Sony Says PlayStation Single-Participant Video games Will Hook PC Gamers

Sony has reiterated that it’s reserving day-and-date PC releases of PlayStation video games for multiplayer titles solely. In terms of single-player “tentpole” franchises, the corporate is adpating a “strategic” strategy that it hopes will hook PC gamers into the PlayStation ecosystem.

Why single-player PlayStation video games gained’t launch on PC and console concurrently

In a presentation delivered earlier in the present day, PlayStation’s co-CEO Hermen Hulst mentioned that the thought behind bringing Sony’s fashionable single-player franchises to PC at a later date is to entice some PC gamers to finally put money into a PlayStation console. Hulst reckons that if a PC participant totally enjoys a first-party recreation, they could wish to play the sequel immediately on console moderately than ready for an eventual PC launch.

Apparently, Sony has “excessive hopes” that this strategic strategy will carry extra individuals into the PlayStation ecosystem. The corporate has the identical logic behind extending PlayStation IPs to different media as properly. The Final of Us, for instance, noticed a rise in gross sales following the success of the HBO tv collection.

Multiplayer video games are a unique ballgame, nevertheless. The success of dwell service video games relies on having a robust participant base, and console alone is not sufficient. As seen within the case of Helldivers 2, day-and-date PC launches for multiplayer video games is now a necessity.