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: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTEyOTk3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzM0NzcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQkRNVTVLR1pBS0owMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.XEWYXBDX_Xg13JxGEFC1iwV140zKDSlLoblfeJluqb8
But this is a retraction of that. Like some last ditch effort to make PlayStation viable as a console. Console makers will eventually have to accept that it will move from purposed to general devices no matter what they do.
They saw this as nothing more than a tease for PC gamers, in the hopes that the taste they’ve gotten will result in those PC gamers buying a console in order to play the sequels.
They saw how much money they could make being just another multiplatform publisher, and it scared the shit out of them.
The console war is over.
But this is a retraction of that. Like some last ditch effort to make PlayStation viable as a console. Console makers will eventually have to accept that it will move from purposed to general devices no matter what they do.
They saw this as nothing more than a tease for PC gamers, in the hopes that the taste they’ve gotten will result in those PC gamers buying a console in order to play the sequels.
Consoles in modern times are such adumb idea