Sony is telling its buyers to organize for a giant PC gaming windfall within the coming yr. Actually massive.
In a enterprise phase briefing for shareholders in the present day, one slide confirmed off Sony’s web gross sales from PC video games to this point, highlighting how titles equivalent to Horizon: Zero Daybreak, Days Gone, and God of Struggle had introduced in $80 million within the final fiscal yr (which ended on March 31, 2022).
However the gaming big expects extra to come back, and is telling them to anticipate a whopping $300 million in web gross sales on PC within the coming fiscal yr ending March 31, 2023.
That is an enormous soar, particularly for a gaming {hardware} producer that has solely simply lately dipped its toe into the PC area with actual seriousness. What’s extra, it is not absolutely clear the place that chunk of change is coming from. In the meanwhile, Sony’s solely introduced plan for PC is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Assortment, which nonetheless does not have a launch date.
What’s probably occurring right here is that Sony has excessive expectations of Bungie, with its acquisition of the Future 2 maker anticipated to shut by the tip of this yr. With Bungie being privately held, we do not have a good suggestion of what it brings in, although analyst Michael Pachter has speculated it is round $200 million in income a yr throughout all sources (together with console, merchandise, and extra).
But it surely’s probably Sony’s PC ambitions prolong past simply Bungie. A slide later within the presentation exhibits that Sony expects roughly 15% to twenty% of its releases within the coming yr to be on PC, with that share growing to nearer to 30% by the tip of 2025. Plus, there’s its latest strikes like its introduction of the PlayStation PC model and seeming curiosity from a lot of PlayStation’s inside studios in bringing their video games to the platform. Thus far, that curiosity is figuring out nicely for PC gamers, with God of Struggle operating moderately nicely on machines. Let’s hope Uncharted runs equally or higher. Now give us Bloodborne?
Rebekah Valentine is a information reporter for IGN. Yow will discover her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
