Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: “You’ll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC.”

We recently reported on news that Sony will all but stop releasing PC ports of its single-player games on PC, and while those previous reports were from Jason Schreier, a journalist previously shown to have reputable insider sources, another insider has corroborated these claims, adding additional context in the process. According to NateTheHate2 on X, Sony made the decision in 2025 to shift its release strategy, with the result of launching fewer first-party single-player games on PC. The leaker adds that this means there will be “fewer single-player games” on PC from Sony, implying both that Sony may still port single-player games to PC—only significantly fewer of them—and that this new policy may not apply to live-service and multiplayer games.

He also mentioned that there are still single-player PC ports in development at Sony, which may eventually launch, depending on how far they are in the development process, but that these ports are no longer a priority for the Japanese gaming giant. Addressing questions about the justification for the strategy shift, NateTheHate2 commented that, while there have been a few commercially successful PC ports, they haven’t been a huge revenue driver for Sony. Looking at the Steam charts data for Insomniac Games, one of Sony’s most notable first-party studios, the data lends credence to these comments. The best-performing PC port from the studio is Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, which peaked at 66,436 players on Steam. Meanwhile, the next-best performer is Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which peaked at 28,189. Nixxes Software, the studio responsible for many Sony PC ports, has seen similar successes, with the likes of Ghost of Tsushima topping the charts at 77,154 peak concurrent players, ahead of the aforementioned Spider-Man Remastered, with Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part II Remastered bringing in peaks or 40,462 and 30,690 players, respectively.

Part of this lack of commercial success may be due the delay between console and PC launches, which would stem from Sony attempting to protect its hardware sales and ecosystem, which is the opposite of the strategy we’ve seen Xbox take recently, with its shift to a multi-platform approach that leans heavily on first-party game sales instead of hardware sales and exclusivity. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is expected to launch for PC on March 19, after nine months as a PS5 exclusive, and while it is not a first-party title, it has been an exclusive for long enough that it may suffer the same fate. According to SteamDB, Death Stranding 2 is currently in 10th position on the Steam Wishlist Activity rankings and has 23,412 followers on Steam, with a lot of activity in the days leading up to the launch. This suggests that it should have a healthy PC launch, but it remains to be seen. It should also be noted that there will likely be no changes for games like Death Stranding 2, which are IPs owned and produced by external studios with close ties to PlayStation and not Sony’s own IPs.