Back in March, it was reported that Sony will 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.
However, there wasn’t any official confirmation from Sony but it seems we’re closer to get one now as Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has reported in a scoop that during a company town hall meeting which took place this week, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst has confirmed that all first-party narrative-driven single-player titles will now remain strictly console exclusives for PlayStation.
What it means is that upcoming and hotly anticipated Playstation 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, Saros and more won’t be arriving on the PC ever which is definitely disheartening in more ways than one, especially if you are waiting for Wolverine like many players who’ve experienced the earlier Spider-Man games on the PC. It seems the only title which came out after the initial report of the Playstation titles going platform-exclusive is Death Stranding 2: On the Beach which hit PC around a month ago.
For the past six years, we’ve seen almost all of the major Playstation titles arriving on the PC with more technical enhancements which is possible on the platform–and were largely seen as an effort to generate a bit more revenue from players who won’t be jumping on the Sony platform but it’s clear that from now the only way to play those first party titles is to buy a PS5. And looking back even a few years from now where it seemed pretty normal for all PS5 titles to arrive at some point for the PC, it really seems like the end of an era.
