PlayStation announces that live games will launch day and date on PC, but not single-player games

PlayStation has reiterated its approach to releasing its games on PC, stating that live games will launch day and date on PC. However, its single-player tentpole games won’t.

This comes from one of PlayStation’s two CEOs, Hermen Hulst, during a public affair. presentation held earlier this morning. During this conference, Hulst explained the strategy of releasing PlayStation’s single-player games on PC at a later date, rather than day and date, citing that it was part of a strategy to attract more people to the platform. -PlayStation form.

“In effect, we are bringing our titles to the PC platform, and we have a dual approach here,” Hulst said. “On the live services side, we release our titles simultaneously, so day and date on PlayStation 5 and PC. But with our flagship titles, our single-player narrative titles that [are] the backbone of what PlayStation Studios has offered over the last few years and over our history, we’re taking a more strategic approach and introducing our great franchises to new audiences, and finding new audiences who will potentially be very interested to play, for example, sequels, on the PlayStation platform.

“We have high hopes that we can attract new players to PlayStation in general, but to PlayStation platforms in particular. In fact, the same goes for the work we are doing to expand our great properties into other media, such as TV series and movie, for example, as you saw with The last of us on HBO or Grand tourism on film, it also brings new actors to our franchises. »

While this should come as no surprise – we saw live multiplayer Helldivers 2 launch earlier this year simultaneously on PS5 and PC, while Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut just released on PC this month, years after its release on PS5 – it’s nice to officially hear PlayStation’s approach moving forward.

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