PlayStation Launches PC DualSense in Asia in Spite of Recent Rumors of Them Abandoning PC Ports

If you were excited to play Ghost of Yotei or any upcoming PS5 game on your PC, well we're not entirely sure if they will be there or not.

PlayStation Asia has announced the launch of their new PC controller, and in fact, the item can be purchased on their Asian stores as we speak.

Quote From PlayStation Asia

PC Gaming. Elevated.
The DualSense Wireless Controller is PC Ready—easy setup, epic immersion.
Haptics – Feel every drop and blast.
Triggers – Real tension at your fingertips.

Check your local retailers today.
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This is all spite of the fact that rumors had arisen yesterday that Sony were going to stop porting PS5 games to PC, as was made to light by Bloomburg.

The article was stated to only abandon support for single-player games that are not made by external developers, meaning that online games like Marathon and Marvel Tokon would still be released by multiple platforms, as are games published by PlayStation but developed externally like Death Standing 2 and Kena: Scars of Kosmora. The idea of a port for Ghost of Yoeti or Wolverine however is dead in the water, according to said rumors. It should be noted that this statement is not an official word by PlayStation.

Quote From Jason Schreier

Sony Group Corp. no longer plans to release its big PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major shift in strategy that sees the video-game maker returning to console exclusivity after six years of flirting with multi-platform releases, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

Online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon will still be released across multiple platforms, but single-player titles such as last year’s samurai hit Ghost of Yotei and the upcoming action game Saros will remain exclusive to PlayStation 5, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly about the company’s strategy.

The people cautioned that things could change in the future due to the unpredictable nature of the video-game industry and that Sony’s plans are constantly shifting. But in recent weeks PlayStation scrapped plans to bring Ghost of Yotei and other internally developed games to PC. Two games made by external developers but published by PlayStation, Death Stranding 2 and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still planned for release on PC this year.

A spokesperson for PlayStation declined to comment.

There are likely a few reasons behind this shift. One is that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC. A faction within PlayStation has also expressed concern that releasing their games on PC risks damaging the console’s brand and will hurt sales of the PlayStation 5 and its successors, according to the people familiar with Sony’s inner workings.

For decades, Sony’s tactic for selling PlayStations was to keep tentpole franchises exclusive to its own consoles. In 2020, it pivoted and began bringing games to personal computers via Steam. Since then, the company has put most of its biggest franchises on PC, such as God of War and The Last of Us.

But the strategy has been muddled and confused many players. Most PC releases arrived months or years after the games came to PlayStation. The cadence was never consistent, and the announcements appeared to be haphazard. The company also upset PC players by asking them to create PlayStation Network accounts to access many of the games.

Now, Sony is looking to take a more straightforward approach: going back to console exclusives.

Sony’s two rivals in the console space have taken different paths. Nintendo Co. has released almost all of its games solely on its own Switch hardware, while Microsoft Corp. has turned into a multi-platform publisher, releasing everything on PC and many games on PlayStation.

Another factor behind Sony’s pivot may be Microsoft’s next Xbox, which is rumored to use Windows and be capable of playing PC games. Some executives at PlayStation may not be thrilled at the prospect of one of the company’s flagship games like God of War running on the next Xbox console.

If you're not sure who to believe, then I wouldn't blame you. I'd be right there with you, but the Bloomberg article that has been making waves is not concrete evidence and there doesn't seem to be many sources to suggest this is actually true. Furthermore, it makes no sense for Sony to stop porting PS5 games to PC right at the same time that they drop a new PC controller.

There's still no official word of mouth that this is actually true, and the news of porting a PC controller to Asia suggests that they are still interested in the PC market. If you were hoping to get PC ports, perhaps there is hope after all? We can't know the answer for sure though unless PlayStation themselves comment on it.

What do you believe will happen? Let us know in the comments below.