After an initial disclosure from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, two prominent leakers have backed his account that Sony could be shifting away from releasing single-player titles on PC. According to Schreier, that may mean that upcoming games like Marvel’s Wolverine or any future God of War sequels may not come to PC at all.
SneakersSO and NatetheHate have both offered their corroboration to comments Schreier made on the Triple Click Podcast. Schreier stressed his belief that Sony’s live-service games like Helldivers 2 would continue to be on PC, largely because those titles are so dependent upon building a large player base. But he suggested that Sony may be “backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff like traditional single-player stuff on PC.”
Schreier added that he doesn’t think Sony reverting to console-only for single-player games would be a big deal because the titles weren’t as successful on PC as they were on PS5. He also noted that Sony hasn’t been launching its AAA titles day-and-date with PC, and wouldn’t suffer many consequences from pulling back on its PC releases.
The temperature may have dropped in the console wars, but Sony typically only shares its live-service games or franchises like MLB The Show with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S. PlayStation’s big single-player games have remained locked to PS5. Keeping those titles off of PC could be seen as a way to increase PS5 sales, if computer players have no other way to play Sony’s exclusives.
Microsoft has hinted that the next Xbox console could be like a PC. If that console can also play PC games as well as Xbox releases, then Sony’s PC titles would also presumably be fair game. But if the flow of single-player games from Sony dries up on PC, then there wouldn’t be many titles available for Xbox players to try without a PS5 of their own.
Earlier this month, Sony announced plans to shut down Bluepoint Games. It’s worth noting that Sony owns a studio, Nixxes Software, that has largely focused on PC ports over the last several years. A fan-made Diablo-like Bloodborne project was also shut down by Sony according to the team behind it.