Ghost of Yotei and Saros reportedly not coming to PC as Sony doubles down on PS5 exclusives

Sony is reversing a multi-year strategy of bringing its biggest PlayStation 5 exclusives to PC, Bloomberg reports. Multiplayer games like Marathon will continue releasing on Steam, but single-player blockbusters like last year's Ghost of Yotei will stay console-only.

According to Bloomberg, this pullback on PC ports will also apply to Housemarque's upcoming sci-fi action shooter Saros. The studio's previous game, Returnal, came to PS5 in 2021 and arrived on Steam two years later. It got good reviews but apparently didn't sell well enough to justify any potential cannibalization of PS5 console sales.

The new strategy, like the old one, could shift depending on how the market evolves – but for now, players shouldn't expect other major first-party titles to make the jump either. That includes Insomniac Games' Marvel's Wolverine and Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Spider-Man 2 made the leap from PS5 to Steam in record time, but with almost no marketing push behind it, and it appears to have sold poorly as a result. Sony's new thinking seems to be that pushing a slice of the PC audience toward buying a PS5 is worth more than selling a few hundred thousand extra copies on another platform.

That's a sharp contrast to Microsoft's approach. Having largely stepped back from competing on Xbox hardware, Microsoft has been racing to put its games on as many platforms as possible – including PS5. A remake of Halo: Combat Evolved is set to bring the iconic franchise to a rival console for the first time ever later this year.