Sony looks set to continue its habit of the occasional dabble into the PC market yet again with news today that their PS4 exclusive title “Days Gone” is set to come to the PC this Spring.
Speaking with GQ today as part of the PSVR2 announcement, head of PlayStation Jim Ryan spoke about the company’s plans to start expanding where PlayStation games will be made available beyond their locked console ecosystem.
While some games developed with outside companies eventually made their way to PC such as “Journey,” “Heavy Rain,” “Detroit Become Human” and “Death Stranding,” it was last August’s PC release of major exclusive “Horizon: Zero Dawn” that was seen as a ‘canary down the coal mine’ moment for Sony – testing the waters for some other, bigger titles to make their way off their home platform.
The jump wasn’t a resounding success, the port itself famously came with a bunch of issues at launch. Even so, reviews continued to be stellar for the game itself and many hoped Sony would continue.
According to Ryan, the metrics they were measuring where if “people liked it and they bought it,” which they did, and what the PlayStation community thought about it going cross-platform, to which there was no backlash or adverse reaction.
As a result, the groundwork has been laid for more releases with “Days Gone” the next to make the jump. Ryan says:
We find ourselves now in early 2021 with our development studios and the games that they make in better shape than they’ve ever been before. Particularly from the latter half of the PS4 cycle our studios made some wonderful, great games.
There’s an opportunity to expose those great games to a wider audience and recognise the economics of game development, which are not always straightforward. The cost of making games goes up with each cycle, as the calibre of the IP has improved. Also, our ease of making it available to non-console owners has grown. So it’s a fairly straightforward decision for us to make.”
No other titles have been announced at this time though obvious titles that jump out as begging for a PC jump include “The Last of Us 1 & 2” “Marvel’s Spider-Man,” “Ghost of Tsushima,” “God of War,” “Infamous: Second Son,” “Shadow of the Colossus,” “Bloodborne,” “The Last Guardian,” “Ratchet and Clank” and the various games to date of the “Uncharted” franchise.
This all follows in the wake of a recent announcement that “MLB The Show 21” would be the first PlayStation Studios game coming to the Xbox.
