Well, the rumors are true. PlayStation is returning to its roots, and going forward, “narrative single-player games” will be PlayStation exclusives, essentially ending a PC initiative that began in 2020 with Horizon Zero Dawn jumping ship from the PlayStation 4.
As Bloomberg's Jason Schreier first shared on social media, the announcement was made Monday at a town hall by Sony Interactive Entertainment's Studio Business Group CEO Herman Hulst.
The scoop: PlayStation Studio Business CEO Herman Hulst told staff at a town hall Monday morning that the company's story single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusives, confirming Bloomberg reporting from earlier this year. Original story from March: www.bloomberg.com/news/article… — Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T18:47:45.020Z
Of note, Schreier's report specifies that these are “story single-player games” that will no longer appear to be moving forward on PC. This leaves room for Sony's live-services initiatives to continue to be released on the platform.
However, this means that recently released titles such as Ghost of Yotei and Saros, as well as future titles such as Marvel's Wolverine and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will not be released on PC. Instead, they will remain on PlayStation 5 hardware.
The likes of Lost Soul Aside, Death Stranding 2 and Stellar Blade have been released on PC in recent months, though their publishing, development and rights statuses are a bit murky.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls will be released on PC in August, though that title isn't developed by a true first-party and likely falls under a live-service.
This means that the last traditional exclusive to release on PC was The Last of Us Part Two Remastered in April of last year.
PlayStation is going to regret leaving the PC behind
A recent Bloomberg report suggests that PlayStation games are no longer coming to PC.
The move back to PlayStation exclusivity never really materialized
Originally, rumors began circulating back in February that PlayStation would no longer release its big-budget titles on PC, a sudden change that saw Yote's planned port of Ghost scrapped within weeks of its launch.
All the while, it wasn't fully explained why PlayStation was moving back. Some experts believed it had to do with the impending release of the Steam Machine and Sony's reluctance to play its games on another home console. Others claimed it had to do with Xbox's Project Helix, which would allow users to access their PC games on the console.
Meanwhile, sales data pointed to several games that failed to generate the kind of revenue that would push Sony to continue releasing them on PC. There's also the element of Sony titles not being released with Denuvo DRM, meaning they were cracked by pirates and released online, often within minutes, or the fact that titles took a long time to be released on PC, often months later falling in popularity.
Regardless, PlayStation is keeping things in-house for the foreseeable future, at least when it comes to its single-player titles.
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Sony
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November 12, 2020
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$499, €499, £449, ¥49,980 (base) // $399, €399, £359, ¥39,980 (digital),
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Orbis OS
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Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2
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720p – 8K
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