Is Sony finally closing the door to single-player games on PC?

There’s been a noisy back-and-forth about Sony’s PC approach lately. A recent interview with PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino in Famitsu only fanned the flames. He tried to calm things, saying the company will "focus on the value of the console experience" for single-player projects — but he left the door ajar enough to avoid a total shut-down of talk.

Then Jason Schreier dropped a reality check. He reported on a closed internal meeting where Hermen Hulst, who runs the PlayStation business group, reportedly told staff that from now on narrative single-player titles will ship only on PlayStation hardware. That’s blunt: no PC releases for those games, per the leak.

Insider details (confirmed by two sources) claim Hulst gave three reasons for the shift:

1. PC ports were of inconsistent quality.
2. They simply did not bring in enough money to justify development costs.
3. Management wants to tightly bind key franchises to their own “hardware.”

Only multiplayer service games get a pass — those need a massive, cross-platform audience at launch (i.e., w/ players on multiple systems to make the model work). Fans and devs will have reactions; expect heated takes. FYI, this isn’t the sort of thing that happens overnight.