PlayStation Pivots To No Longer Bring Their Big Single Player Games To PC

A few weeks back, Jason Schreier reported internal details that PlayStation was considering ending its PC port strategy for single player games. Well the news today isn’t good as head of PlayStation Studios, Hermen Hulst, has confirmed to staff as part of a company town hall meeting that new narrative titles will stay console exclusive .

Reasons behind the massive pivot cite poor sales of titles on PC platforms (like Steam), though Jason Schreier has also made mention of reports that there are internal fears for dipping PS5 hardware sales in the face of alternative platforms – such as the upcoming Steam Machine. The clarification does mention that live-service titles (like Marathon) are to remain multi-platform of course, while more ‘prestige’ single player experiences such as Ghost of Yotei and Marvel’s Wolverine are to be locked to PlayStation hardware.

People external to Sony are more than happy to point speculative fingers at things like poor initial PC ports as a contributing factor to poor sales, while others are scratching their head at how a reports of $2.3 billion worth of PC and Xbox sales could be considered ‘poor’.

For anyone, it is a bummer of a headline to encounter given the recent progression of gaming releases. Consumer freedom is a cool thing to have, and anything that dents it kinda blows.

Here’s hoping a few years of sales data convinces the company heads to pivot once more, in a far friendlier direction.