Sony is reportedly stopping its plans to release PS5 games on PC, ending an experiment that started a few years ago. The company will still consider multiplatform releases for online games like Marathon, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, and Horizon: Hunter’s Gathering, while single-player games like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora are still coming to PC. However, apart from those titles, no other PS5 single-player games are reportedly planned for a PC release.
According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, last year’s plans for a Ghost of Yotei PC port were recently scrapped and the upcoming action game Saros will also remain exclusive to PS5. Sources intimate with Sony’s strategy did mention that plans could change in the future.
Schreier added that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC–partly due to Sony having an inconsistent release schedule for its games–and the company is looking to pivot back toward console exclusives. Schreier noted that Sony hasn’t been launching its AAA titles day-and-date with PC, and as a result of that unpredictable cadence, it won’t suffer many consequences if it pulls back on its PC releases.
Another factor that might have sealed the fate of PlayStation PC ports is Microsoft’s next Xbox, which is rumored to be more like a gaming PC than a traditional console. With reports indicating that the next Xbox will support multiple storefronts, Sony executives were reportedly none too pleased about the idea of its flagship games running on Xbox-branded hardware.
What this means for the Sony-owned studio Nixxes Software–which focuses primarily on PC ports–isn’t known, although there’s a chance the news isn’t positive in the wake of Sony’s recent closure of Bluepoint Games.