Sony is reportedly stepping back from bringing its flagship single-player games to PC, with the company pointing to money as the primary reason.
As reported by video game journalist Jason Schreier, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst addressed the decision during an internal company town hall, where he told staff that the recent PC releases had been “inconsistent” and that they should “keep their IP aligned to their own platform.”
Schreier has reportedly confirmed these comments with two sources who had attended the meeting.
Hulst further added that those releases simply hadn’t generated enough revenue to justify continuing to bring single-player narrative games to PC.
“I guess they’re not going to lay this out publicly, but there’s no ambiguity in their strategy,” the report from Schreier reads. “During a townhall a few weeks ago, Hermen Hulst told staff that their single-player narrative games will be PlayStation only, and he explained that they were inconsistent with their PC releases, they didn’t make enough money, and they want to keep their IP aligned to their own platform.”
Impact on the Games’ Industry
The change is expected to have a major impact on some of PlayStation’s biggest upcoming releases. Marvel’s Wolverine, along with future single-player titles from Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, and Insomniac Games, is now expected to remain exclusive to the PS5, with no PC versions currently planned.
For PC players, that means getting their hands on these games may require picking up a PlayStation console, as they are unlikely to make the jump to PC anytime in the foreseeable future.
Note that live-service titles won’t be affected by the shift. Games like Helldivers 2 and Marathon will continue launching on PC as before.
Externally developed PlayStation-published games are also expected to stay multi-platform, including the likes of Death Stranding 2 and Kena: Scars of Kosmora.
Sony had spent roughly six years building out its PC porting efforts through studios like Nixxes Software before this reported reversal.
The decision could mark one of the clearest signals yet that PlayStation intends to lean back into console exclusivity for its single-player narrative-driven games.
