{"id":46956,"date":"2026-03-06T05:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/sony-to-end-single-player-ps5-game-ports-to-pc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:41:23","slug":"sony-to-end-single-player-ps5-game-ports-to-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/sony-to-end-single-player-ps5-game-ports-to-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to end single-player PS5 game ports to PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sony_reverses_course_PS5_exclusives_to_stay_off_PC.jpeg\" alt=\"Sony to end single-player PS5 game ports to PC\" title=\"Sony to end single-player PS5 game ports to PC\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sony will reportedly reverse its strategy of releasing first-party PlayStation 5 games on PC, according to a Bloomberg report.<\/p>\n<p>The shift suggests upcoming high-profile single-player titles like \u201cGhost of Yotei\u201d and \u201cSaros\u201d will launch exclusively on PS5.<\/p>\n<p>Sony began releasing its first-party games on PC in 2020, starting with \u201cHorizon Zero Dawn.\u201d Other titles, including \u201cThe Last of Us Part I,\u201d \u201cGhost of Tsushima,\u201d \u201cGod of War Ragnar\u00f6k,\u201d and the \u201cMarvel\u2019s Spider-Man\u201d games, followed.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that Sony-published online games such as \u201cMarvel Tokon\u201d and \u201cMarathon\u201d will maintain their planned multi-platform releases. Hideo Kojima\u2019s \u201cDeath Stranding 2,\u201d a PS5 exclusive last year, is still scheduled for a PC release in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for the strategic change likely include poor sales performance of PS5 games on PC, where ports typically arrive at least a year after console launch. This contrasts with Microsoft\u2019s approach of simultaneous releases for titles like \u201cFable\u201d and \u201cForza Horizon 6\u201d across Xbox, PC, and PS5.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation insiders also expressed concerns to Bloomberg that PC releases could harm the PlayStation brand and future console sales. Schreier noted that Sony may be preempting a future Xbox console running Windows, which could enable Xbox users to play PC versions of PlayStation games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony will reportedly reverse its strategy of releasing first-party PlayStation 5 games on PC, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift suggests upcoming high-profile single-player titles like \u201cGhost of Yotei\u201d and \u201cSaros\u201d will launch exclusively on PS5. Sony began releasing its first-party games on PC in 2020, starting with \u201cHorizon Zero Dawn.\u201d Other titles, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}