PlayStation CEO Confirms Single-Player Games Will No Longer Launch on PC

It has been confirmed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that ‘big’ PlayStation games, particularly those with a single-player focus, will no longer launch on PC. This is a push from Sony Group to return to console exclusivity, hosting only multiplayer-centric titles across both PlayStation 5 and PC. This report came from Bloomberg in March, but more information was added today by Schreier.

Namely, the additional information is that Hermen Hulst, CEO, has confirmed the direction in an all-new town hall. The slate of narrative, single-player games headed to PlayStation will launch only on PlayStation and won’t be ported to PC later.

PlayStation Games Are Firmly PlayStation Games

In March, Bloomberg reported that PlayStation was planning to pull back on publishing first-party, single-player games on PC. It was stated that this was likely due to low sales on PC and an ongoing, inherent risk of ‘damaging the brand’, diluting PlayStation, and allowing users to experience the label’s first-party titles away from a PlayStation console.

Earlier today, Jason Schreier took to social media with a scoop, confirming that CEO Hermen Hulst held a new town hall at PlayStation to solidify the strategy.

This means that games like Wolverine and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophecy won’t hit PC when they do launch, with Wolverine coming first this year. It was recently claimed that Intergalactic is two years away. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach hit PC shortly after Schreier’s original report went out, and certain PlayStation-published games, like Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still up in the air.