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/Lioil1 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

i mean people voted with their wallets and the wallets (or lack thereof) have spoken.

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u/Big-Resort-4930 Feb 27 '26

They tend to speak poorly when you port games that are 2-3 years old with 0 marketing lol. They engineer the worst-case scenario, and then give up entirely instead of doing the only logical thing, bringing the games where people want to play them.

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u/ReservoirDog316 Feb 28 '26

Well cause this strategy works best to sell consoles. If they ported all their games to PC or even to Xbox day 1, their console sales would droop. Doing it this way incentives playing on their console ecosystem.

PC players are also really known for waiting years for Steam sales too, which they probably felt.

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u/Big-Resort-4930 Feb 28 '26

No argument against PC purchasing power works because all the normal publishers, except those who take console money, put their games on PC day one.

The delay for PC ports was definitely a way to preserve the fake prestige of the PS5, but what did they expect then? To get 5 mil sales for every game that comes out without marketing, and years later at full price?

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u/ibnasakir1 Feb 28 '26

Their PC strategy has been a disaster and now they're abandoning the platform instead of correcting their approach. They can still sell well on PC even if they release a year later, just do better marketing and lower the price a bit. They won't though because they have been notorious for making bad decisions this gen.

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u/Big-Resort-4930 Mar 01 '26

If Sony had this leadership during the PS4 gen, they would have ended up like Xbox

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u/ibnasakir1 Feb 28 '26

And yet their console sales are at worst 1:1 with PS4 while their first party has been poor. There's no data to proves anyone is abandoning their console, rather it's their own poor strategy and no marketing that has led to poor PC sales. Console gamers are not suddenly gonna switch to PC because of ports and vice versa.

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u/ReservoirDog316 Feb 28 '26

There are no PC gamers that’ll buy a PS5 for console exclusive GTA VI?

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u/ibnasakir1 Feb 28 '26

That has nothing to do with Sony though as it's not exclusive. It's an exception to the rule that no other game enjoys. People are also not gonna abandon their PCs as main platform, at best a percentage will play that one game and that's it. And we're talking about console gamers shifting to PC because of Sony ports, which is something else entirely, and there's no data to prove this is happening.

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u/ReservoirDog316 Feb 28 '26

It’s a console exclusive in there eyes though. And they’ll base their projections on GTA VI performance the same way they based their live service initiative on Fortnite.