Sony\u2019s latest PlayStation 5 advert has revived the exclusivity language largely absent since the console\u2019s launch, following reports that the company has decided to stop porting its major single-player games to PC.<\/p>\n
Sony<\/a>\u2019s new \u2018Only on PS5\u2019 ad is now being served across social media and features footage of some of its biggest recent and upcoming games. Notably, the phrase \u2018PlayStation 5<\/a> exclusive\u2019 appears throughout the footage.<\/p>\n The games featured in the video are Marvel Wolverine, Saros<\/a>, Gran Turismo 7<\/a>, God of War Laufey<\/a>, Astro Bot<\/a>, and Ghost or Yotei.<\/p>\n Notably, none of these games have been ported to PC<\/a> in the past, nor have any announced upcoming ports (however, Gran Turismo 7 did receive a PlayStation 4<\/a> version back in 2022). Therefore, the advert strongly suggests that none of the games will come to PC in the near future.<\/p>\n As noted by ResetEra user Red Kong<\/a>, none of the games featured previously used \u201conly on PlayStation<\/a>\u201d or the term \u201cexclusive\u201d in any of their marketing, with the exception again being Gran Turismo 7, which was originally announced as a PS5 exclusive.<\/p>\n Second-party games like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth<\/a> and Phantom Blade 0<\/a> were advertised as PlayStation 5 exclusives, however.<\/p>\n \u2018Only on PS5\u2019 ad follows claims Sony is ending PC ports<\/p>\n The new exclusivity marketing follows a\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0report earlier this year\u00a0claiming\u00a0Sony was pulling back from its plan to release <\/a>upcoming games on\u00a0PC<\/a>, with future single-player games set to become\u00a0PS5\u00a0exclusives.<\/p>\n Sony later appeared to corroborate the report by removing all mention of bringing its first-party titles to PC<\/a> from an annual business report.<\/p>\n In recent years, the company has ported its games to PC after their PS5 versions. However, PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst<\/a> is said to have told staff in May that single-player titles from PlayStation, such as Ghost of Yotei<\/a>, Saros and Marvel\u2019s Wolverine<\/a>, would remain console exclusives going forward.<\/p>\n