PlayStation’s bigwigs are content material to stay with their present method to multiplatform releases for now, making it unlikely we will see a sudden change to day-and-date PC ports of Sony’s huge single-player video games anytime quickly.
SlayPtation have been bringing their studios’ multiplayer and live-service video games to PC at launch for some time now, it making sense with the likes of Helldivers 2 and, er, Concord, to attempt and make sure the most potential participant base doable proper out of the gate. Then again, for single participant stuff like God of War Ragnarok and Ghost of Tsushima they have been content material to attend a 12 months to carry over to the opposite online game containers.
Based mostly on what PlayStation’s studio enterprise group boss Hermen Hulst stated at a Sony company assembly right this moment, the console makers are joyful to zig the place their rivals at Xbox are zagging, and maintain huge single-player exclusives as exclusives for that 12 months, as a way to attempt to maintain participant inventory within the PS5 as excessive as doable.
“Significantly on the single-player aspect, our tentpole titles, they’re such a differentiator,” the exec re-iterated (thanks, VGC), “The purpose of differentiation, I ought to say, for the PlayStation console, is that they may showcase the efficiency and the standard of the {hardware}. So we wish to be certain that gamers get the most effective expertise from these titles. We’re very considerate about how and if and the way we carry these titles to different platforms.”
Sony Interactive Leisure CEO Hideaki Nishino toed the identical line, emphasising when requested about Xbox’s method that PlayStation will keep alert and take heed to gamers to “be certain that we serve them appropriately”, which is essentially the most company man combo of phrases I’ve learn this week.
The bit about listening to gamers is attention-grabbing given the detrimental popularity PlayStation’s earned itself with the communities of video games like Helldivers 2 attributable to its dealing with of mandatory PSN account linking and its impact on PC avid gamers in areas the place PSN does not function.
However, you’ll be able to see the logic in protecting on protecting on for the console makers, even when it means time twiddling thumbs for us people with our huge computer systems.
