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Sony's PlayStation Strategy Just Reversed Six Years of PC Ports - Hermen Hulst Tells Staff in a Monday Town Hall That Single-Player PlayStation Studios Games Will Stay Locked to PS5, With Ghost of Yotei's PC Port Reportedly Scrapped and Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic Locked to Console Exclusivity

PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst reportedly told staff in a Monday town hall that narrative single-player games will no longer be ported to PC. Ghost of Yotei, Marvel's Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic are locked to PS5; live-service titles like Marathon and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls remain on PC. Existing PC ports stay for sale and supported.

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PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models

Sony shipped 1.5 million PS5s in Q4 FY25 against 2.8 million a year earlier, blaming a global memory crunch driven by AI data-center demand. PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino spent the rest of the call pivoting to AI tooling — naming Mockingbird (facial animation, used by Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio) and an unnamed hair pipeline that converts video of real hairstyles into strand-level 3D groomed models.