Latest years have seen Sony increasing its presence within the PC gaming house considerably, with the likes of God of Conflict, Horizon Zero Daybreak, and Marvel’s Spider-Man having seen spectacular success on the platform. Rather more lately, Arrowhead Recreation Studios-developed co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 launched concurrently on PS5 and PC, and has attracted a sizeable playerbase on the latter, even changing into Sony’s greatest launch on the platform so far.
And it appears the corporate has each intention to not solely maintain heading in that path, however even speed up its plans. Throughout a current Q&A session as a part of its quarterly earnings briefing, Sony president and PlayStation chairman Hiroki Totoki spoke about the identical. Noting the success the corporate’s first-party releases have loved so far, he mentioned that there’s nonetheless loads of room left for maximizing earnings additional, and one of many methods for Sony to do this is by being extra “proactive” and “aggressive” with its multiplatform releases on PC.
“Up to now, we wished to popularize consoles, and a first-party title’s essential objective was to make the console widespread,” Totoki mentioned (by way of VGC). “That is true, however there’s a synergy to it, so when you have robust first-party content material – not solely on our console but additionally different platforms, like computer systems – a first-party [game] will be grown with multi-platform, and that may assist working revenue to enhance, in order that’s one other one we wish to proactively work on.
“I personally suppose there are alternatives on the market for enchancment of margin, so I wish to go aggressive on bettering our margin efficiency.”
The aforementioned Helldivers 2 is a uncommon instance of a PlayStation Studios title seeing a simultaneous launch on PC and PS5, with the overwhelming majority of the corporate’s video games – particularly the foremost flagship ones – having obtained staggered releases, the place they arrive to PC a lot later than PlayStation consoles. Whether or not Totoki’s feedback point out that Sony could be trying into day-and-date PC releases for its video games stays to be seen, however given the success the corporate has loved on the platform already, it will be stunning if that wasn’t no less than a dialog inside PlayStation’s ranks.
After all, the corporate has beforehand mentioned that it’s prepared to do simultaneous multiplatform releases for its dwell service titles, with the likes of Fairgame$ and Harmony each having been formally confirmed for PS5 and PC.
One other upcoming first-party Sony title – Till Daybreak’s upcoming remaster, which, in fact, isn’t dwell service – can also be going to launch on PC day-and-date.
In Could of 2022, Sony mentioned that roughly 50% of its first-party portfolio would have a PC presence by FY 2025/26.
