The golden age of Sony bringing its popular PlayStation Exclusives to PC may seemingly be coming to an end if the latest rumors are to be believed. Once thought of as easy as printing money, Sony’s strategy of porting games to PC is said to have changed last year, and moving forward, its single-player titles may stay on the PlayStation console longer, or not be ported over at all. This is from two different sources who’ve claimed the console manufacturer is still working on bringing other titles over to PC, but after them, Sony’s cross-platform support will largely be focused on its live service games.
It hasn’t all been butterflies and roses with Sony’s PC releases. While official sales numbers are rarely, if ever, published, some tracking has been available via Steam. Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition, Spider-Man Remastered, and Ghost of Tsushima are topping the list with 56,557, 66,436, and 77,154 concurrent players, respectively. Other popular titles, such as Horizon Forbidden West and Last of Us Part II, dropped into 30,000-44,000 counts, and other single-player games were even lower. God of War had a peak of 73,529, while the second game only reached 35,615. Stellar Blade most recently set the record with over 190,000 players, which ironically was made by Shift Up, a studio that Sony does not own. Now it is important to note these numbers are only from one storefront, and each could be much higher if taking into account sales from Epic and GOG. Below is a list of Sony’s games published for PC, and notably, its multiplayer HellDivers 2 crushes everything else.
Sony also managed to annoy players from around the world when it began requiring them to register on the PlayStation Network. This requirement further exacerbated things for those who lived in regions that Sony did not provide access to, meaning people could not play games there anyway. Eventually, after several game launches, Sony would backtrack on the requirement, but not before alienating many within the PC gaming community.
Only time will tell if Sony is beholden to shy away from the PC market in regard to future ports. It was just last week that Marvel’s Wolverine was announced for a fall relased and as expected, and normal, it appears to be a console exclusive. There’ve also been recent rumors that a new God War Game is in the works, and Horizon fans are still hoping for a third entry to properly end Alloy’s story. Meanwhile, rumors continue to circulate that neither Sony nor Microsoft is intending to release a new console until at least 2027, which could potentially support these claims made by NateTheHate2 and Jason Schreier, as it’s also theorized that Sony could hold onto its exclusives longer to support sales of its hardware. Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn’t seem as concerned about its hardware sales as it continues its day-one pledge on Game Pass.