Sony Is Pulling Back From Releasing PS5 Games on PC

Sony has decided to stop bringing its major PlayStation 5 single-player titles to PC, marking a significant shift in the company's multiplatform strategy.

According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Sony scrapped plans to release Ghost of Yotei on PC. The samurai follow-up to the beloved Ghost of Tsushima will now remain a PS5 exclusive.

The same goes for Housemarque's upcoming action title Saros, which will also stay off PC entirely.

Not everything is going exclusive, though. Online and live-service titles like Marathon and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls will still launch across multiple platforms.

Additionally, two externally developed but PlayStation-published titles, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still scheduled for PC releases.

It is also worth noting that Bloomberg cautioned the company's plans could still shift, given how unpredictable the games industry tends to be.

What Are the Reasons?

The main driving force behind this change comes down to numbers, and they simply did not add up the way Sony had hoped.

As per the report, several recent PlayStation ports underperformed on PC. Sony itself disclosed that its first-party games generated $2.37 billion on non-PlayStation platforms over nearly four years. That sounds like a solid figure until you stack it against the $31.7 billion its Game and Network Services division brought in during 2024 alone.

In other words, the PC porting strategy accounted for somewhere between 1% and 2% of Sony's total gaming revenue over that stretch.

Beyond the raw sales numbers, a faction within PlayStation had reportedly grown uneasy about what the PC strategy was doing to the brand. According to the report, there were growing concerns internally that releasing games on PC "risks damaging the console's brand and could hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors."

There is also a competitive angle worth considering. Microsoft's next Xbox console is widely rumored to run on Windows and be capable of playing PC games. Some PlayStation executives may not be too thrilled at the idea of a game like God of War one day running natively on an Xbox console.

Sony began its PC push in 2020, bringing franchises like God of War, Horizon, and The Last of Us to Steam over the following years. Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut arrived on PC in 2024 and was the first PlayStation game to feature PSN integration, including trophies, profiles, and a PlayStation overlay. That era now appears to be winding down, at least for the company's major single-player titles.

Sony still operates Nixxes Software, the PC port specialist it acquired in 2021, so the infrastructure is clearly still in place. Whether it gets fully repurposed or quietly kept around for selective future use remains to be seen.