Sony - PS4 Exclusive Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to be Made Available on PC

[Raevenlord]

At its IR Day 2021 Game & Network Services Segment, Sony themselves have spilled the cat out of the bag regarding ports from their first-party studios to the PC realm. Case in point: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, developed by naughty Dog, will be releasing on the PC platform at some point in the future. The information is tucked away at page 26 of Sony's documentation. This comes as no surprise, considering other tidbits Sony shared regarding its PC initiative: the company achieved a 250% ROI (Return on Investment) with the port of Horizon: Zero Dawn to PC and more recently Days Gone, meaning that porting costs were more than recouped.

Of course, the ROI also has to take into account the potential decrease in value of the PlayStation brand with the relative loss of exclusivity, but this doesn't seem much different from Microsoft's strategy of delivering console exclusives that still make it onto the PC space (and the company has been doubling down on those efforts, and they surely wouldn't be doing so if they were losing money).



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[64K]

Sony and MS have realized that there is a lot of profit to be made porting to PC. I have hoped console exclusives would end for years and years now. The only thing I wish is that Sony would do a package deal with all 4 games like MS did with Halo. Console exclusives just need to die off. It's old thinking when consoles were king.

 

[Space Lynx]

dang... really was hoping we would get all 4 Uncharted games. not just the 4th one. better than nothing I suppose. can always watch story summaries of the first three I guess.

 

[matar]

Great news keep them coming Sony i love days gone , next Spiderman

 

[Solid State Soul ( SSS )]

I have hoped console exclusives would end for years and years now.

Exclusives will forever be a thing, how else would you convince audience to adopt your platform in competing space ?

Sony's strategy is when the sales of a major Playstation exclusive falls to a flat, they release to PC afterwords to get more profit and convince PC audience to buy Playstations to play their next exclusives day one

 

[Fatalfury]

As long as Sony are bringing exclusives to pc like after many years of the game's release.. i think its a smart move rather than a fear of losing exclusivity status.
uncharted 4 is a 5year old game..
only new games need exlclusivity, old games released as REMASTERED/ PC PORT are additional source of income.

 

[sam_86314]

better than nothing I suppose. can always watch story summaries of the first three I guess.

RPCS3 is also an option.