{"id":451524,"date":"2026-03-01T06:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451524\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:20:30","slug":"sony-quietly-decided-to-scale-back-pc-ports-last-year-insider-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451524\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Quietly Decided to Scale Back PC Ports Last Year, Insider Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re yet to receive official word from Sony, but by all accounts, it\u2019s scaling back its PC publishing strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news comes by way of a flurry of notable leakers<\/a>, all of whom have been proven to have knowledge of PlayStation\u2019s plans in the past.<\/p>\n

Among them are Bloomberg\u2019s<\/a> notoriously in-the-know Jason Schreier, and the equally reliable Nate the Hate<\/a>, who\u2019s accurately revealed tons of Sony-related snippets in the past.<\/p>\n

Writing on X<\/a> (or Twitter<\/a>), the latter gave a little more insight into the timeline of the platform holder\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’ll be seeing fewer single player games arrive on PC. The decision to shift away from supporting PC was made last year. Naturally, some may still release (pending how far along the ports were) but it no longer appears to be a priority for Sony moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

This follows comments made by Schreier on the Triple Click<\/a> podcast, where he noted:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the sense I’m getting is that [Sony is] backing away from putting its exclusive console stuff, like traditional single player stuff, on PC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schreier has hinted at a follow-up report in due course, so we may get some more meaningful information on this soon.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, though, the decision doesn\u2019t look all that surprising once you dig into some of the facts around this.<\/p>\n

For example, PC ports generated around 1.5% of PlayStation\u2019s revenue in the four years since the strategy got underway in earnest \u2013 a drop in the ocean really, with much of that driven by the wildly successful Helldivers 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting here that there\u2019s no indication the platform holder will stop porting live service games such as Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls<\/a> or 4:LOOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also unlikely to change its approach to externally developed games, like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/a> and Kena: Scars of Kosmora<\/a> \u2013 neither of which are created in-house, by wholly owned studios.<\/p>\n

But it could potentially mean major in-house projects like Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet<\/a> and Marvel\u2019s Wolverine<\/a> remain PS5 exclusive moving forward.<\/p>\n

Sony will, of course, have more data on all this than we do. It\u2019ll know how much it costs to make these ports, how much revenue they\u2019re generating, and what kind of impact they\u2019re having on its ecosystem. If the scales are tipping in the wrong direction, then that would certainly explain its decision.<\/p>\n

We also suspect the platform holder may have been frustrated by its inability to capture PC players within its PSN framework, with a robust pushback from players on Steam et al forcing it to make logins optional.<\/p>\n

Some have suggested that Xbox\u2019s decision to deliver an open console with access to all storefronts may have played into its thinking here as well, but none of that money would be going to Microsoft, so we\u2019re not sure it\u2019s a factor in its thinking.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Sony\u2019s only ever been obligated to support the PS5, and anything outside of that has always been classed as an experiment. It seems that experiment is now coming to a conclusion.<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re yet to receive official word from Sony, but by all accounts, it\u2019s scaling back its PC publishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,555,1180,622,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-industry","10":"tag-pc","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}