Sony tweets
that
Days Gone will be coming to PC this spring, offering a new way to
play this survival game. There's an interview with
PlayStation’s Jim Ryan on British GQ (thanks
Gematsu) saying this will be followed by more PlayStation games:
Fair
enough. So releasing PlayStation games on PC was something that Sony PlayStation
held back on for a long time. Now it sounds like you’re very much on that
bandwagon. What changed?
I think a few things changed. We find ourselves now in early 2021 with our
development studios and the games that they make in better shape than they’ve
ever been before. Particularly from the latter half of the PS4 cycle our studios
made some wonderful, great games. There’s an opportunity to expose those great
games to a wider audience and recognise the economics of game development, which
are not always straightforward. The cost of making games goes up with each
cycle, as the calibre of the IP has improved. Also, our ease of making it
available to non-console owners has grown. So it’s a fairly straightforward
decision for us to make.
This is following on from your publishing Horizon Zero Dawn on PC in August
last year. How did that go?
We assessed the exercise in two ways. Firstly, in terms of the straightforward
success of the activity of publishing the game on PC, people liked it and they
bought it. We also looked at it through the lens of what the PlayStation
community thought about it. There was no massive adverse reaction to it. So we
will continue to take mission steps in this direction.