PlayStation PC Bet Was Never About Steam Money After All

Sony used PC ports as an IP awareness play, not a surrender. Prestige single-player exclusives may be heading back behind the PS5 wall.

Key takeaways

• **Sony’s PlayStation PC strategy was not a surrender of exclusivity. It was a controlled IP-awareness campaign — and that distinction explains why the company now appe...
• Former PlayStation chief Shawn Layden told PSI that Sony’s earlier push to bring PlayStation exclusives to PC was not primarily about chasing port revenue, accordi...
• That is the important read. Sony was not trying to make the PS5 optional. It was trying to make PlayStation characters harder to ignore.
• Sony’s PC experiment was never just about selling Horizon twice

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