PlayStation has reiterated its strategy to releasing its video games on PC, stating live-service video games will launch day-and-date on PC. Nevertheless, its tentpole single participant video games won't.
This comes from one in every of PlayStation’s twin CEOs, Hermen Hulst, throughout a public enterprise presentation held earlier this morning. Throughout it, Hulst defined the technique for releasing PlayStation’s single-player video games on PC at a later date, quite than day-and-date, citing it’s a part of a method to convey extra folks into the PlayStation platform.
“Certainly, we’re bringing our titles to the PC platform, and we’ve got a twin strategy right here,” Hulst stated. “On the reside service facet, we’re releasing our titles concurrently, so day and date on PlayStation 5 and PC. However with our tentpole titles, our single participant narrative-driven titles that [are] the spine of what PlayStation studios has delivered lately and in our historical past, we take a extra strategic strategy and we introduce our nice franchises to new audiences, and we’re discovering new audiences which are probably going to be very all in favour of taking part in, for instance, sequels, on the PlayStation platform.
“We’ve excessive hopes that we are literally in a position to convey new gamers into PlayStation at massive, however into PlayStation platforms particularly. Really, the identical goes for the work that we do with extending our nice properties onto different media, reminiscent of tv sequence and movie, for instance, as you will have seen with The Final of Us on HBO or Gran Turismo on movie, that brings new gamers into our franchises as effectively.”
Whereas this doesn’t come as a shock – we noticed the live-service multiplayer Helldivers 2 launch earlier this yr concurrently on PS5 and PC whereas Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Reduce solely simply hit PC this month, years after its PS5 launch – it’s good to formally hear PlayStation’s strategy shifting ahead.
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