For a few years, Sony had been porting over many of its single-player PlayStation 5 games to PC at an increasing rate. This seemed to stop rather suddenly, with the most recent addition being The Last of Us Part II back in early 2025. With rumours claiming that Sony has reversed-course on bringing more single-player titles to PC, PlayStation’s CEO has now officially commented on the matter.

Taking part in an interview with the Japanese publication Famitsu, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO ‘Hideaki Nishino’ spoke on a number of topics. When asked about “reports suggesting that [Sony] might reconsider bringing PS5 titles to PC” Nishino had this to say (as translated):

“Our current main policy is that, for single-player games developed in-house, we will further refine the value of the gaming experience that PlayStation can offer. At the same time, we believe it is important for live-service games to reach a wider audience through online multiplayer, so we continue to view releases on both PS5 and PC as the standard.”

While not a 100% clear answer, Nishino did seem to acknowledge this shift in strategy – even if the phrase “further refine the value of the gaming experience that PlayStation can offer” leaves plenty of wiggle room for interpretation.

Either way, the CEO certainly isn’t refuting the rumours, and so it seems like the strategy may have indeed changed; at least for now.

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Following Microsoft’s recent Xbox Games Showcase, the higher-ups at the company have been talking quite a bit about their plans for the future – particularly regarding their return to console exclusives. Despite some mixed messaging, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has now claimed that they plan to make more Xbox games exclusive once “the business is healthy.”

Discourse surrounding the Xbox Games Showcase has primarily revolved around the console maker’s confirmation that Gears of War E-Day and Clockwork Revolution will be exclusive to Xbox on the console side of things.

Attention was then brought to the subject matter further when Xbox CCO Matt Booty claimed that their strategy revolved around a “case by case” basis, adding that “our big multiplayer games, our big live service games are going to continue to be multiplatform.”

This of course sparked some confusion, as the aforementioned Gears of War E-Day will have a major multiplayer element to it. Meanwhile, the newly announced Spyro: A Realm Beyond and Senua are single-player affairs, yet are still coming to multiple platforms.

Speaking on all of this, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma offered her own explanation, stating via a recent interview: “I think that we are the number 2 publisher in the world, and when you do that you want your games to be everywhere. You're stronger when the world plays with you. At the same time, we're increasingly becoming more of a platform, and it's hard to find examples of platforms out there that don't have exclusive services and content.”

Sharma continued, “This is a journey for us. Our business isn't particularly healthy, as you noted, and we're starting by introducing 1 or 2 signature exclusives, and as the business is healthy, we will look to try and do more.”

Based on the wording, it seems as though Xbox is now doing a reverse on their previous “4 games” experiment, in which a small number of exclusives were ported over to PS5. As those titles sold, more ports were later announced.

Given Asha’s statement, it is safe to assume that should these two exclusives fail to make a splash on Xbox, then they might revise the strategy – and should they end up being system sellers, then we can expect more Xbox exclusives.

Regardless, it seems like Xbox’s new strategy is still in its early days, and so we will have to wait and see what becomes of it.

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Just a few hours ahead of the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, insider Jeff Grubb revealed during a Giant Bomb stream that The Coalition's Gears of War: E-Day was supposed to launch on PlayStation 5 but won't anymore. I'll say it here. Gears of War: E-Day was going to be on PS5; it's not anymore. That just happened. Like, it's a decision that just got made. And it's like, they're going backwards on this stuff where they were like, this battle doesn't make any sense. Indeed, Microsoft had chosen to go fully multiplatform with many of its games. Gears of War: […]

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