Octopus Overlords

Sony plans for roughly half of its game releases to be on PC or mobile by 2025, according to a presentation given during the company’s annual investor day. A chart shown during the presentation suggests this would be a major increase from its releases this year, when around a quarter of the company’s releases will be on PC and mobile, with the remainder split between its PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles.

“By expanding to PC and mobile, and it must be said… also to live services, we have the opportunity to move from a situation of being present in a very narrow segment of the overall gaming software market, to being present pretty much everywhere,” said Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan in comments reported by Video Games Chronicle.

Naughty Dog classics Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (AKA the Legacy of Thieves Collection) are allegedly scheduled for release on PC sometime in June, while other seminal PlayStation experiences — like Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, Death Stranding and God of War — are already available to play on your nearest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.

A new leak surfaced today on Reddit that seems to point to both Returnal and Sackboy: A Big Adventure, two more beloved PlayStation exclusives, coming to PC in the imminent future. One user on the thread posted a handful of alleged PC setting screenshots that show typical option tweaks like ray-tracing, ambient occlusion and reflection quality. All of which, perhaps, hint at actual ported versions of these games existing and running somewhere.

Just this past week, some clever sleuthing led to more uncovering of a possible Returnal PC port, while Sackboy: A Big Adventure has long been rumored to be coming to PC since a Steam database leak last year. Additionally, April’s NVIDIA leak aligns well with today’s new info, as that list contained both of the aforementioned PlayStation titles for PC, as well as hits like Gran Turismo 7, Ratchet & Clank and Ghost of Tsushima.

Granted, everyone should be taking these leaks and rumors with a massive grain of salt, as nothing has been officially confirmed by Sony. That said, given the success PlayStation games have seen on PC, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if most of these exclusives end up making the jump. I feel like it’s mostly a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. So if this is all real, then hopefully the launches happen relatively soon.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:30 pm

Rumpy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:16 pm

I don't mind. Maybe I need to be proven wrong more often to make things a reality! I'm quite surprised by this one because I thought it'd have more legal loopholes than the other exclusives. Interesting since there's a story relating how before the game landed at Sony, and it had been shopped around at Microsoft, and could have been an XBox exclusive. I don't know how that would have worked seeing as I thought Sony owned Spiderman as an IP?

Movie rights are sold independently of TV rights and video game rights and board game rights and toy rights, etc. Marvel owns Spider-man. Sony had the movie rights.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:39 pm I do wonder how much of the PS5 shortages are helping this happen.

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:56 pm _really_ want to see all the LittleBigPlanet games on Steam...

Rumpy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:14 pm Man, for a minute there I thought you were saying that game was getting remastered. That's April Fools material

Like, imagine if you bought Spiderman Remastered, only to find you actually bought the other game

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:36 pm UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection

(Uncharted 4, more or less)

Baroquen wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:18 pm I wonder if LiveA Live (or whatever it's called) will get a PC version.

Rumpy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:55 pm It's too bad they haven't also released the remastered trilogy on PC as well.

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:18 pm Sony is still at it:

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Scraper wrote:

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:18 pm Sony is still at it:

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

R&C Rift Apart is a fantastic game. No idea how it will run on a PC, but it looked great on the PS5 and ran great too.

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:07 pm going to guess the version of MGS in this collection is going to be a new port and not the original Windows release from the 90s: