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 Marvel’s Wolverine is coming on September 15, 2026, and that’s not coming to PC, its coming to PlayStation 5 only.” Regarding whether the game may 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.” He was also asked about “grumbling” from PlayStation fans regarding its first-party exclusives going to PC, to which he responded by saying, “Yeah, I think that’s going to stop, is what I’m saying.”
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.” He 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 the staggered releases.”
Schreier later took to the gaming enthusiast ResetEra forums to clarify that his comments were not speculation. “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. He was subsequently corroborated by known insider Nate the Hate, who said, “Sony is shifting their PC strategy, absolutely.”
