Sony Interactive Entertainment will no longer be porting Bluepoint Games’ Demon’s Souls remake and Polyphony Digital ‘s Gran Turismo 7 over to PC, based on a new rumor.
The admin of gaming enthusiast forum IconEra has been informed via a trusted source that PC ports of the Demon’s Souls remake and Gran Turismo 7 are no longer in development at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The source claims that Demons Souls is currently not being ported to PC, and that it may never see the light of day on the platform. As for Gran Turismo 7, it was claimed that a PC port was in development, but it was shelved due to unknown reason.
The IconEra admin did clarify, however, that this is not an indication of Sony Interactive Entertainment looking to back out of its PC plans. That said, his mention of these plans being a “50/50” situation suggests that not all first-party PS5 titles will receive PC ports. This is certainly true thus far, with both Demon’s Souls and Gran Turismo being a no-show on the platform, despite both being on the leaked NVIDIA GeForce database of titles. However, times change and so do plans. Given its integral use of the DualSense controller and its association with PlayStation’s 30-year legacy, it’s possible that Game of the Year 2024 winner Astro Bot may not arrive on PC either. Only time will tell whether that’s the case, however.
It’s worth noting that the PlayStation titles that have received PC ports thus far all run on game engines that are already up and running on PC. The porting initiative began with Horizon Zero Dawn, which runs on Guerrilla Games’ Decima engine. Thanks to the PC version of Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, the engine had already been configured to run on the platform. Nixxes Software and its experience with PC ports proved useful in getting Insomniac Games and Sucker Punch’s in-house game engines up and running on the platform. Meanwhile, Iron Galaxy Studios struggled with the PC port of The Last of Us remake, as it was the first time a game running on Naughty Dog’s in-house engine was ported to the platform. There’s hope that the PC version of The Last of Us Part 2 will be in a better state at launch.
Demon’s Souls and Gran Turismo 7 run on Bluepoint Games and Polyphony Digital’s proprietary game engines. While Nixxes Software could have ported the Demon’s Souls remake to PC, it’s unlikely that Polyphony Digital would have let another development team handle a port of Gran Turismo 7. Given how the Gran Turismo developer has its hands full supporting the latest entry with regular updates and new content, and possibly even the development of Gran Turismo 8, it’s unlikely for it to have enough resources to work on a PC port.
