It has been confirmed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that ‘big’ PlayStation games, particularly those with a single-player focus, will no longer launch on PC. This is a push from Sony Group to return to console exclusivity, hosting only multiplayer-centric titles across both PlayStation 5 and PC. This report came from Bloomberg in March, but more information was added today by Schreier.
Namely, the additional information is that Hermen Hulst, CEO, has confirmed the direction in an all-new town hall. The slate of narrative, single-player games headed to PlayStation will launch only on PlayStation and won’t be ported to PC later.
PlayStation Games Are Firmly PlayStation Games
In March, Bloomberg reported that PlayStation was planning to pull back on publishing first-party, single-player games on PC. It was stated that this was likely due to low sales on PC and an ongoing, inherent risk of ‘damaging the brand’, diluting PlayStation, and allowing users to experience the label’s first-party titles away from a PlayStation console.
Earlier today, Jason Schreier took to social media with a scoop, confirming that CEO Hermen Hulst held a new town hall at PlayStation to solidify the strategy.
This means that games like Wolverine and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophecy won’t hit PC when they do launch, with Wolverine coming first this year. It was recently claimed that Intergalactic is two years away. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach hit PC shortly after Schreier’s original report went out, and certain PlayStation-published games, like Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still up in the air.
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Yeah they sold bad but without PC the games will sell even less. Look at Saros. These games are all flopping hard the PS6 will sell way less and doing cross gen for 3 or more years again will hurt the console even more. PS6 will be the last PlayStation 3-5 years before Sony pulls the plug. The console market outside Nintendo is dead.
They’re not trying to sell the games more. They’re trying to sell the console more. With the launch of the steam machine and project helix, it will make everything tough for PlayStation, so they’re now making every game exclusive to the console.
Trying to cling to anyone they still can. The console days are numbered. I can only see this hurting Sony long term. It’s gonna turn into a Sony V. Everyone world and Sony just can’t win that fight. Not only do we live in a more PC exposed world become the only big company that stay that greedy (Nintendo doesn’t count, they are kind of in their own ecosystem.) people will quickly drop off and go to the companies that show they care at all about the consumer. Three cheers for Xbox hearing us about their subscription price and bringing it back down. Sony should really pay attention.
Then I just won’t play Playstation single player games. Go ahead and be allergic to my money, that’s fine with me.
What happened to pc ports being money makers? Sony acts like exclusives never make it to pc, I will call everyone’s attention to emulators, every game ever will make it to pc even if you have to simulate other hardware to do it.
I think it is a horrible idea. Console exclusivity pretty much isn’t that viable in this day and age and it it’s probably going to shoot them in the foot
Then lower your console prices. That’s what’s killing you.
Playstation has gone way down hill. Corporate greed got the best of them i guess. PC will always rain supreme imo. I can get every game I want. You know an emulator is all you need to get the games you want. And free at that.
To be fair, the electronics market as a whole has pretty much conspired to guarantee that your only means of success as a tech company is to develop emulation and piracy aides.
This is an idiotic choice. There is zero chance I will spend 600 on a ps5 when Ive spent at least 4k on a high end gaming PC. I’ve purchased a couple PS ports though. I imagine the large majority of PC players feel the same as me. They will gain very few console sales. They don’t have compelling enough first party games. So they just lose out on the revenue from my game purchases.
Then say goodbye to my money and hello to my emulator. They’ve made literal billions off of PC sales. If they’re dumb enough to leave that on the table it’s their choice. It won’t bother us a bit and I never have and never will buy a Playstation.
Sony isn’t stupid to continue to release their games to a platform that pirates said games. PlayStation has been having their games exclusive for generations, they tested the waters and pc ports aren’t needed. PlayStation has their consumers and doesn’t need PC players, so stop acting like PC and their entitled base were ever needed. The times are indeed changing and costs are rising but be sure that as long as their is a PlayStation and it’s developers, gamers will continue to flock over to PlayStation because they are the ONLY ones who advance gaming forward.
Who cares. Nobody wants to play their C-tier game. We’ll see what happens when they remove PlayStation exclusivity after losing x percent of their revenue. It’s pathetic.