Schreier: Hermen Hulst told staff Monday morning, company's single-player games will be PlayStation exclusive

[the-pi-guy]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTEyOTk3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzM0NzcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQkRNVTVLR1pBS0owMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.XEWYXBDX_Xg13JxGEFC1iwV140zKDSlLoblfeJluqb8

There are likely a few reasons behind this shift. One is that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC. A faction within PlayStation has also expressed concern that releasing their games on PC risks damaging the console's brand and will hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors, according to the people familiar with Sony's inner workings.

For decades, Sony's tactic for selling PlayStations was to keep tentpole franchises exclusive to its own consoles. In 2020, it pivoted and began bringing games to personal computers via Steam. Since then, the company has put most of its biggest franchises on PC, such as God of War and The Last of Us.

But the strategy has been muddled and confused many players. Most PC releases arrived months or years after the games came to PlayStation. The cadence was never consistent, and the announcements appeared to be haphazard. The company also upset PC players by asking them to create PlayStation Network accounts to access many of the games.

[Legend]

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[Legend]

Also wtf, duh. Crazy that Sony needed to learn that putting games on pc was unwise.

[kitler53]

Also wtf, duh. Crazy that Sony needed to learn that putting games on pc was unwise.

"i don't understand?  we got rid of our selling point and it stopped selling so well.  what the fudge happened?!?"

[kitler53]

"jokes on you guys.   sony isn't making any single player games anymore"

[kitler53]

jokes aside,..

predictably i see the PC platform warriors going to bat that sony will be bankrupted over this.   but for me personally this solidifies that i buy a ps6.   if not i very likely might have gone to PC.  i don't feel too motivated to get a PC for it's exclusives because they are mostly bad indie games (because the best of indies come to PS even if late).  still,.. a primary factor in picking a game platform is which platform has access to the most games and when sony was putting everything on PC the answer is clearly PC gets more games than PS.

[BananaKing]

They really hurt their sales by this. And it will have some future ramifications too. 

Games like the last of us and God of war are classics that people will talk about for generations. And if anybody wants to buy them they are still on PC. 

Building a library now isn't generation per generation, it's an on going thing. And Sony put most of it's classics on PC. Such a a dumb decision. They should pull all these games from steam IMO

[kitler53]

yeah.  the benefit of these games on steam is long gone but the detriment will live on if they don't delist. 


it's hilarious to me reading the era thread that the loudest most angry voices are telling this story "I just left the the ps consoles by building a PC." and yet not one of them will acknowledge their story is exactly why pe is going back to exclusives. 

[the-pi-guy]

I don't think it's particularly harmful with these games being released years afterwards. They're not selling very well, people clearly aren't waiting for games to come to PC.  

I think the bigger issue with that strategy is that there are so few titles nowadays. I think it'd be one thing if Sony was releasing like 5 or more decently big titles every year, but I feel like if you're looking at a PC vs PS5 in 2025, you're kind of looking at every one of their big games being on both platforms. 

Like I feel like you were missing like 3 odd titles from PS5. 

[kitler53]

I don't think it's particularly harmful with these games being released years afterwards. They're not selling very well, people clearly aren't waiting for games to come to PC. 

I think the bigger issue with that strategy is that there are so few titles nowadays. I think it'd be one thing if Sony was releasing like 5 or more decently big titles every year, but I feel like if you're looking at a PC vs PS5 in 2025, you're kind of looking at every one of their big games being on both platforms.

Like I feel like you were missing like 3 odd titles from PS5.

i mean, you're not wrong.

porting their games to PC has hurt the brand.   but also their GaaS disaster has also hurt the brand.  taken together we had a year or two there where probably half of the PS game announcements was "PC Port" which really hurt the brand.

hopefully this upcoming state of play fixes both issues.    no pc port announcements but also some significant "only on ps" announcements for games people really want to play.

[Legend]

When did the last great playstation game come out? Astrobot? Yeah that's pretty poor.

[kitler53]

When did the last great playstation game come out? Astrobot? Yeah that's pretty poor.

saros just came out...

[the-pi-guy]

saros just came out...

Must not be great I guess.

[the-pi-guy]

This announcement feels even less impactful to be honest, with how few first party single player games there are.  

They're releasing 5 games a year, but 3 of them are Live Service and are still on PC.  

[nnodley]

I recently decided to buy Saros. Its actually pretty fun. Remains to be seen how their new permanent progression is, but i'm liking it so far.

We also just had Ghost of Yotei