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PlayStation Studios CEO Reportedly Halts Future Single-Player PC Ports

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Past rumors of Sony pivoting away from single-player PlayStation Studios-published games releasing on PC have reportedly been confirmed outright: per noted industry insider Jason Schreier, posting on BlueSky, PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst has confirmed the plan.

This is something of a pity for PC players, since the platform often got the best versions of these games with highly optimized and feature-rich PC ports, but it makes sense in the context of hotter competition from machines like ROG Xbox Ally X and the upcoming Steam Machine ahead of PlayStation 6. Project Helix's hybrid console-PC nature likely also rang alarm bells for Sony, since it could mean that effectively any PC port would run on the consoles of its direct rivals.


Top: Ghost of Yotei, which has remained PlayStation exclusive.

Another theory is that Sony is halting the initiative due to poor PC sales of its games, though Sony's own...

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