Sony continues to publicly dodge direct answers regarding future PC ports but has gone thus far as to remove language regarding them from its latest financials. Over the weekend, a brand new annual report was filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission, and something different with this one was noticed. In response to Game File (via VGC), Sony had removed wording present in last 12 months’s report regarding PC ports. Because the expression goes, the devil’s in the small print, and there’s one inconspicuously missing within the 379-page report.
Last 12 months, Sony had stated that “plans to proceed its efforts to deploy its first-party titles to multiple platforms resembling PC,” but that line is nowhere to be seen in the most recent report. What’s more is that PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino posted on social media that while Sony has not outright completely abandoned porting games to PC, it has, nevertheless, begun a brand new strategy moving forward.
PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino on PS5 games releasing on PC:
“From the beginning now we have determined platform selection based on the characteristics of every title. If releasing on PC can maximize the gaming experience for that title, we’ll proceed to think about it.
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“At the moment our important policy is, for first party developed single-player games to further refine the worth of the gaming experience we are able to offer on PlayStation, meanwhile, we consider it’s necessary for live service games to be played by as many individuals as possible through online multiplayer, so we’ll proceed to release on PS5 and PC platforms as a basis.”
– Hideaki Nishino, PlayStation CEO
So, based on an email sent last month by CEO Hermen Hulst to staff indicating that single-player games wouldn’t make their technique to PC moving forward, Sony has doubled down on this with an analogous confirmation from one other exec. Each Sony and Microsoft have revived the console war strategy of single-player game exclusives to maximise their hardware sales. Each has also said that it should proceed to supply multiplayer titles across multiple platforms.
“Whatever the platform, we’ll make decisions based on our desire to deliver one of the best possible gameplay experience that maximizes each title’s unique features.”
– Hideaki Nishino, PlayStation CEO
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