PlayStation appears to be retreating from its PC strategy, particularly when it comes to single-player games. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the company was stepping back from releasing future first-party titles on PC. At the time, there was some ambiguity around how strictly these rules would be applied. For instance, Housemarque, the developer of Saros, dodged a question about whether the game would ever come to PC in an interview with Game Informer. Now, the situation seems clearer: Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that during a recent company town hall meeting, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed that first-party narrative-driven single-player games will now be console exclusives for PlayStation.
This means that games like Ghost of Yotei, Saros, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and Marvel’s Wolverine are unlikely to be released on PC. If you want to play those games, you should expect to buy a PS5. Hulst specifically mentioning single-player games is noteworthy. This may indicate that multiplayer-focused games, such as the in-development Fairgames, will still come to PC. This would be a wise move, given the immense success of Helldivers 2 on PC.
This news comes after roughly six years of PlayStation bringing some of its biggest games to PC, including its rebooted God of War titles, Marvel’s Spider-Man games, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us series. These games often arrived months or even years after their initial release, seen as a way to generate extra revenue from people who weren’t planning to buy a PlayStation. There may have even been some hope that by creating new fans on PC, it might inspire gamers to purchase a PS5 to play sequels to their favorite PlayStation games.
However, it seems the strategy hasn’t been as successful as PlayStation may have hoped. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, for example, had an all-time peak of 28,117 concurrent players on Steam-a fairly low number for one of PlayStation’s biggest games. By contrast, online games like Helldivers 2 peaked at 458,208 concurrent players on Steam. Helldivers 2 also benefited from a simultaneous launch with the game’s PS5 version, unlike many of the single-player titles.
Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida recently questioned the idea of PlayStation pulling back on PC, noting how the extra revenue from “releasing games on PC after a couple of years must have helped recoup the investment of these big budget games and help the team and company to reinvest that money into their new games.”
He continued, “If they were releasing new AAA games day one on other platforms, I don’t think that’s a good strategy for a platform holder like PlayStation. I’m not seeing any proof of them changing their strategy this generation, but if they are changing, it’s going to be interesting how they are able to maintain the investment on the big budget games on the first-party side going forward.”
Similarly, Xbox is reportedly assessing its approach to exclusivity. Although PC is a big part of the Xbox ecosystem now and has been for years, many have questioned whether Xbox will continue to bring its games to PS5 under the leadership of Asha Sharma, the new Xbox boss. Currently, games like Fable and Forza Horizon 6 are confirmed for PS5, with the former expected to arrive on the same day and date on both Xbox and PlayStation platforms.
SCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year.Original story from March: www.bloomberg.com/news/article…
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T18:47:45.020Z
