Our six-year stint of feeling very smug about getting pretty much every game on PC (excluding Nintendo, which will forever be Nintendo about it) came to an end last week, when a report from Bloomberg said that Sony has decided to pull back from its strategy of releasing its console exclusives—after a suitable delay—on PC.
Theories flew as to what had prompted Sony to make the move. Do its PC ports not make money anymore? Do they weaken the brand? Was the corporation scared off by Microsoft’s Project Helix—its next-gen console that will, it says, play both Xbox and PC games?
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“Some people frame [Sony’s PC pullback] as a response to Xbox, but I’m not convinced that’s the real driver,” wrote Dalton on X. “A more interesting possibility is the rise of a Steam-based console ecosystem.”
I read an interesting take on why Sony may be pulling back from pushing PC releases and instead focusing more heavily on exclusives. Some people frame this as a response to Xbox, but I’m not convinced that’s the real driver.A more interesting possibility is the rise of a…March 9, 2026
“If Sony were releasing all of its games day-and-date on PC, the Steam console could effectively offer the best of all worlds: console simplicity with the full breadth of PC gaming.” Which is rather tasty, isn’t it? In fact, speaking from personal experience, more than a few people close to me—who up to now have been console-only—have reached out to ask me about the Steam Machine, and suggested it might be what they upgrade to next.
“It would be quite ironic if, after decades of traditional console competition, Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war.” Of course, to do that, it has to actually, you know, release all that cool hardware it unveiled last year, a prospect which seems to get harder every single day that the RAM crisis continues.
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