PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino has addressed questions about whether PlayStation’s first-party single-player games will continue to come to PC, and his comments point strongly toward those titles staying exclusive to PS5. Nishino’s remarks came from an interview from Famitsu, which was spotted and machine-translated by a ResetEra user. He was responding to reports that PlayStation is pulling back from releasing its first-party single-player titles on non-PlayStation platforms.

In his statement, Nishino said: “From the start we have determined platform selection based on the characteristics of each title. If releasing on PC can maximize the gaming experience for that title, we will continue to consider it. At this time our main policy is, for first party developed single-player games to further refine the value of the gaming experience we can offer on PlayStation, meanwhile, we believe it’s important for live service games to be played by as many people as possible through online multiplayer, so we will continue to release on PS5 and PC platforms as a basis. Regardless of the platform, we will make decisions based on our desire to deliver the best possible gameplay experience that maximizes each title’s unique features.”

The key split in his statement is between two types of games. Single-player games developed in-house will be used to strengthen what PlayStation can offer as a platform, while live-service and multiplayer games are expected to continue releasing on both PS5 and PC to reach as wide a player base as possible. While Nishino’s wording leaves some room for flexibility, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier offered a more direct reading of the situation, saying there is effectively no “case by case” consideration here and that PlayStation Studios’ single-player games will be PlayStation exclusives.

This marks a noticeable shift from the direction PlayStation had been heading in recent years. The platform had gradually warmed up to PC with ports of major titles like Horizon Zero Dawn, The Last of Us, and Marvel’s Spider-Man. However, those releases never became a consistent or widespread policy, and it now appears that even that limited openness to PC is being rolled back for the studio’s bigger single-player projects.

PlayStation’s approach here also stands in contrast to what Xbox had been doing under its previous leadership, which ported a number of its major first-party games to PS5. That strategy has since changed following a significant leadership shakeup at Microsoft in early 2026. For PlayStation players, the message is fairly clear: if you want to play the next big single-player game from PlayStation Studios, a PS5 will likely be the only way to do it.