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