PlayStation boss says single-player video games gained’t come to PC going ahead

PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst instructed employees this week that PlayStation’s single-player video games will not come to PC, it’s claimed.

Earlier this yr, Bloomberg, citing individuals aware of Sony‘s plans, claimed that the company was pulling back from its plan to release its upcoming games on PC, with future single-player games set to become PS5 exclusives.

The report claimed that while Ghost of Tsushima eventually got a PC port a few years after its release on PlayStation consoles, its sequel, Ghost of Yotei, won’t be coming to PC after plans for a port had been scrapped earlier this yr.

Now, in a brand new put up on social media, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier claims that PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst instructed employees this week that single-player titles from PlayStation, similar to Ghost of Yotei, Saros and Marvel’s Wolverine, would stay console exclusives.

In the unique report from March, Bloomberg claimed that multiplayer titles like Marathon will nonetheless launch “on multiple platforms,” however it seems that Sony’s cadence of releasing titles similar to Spider-Man, The Last of Us, and Horizon on PC a number of months or years after the unique launch is over.

While PC gamers celebrated Sony’s transfer to convey extra of its titles to PC, the delayed launch schedule and infrequently undercooked ports meant that the PC variations of some PlayStation titles offered shockingly few copies.

According to Bloomberg, “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.”

Sony’s subsequent large title, Marvel’s Wolverine, developed by Spider-Man and Ratchet developer Insomniac, is due later this yr.