PC gamers will have to wait at least one year before they get the privilege of playing PlayStation’s biggest titles on more powerful hardware, according to new comments from Hermen Hulst. Hulst, who serves as the head of PlayStation Studios, told YouTuber Julien Chieze in a new interview that he thought it’d be “at least a year” between the releases, with one possible exception being live service titles. These could release on PlayStation and PC simultaneously.
“I think going forward we’ll see at least a year between releases on PlayStation and on the PC platform, possibly with the exception of live service games,” Hulst said.
“Live service games are a little bit different in nature because you want to have a strong community, strong engagement right away, right when you go live, so we might in the case of our live service offerings go day and date with PC and the PlayStation platform.”
From a VGC report:
Sony’s sixth PC title, Spider-Man Remastered, released in August. It will be followed by PC ports of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Sackboy A Big Adventure and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection later in the year.
There is mounting evidence that 2021’s Returnal will be coming to PC soon, potentially making it the shortest release window for an original PS5 title to make the transition to PC.
VGC claims that it has already received footage that shows Returnal running on PC. Sackboy: A Big Adventure, which was seemingly announced last week, will be released on October 27, while Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is due a week earlier on October 19. Spider-Man: Miles Morales is yet to get an official release date.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →Heck that's better than I expected.
Yeah, this comes as no surprise at all unless you're coming from the other direction and are surprised that it may only be a year which, in my opinion, is the more appropriate response.
That's actually accelerated from previous titles.
Ha-ha, panicking are we? No worries, I'll gladly wait 2-3 years if it means not having to play using a console banana and inferior hardware.
I was already prepared to wait at least 3 years for PC ports of Sony-exclusive titles, so this news comes as no surprise. I'll wait as long as necessary just so I don't have to play those games on console.
Well, they did say "at least a year" which more than likely means 2-3 years.
It's all good. Usually takes me about a year to really grind away at a game. Sometimes more depending on how engaged I get with it. I'm actually working on all the little tidbits in HZD right now and I'll probably finish them by this weekend. I still need to go back to GOW though. The thing with GOW is that all the side stuff is a little harder to find but I am looking forward to it. I've done some but I think I'm maybe 70% or so on it. Did 100% on SM and that was fun and looking forward to Miles next fall. Hopefully by then, Forbidden West and Ragnarok won't be too far off in the future for PC. Also hoping that Ghost of Tsushima comes out by then as well. See, even at a 3-year cycle, there's still a steady stream of games to come.