Several days ago it was revealed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that Sony will reportedly no longer launch their single player games on PC, which used to arrive on the platform around a year or at least several months after their initial release on the Playstation. And instead, only the multiplayer-centric titles will be arriving across both PC and Playstation, cause of the obvious need for the sheer playerbase that’s possible on both platforms.
Which means that from now on, the only way to play titles like Insomniac’s Wolverine (possibly Spider-Man 3 down the line as well), Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the next mainline God of War title, Ghost of Yotei and Saros is to buy a PS5 or a PS5 Pro. However, it seems Sony’s decision to stop their single player titles from being released on the PC hasn’t been received as positively as the company may have hoped, with comments like these on a heated PC Gaming subreddit:
“Do you know what happens instead? The PC gamer simply ignores Sony games and plays other PC games. Sony forgets if people are willing to wait YEARS for a port and then LONGER for a discount that sure as s**t isn’t the crowd that runs out to buy a console and games that keep going up in price.”
“Please tell Hermen Hulst that my wallet is exclusive to PC games (preferably Steam) and I don’t want to buy a PS console to play Sony games anymore,” said a Redditor. “That worked before, when there was quality, genre variety and overall quantity. Now it’s not worth it anymore.”
“This isn’t going to magically make me buy a Playstation. It’s just going to make me not buy your games,” another gamer said.
Their points are perfectly valid as the PS5 is pretty old right now and any mid range gaming PC with the likes of an RTX 5060 or AMD RX 9060 can easily provide multiple times the value for your money than a console that’s well over 5 years old. Sure many of the games, especially Wolverine, would be missed but at this point the PS5 simply doesn’t offer the kind of value in terms of gaming that it did a few years back, especially with the current pricing conditions across the industry.
If Sony had pulled this move even a few years back, things might have been different but right now, investing on a PS5 or a PS5 Pro just to play a small handful of games doesn’t really seem all that attractive or meaningful.
