Sony is Reportedly Backtracking on Porting Single Player PlayStation Games on PC

Sony is reportedly changing its strategy regarding PlayStation ports on PC. Following the moderate success of some recent PlayStation PC ports, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier is reporting that the company has cancelled the PC version of the PS5 exclusive Ghost of Yotei, and other PlayStation first-party games will also remain exclusive to the PlayStation 5.

Back in February 2024, Sony released the multiplayer game Helldivers 2 on PlayStation 5 and PC on the same date, and an Xbox version followed in August 2025. This worked really well for Helldivers 2, and Marathon, Bungie’s upcoming multiplayer shooter, will also get a simultaneous release on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S tomorrow, March 5. However, if Schreier believes that Sony will continue to release its multiplayer games on multiple platforms, first-party PlayStation games may only ship on PlayStation 5 going forward.

“There are likely a few reasons behind this shift. One is that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC. A faction within PlayStation has also expressed concern that releasing their games on PC risks damaging the console’s brand and will hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors, according to the people familiar with Sony’s inner workings,” Schreier wrote.

“Another factor behind Sony’s pivot may be Microsoft’s next Xbox, which is rumored to use Windows and be capable of playing PC games. Some executives at PlayStation may not be thrilled at the prospect of one of the company’s flagship games like God of War running on the next Xbox console,” the reporter added.

Console-exclusive games indeed help to sell consoles, and that’s how the Nintendo Switch recently became the best-selling Nintendo console ever with over 155 million units sold as of December 31, 2025. Most gamers care more about games than teraflops, and that’s also why the Nintendo Switch 2 is selling very well (17.37 million units sold as of this writing) despite being underpowered compared to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

As you may know, Microsoft followed a different strategy by releasing all of its first-party games on Xbox and PC on the same day. Since 2024, Microsoft also started releasing some of its games on PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, and the upcoming Fable reboot is set to be released simultaneously on PS5, Xbox, and PC later this year.

Unless you care about Game Pass, it doesn’t really make sense to buy an Xbox console today when all Xbox games are available on PC, more of them are also shipping on PlayStation, and they even play better on the more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro. However, maybe the new CEO of Microsoft, who recently advocated for the “return to Xbox,” will want to rethink the company’s approach regarding exclusive games.