PlayStation boss Herman Hulst advised employees this week that PlayStation’s single-player video games will now not come to PC, it’s claimed.
Earlier this yr, Bloomberg, citing folks acquainted with Sony‘s plans, claimed that the corporate was pulling again from its plan to launch its upcoming video games on PC, with future single-player video games set to turn out to be PS5 exclusives.
The report claimed that whereas Ghost of Tsushima finally bought a PC port a couple of years after its launch on PlayStation consoles, its sequel, Ghost of Yotei, received’t be coming to PC after plans for a port had been scrapped earlier this yr.
Now, in a brand new publish on social media, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier claims that PlayStation Studios CEO Herman Hulst, advised employees this week that single-player titles from PlayStation, resembling Ghost of Yotei, Saros and Marvel’s Wolverine, would stay console exclusives.
Within the unique report from March, Bloomberg claimed that multiplayer titles like Marathon will nonetheless launch “on a number of platforms,” however it seems that Sony’s cadence of releasing titles resembling Spider-Man, The Final of Us, and Horizon on PC a number of months or years after the unique launch is over.
Whereas PC gamers celebrated Sony’s transfer to deliver extra of its titles to PC, the delayed launch schedule and infrequently undercooked ports meant that the PC variations of some PlayStation titles bought shockingly few copies.
In response to Bloomberg, “A faction inside PlayStation has additionally expressed concern that releasing their video games on PC dangers damaging the console’s model and can damage gross sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors, in accordance with the folks acquainted with Sony’s internal workings.”
Sony’s subsequent large title, Marvel’s Wolverine, developed by Spider-Man and Ratchet developer Insomniac, is due later this yr.
