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Sony Group Corp. no longer plans to release its big PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major shift in strategy that sees the video-game maker returning to console exclusivity after six years of flirting with multi-platform releases, according to people familiar with the company's plans.

Online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon will still be released across multiple platforms, but single-player titles such as last year's samurai hit Ghost of Yotei and the upcoming action game Saros will remain exclusive to PlayStation 5, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the company's strategy.

The people cautioned that things could change in the future due to the unpredictable nature of the video-game industry and that Sony's plans are constantly shifting. But in recent weeks PlayStation scrapped plans to bring Ghost of Yotei and other internally developed games to PC. Two games made by external developers but published by PlayStation, Death Stranding 2 and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still planned for release on PC this year.

There are likely a few reasons behind this shift. One is that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC. A faction within PlayStation has also expressed concern that releasing their games on PC risks damaging the console's brand and will hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors, according to the people familiar with Sony's inner workings.

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[Cumulus]

Judging by their (singleplayer) CCUs and quick departure from the sales charts I doubt there are many who`ll miss them outside of the small hardcore crowd on PC.
A bummer, sure, but nothing dramatic.

 

[ssringo]

I'd say thats a shame but the "big" games of the past few years aren't what I was interested in anyways.

 

[daclynk]

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[CJ_75]

Oh well… time to dust off the PS5.
When are they going to shutdown Nixxes?

 

[Rocinante618]

Intergalactic was the only games I was keen to play on PC but it's fine, there are so so so many high quality stuff coming out that I just don't care anymore.

 

[winjer]

A real shame. Although a few games, like Sackboy, underperformed, several others had good results.
So the problem is selection of games that Sony should release on PC.

 

[T-Cake]

Well they can fuck right off. It's not going to get me to buy a PS5 again.