{"id":716653,"date":"2026-06-21T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:21:10","slug":"hermen-hulst-allegedly-said-sonys-pc-ports-didnt-make-enough-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716653\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermen Hulst Allegedly Said Sony’s PC Ports Didn’t Make Enough Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hermen<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

Sony has apparently decided to cease porting its first-party single player PS5 games to PC, and one of the reasons is because they weren\u2019t making much money.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always been assumed that sales of the conversions slowed considerably once the novelty wore off, with early endeavours like Horizon Zero Dawn<\/a> and Days Gone<\/a> selling extremely well, before sequels like God of War Ragnarok<\/a> and Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/a> petered off.<\/p>\n

While we don\u2019t have any official data, trends can be observed through concurrent player numbers, and analytics firm Alinea put out some estimates late last year<\/a> which seemed to reflect this fact.<\/p>\n

Following wishy-washy comments from PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino<\/a> earlier this week, which failed to really clarify Sony\u2019s approach, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier commented on ResetEra<\/a> about the firm\u2019s changing strategy.<\/p>\n

And within that statement, he said that PS Studios boss Hermen Hulst told staff the ports simply weren\u2019t making enough revenue:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring a townhall a few weeks ago, Hermen Hulst told staff that their single player narrative games will be PlayStation only, and he explained that they were inconsistent with their PC releases, they didn’t make enough money, and they want to keep their IP aligned to their own platform. Confirmed this with two people who heard him say it.\u201d<\/p>\n

From what I\u2019ve observed, this has divided opinion.<\/p>\n

Looking at polls we\u2019ve conducted on the topic<\/a>, it seems most PS5 fans here think Sony\u2019s time and energy should be devoted to its own platform.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s kinda what Nishino said in the aforementioned interview: that the company wants to \u201cenhance the unique value of the gameplay experience that can be delivered on PlayStation\u201d.<\/p>\n

But PC players argue this was a self-fulfilling prophecy, as many of the ports launched in a sub-optimal state, late, and at high price points. The argument here is: if the games arrived day-and-date in better condition, they would have sold.<\/p>\n

Looking at the financial data, though, I don\u2019t think this was a direction Sony wanted to go.<\/p>\n

Yes, it could have sold more copies of its games on PC with more investment and day-and-date releases, but it makes the majority of its money off its own ecosystem. Clearly it believes that bringing those games day-and-date to storefronts like Steam would have substantially impacted sales of its own console.<\/p>\n

So here we are. I think Sony thought porting its games to PC would have extended the lifecycle of the software, and earned it new fans it could potentially pull back to PlayStation. The juice seemingly wasn\u2019t worth the squeeze, though, and it\u2019s changing tact as a consequence.<\/p>\n

[source resetera.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/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":"Image: Push Square Sony has apparently decided to cease porting its first-party single player PS5 games to PC,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[308799,2210,1015,1014,74],"class_list":["post-716653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-hermen-hulst","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-sony","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}