Recently I came across an IGN writeup about the success of Stellar Blade on PC. Shift Up’s action RPG has done incredibly well, selling more than a million copies in its first three days on Steam and becoming one of PlayStation’s strongest new IP launches on the platform. That part of the story is worth celebrating. Where things start to fall apart is the analysis that followed. According to Alinea Analytics, a newsletter I had never heard of until now, PlayStation games are not selling on PC the way they used to. Their conclusion is that the novelty has worn off and that all of Sony’s major franchises have already landed on PC.
This is where the argument begins to crumble. That claim is simply not true. Several major PlayStation titles have never touched Steam. There is no Gran Turismo 7. No Demon’s Souls. Astro Bot has never been ported. Bloodborne is still missing. The Last of Us Part II is not on PC. The Order: 1886 never made the jump. So, the idea that Sony has already brought all of its heavy hitters to PC is factually incorrect.
