The golden age of Sony bringing its popular PlayStation Exclusives to PC may seemingly be coming to an end if the newest rumors are to be believed. Once considered easy as printing money, Sony’s strategy of porting games to PC is claimed to have modified last yr, and moving forward, its single-player titles may stay on the PlayStation console longer, or not be ported over in any respect. That is from two different sources who’ve claimed the console manufacturer remains to be 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, similar to 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 paradoxically was made by Shift Up, a studio that Sony doesn’t own. Now it is vital to notice these numbers are only from one storefront, and every could possibly be much higher if taking into consideration sales from Epic and GOG. Below is a listing of Sony’s games published for PC, and notably, its multiplayer HellDivers 2 crushes all the pieces else.
Sony also managed to bother players from around the globe when it began requiring them to register on the PlayStation Network. This requirement further exacerbated things for individuals who lived in regions that Sony didn’t provide access to, meaning people couldn’t play games there anyway. Eventually, after several game launches, Sony would backtrack on the requirement, but not before alienating many throughout the PC gaming community.
Only time will tell if Sony is beholden to draw back 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 brand new God War Game is within the works, and Horizon fans are still hoping for a 3rd entry to properly end Alloy’s story. Meanwhile, rumors proceed to flow into that neither Sony nor Microsoft is meaning to release a brand new console until not less than 2027, which could potentially support these claims made by NateTheHate2 and Jason Schreier, because it’s also theorized that Sony could hold onto its exclusives longer to support sales of its hardware. Microsoft, alternatively, doesn’t seem as concerned about its hardware sales because it continues its day-one pledge on Game Pass.