Sony has been more and more keen to place its first-party video games on PC, and that development exhibits no signal of slowing down. In keeping with the corporate’s chairman, Hiroki Totoki, Sony sees glorious potential for additional growth into the PC gaming market.
Sony to put money into extra multi-platform video games
Sony lately revealed there shall be no new video games from main current IPs this yr. Nonetheless, the identical convention additionally confirmed the corporate’s extra vital funding in multi-platform first-party video games. “Prior to now,” Totoki defined, “we wished to popularize consoles, and a first-party title’s primary objective was to make the console fashionable. 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] could be grown with multi-platform, and that may assist working revenue to enhance, in order that’s one other one we need to proactively work on.”
The corporate’s funding in PC gaming isn’t new. The the God Of Battle, The Final of Us, and Horizon franchises receiving PC ports. Sony launched Helldivers 2 for PlayStation 5 and PC final week, and it was a serious hit on each platforms.
Totoki sees cross-platform titles as a option to increase the online earnings of Sony’s gaming division. As mentioned throughout the convention, PlayStation’s elevated earnings isn’t resulting in an equally elevated backside line. Totoki attributed this underperformance to elevated console manufacturing prices whereas maintaining consoles inexpensive sufficient that the worth doesn’t damage gross sales. Whereas Sony is engaged on decreasing prices, releasing extra first-party video games on PC ought to assist increase the corporate’s backside line.
