PlayStation is more serious than ever about bringing its games to PC. Announcing that Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection will also come to PC after Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone and God of War, the company announced that Spider-Man Remastered and Spider-Man: Miles Morales will also be released for computers in the past weeks. .
We also know that The Last of Us will come to PC as of the past days. The announcement made on June 9, 2022 revealed that the remake of the game will also be released on PC. So, what happened to PlayStation, which only released its games on its own platform, started to bring its games to the PC? Let’s answer this question together.
First, let’s get rid of old-fashioned habits: The term “Exclusive” today
Three years ago, someone said, “God of War, Spider -Man and The Last of Us will come to PC,”, we’re sure many of us wouldn’t have believed it. At that time, PlayStation, which stood out to a great extent with “exclusive games”, that is, special games, was the reason for many users to buy consoles. In those days, when choosing a console, people paid special attention to special games and mostly bought their consoles to play these special games.
That’s why we often heard the word “exclusive” as players. This word signified that those games were exclusive to that platform only and could not be played anywhere else. Today, the meaning of this term has changed a lot. Companies and users are now using the term custom game in a more superficial sense. With its special game policy, Xbox has known the PC platform for many years and released its games to PC as well as its own consoles.
Although PlayStation did not fully transition to this strategy, it proved its seriousness by bringing its important brands to PC. Now, with the games coming to the PC platform and not being tied to a single platform, the word “exclusive” has evolved into the word “platform exclusivity” or “console exclusive” with its other known name. This concept, which we can define as “console-specific”, is used to indicate that that game is also available on PC, but that it is platform-specific on console. For example, Starfield is a console exclusive game. Although it will come to PC as soon as it comes out, it will be exclusive to Xbox on the console side. This is how companies and users use the term private game today.
For this reason, it is worth noting that sentences such as “PlayStation does not have any special games anymore” are completely wrong thoughts and that PlayStation games will continue to be exclusive to PlayStation on the console side. Companies no longer see the PC as a competitor, but as a common platform they can leverage. The PC platform, which is the only point where PlayStation and Xbox exclusive games meet, provides great benefits to both companies. Long story short, we will see many more PlayStation games on PC in the coming days.
Let’s take a look at the main goal of PlayStation: To reach a larger player base
PlayStation 4 and 5’s total sales will not exceed 150 million if we add them. On the other hand, when we look at the number of PC players in the world, we see that this number is more than 1.5 billion.
That’s why the most important reason why PlayStation-only games are slowly coming to PC is to bring these games, which have been out for a long time, to new players. For example, God of War, one of the company’s most important brands, was also released on PC in the past months.
The series will thus be able to meet with players who have never met God of War before God of War Ragnarök and have the chance to add potential new users to the PlayStation platform. Assuming that the consoles cost $500 abroad and do not go into a luxury device, a player who likes God of War very much may even decide to buy a PlayStation 5 to play the sequel, God of War Ragnarök, as soon as it comes out.
In addition, we can predict that the game of a character such as Spider-Man, which is not limited to the game world, will have a large fan base compared to other games and that it can reach more players on a platform with a huge number of users such as PC.
Did someone say more money: Increasing sales of games
Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone and God of War. These are the PlayStation games released on PC so far. The common point of each is that they are listed as games that have reached their maximum sales potential on their main platform, PlayStation. Assuming that Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War sold more than 20 million copies and Days Gone more than 9 million copies, why should these games continue to be limited to a single platform?
since its release on PC; Horizon Zero Dawn (2 million 398 thousand), Days Gone (852 thousand), God of War (971 thousand) sold copies. Considering that Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, Spider-Man Remastered, Spider-Man: Miles Morales and The Last of Us Part I are also on the way for PC, PlayStation is slowly building a huge library on PC and in a short time. We can say that it will surpass the high sales figures.
Who knows, maybe we’ll get Bloodborne one day: the process of PlayStation games coming to PC
Horizon Zero Dawn, the first PlayStation game to hit PCs, August He met us in 2020. Horizon Zero Dawn was followed by Days Gone, followed by God of War. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, which includes the renewed versions of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: Lost Legacy, is expected to have a PC version very soon. The game’s Steam page has been around for a long time.
Announcing that Spider-Man Remastered will also come to PC on August 12, 2022, Sony announced that Miles Morales will come towards the end of 2022. Considering that The Last of Us Part I will be released only for PlayStation 5 on September 2, 2022 and there is a PC version in development, we can guess that it will arrive on Steam in early 2023.
Sony, in a report it published in the past months, shared a graphic about which platforms its games will appear on. This graphic showed that by 2025, Sony would increase its breakthroughs on the PC side and PlayStation games would appear more frequently on the PC and mobile game side.
It was also leaked that Returnal and Sackboy, which are currently exclusive to PlayStation, will come to PC in the coming months, and even a settings menu was shared. Last year, Sony acquired Nixxes Software, which specializes in porting games to PC, and began working closely with that studio. Now eyes; In games like Demon’s Souls, Ghost of Tsushima, and Gran Turismo. Who knows, maybe we’ll even see Bloodborne one day.
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