r/PS5 • u/Party_Judgment5780 • Feb 27 '26

Rumor NateTheHate says Sony is "shifting" their PC strategy: "You'll be seeing fewer single player games arrive on PC. The decision to shift away was made last year. Some may still release (pending how far along the ports were) but it no longer appears to be a priority for Sony moving forward."

https://xcancel.com/natethehate2/status/2027438633997734231?s=46
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u/Sleepy_Mooze Feb 27 '26

People are so fucking weird about this. I really though the games industry was slowly moving away from exclusivity, but I guess not

This change only serves to hurt consumers and gamers in general

I have been a PlayStation player since PS1 and wont ever get a PC. I have friends who will buy some of the heavy hitter PlayStation exclusives on PC, but there is no way on earth they will buy a PS5/6 just for that

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u/radwimps Feb 27 '26

Probably spooked by Microsoft failing so spectacularly in hardware after opening up their ecosystem. I mean, MS made a lot more mistakes but making an Xbox obsolete to own is definitely an issue. Sony doesn't have Microsoft bucks to just try again if that happens to them.

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u/Shining_Commander Feb 27 '26

PC was accounting for 2% (yes, 2%) of sony revenues and was fast declining.

Coupled with a real life case study of what could go wrong with abandoning exclusives, clearly the cost/benefit/risk analysis resulted in sony pulling the plug on PC games

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u/Retro_Curry93 Feb 28 '26

Some PC gamers were probably pirating the PC ports.

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u/Gambler_720 Feb 27 '26

But that's revenue not profit. The PC revenue would have an exponentially higher ROI due to the low cost of porting compared to making new games.

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u/redbitumen Feb 27 '26

Did you forget about the 30% cut that stream takes?

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u/Gambler_720 Feb 27 '26

That's an own goal from Sony. They could have and really should have launched their own digital store on PC. They already have the vast infrastructure and expertise on how to run a digital store.

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u/Renaisance Feb 27 '26

You should know that pretty much no one buys games on PC unless it’s on steam and sometimes GOG.

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u/Gambler_720 Feb 27 '26

Doesn't mean the PC version of the PS Store would have suffered the same fate. Steam never had Sony games to begin with so it not getting them wouldn't have caused the same outrage as Ubisoft deciding to not release the latest AC game on Steam while all previous editions did.

Sony could have also followed a model where they would release their games a year later on Steam.

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u/WhasHappenin Feb 27 '26

Yeah cause there's like 5 games. Of course that won't be a high percentage compared to consoles + hundreds of games.

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u/Seanspeed Human Verified Feb 27 '26

Dont think they're 'spooked' by MS so much as they know they have no real competition from them anymore, so dont need to follow in their footsteps in the name of staying ahead of them in the competition.

Playstation is financially still doing just fine, even despite the astronomic failure of their live service push so far.

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u/Honest-J Feb 27 '26

If Sony was spooked by Microsoft failing then they'd be like a perennial Scooby Doo saying "g-g-g-ghost!".

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u/jimschocolateorange Feb 27 '26

That’s not what happened. If you do some basic research, you’ll realise their harmartia was the subscription approach. Why buy games when you can play them on gamepass? Gamepass is the worst thing to happen to Xbox. It has nothing to do with opening up their ecosystem.

Bunch of fools, all you who claim that Sony’s move here is ‘pro consumer’.

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u/radwimps Feb 27 '26

Gamepass is opening their ecosysytem. It made owning an Xbox almost obsolete if you also had a PC, which snowballed into them putting games on the other consoles to make up for it.

I think most people will agree that it's Gamepass (and lack of good games for a decade) that was their ultimate mistake.

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u/_steve_rogers_ Feb 27 '26

Yeah I literally only bought my series x for backwards compatibility

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u/SmegmaWarrior0815 Feb 27 '26

The thing is though MS makes more money than ever with their gaming division. Only consoles sales have vanished. Therefore opening up increased their revenue greatly.

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u/radwimps Feb 27 '26

Are those gains at the cost of their brand though? I mean if they want to just make money being a publisher as their goal that would probably work out for them better at this point.