Sony keeps single-player PlayStation games off PC again

Sony is drawing a firmer line around PlayStation’s biggest story-driven games, with Hermen Hulst effectively telling staff that the company’s single-player first-party titles will stay on PlayStation instead of landing on PC after a delay. That marks a sharp turn from the recent expectation that major PlayStation releases would eventually make the jump to Steam or the Epic Games Store, sometimes not long after the console launch.

The move matters because it changes the value of PlayStation 5 itself. As consoles get more expensive and the old pitch of cheap mass-market hardware loses force, Sony appears to be leaning harder on scarcity. Keeping prestige games like Ghost of Yotei, Saros and Wolverine inside the PlayStation ecosystem gives hardware buyers a reason to commit now rather than wait for a port later. For Sony, that can protect console sales and subscriptions. For PC players, it cuts against the assumption that every PlayStation hit will eventually arrive on PC.

That split is already visible across Sony’s lineup. Bloomberg reported on March 4, 2026 that online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon would still be released across multiple platforms, while single-player games such as Ghost of Yotei and Saros would remain exclusive to PlayStation 5. The strategy lines up with a broader internal debate, including concern inside Sony that PC releases could weaken the PlayStation brand and hurt future console sales. In that sense, the company is not abandoning PC altogether. It is reserving PC for games that need reach, while treating its narrative blockbusters as hardware drivers.

The reversal also stands out because Sony spent the last several years pushing in the opposite direction. Its official PlayStation PC games page still promotes PlayStation Studios titles on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation Blog announced Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for PC on January 30, 2025, The Last of Us Part II Remastered for PC on April 3, 2025, and said on January 29, 2025 that God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered would add PlayStation Network-linked benefits. Sony’s PC publishing push had been active since Horizon Zero Dawn debuted on PC in 2020.

That history makes this reset feel less like a small policy tweak and more like a return to old-school PlayStation identity. Sony has spent years balancing prestige single-player games against live-service ambitions, including the 2023 Showcase’s PS5 and PC multiplayer reveals and the April 2023 announcement that Firewalk Studios was building an original AAA multiplayer game for PlayStation 5 and PC. Now the company seems to be deciding where each lane belongs, and its biggest narrative games are heading back behind the PlayStation wall.