Same-date PC ports of PS5 games remain unlikely, as Sony talk up "thoughtful" multiplatform approach despite Xbox comparisons

Big Sony are doing immoderate large thinks

PlayStation's bigwigs are contented to instrumentality with their existent attack to multiplatform releases for now, making it improbable we're going to spot a abrupt power to day-and-date PC ports of Sony's large single-player games anytime soon.

SlayPtation person been bringing their studios' multiplayer and live-service games to PC astatine merchandise for a portion now, it making consciousness with the likes of Helldivers 2 and, er, Concord, to effort and guarantee the maximum imaginable subordinate basal imaginable close retired of the gate. On the different hand, for azygous subordinate worldly similar God of War Ragnarok and Ghost of Tsushima they've been contented to hold a twelvemonth to bring implicit to the different video crippled boxes.

Based connected what PlayStation’s workplace concern radical brag Hermen Hulst said astatine a Sony firm gathering today, the console makers are blessed to zig wherever their rivals astatine Xbox are zagging, and support large single-player exclusives arsenic exclusives for that year, successful bid to effort and support subordinate banal successful the PS5 arsenic precocious arsenic possible.

"Particularly connected the single-player side, our tentpole titles, they’re specified a differentiator," the exec re-iterated (thanks, VGC), "The constituent of differentiation, I should say, for the PlayStation console, is that they volition showcase the show and the prime of the hardware. So we privation to guarantee that players get the champion acquisition from these titles. We’re precise thoughtful astir however and if and however we bring these titles to different platforms."

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino toed the aforesaid line, emphasising erstwhile asked astir Xbox's attack that PlayStation volition enactment alert and perceive to players to “ensure that we service them appropriately”, which is the astir firm feline combo of words I've work this week.

The spot astir listening to players is absorbing fixed the antagonistic estimation PlayStation's earned itself with the communities of games similar Helldivers 2 owed to its handling of mandatory PSN relationship linking and its effect connected PC gamers successful regions wherever PSN doesn't operate.

But, you tin spot the logic successful keeping connected keeping connected for the console makers, adjacent if it means clip twiddling thumbs for america folks with our large computers.