The former head of Sony’s studios believes that launching PlayStation games on PC makes sense to cover development costs and wonders how Sony plans to cover costs if they ignore the PC platform.
Although Sony hasn’t formally commented on the claims that it won’t be releasing any more of its single-player games on PC, it’s more or less taken as a foregone conclusion. And now there are only discussions whether Sony will one day change its mind about it.
According to opinion Shuheija Yoshidethe former head of PlayStation Studios, the launch of PlayStation games on PC proved to be meaningful because they the cost of developing games in the generation of PlayStation 5 has increased drastically.
Speaking at the ALT conference. Games Festival, Yoshida said that he is not sure why Sony would change the strategy around bringing their games to PC and that it will be interesting to see how they plan to cover investments in big budget games in the future.
The plan is, most likely, to find the golden coke in the live service projects that will finance everything else. However, Sony has mostly not had much success in this so far. Maybe only with games like Helldivers 2 and Gran Turismo 7. There’s a longer list of live service games that didn’t meet their expectations, whether it was titles they launched on the market or cut them before anyone could play them.