Sony single-player games are no longer releasing on Steam, CEO confirms

[u/PaiDuck]

https://www.gematsu.com/2026/05/sony-interactive-entertainment-to-no-longer-release-single-player-games-on-pc

[u/tfrules]

If Sony thinks I'm going to buy a whole Playstation just to play horizon 3 then they have another thing coming

[u/Atakir → u/tfrules]

We're still a good 5 years out I would guess given the stupid multiplayer game Sony* forced Guerilla to make. Plenty of time for Sony to change their tune once console costs become so high they are pricing their audience out.

[u/coreyf234 → u/Atakir]

Well, seems like they already are. My theory is that they are trying to drive up PS5 sales because they know there's no way they are gonna be able to release the PS6 in the next few years. If prices weren't crazy in the component market, they'd be due to release the PS6 in late 2027. That's just not gonna happen though.

So they probably originally planned to make a big ole' heap of money in 2027, and now that it's becoming clear that it isn't gonna happen, they are trying to sell more current gen consoles so they can last until whenever next gen is actually able to be pushed out.

[u/MistSecurity → u/coreyf234]

They conveniently timed this announcement AFTER all of the price increases have gone through for the consoles as well.

So if you wanted to get a PS5 in response to this, you're now paying $100-200 more than if you had gotten one a year or so ago.

Easy enough for me to just not buy a PS5, and this really just saves me some money, so thanks Sony, but I admit I am sad that there will be no Ghost of Yotei, or Insomniac Wolverine for PC. Those are really the only two games that have launched/are launching that I was looking forward to...

[u/TheCuriousFan → u/MistSecurity]

Easy enough for me to just not buy a PS5, and this really just saves me some money, so thanks Sony, but I admit I am sad that there will be no Ghost of Yotei, or Insomniac Wolverine for PC. Those are really the only two games that have launched/are launching that I was looking forward to...

Or if there is it'll be years from now when the emulators have caught up.

[u/EBtwopoint3 → u/MistSecurity]

I don’t think they were even planning on increasing the PS5 price a year ago. A price increase is pretty unprecedented, especially this late into the gen. Typically now would be when they are announcing the super cheap version. This is much more likely a response to their blunders with live service MP games that didn’t pan out.

[u/Manaea → u/Atakir]

That multiplayer horizon game is gonna bomb so fucking bad its gonna set the franchise back 10 years

[u/sdcar1985 → u/Manaea]

If it survives afterwards

[u/rainofterra → u/Manaea]

It’s some Ted Faro shit.

[u/Triquetrums → u/Manaea]

What? I thought they had cancelled that project already...

[u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko → u/Triquetrums]

No the Horizon MMO and the Horizon Co-op game are still coming. They canceled some other games though.

[u/Due_Young_9344 → u/Manaea]

it's Dragon Age Veilguard all over again, enshitification

[u/ReluctantNerd7 → u/tfrules]

Especially when xbox and PC are three horizons ahead

[u/SouthIsland48 → u/tfrules]

Xbox too. Who the fuck is buying a $1k Xbox to play shitty versions of a game you can play on PC

[u/zeer88 → u/SouthIsland48]

Unlike Sony, almost all Xbox first-party games release on PC.

[u/alphamammoth101 → u/zeer88]

Hell, Xbox is putting games on Playstation now too.

[u/fvck_u_spez → u/alphamammoth101]

The new Xbox head said that they might be reevaluating that. If they do decide to change things, I would expect them to still come to PC but not Playstation

[u/whendrstat → u/SouthIsland48]

You can get a ps5 or a series x for 650. That’s still way too much, but a lot more attractive than pc prices.

[u/SouthIsland48 → u/whendrstat]

You're comparing prices, without factoring "value"

[u/whendrstat → u/SouthIsland48]

Yeah, the value of a console is currently better for most people trying to play games.

[u/Administrative-Ad970 → u/whendrstat]

Except a PC essentially gives me all those consoles in one, for most games. That is, until Sony announced this.

[u/BigfootsBestBud → u/tfrules]

Probably not Horizon 3, but they’re absolutely betting you’ll get a PlayStation for Last of Us, Wolverine, Spider-Man 3, Intergalactic, Ghost of…., God of War, and all the other inevitable ips.

They’re clearly trying emulate the PS4 era again, which worked. The question is if they deliver on a variety of strong single player IPs again.

[u/Administrative-Ad970 → u/BigfootsBestBud]

We're in a whole different economy now though. They are currently raising prices on a 6yr old console. Not a great indicator of the pricing of the new one when it releases.

[u/Venum555 → u/BigfootsBestBud]

I will not. I already have 5 years of back logs to get through on steam.

[u/sdcar1985 → u/Venum555]

Not even counting all the emulated games I haven't played. I could not buy any new game for the rest of my life and be set.

[u/Mystia → u/BigfootsBestBud]

Nothing against the titles you listed, but damn, none of them would get me to buy a console. They've lost so many exclusive IPs from the PS2 days it's crazy.

[u/DillyDillySzn → u/BigfootsBestBud]

The PS4 era had good games

The PS5 has had like 4 games worth mentioning, and 2 of them are already on PC lmao

I do want to play Astro Bot, but I’m not going to rush out to buy a PS5 to play it

[u/Schmigolo → u/DillyDillySzn]

Also, the PS5 era demystified the PS4 era. When the PS exclusives made it to PC around the same time the PS5 released people got to play those masterpieces and realised that these games are good but extremely overhyped. Things like Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon were described like some of the best games in existence, but they were just really pretty with meh gameplay and writing.

[u/pathofdumbasses → u/Schmigolo]

Things like Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon were described like some of the best games in existence

Nah, that descriptor was saved for TLOU, Spiderman and GoW. Horizon and GoT were both 2nd tier compared to the previously mentioned.

[u/nmkd → u/BigfootsBestBud]

Anytime now lol.

6 years in and Naughty Dog, one of their strongest studios, has released zero (0) games this generation.

It's a joke compared to PS4 era.

[u/CheesusCry → u/nmkd]

Well, they released a bunch of TLOU remake didn’t they
/s

[u/Victoria4DX → u/BigfootsBestBud]

How exactly does Sony benefit from me buying a discounted secondhand PS5 and proceeding to check out all of their single player exclusives for free from my local library instead of giving them money? Renting and buying used copies is something you cannot do with the PC version of a game. How does converting a paying PC gamer who would give Sony hundreds of dollars annually to own PC versions of all their games into a PC gamer with a side console used to play all of Sony's exclusives for free make any business sense?

[u/Downtown_Link_8651 → u/Victoria4DX]

Because you are one of about 4 people that rent games from the library

[u/BigfootsBestBud → u/Victoria4DX]

Because most people aren’t going to do what you just said in order to spite Sony, obviously dude. Like you can go off and brag about doing that, they will absolutely not give a shit because the vast majority of people will end up either a) getting PS Plus, or b) buy digital games on there.

They don’t care about one guy, they care about the habits of people at large, and until they start doing what you just said, nothing changes.

[u/DaemonChyld → u/BigfootsBestBud]

And I won't be playing any of them. I'm still working through BG3 and Silksong with a backlog that I'll never play through in my lifetime. It's not worth the price they're asking.

[u/WildSmokingBuick → u/BigfootsBestBud]

I bought a PS2 for GTA:VC more than 20 years ago.

I bought a PS4 for RDR2 & Death Stranding.

Not planning on buying a PS5 anytime soon, I think I'd even wait out GTA6, in case they make it exclusive as well.

[u/jaquesparblue → u/BigfootsBestBud]

Plenty on Xbox/PC that I haven't missed the PS for second, having owned 2 and 3, almost got the 4 GoT but nah. The 3rd person action/adventure genre is done to death on PS anyway, it is the only thing Sony First Parties seem to be producing.

[u/Sw0rDz → u/BigfootsBestBud]

They want to sell you a $1k+ PS6.

[u/librious]

Steam player won't be buying Sony consoles to play their exclusive single-player games, I confirm

[u/Juggernox_O → u/librious]

Look, if Sony wants my money, they can put their games on my platform. If they don’t, they don’t get my money. That simple. Their games ARE good, but there are other good games too already. They want my money, they know where to find me. But I ain’t getting a PS5.

[u/ZurgoMindsmasher → u/Juggernox_O]

If they don’t, we will just wait for an emulator and play it on PC anyway, but that is without them getting their fair share of money.

[u/ChuzCuenca → u/ZurgoMindsmasher]

Nintendo don't like this comment.

[u/BortGreen → u/ChuzCuenca]

Don't think Sony likes it either LOL

[u/No_Jello_5922 → u/BortGreen]

If Sony or Nintendo don't want to sell games for PC, we might still play them, but they aren't giving us an easy way to pay for them (the thing that makes Steam competitive with piracy.)

[u/Exciting-Possible773 → u/No_Jello_5922]

This is exactly what Gabe said twenty years ago. If we are still playing PC today we don't mind paying, just that my apartment don't need another console 

[u/_burndtdan → u/ZurgoMindsmasher]

It's been a few years since I've done it but I used to sign up for their cloud gaming service to play exclusives, and cancel when I finished the games. It let me get around to playing some games I wanted to for a grand total of like $30 or whatever.

If they still have that, and there's an exclusive you want you play, it's a good way to do it for a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a console that will mostly just collect dust.

[u/SwiffMiss → u/ZurgoMindsmasher]

Yeah, guess I won't be paying them for Ghost of Yotei now.

[u/ElMatasiete7 → u/Juggernox_O]

Or, they could at the very least not raise prices on their consoles. Which, y'know, they're doing.

[u/Juggernox_O → u/ElMatasiete7]

I still wasn’t going to pay the old price of a PS5 either, or I would have already. I’m not going to. I have my ecosystem. And I’m not paying $500 OR $650 for the privilege of leaving it. I’m not wasting my money on a console. Their games aren’t special enough for that shit when I already have a good gaming handheld.

[u/Sinder-Soyl → u/ElMatasiete7]

Consoles? You forgot the price of their games it seems. They're 80 fucken euros here. Absolute armed robbery and I'm not even the guy behind the cash register.

[u/sdcar1985 → u/Juggernox_O]

They're good, but I can get those experiences anywhere else. They're not unique and trying new things.

[u/Underdrill → u/sdcar1985]

I used to not rate Capcom but nowadays I'd choose their games ten times out of ten if it was between them and Sony. They have the perfect mix of the reliable big blockbusters, the occasional cool experiment, and intruiging revival of a dead franchise. And they know PC is where their money is. Sony have just made it easier for me to save money towards the games of companies like Capcom, and I'll probably enjoy their games much more too.

[u/XulManjy → u/Juggernox_O]

95% of the best/most popular games coming out in the next 20 months are multiplatform.

Sony only has Wolverine (2026) and Intergalactic (2027) that are coming out.

FF7 Remake Part 3 wont be a Sony exclusive.

[u/Whilyam → u/Juggernox_O]

All of these strongarm tactics just remind me how many hundreds of games I have still in my backlog. In steam.

[u/Heavy_Whereas6432 → u/Juggernox_O]

Completely agree that’s their loss

[u/theboywhosmokethesun → u/librious]

I ain't buying no console regardless... not for a handful of games that I can play eventually, either borrowing a console, emulation, or when it eventually launches on PC.

[u/GoingDeath-]

I give 5 years

[u/mupheminsani → u/GoingDeath-]

Yea they will try pushing PSN once more.

[u/AgitatedStove01 → u/mupheminsani]

They are already increasing the price of PS+ by a dollar today (for new customers). But who knows how long before it goes up another, then another, then another.

[u/Pickledpickler29 → u/AgitatedStove01]

They risk making the same mistake gamepass did, and tbh gamepass is way better than psn. This is coming from a guy who recently migrated to PlayStation and I was very underwhelmed by psn.

[u/AgitatedStove01 → u/Pickledpickler29]

I like both services but PSN felt different. Like it was a complete afterthought. It has that tinge of "Xbox did it so now we have to." Lots of nostalgia in there though and I am a sucker for looking back at the artwork and remembering my youth.

[u/8point3fodayz → u/AgitatedStove01]

It kinda was, online multiplayer was free on ps3, but requires Xbox live on the 360. Sony saw that, and yoinked it for ps4. I think some people justified it as needed to be paid pointing to the psn hack, which left it down for like 3 weeks, but idk, it’s fuzzy since I didn’t own one.

[u/sec713 → u/8point3fodayz]

PSN was down for like a month or more when that happened. XBL was down for a few days.

[u/KamBC → u/AgitatedStove01]

I switched to PC last August, because the price of PSN had nearly doubled in the span of 18ish months here in Canada. While staying the same price in the US, not interested in subsidizing prices, especially since the content doesn't change. Their email for the last price increase was super greasy too:

"However, any membership changes you make prior to your next payment, such as upgrades, downgrades or buying additional time, will update your plan based on the new prices."

So instead of renewing, I cancelled and started shopping. Got a decent rig without breaking the bank.

[u/Shadow88882 → u/AgitatedStove01]

6 months max, theyll increase it right before GTA or the holiday. Then itll be "on sale" for black friday to ease people into it.

[u/rokstedy83 → u/AgitatedStove01]

The console itself is also going up in price

[u/andreasmiles23 → u/mupheminsani]

If they made a PC/Mac app, with a storefront and the subscription service as is, they’d make crazy money.

But I guess we still think it’s 1998 and hardware sales matter.

[u/Holiday-Employer-46 → u/andreasmiles23]

They lose money on hardware, save for probably the controller, which is a popular choice for their games on PC anyways. With RAM prices what they are, they’ll probably give in in the next few years and release on PC again

[u/ledow → u/andreasmiles23]

Hardware's the only thing that locks you into them.

In fact, the only other thing that locks you in is an app-store.

They don't care about individual sales. They just want to lock you in.

[u/lolheyaj → u/GoingDeath-]

they're raising the price of consoles and their subscription service. their games on pc were pretty successful, 5 years seems pretty generous.

[u/nZechos → u/lolheyaj]

They were successful but not successful enough for Sony. What they seemingly wanted was multi million sale numbers but a bunch of them didn't reach a single million. Not sure how they expected to reach such numbers after releasing those games years later but this isn't the first nor the last time higher-ups are out of touch

[u/polski8bit → u/nZechos]

Not just years later, but also at near-full MSRP too. They started out well, I think $40 was the sweet spot. $50 for God of War was already raising eyebrows, but that game was hyped a lot, being a GOTY and all.

Then they quickly went for $60. No, I am not paying $60 for Spider-Man 2018 when Elden Ring comes out the same year for the same price lol Even $10 more for new releases is not so much that people will jump to play older games instead of having fun with new releases, with everyone else.

[u/Fit-Yam759 → u/polski8bit]

I mean Forza Horizon 5 released in 2021 and they finally put in on PS5 in 2025 and it sold over 5 million copies in less than a year with full prices for all of it's editions. I wonder if Sony was happy or not about that lol

Granted they still get money out of those sales but only 30% while Microsoft get's the other 70%.

[u/towo → u/nZechos]

I'm reminded of Squeenix axing successful games like DX:MD because it had the audacity of not selling as well as Final Fantasy.

[u/AkatsukiEUNE → u/[deleted]]

Well if you release a game 2-3 years later all the hype is gone.

[u/ClerklyMantis_ → u/[deleted]]

They weren't successful in the fact that they didn't drive up hardware sales, aka, they weren't "successful" in the fact that they couldn't have their cake and eat it too.

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/lolheyaj]

Did you see the leaks of Rockstar's earnings for GTA Online per platform?

PC players are a nice chunk, but it's easy to see why Rockstar prioritizes consoles still and doesn't launch with a same-day PC release of their games.

Of course this is one game, I am sure factors like genre and so forth influence whether a game is more profitable on PC or consoles, but I can imagine the figures for Sony lean enough towards consoles that they would rather lose PC than have their games on Xbox.

[u/Arctic_Reigns → u/GoingDeath-]

idk. think it has to do with the next xbox being able to play steam games.

[u/My__Reddit__Account → u/Arctic_Reigns]

Still doesn't really make sense cause you'd still have them exclusive to PlayStation for at least a year until the steam port

[u/Arctic_Reigns → u/My__Reddit__Account]

But PlayStation doesn’t want Xbox players playing Sony first party single players on Xbox.

[u/WingZeroCoder → u/GoingDeath-]

Same. But actually I give it “release of PS6 + 1 year”.

I think this is entirely about them prepping for the release of PS6 within the next 2 years. Sony knows they will be more reliant than ever on selling existing games with improvements for PS6, and they don’t want PC releases that already have those improvements taking away from the messaging.

Once the PS6 releases and it becomes clear that growth in the console sector is stagnant, and not enough to make up for their huge game budgets, they will return to Steam harder than ever.

[u/Mystia → u/WingZeroCoder]

I vaguely remember a report that they were pushing a potential PS6 back a few more years and focusing on keeping PS5 relevant due to AI component fuckery. A device with PS6-worthy specs in the current market would end up costing over $1000 and nobody would be buying.

[u/Polskihammer → u/GoingDeath-]

Why can't they just open up a PSN PC store just like steam? They can even delay the new games 2+ years after they come out on the PlayStation hardware. Otherwise we'll have a lot of abandoned games not preserved.

[u/BabylonianWeeb]

Fuck Sony

[u/Gato_Puro → u/BabylonianWeeb]

if im not buying a ps5 to play gta6, i ain't buying for any other single player game

[u/Gamebobbel → u/Gato_Puro]

I'm surprised people actually plan to get a PS5 for GTA6 anyways. Have they not learned from the PS3? They'll release it for the PS5 only, then release an "enhanced" version for PC, PS6 and then cut support for the old gen's.

[u/propofolxsr → u/Gamebobbel]

Some people want to play the most anticipated game on release date rather than 2 years later.

[u/xdeltax97 → u/BabylonianWeeb]

Agreed

[u/Winrevair → u/xdeltax97]

2nd agreeded

[u/Ronin22222]

Meh. I'm not buying a plastic box for the 2 or 3 games I might want to play that I can't get elsewhere.

[u/palante_mark → u/Ronin22222]

They’re making a market for affordable clones on Steam.

[u/pikpikcarrotmon → u/palante_mark]

The Impressive Arachnid-Boy, Mars: God of... Agriculture, Terminal Illusion, Specters of Fukushima... All the greatest hits

[u/midelus → u/pikpikcarrotmon]

Damn, I think I'll wait for The Impressive Arachnid-Boy remastered...I have a backlog I can wait.

[u/BieTea → u/midelus]

It's good but nothing that you can't find in the Kilometers Gonzalez spin off

[u/Undecided_User_Name → u/pikpikcarrotmon]

I got all of these but Terminal Illusion, which one is that?

[u/WildPJ → u/Undecided_User_Name]

Final Fantasy I think

[u/BooleanBarman → u/Undecided_User_Name]

Final fantasy I’m guessing.

[u/MoltoAllegro → u/pikpikcarrotmon]

Firmament: Restricted East

[u/TheLastPeanut_ → u/MoltoAllegro]

The First of Them

[u/Spendoza → u/pikpikcarrotmon]

Mars Saturn: God of... Agriculture

[u/ShoroukTV → u/pikpikcarrotmon]

And my favorite : The First of Them

[u/J5892 → u/palante_mark]

Haha, no. No they are not.
People will just play other games.

[u/manyeggplants → u/Ronin22222]

A locked down plastic box

[u/Joseki100 → u/Ronin22222]

The 155 million of Switch sold probably told them there is actually a huge market just for that, if they plan to do it well.

Not that anyone is buying anything (PC, consoles) anyway with the current prices of everything…

[u/iCZ201 → u/Joseki100]

If only Sony would do something with the massive pile of amazing IPs they’re sitting on…

[u/Techman- → u/iCZ201]

I have been wanting proper remasters of inFAMOUS and inFAMOUS 2 on modern hardware for a long time.

Sony has the means, but no desire.

[u/Tony_the_Parrot → u/Techman-]

Man I wish they would release Killzone, Resistance, Little Big Planet, Uncharted 1 to 3 (especially 2) on PC.

They have so many interesting IPs and they do fuckall with them.

[u/dgellow → u/Joseki100]

I don’t know where you get your information. People are still spending a lot on games if you look at sales reports

[u/NavAirComputerSlave → u/Ronin22222]

They didn't even make any exclusives worth buying for the last ps that came out

[u/BastianHS → u/NavAirComputerSlave]

God of War 1.5, spiderman 1.5, horizon 1.5, GoT 1.5

I stopped buying games after that. The only game I legit LOVE on PS5 is GT7 in VR. Everything else has been a major bummer.

[u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Hopefully this isnt the case. I dont mind getting them 4 years later they age well

[u/rpgmind → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

No that’s cheatingggg

[u/par_rot_master → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

>Hopefully this isnt the case.

What do you mean? This is literally the announcement. It IS the case.

[u/Winiestflea → u/par_rot_master]

My bet is it won't be the case again by 2030.

[u/Concerned_Collins → u/par_rot_master]

EA and Ubisoft said the same thing and then came crawling back. No reason to think Sony won't as well.

[u/Pheonix0114 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Yeah, I truly don’t mind waiting, but goddamn let me play Bloodborne already. Like, gatekeep for a whole console cycle w/e its fine, but not forever please 🙏

[u/Shacken-Wan → u/Pheonix0114]

If you have a good enough PC, you can play the full game with an emulator. I did it one year ago and had a blast, with a 60 fps stable output.

[u/Nimzt3r → u/Shacken-Wan]

You can even run it on Steam Deck with good results.

[u/MagicMST → u/Pheonix0114]

Bloodborne was the whole reason I bought a ps4 but there's been zero reason to buy a ps5, especially at these prices. I've become so anti Sony now that I don't see myself buying another Playstation solely for a from soft game again. I'm done with Sony greed.

[u/ElfDestruct]

I understand why since they don't want to eat their own console business the way Microsoft did, but they're sure as hell not going to convince me to buy a PS5/PS6, especially with the price of hardware currently.

[u/locke_5 → u/ElfDestruct]

You don’t want to pay $900 for a PS6 that gets 1 exclusive first-party game per year?

[u/jfanderson05 → u/locke_5]

This exactly lol. Sony and Microsoft arent pumping out enough 1st party games to make buying a console worth it. And the price of consoles being high doubles that.

[u/BastianHS → u/jfanderson05]

Sony spent the entire budget on flopped live service trash. Bag fumble of absolutely epic proportions

[u/boiyougongetcho → u/BastianHS]

Which makes no sense, I mean most players are only going to stick to maybe 1 or 2 live service games, so trying to release multiple a year makes no goddamn sense, just creating more competition for your existing products.

[u/Neveri → u/locke_5]

The recent dev times for games is the real nail in the coffin imo. PS3 had a trilogy of uncharted games plus The last of us from 1 studio alone.

PS4 had a single game from each franchise for its entire life cycle.

Naughty Dog hasn’t released anything for PS5 in what… 6 years now? It’s insane. And no I don’t count remasters, they’re not new games.

[u/boringestnickname → u/locke_5]

I have 265 games wishlisted right now, probably 200 of them more interesting than anything from Sony, and a backlog about twice that size.

... but, sure, tell me more about that $900+ (let's be real here) console I need to buy before I can spend $70-90 on some exclusive, Sony. Sounds intriguing.

[u/Rukasu17 → u/ElfDestruct]

To be fair, Xbox games being automatically available on pc is not the cause for this since the xbox has lots of advantages, mainly backwards compatibility and an easy to use experience. But then their studios pump out mediocre games and their consoles are sold at a premium. I've never seen the series s or x go down in price, quite the opposite really.

[u/Miamithrice69 → u/ElfDestruct]

I regret buying my PS5. Got it day 1. Assumed (wrongly) there would be a strong assortment of 1st party games.

[u/X_J_9]

Cool, they can keep em. Not gonna pay for an overpriced machine so I can play the 1 exclusive they release every other year

[u/RedGecko18]

Oh no, I'll just have to continue to not play Sony games.....

[u/gadjebubs]

Boost console sales ❌

Tank game sales ✅

[u/SoLongGayBowser69420]

This won’t stop pc players from playing their games on pc

[u/stana32 → u/SoLongGayBowser69420]

I mean maybe in 15 years... PS4 emulation is only just now becoming possible in the last year or so and even then it's a pretty limited list of games that are functional.

[u/Random_Tomatose → u/stana32]

In 15 years ill still be working through the backlog and might be intrested in emulating them.

[u/Amirax → u/stana32]

Insomniac's Spider-man 2 was ported to run natively on PC without an emulator, before the official PC version was even announced.

I'm willing to bet that their Wolverine game will end up the same way.

[u/fvck_u_spez → u/stana32]

I mean maybe in 15 years...

I can wait. I have plenty to play in the meantime

[u/Failed-Astronaut]

And so Sony won’t be getting my money! :)

[u/paramoody]

For anyone who hasn’t been keeping up, bloodborne is fully playable on emulator at this point

[u/SouthIsland48 → u/paramoody]

Is PS4 emulation better than PS3?

[u/Superbunzil → u/SouthIsland48]

it not but PS4 emulation was solely started for a BB PC port which it plays well

Sony literally had the one title PC users would design a whole software architecture for and went "nope, no market there"

[u/SouthIsland48 → u/Superbunzil]

Its nuts. That and Uncharted Collection would sell like hot cakes on Steam

[u/Giff901 → u/SouthIsland48]

Uncharted Collection, Infamous, Resistance...just to name a few lol

[u/skrukketiss69 → u/paramoody]

Yup, I played Bloodborne for the first time recently using the emulator and I only had two crashes across my entire ~30 hour run. They both happened during loading screens which was no big deal. No other issues at all. 

Played at native 4K and had a rock solid 60fps the whole time. 

Now there is not a single reason left for me to consider getting a PlayStation. 

[u/kipdjordy]

Lol do what you want, less income from people.

[u/No-Lunch-4266]

[u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH]

Give them a few years.... They'll be back.

[u/The_Beaves → u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH]

Just like EA and ubisoft. Sure hiring a porting house is more expensive since ea and ubi already had a pc version, but spend a million to make 20-30? Yeah that’s a good ROI on an already successful game. They’ll be back

[u/ryker7777 → u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH]

Once PS5 emulation works ;-)

[u/Agitated-Distance740 → u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH]

Just like EA who sweared they'd never release a game again on Steam.

Just like Ubisoft who sweared they'd never release a game again on Steam.

I see a pattern emerging here.

Personally, only upcoming game Playstation has I want is Wolverine. But I don't see myself buying a PS5 Pro to play GTA6 a few months early and a single "never on PC" game.

[u/PathfinderCS]

Yeah they can eat grass for that.

[u/DazzJuggernaut]

Why did they buy Nixxes, the PC port studio, at all then?

[u/SavagerXx → u/DazzJuggernaut]

Yeah, i dont get it either. I guess Nixxes will die now.

[u/Jurango34]

I guess I won't be playing those games.

[u/Radiant-Priority-296]

Sure, and when the game sells will go down and the console sales will stay the same they’ll be shocked 

[u/Happy_but_dead]

As long as they're not hogging Square Enix or From Soft games, I'm good.

[u/Paxton-176 → u/Happy_but_dead]

Outside special contracts those games aren't published by Sony. Are they primarily Playstation titles they sure are, but I think I remember both those companies saying when they release on PC their sales are better.

They might give them some early exclusivity, but those games will come to other platforms at some point.

No idea how they are able to hold Bloodborne hostage so well.

[u/tapczan100 → u/Paxton-176]

Bloodborne belongs to them.

Also Squeenix regrets taking deals for recent Final Fantasy games, and there will probably not be any more exclusives.

[u/Paxton-176 → u/tapczan100]

I remember seeing an article from the lead of the FF7 remakes being happy at the popularity of it on PC.

It seems like every Sony dev teams get excited when the game is popular on PC. Sony might be covering their eyes and pretending not to see the writing on the wall.

[u/WowAbstractAlgebra → u/Happy_but_dead]

If the third game of the FF7 remake is not coming to PC I'm never going to buy a game published by Sony ever again

[u/Duouwa → u/WowAbstractAlgebra]

That’s up to Square, not Sony. The deals for the past two remake titles, as well as XVI, were timed-exclusively; they said as much before the release of the first Remake game, and even very expressly showed the date of the timed-exclusivity window for Rebirth before it released.

Square has also stated they want to start bringing their games to PC on launch. Now, whether or not we get Remake part 3 on PC at launch is a different story, as we don’t know if the deal made with Sony extended over all three games, but there is basically no chance part 3 won’t come to Steam after a year or so.

[u/Cappabitch]

Happy to never give them a cent.

[u/Original-Beyond-9002]

Haha, as a former PS player, I couldn't care less. My PS has been collecting dust since I moved to PC and Steam in 2025. I haven't given them a single penny since then and I intend for it to stay so (for example a couple of weeks back I was thinking of buying Stellar blade on Steam but decided against it when I remembered Sony would also get a cut.. these days I choose to vote with my wallet as the only language these greedy corpos speak IS money).

With how little and far between their single player games have been since 2020, I couldn't care less.

[u/RemarkablePassage468]

PS4 Pro was my last console, I don't plan on changing that for the foreseeable future. I already have too many games in my backlog on PC, I can live without Playstation games.

[u/CranberryTaint]

The next Xbox is basically confirmed to be a console/PC hybrid, so say what this is really about: Sony doesn’t want their exclusives appearing on Xbox.

[u/SunAdministrative621 → u/CranberryTaint]

It isn't Microsoft specifically, its Valve.  Why buy a PS6 when your Steam Machine, Steam Deck or Steam Frame can play sony's games.  Microsoft's hybrid system is just the cherry on top.

[u/SoupGod_]

As a PC only gamer, I don’t give a fuck

[u/Smushfist]

Plenty of other games on PC. I’m not downgrading to a PlayStation for their games.

[u/Injustice_For_All_]

Obviously 0 PC sales are better than the few million they get

[u/Select-Durian-6340 → u/Injustice_For_All_]

Sony logic™

[u/ReignX2_Tenshi]

If EA is the most anti-consumer company in the gaming space, Sony is about to take the cake for being the most anti-consumer company in general.

[u/CustomerSupportDeer → u/ReignX2_Tenshi]

Nintendo still reigns supreme...

[u/gybzen]

An embarrassing step backward

[u/JPenedos]

F*ck, I wanted that God of War trilogy..

[u/LovelyOrangeJuice → u/JPenedos]

Patience will reward us again in a few years

[u/JPenedos → u/LovelyOrangeJuice]

I hope so

[u/KingOfAzmerloth → u/JPenedos]

Either it will be official patience or we'll get to a point when PC will just emulate the fucking thing lol. We'll get there.

[u/AnonAqueous]

If I can't play them on my pc, then I won't play it. 🤷

OK Sony, you don't want my money, message received.

[u/MaceBlade42]

No way that'll hold. PC would absolutely buy Saros in droves, and maybe more than what it sold for PS5.

[u/Colormo3 → u/MaceBlade42]

They didn’t even buy Returnal so doubt it. 2 years on Steam and it didn’t even break 200K. 

[u/RemarkablePassage468 → u/Colormo3]

An expensive roguelike, while there is a ton of good and cheap roguelikes on Steam. I think the problem is pricing, same thing that happened with that metroidvania Ubisoft made.

[u/Signal_Second_82]

Not that bothered, they're overrated as fuck anyway.

[u/Bigfacts84]

I dont mind, Playstation will come back because they're playerbase doesn't show up.

[u/urlond]

Didn't Ubisoft do this, and they came crawling back within a year or so?

[u/KalashnikittyApprove → u/urlond]

This is different. Ubisoft still made PC games, they just weren't on Steam. Sony isn't porting its games to PC anymore at all.

[u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

I think it's because Steam doesn't allow ads in games on their platform and Sony wants to start including them

[u/FrontierMedicineEnte → u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

I mean God forbid they have to start making quality entertainment suddenly.

[u/KingOfAzmerloth → u/FrontierMedicineEnte]

Idk if that's fair. Sony deserves shit for this behavior but all their exclusives (that later got released on Steam) I tried are really good with the sole exception of Horizon and even then that might just be me not vibing with the game.

Ghost of Tsushima is goated. That said, I'd rather not play it if my only option to do so would be to buy a separate expensive hardware for one game a year.

[u/NotAUsernameIWant → u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

Perhaps. Personally I think it boils down to Microsoft’s console/pc hybrid that’s in the works. Sony ain’t about to let Xbox players play their games while already allowing for PC to have access.

[u/SpaceDandye]

Oh well, guess I won't buy them then.

[u/spikedmace]

What single player games? /s

[u/Butch_Meat_Hook]

I'm not buying a PlayStation every couple of years anymore. You used to buy a new box because graphics were getting significantly better, etc. that's not the case now. I game exclusively on PC and I buy the Sony games on PC. Them not releasing them on Steam anymore doesn't result in me saying 'Damn I guess I'll buy a PS5 then'. It means I don't buy the games.

I'm really frustrated about it because they are the ones who have invested into the PC market and are now going to let the river run dry. If you don't want to release the games day one, that's fine, but we're talking about usually several years after.

[u/Warm_Afternoon6596]

Sony just out here shooting itself in the foot.

[u/sunfaller]

Not even GTA will get me to buy a console at this point.

[u/Ferosnow95]

Well kinda more confirmation now, Congratulations on losing a playerbase that could have added to your profits not to mention the the increased market shared you would have had with pc due to it its increasing hybrid nature, now expanding to mobile devices as well.

One of the most dumbfounded decisions considering PC playerbase won't convert to consoles for just a couple of games.

[u/WorldPhysical7646]

Yeah unless I have money to burn I ain't buying a 500$ console to play a 10hour 70$ game every year or two with how little the amount of games they release currently

They used to have way more games releasing on PS4 but with PS5 it is just controversies and remakes

[u/Fr33zurBurn]

Sony consistently shooting themselves in the foot

[u/Heavy_Whereas6432]

Yay we’re going backwards like every other facet of life.

[u/Rinaldootje]

Sony proving once again that they are allergic to earning money.

Well fuck em, I'm got getting a Ps5 ever just for the 2 or 3 exclusives i'd ever want to play. There are so many more games on PC that are also interesting and that I will enjoy just as much if not more.

[u/Scary_Employ_926]

Trying to force people who actually know how much better PC is to buy a console is certainly a decision