'We're Only Talking About the PS5': Saros Director on Cancelled PC Port Reports

Tricky situation here, at first I was like "good keep these games PS5 only" but after that Marathon article came out and showed that PC had 800K sales makes me wonder now...

There is zero chance they would have talked pc even if it was being worked on unless it had been announced. I know they question has to be asked but I’m sure anyone asking it already knows the answer they will get

But why would they talk about a pc port?

The only games which came day n date or close to have been live service games.

Any single player games, have been months or years after.

And playstation have been that sparse with the releases, and even how random those releases have been, I dont quite understand, this whole pc is some how every title.

Its like some how people believe playstation have been doing what day n date for everything. Just because a couple of multiplayer games have come out.

@Oram77 PS players never asked for constant live service games.

How may did Sony release during PS4 GEN?

rift apart sold 1.2 million back in 2021 on a limited amount of PS5

@AdamNovice Not really. If a publisher that had been releasing games on PS5 suddenly decided to just stop outright, you'd be seeing this same behavior from Sony fans. Heck, we JUST got a PS5 port begging article on here not long ago about some old Square Enix games that weren't getting ported to PlayStation. It's a pretty natural thing to be irritated about.

That said, at the rate that Sony is shuttering its studios, I'm not sure how much there'll be to port to PC in the future regardless. 😂

@Ralizah

That article's main point was hypocrisy from SE after all their "multiplatform" talk but sure.

At this point Sony just need to draw a line under this and say "going forwards Playstation consoles will be the only place to play Sony Studios Single Player games".

@AdamNovice it's almost like they brought this situation on themselves. Shame.

I‘m still uncertain what the best way to go is for Sony. Many young people in the world grow up with PCs and will probably never have a huge TV in their rooms. For them, a classical console is a weird thing, and paying higher prices for games and not having free online play will not go down well.

But who am I to know it better? I can’t even say nor understand why GTA6 won’t launch on PC day and date.

@Oram77 I did a quick google and Returnal sold an estimated 162,000 units on PC. If Returnal sold that many while Marathon sold more than 4 times as many as that, it certainly lends credence to the fact that live service 1st party published games sell better than single player.

I could absolutely see that influencing Sony's decision to step back from putting their single player games on PC.

@Oram77 come on dude they are not comparable at all.

@Scottyy I don't see how it's hypocritical, considering the article was discussing titles that were being ported to other platforms besides the PS5. That's multiplatform by definition. Crying about games not hitting PS5 when they were never promised a release is port-begging behavior.

@AnginaPectoris Or gives more teeth to that report that suggested that Sony's games would sell MUCH better on PC if they weren't ported years after the fact for full price.

@Ralizah I think discussing SE’s multiplatform strategy on a gaming news site is a bit different from literally reaching out to the developer (Housemarque) directly and demanding for a port

@Bingoboyop @AnginaPectoris @bossuche9 All I'm saying there are copies still on the table, the amount is uncertain for sure, please note I did say "good keep them on the PS5" first,.

@Ralizah respectfully disagree. If PC gamers truly wanted to play a certain game then time would be no issue as there's plenty of other games to play on PC to fill the gap. And certainly plenty of games to play that will never be available on PS5.

@Oram77 I can certainly agree on this stance. But is the juice worth the squeeze?

@Ralizah why would Sony release their single player games on PC right after putting them on PS5? So they can reassure people that they don't need a PS5 and they can buy everything on PC?

Also, let's not forget that the first PC ports sold OK on PC and they were games released 2-3 years before they were on PC, so your theory doesn't stand

@LogicStrikesAgain pretty much this. Dude was acting like a X user that spend the whole day port begging. Gregory was there to talk about the game that isn't even out on PS5 yet and the dude was asking about a PC port. It reminds me of that video on YouTube about Astro Bot, where a guy was interviewing the director of the game and he started asking about a PC port, and once again, the game wasn't even out yet and the poor guy had to say something, he couldn't just ignore, so he said "we hear you" and that was it lol

Also, Jason Schreier commented about this "article" on Bluesky already. When asked about this he said, and i quote: "Copium, as the kids say these days"

It is funny that the reporter from Gameinformer asked but hey, never hurts to ask lol.

@Max_the_German can’t even say nor understand why GTA6 won’t launch on PC day and date.

I am a huge RDR fan and even that came later to the PC. It is my understanding that Rockstar likes to optimize their games heavily for the platforms they run on near launch. Not remakes of course. Since the PC will need a lot of optimization for the various configurations. This just seems to be the way they do GTA and RDR. One thing is for sure the PC version of RDR 2 is one of the best looking games i ever seen in person. My buddy had it running on a 4080 and the tress and grass and water looked real. GTA and RDR are large games and it makes sense to do console and then go in heavy on the PC release.

@bossuche9 there was a lot of live service games released on the ps4..bloody loads of them. People act like it's a current gen phenomenon but the ps4 had more than its fair share.

@LowDefAl It's funny because the head of Team Asobi talked about bringing Astro Bot to PC before the game even released, I think

@Questionable_Duck oh I didn’t hear that

@HonestHick I remember reading an interview in which Rockstar said the same. It basically boiled down to testing and time. QA'ing a game like GTA or Red Dead on console and getting it running well is easier and less time consuming than doing the same across a variety of PC builds.