Six Years of PlayStation PC Ports, Now Over

It started with Horizon Zero Dawn on Steam in 2020. God of War followed, then Spider-Man, then The Last of Us. For six years, PlayStation steadily funnelled its biggest single-player franchises onto PC, and now that pipeline is shut off for good.

PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a company town hall on Monday that narrative single-player games will remain exclusive to PlayStation consoles going forward, according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier on Bluesky. The announcement confirms Bloomberg's reporting from March, which first revealed that Sony was pulling back from PC releases after its ports underperformed commercially. Titles like Ghost of Yotei, Saros, and Marvel's Wolverine will not be coming to PC. Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet falls under the same umbrella.

Multiplayer games are exempt. Marathon, which launched on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in March, and the upcoming Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, set for August, will still ship across platforms. The last two single-player PlayStation titles expected to reach PC are Death Stranding 2 and Kena: Scars of Kosmora, both of which were already announced for the platform.

I covered this shift back in March when the Bloomberg report first dropped, and the writing was on the wall even then. PlayStation's PC ports often arrived years late, sometimes in rough shape, and sold poorly as a result. According to Bloomberg's earlier reporting, a faction within PlayStation also worried that PC availability was damaging the console's brand and undercutting hardware sales. I get the business logic, but it's hard not to feel like Sony is punishing PC players for a problem Sony created. Late, inconsistent ports with mandatory PSN sign-in drama aren't exactly a recipe for blockbuster sales. The strategy failed, and instead of fixing the execution, they killed the programme.

Hulst's announcement also draws a sharp contrast with Xbox, which now releases most of its titles on PlayStation and PC alongside its own hardware. Fable and Forza Horizon 6 are both launching on PS5 this year. Sony is betting that keeping its single-player lineup locked to one box will push people to buy that box. Bloomberg noted that employees cautioned things could change again in the future, but for now, if you want the next God of War or Uncharted, you need a PS5.