After Sony had appeared to be bringing its PlayStation exclusive titles to PC more quickly in recent years, a radical rethink now seems to be taking place.
After Sony had actually accelerated the pace of porting PlayStation exclusive titles to PC in recent years, the Japanese company may now have had a change of heart.
Well-known American journalist and industry insider Jason Schreier reports that Sony plans to stop porting single-player games to PC in the near future. This claim is backed up by information from two leakers.
While Sony’s online games such as Helldivers 2 will continue to be released on PC because they depend on the largest possible player base, the future looks different for traditional single-player adventures such as Ghost of Yotei and Marvel’s Wolverine. According to Schreier, Sony could once again use these games as selling points for its own PlayStation console in the future.
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The American journalist said in the latest episode of the Triple Click podcast that Sony doesn’t consider not porting games to be a big deal, as the publisher’s single-player games have historically sold worse on PC than on its own PS5.
Furthermore, Sony has never released an in-house single-player game for PC and consoles at the same time, but always with a time delay. According to Schreier’s report, the Japanese publisher therefore has little to fear from discontinuing the ports.
This would put Sony in a very different position for the future than its competitor Xbox, which sees its future in a merger with the PC. The much-vaunted console war may be over, but Sony typically still only shares its live service games with Microsoft’s Xbox consoles.
If single-player games now also remain permanently “locked” on the PS5, Sony would have a powerful lever to boost its console sales. This is because PC gamers would now also have to resort to Sony hardware in the long term if they wanted to play future God of War titles, for example.
It is currently unclear whether a Yotei port is on hold. In the absence of official information, fans can still hold out hope. After all, Sony even has its own studio, Nixxes Software, which specializes purely in ports.
However, Schreier offers little hope for the upcoming Wolverine game in the podcast. The insider reveals that he would not be surprised if this game never appeared on PC.
