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PayPalNews in today is that Sony PlayStation will reportedly be moving away from single-player games having PC ports as they try to keep people buying consoles.
The report comes from Jason Schreier at Bloomberg (Paywall) noting that it will mark a return to full exclusives, but we'll still see various online games be multi-platform. PlayStation have so far refused to comment on it directly.
Pictured - Ghost of Yotei
Schreier mentions that things could still change (as they do in the games industry) but plans for the likes of Ghost of Yotei and other internally developed games to come to PC have been cancelled. We do at least already have Death Stranding 2 confirmed and releasing soon though.
There's a few likely reasons but the biggest being that Sony no doubt want people to keep buying their consoles, so they then directly get their cut from sales in their own store. It's all about that control, their protection of their own brand without watering it down with PC releases.
When you add into it that there were reports that the next-gen Xbox would be more like Windows, with other stores being available (like Steam) - it's highly likely that Sony didn't want to have all their games end up on that as well further watering down their own brand. And, with the rise of SteamOS and the upcoming Steam Machine having access to it all too - I can imagine that at least entered the minds of those at the top as well for more future potential competition.
A shame really. I've very much enjoyed not being forced to have a particular console just to play some specific games.
If this is all true it means we're going back to the era of console wars it seems - in some way at least.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: CatKillerMore than anything, it's an admission of a fundamental lack of self-confidence on Sony's part. If you're turning out bangers then PC ports are free money, and advertising for the next game. And that's the view expressed by Sony at the time. When they still had games studios.I'm guessing this was an "excel decision".
Total revenue was probably not all that high compared to PS sales. Mostly likely reasons are: 20%-30% cut by Steam. Late PC releases, so a lot of people that had to wait a year for it might as well wait a few more months for a sale. And I doubt many PS owners would opt for a second copy just to play it on PC, so the market is already reduced. Now if, they'd to simultaneous releases on PC and PS the story might be different. But that would also mean PC would potentially cannibalise part of the PS sales and they definitely don't want that. So the corporate decision is probably that the potential FOMO outweighs the income that they do get.
Looks like they don't want my money going forward. Interesting business decision for out of touch millionaire execs. They don't live in world where not everyone wants to spend their limited money on consoles. I give it 3 years before they announce PC ports again.
After 2-3 years (on ps5) why not make more money just by re-release it for PC?
Easy money and ppl are happy. They wont hack your console, and after emulate your games on PC.
StalePopcorn 4 hours ago
And their games, after all, are not so outstanding or even so good.
But I think the main reason is not relatively low sales. Over a million copies sold are more than enough to profit from porting games.
I think the main reason why they want to leave PC is they want to sell more consoles to drag people into their ecosystem, and mainly aim for 30% cut to keep for themselves.
They think average steam users willbuy a whole new console, while steam users often don't even bother checking alternative PC game stores.
But we know how it will go. We'll see sony few years later, quietly returning to Steam.
Cyba.Cowboy 3 hours ago
Quoting: JarmerI really had a great time in Horizon Zero Dawn (not so much forbidden west) and spent the crazy high premium costs to buy those games.I hope you bought the DRM-free version from GOG.com? You never know if Sony will remove the games from your Steam catalog.
Quoting: elmapulbut sony is stupid, all they need to do is their own version of an steam machine, and a good client for pc, instead they chose to make less money.It'd never happen, but they could always just come out and do their own SteamOS device... That'd be sick.
Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 4 Mar 2026 at 7:26 pm UTC
What doesn't make sense is that they didn't really manage to keep up their unique selling point of great single player games in the PS5 era anyway. And I can't really see them going back to a PS3/PS4 cadence of great, exclusive single player games. Just doesn't seem to be in their business plan anymore. So who knows how many classics we are really going to lose if this pans out.
If the same would have happened during the PS4 era it would have been quite a bummer. But these days we get so many great games of all sizes and shapes on PC, not really sure Sony really matters in that space in the grand scheme of things.
Kimyrielle 2 hours ago
Hilariously, Capcom today reported that 50% of its sales are now from PC (I will refrain from posting the external link, just google it). It's safe to assume that the number is similar for Sony's PC ports. Not sure why Sony thinks that half of its total customer-base can be bullied into buying a console.
It's too late for me to buy a PS5 now, especially with the price of the hardware going up.
Kimyrielle 54 minutes ago
Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.
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