Half of first-party PlayStation releases by 2025 will be for PC or smartphone

Sony wants to double the number of first-party PlayStation games coming to PC or smartphone over the next few years. This fiscal year, about a quarter of PlayStation’s releases are for PC or smartphone; in 2025 this should be half.

In the fiscal year of 2025 expect Sony that half of all releases are PlayStation 5 games. The other half should be for the PC or smartphone if it is up to Sony, with thirty percent for the PC and the remaining twenty percent for smartphone games.

Sony says it wants to port more console games to PCs and also want to release more smartphone games. This is a change of course that Sony has been using for some time, but now the company is providing more details about its plans. In 2019, no PlayStation games were released for PC or smartphone.

Horizon Zero Dawn was the first PlayStation game to receive a PC port in 2020. This fiscal year, about a quarter of all first-party PlayStation releases will be for the PC or smartphone, with the majority being for the PC. A third of all releases are only for the PlayStation 5, about forty percent come to both that console and the PlayStation 4.

The PC ports should also generate more money for the company in the coming years. In fiscal 2020, PC ports accounted for $35 million; a year later it was 80 million dollars. Sony expects to make $300 million this year from the PC ports. So far, the Horizon port is the most successful, with 2.4 million copies sold and a turnover of 60 million dollars.

Sony does not say which games will come to the PC and smartphone. Earlier, former CEO of Sony’s games division Shawn Layden said that the company will not release games for the PC and PlayStation consoles simultaneously. The company hopes with this strategy that gamers will be interested in the company’s consoles after playing a PC port.