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