Most PlayStation exclusives won't be released on PC on launch day because the publisher thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for upcoming exclusive sequels after playing the originals on their personal computer, which might be underestimating that crowd's patience a tad. PlayStation has been bringing several of its biggest exclusives to PC years after their initial release, with the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn, Marvel's Spider-Man, God of War, and much more making the transition. PlayStation has now officially explained what we all expected: this strategy is a bid to court PC gamers over to PS5, using exclusive sequels like and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as bait.
"Indeed, we are bringing our titles to the PC platform and we have a dual approach here," PlayStation's co-CEO Hermen Hulst explained at 's Business Segment Meeting 2024. Hulst added that live service games, such as Helldivers 2, will come to both PC and PS5 at launch, but the company's "tentpole titles" - the cinematic, singleplayer action-adventures that dominated the PS4's exclusive output - will still see staggered releases on PC. "We're finding new audiences that are potentially going to be very interested in playing sequels on the PlayStation platform," he continued.
"We have high hopes that we're actually able to bring new players into PlayStation at large but into PlayStation platforms specifically - actually, the same goals for the work that we do with extending our great properties onto other media such as television .