[STEAM] After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

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Sony no longer plans to bring current and future single-player games to personal computers, according to

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. The report specifically names last year's Ghost of Yotei and the soon-to-be-released Returnal successor, Saros, as games whose PC plans have been canceled. Some multiplayer and third-party titles will still reach PCs, however.

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier cites "people familiar with the company's plans," who say that some within the company worry that releasing the games on PC could hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 console, as well as those of its unannounced successor. There could also be concerns that PlayStation titles could end up on competing Xbox hardware if

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makes good on speculation that the next Xbox might

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There are a few caveats to this change in strategy that are important to note. First, multiplayer titles will still be released cross-platform, including Marathon, a reboot of an old first-person shooter franchise by Bungie (the studio that created Halo, now owned by Sony), slated to release tomorrow on both PlayStation 5 and PC (via Steam).

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