By Sony Interactive Entertainment has made it clear – don’t expect its single-player tentpole game titles to hit PC day-and-date.
Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino, who will be the new joint CEOs of SIE starting on June 1st, appeared at a PlayStation business briefing on Thursday.
The pair discussed their strategy regarding PC releases of PS5 titles. Hulst says on the live service side, the plan is to release titles simultaneously – meaning day-and-date on PS5 and PC.
Console players however will continue to receive early access to Sony’s narrative-driven titles – delaying the PC release of games like “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” and “God of War Ragnarök” by around two years as they do now.
The reason for this is to attract users who have played the earlier games in those series to make the jump to PS5 in order to experience them sooner.
The same strategy is behind their TV series and films like “The Last of Us” – its about getting new players into their franchises.
The comments come as the company also revealed its last-gen PlayStation 4 console is “still an important part” of its business.
Four years into its successor’s lifespan, and even with PS5 proving its most profitable generation to date – PS4 still makes up exactly half of its monthly active console users (49 million users).
Source: VGC
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