PlayStation CEO Responds to Reports They Are No Longer Releasing Single-Player Games on PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 June 2026 / 21,279 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino was asked about the recent reports that claim first-party narrative single-player PlayStation games would no longer release on PC and remains exclusive to PlayStation consoles, while live service titles would still come to PC to reach a wider audience.
"We've always determined platform selection based on the characteristics of each title," said Nishina (via ResetEra). "If releasing a title on PC would maximize the gaming experience, we'll continue to consider that option.
"Our current main policy is that, for single-player games developed in-house, we will further refine the value of the gaming experience that PlayStation can offer. At the same time, we believe it is important for live service games to reach a wider audience through online multiplayer, so we continue to view releases on both PS5 and PC as the standard.
"Regardless of the platform, we will make decisions based on the principle of delivering the best possible gaming experience that maximizes each title's unique features."
PlayStation has released the majority of its games this generation to PC. However, more recent releases like Astro Bot and Ghost of Yotei have not been released on PC.
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Yeah, as soon as Jason reported it we didn't even need official confirmation from Sony anymore. But well, there it is anyway lol.
Good, fuck the cheap peasants pc fangirls, they don't deserve masterpiece games
I have a hard time believing Disney is going to let the Marvel games remain exclusively on PS and not go to PC based on the deals that were leaked out during the Insomniac leak
But I guess we will see
Disney isn’t going to do anything at all for Wolverine, because Sony owns the film rights to Spider-Man. So, it can remove Spider-Man from the Marvel universe at any time. There was an agreement between Marvel and PlayStation to use several Marvel licenses exclusively on PlayStation.
Sony owns the film rights, yes... but not the game rights.
Sony needs Disney for PlayStation much more than Disney needs Sony for film lol
Yeah... Not 100% sure about that. If you look at every MCU film over the past 10 years, and include the Tom Holland Spider-Man films in that group, I'm pretty sure all three of the Spidey flicks would be the top 3 grossing. And that still directly helps overall consumer awareness and (Disney hopes) appreciation of the Marvel brand.
Most of the PlayStation PC releases were about promoting something else. Be it the Last of Us TV series, a new Spier-Man movie, or a sequel that's coming out on PlayStation several months down the road (Forbidden West and Ragnarok were delayed, so the original timeline didn't work out).
When the MCU X-Men film comes out, there surely will be talks between Disney and Sony.
With how little Spiderman 2 sold on PC do you think they really care?
The deal, as it has been negotiated, can only be terminated if one of Insomniacs games fails to sell 6m in its first year which seems very unlikely.
Spiderman 2 launched with terrible performance on PC, of course it sold badly. That said, a port of an existing game to a new platform doesn't require tons of money. Relatively small number of sales are enough to make it profitable.
People who badly want those games have a PS5 already anyway. The PC port was released to coincide with the home media release of Venom Last Dance. Sony's PC ports are usually about promoting something different.
Sony games in general have declined in sales overall. Whether it's Playstation or PC.
I believe the PC numbers have been so bad, they just decided to end it.
Sony ended it for one thing only:
The next Xbox will play Windows games and Sony doesn't want PlayStation games on Xbox.
That's it, no other reason. Obviously they won't ever say this part out loud.
How many marvel games have sold 20m+ units and made as much profit as the Insomniac games?
Disney don't care. They've made their money. We all know why Spider-man 2 cost so much to make and it wasn't because of long dev time or any of that crap, it was the £100mil licence for just using the character that Disney asked for.
If Disney really cared, they wouldn't have shut down LucasArts, wouldn't have gone basically game silent until Sony put effort into Spider-man and would make their own games.
Disney just charge companies a licence fee to use characters, none of the risk, all of the rewards.
This makes sense if the Helix is really going to be a hybrid machine.
"Our games didn't do well on PC, so why bother?"
The PC ports did fine considering how old the original PlayStation releases were. Sony doesn't want PlayStation games on Xbox because Helix will be able to play those.
You mean the rumoured Xbox console that will run Steam? If you think Xbox is bailing out the market now, you really think MS are going to make a console that completely negates their 30% from game sales? After the recent weeks they've had?
The sales were modest and declining. Sony games have been declining in sales on Playstion as well.
Basically, Sony has moved to staying exclusive on Playstation when the demand for their games has declined significantly.
You can't expect to re release a game on PC 2 years later and charge full price and hope PC gamers will.buy it or do a mediocre port to PC.
Halo MCC has done fantastic and those are 360 era. 😊
Seriously though, PC gamers just don't want Sony style games. I'm sure there are plenty example of old console games doing well on PC.
They do want it ..they just don't want to pay full price for a game that came out 2 to 4 years ago when the port was poorly done and lacks proper PC features. Games should be cheaper on PC if they come out that late
With that logic, the games would do really well after price cuts.
They would actually.. but Sony will never do such a thing..anything outside PlayStation is always half arsed approach by Somy
