simply the big single-player games that are arguably the reason why the PlayStation platform is doing as well as it is.
Don’t Expect Ghost of Yotei and Saros to Appear on PC Anytime Soon
In a report by Jason Schreier of Bloomberg (paywalled), it mentions how Sony Corp. no longer has plans to release its big PS5 games on PC, which is a major shift in release strategy given almost every big AAA release on the PS5 has made its way to PC months later.
According to people familiar with Sony’s plans, online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon will still be released across multiple platforms, but those highly coveted single-player games that Sony’s first-party studios pump out? Nope, that’s not happening.
The report mentions how Ghost of Yotei and even the upcoming Housemarque game Saros will be exclusive to the PS5. According to people who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to talk about Sony’s strategy, things could change in the future, but for now, plans to port Yotei and Saros have since been scrapped.
Games made by external developers but published by PlayStation, such as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still planned for release on PC later this year.
So why the sudden change? Some of the reasons thrown around are how PlayStation games have not sold well on PC, and there’s also a “faction within PlayStation” that has expressed concern that releasing PlayStation games on PC risks damaging the console’s brand and hurting sales of the PS5 and its console successors.
For now, Sony is said to be taking a more straightforward approach to releases and that’s goling back to console exclusives. Bear in mind, this is still unofficial, but given Schreier ‘s track record, it’s hard not to take this as fact.
As of press time, Sony has declined to comment on this report, but if we do hear anything official connected to this, we’ll let our readers know.
Speaking of games, if you’re looking to snatch something up on the cheap, check out the ongoing Dealmania sale on the PSN Store.
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Good. I mean they aren’t missing out on anything special with Yotei, such a huge letdown after how awesome Tsushima was. But Sony going back and saying “not everything is a PlayStation” is a good middle finger to Xbox and shows they are capable of learning from others mistakes.