Sony has been more and more keen to place its first-party video games on PC, and that development reveals no signal of slowing down. Based on the corporate’s chairman, Hiroki Totoki, Sony sees wonderful potential for additional enlargement into the PC gaming market.
Sony to put money into extra multi-platform video games
Sony lately revealed there will likely be no new video games from main present IPs this yr. Nonetheless, the identical convention additionally confirmed the corporate’s extra important funding in multi-platform first-party video games. “Previously,” Totoki defined, “we wished to popularize consoles, and a first-party title’s predominant goal was to make the console common. That is true, however there’s a synergy to it, so when you have robust first-party content material – not solely on our console but additionally different platforms, like computer systems – a first-party [game] could be grown with multi-platform, and that may assist working revenue to enhance, in order that’s one other one we need to proactively work on.”
The corporate’s funding in PC gaming isn’t new. The the God Of Warfare, The Final of Us, and Horizon franchises receiving PC ports. Sony launched Helldivers 2 for PlayStation 5 and PC final week, and it was a serious hit on each platforms.
Totoki sees cross-platform titles as a option to increase the web earnings of Sony’s gaming division. As mentioned throughout the convention, PlayStation’s elevated revenue isn’t resulting in an equally elevated backside line. Totoki attributed this underperformance to elevated console manufacturing prices whereas holding consoles reasonably priced sufficient that the value doesn’t damage gross sales. Whereas Sony is engaged on lowering prices, releasing extra first-party video games on PC ought to assist increase the corporate’s backside line.