Sony Interactive Entertainment is pivoting away from porting PlayStation first-party single-player games to PC, according to a new report.
During an interview on the latest episode of the Triple Click podcast, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier mentioned that while Sony Interactive Entertainment’s live service titles will still appear on PC, its traditional, single-player exclusives may no longer be part of that strategy. “I mean, I think for them, their strategy is like, live service games are coming to PC,” he said. “But I think the sense I’m getting is that they’re backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff like traditional single-player stuff on PC.”
When asked whether that could mean future tentpole sequels might skip PC entirely, Schreier replied by saying, “I do and I mean even if they don’t, we are seeing Wolverine is coming in September 15th, and that’s not coming to PC its coming to PlayStation 5 only.” When asked whether that title might eventually find its way to PC, he said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if it never came to PC, but even if it does you have a strong idea of what that is and that you need a PlayStation to play it at least for the indefinite future.”
Schreier also questioned how commercially impactful those PC releases were. “I’m not sure how super successful those PC releases were,” he said, later clarifying, “Yeah, like commercially successful.” Schreier added, “I don’t think it was that successful in the first place. So I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be that big of a blow.”
Comparing the strategy to “put[ting] that genie back in the bottle,” Schreier argued that Sony never fully committed to day-and-date PC launches in the first place. “The PC releases were always just kind of late to the party,” he said, describing the approach as “always kind of half dipping their toe in the water… like half entering the pool in the first place with that, with the staggered releases.”
Schreier later took to gaming enthusiast forum ResetEra to clarify that his comments were not speculation. “I mean, it’s not speculation, but sometimes topics come up on the show before I’m quite ready to publish a story about them,” he said. “More to come soon I’m sure.”
