After months of speculation, a new report from Bloomberg's Jason Schrier tells us that Sony has indeed changed their multi-platform plans for PlayStation games.
During a Monday morning meeting PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst explained the new plan was that their prestige narrative single-player games would no longer be ported to other platforms like they had been for the last few years. This wouldn't impact multiplayer-first and online games such as Marathon, and Marvel Tokon which will continue to release across multiple platforms to get a larger playerbase to make them more sustainable.
This undoes a change that began during 2020 when Horizon Zero Dawn kicked off an accelerating trend of single-player games getting ported onto PC. Other titles included God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, but diminishing returns post-2022 may be part of the reason for the change. A simple example is that the 2022 release of Spider-Man Remastered had a Steam peak player count of over 66 thousand at launch, while it's sequel Marvel's Spider-Man 2 released in 2025 topped out at just over 28k. All of these single player titles released after a period of time exclusive to...
