Sony has announced in a 2020 corporate report that they would like to bring more 1st party titles to PC in the future. “We will explore expanding our 1st party titles to the PC platform,” says the report, “in order to promote further growth in our profitability.” The decision to bring more of the Sony in-house catalog to the PC is cited as a key strategic point to the coming direction of its Game & Network services division.The reason for the change is partially given in the report: “Competition from online PC games and players from other industries is expected to continue to intensify.” In short, Sony wants to bring games to the PC because that's where a certain segment of the game-buying audience already is—and presumably because Sony thinks they'll stay there. This is undoubtedly in response to the high performance of games like Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn on PC in the past year. Both games were PS4 exclusives released much earlier on the console, and per Sony's previous statements that's likely to continue to be the case: Delayed release on PC of PlayStation console exclusives.
