PlayStation’s bigwigs are content material to stay with their present method to multiplatform releases for now, making it unlikely we’ll see a sudden swap to day-and-date PC ports of Sony’s massive 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, Harmony, to attempt and make sure the most potential participant base potential proper out of the gate. Then again, for single participant stuff like God of Warfare Ragnarok and Ghost of Tsushima they have been content material to attend a yr to deliver over to the opposite online game bins.
Primarily based on what PlayStation’s studio enterprise group boss Hermen Hulst stated at a Sony company assembly as we speak, the console makers are blissful to zig the place their rivals at Xbox are zagging, and preserve massive single-player exclusives as exclusives for that yr, with the intention to attempt to preserve participant inventory within the PS5 as excessive as potential.
“Notably 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’ll showcase the efficiency and the standard of the {hardware}. So we need to be sure that gamers get the most effective expertise from these titles. We’re very considerate about how and if and the way we deliver 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 sure 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 damaging repute PlayStation’s earned itself with the communities of video games like Helldivers 2 because of its dealing with of necessary PSN account linking and its impact on PC players in areas the place PSN would not function.
However, you may see the logic in holding on holding on for the console makers, even when it means time twiddling thumbs for us of us with our massive computer systems.
