Sony Wants More PC Ports, Good Chances are They Earn Heaps of Money
Despite the poor reception of The Last of Us: Part I on PC, Sony has no plans to stop releasing its games on PC.
Sony's decision to port its exclusives to PC was a bullseye. Despite recent criticism of the PC version of The Last of Us: Part I, such games as Spider-Man, God of War or Horizon Zero Dawn, which, until a certain point, were reserved only for owners of PlayStation consoles, have achieved great success on dekstops. So it's hardly surprising that the Japanese giant intends to strike the iron while it's hot.
On the occasion of the recent financial report of the company for fiscal year 2022, Sony mentioned plans to bring more titles to the PC. Company representatives did not mention which games will receive PC versions, but nevertheless gamers hoping to try out Sony games without having to buy PlayStation consoles have reasons to be happy.
The answer as to why Sony is making its biggest works available on PC should be sought in the company's aforementioned financial report. In the document there is a category called "Other," which refers to sales of peripheral devices and games for platforms other than PlayStation.
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It turns out that in fiscal 2021 the company from the Land of the Rising Sun earned a total of $1.415 billion in this segment, while in fiscal 2022 it was already $2.5 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, Sony became $1.048 billion richer.
Admittedly, it's hard to estimate how much of the above amounts is generated by games released on PC, but it can be assumed that it's a pretty big part of the profits, since Sony doesn't intend to give up porting its games to PC.
