[Update - February 27, 5:22 AM] While Jason Schreier's statements on PlayStation backing away from putting their single-player games on PC may have passed for speculation, that doesn't seem to be the case.
"I mean, it's not speculation, but sometimes topics come up on the show before I'm quite ready to publish a story about them. More to come soon I'm sure," the known journalist clarified on the ResetERA forums.
Original story follows.
[Original Story] Over the past few years, plenty of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 exclusive games have made their way to PC, including tentpole franchises like The Last of Us, Marvel's Spider-Man, Horizon, and God of War.
However, there is a chance that in the future, only PlayStation live service games will launch on PC. Noted journalist Jason Schreier has suggested that traditional single-player experiences may remain console exclusives for the foreseeable future.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Triple Click podcast, the Bloomberg journalist commented on SIE’s strategy moving forward:
"I think for them, their strategy is like, live service games are coming to PC. But I think the sense I'm getting is that they're backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff like traditional single-player stuff on PC."
When host Kirk Hamilton asked if Sony could truly "close that door" on future titles like a hypothetical Ghost of Tsushima 3, Schreier pointed to the upcoming Marvel's Wolverine. The game is set to launch on September 15, 2026, exclusively for PlayStation 5, with no PC version announced.
"I wouldn't be surprised if it never came to PC," Schreier explained. "But even if it does, you have a strong idea of what that is and that you need a PlayStation to play it, at least for the indefinite future."
Stepping back from PC releases would be a significant shift for Sony, but Schreier isn't convinced the impact would be as large as some expect. "I don't think it was that successful in the first place. So I don't know. It doesn't seem like it's going to be that big of a blow. It's very possible that they put that genie back in the bottle," he said.
While the recent State of Play featured several SIE-published titles coming to PC - including Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - these are not developed by internal PlayStation Studios. As such, there's a good chance that it will be first-party titles like Ghost of Yotei (which hasn't been announced for PC yet) and the upcoming Marvel's Wolverine will be the ones to define this new era of console exclusivity.
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