Cory Barlog: The Developers Begged Sony For PC Ports

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According to 2018’s God of War’s director, pressure has been coming from PlayStation Studios members that perhaps the games should be available on PC, not just on Sony’s consoles.

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Santa Monica creative director was interviewed by Game Informer, and Barlog was asked how much of an impact the studio had on Sony in bringing God of War to PC nearly four years after its PlayStation 4 launch. “I think it was the collective of studios all over saying this is an excellent idea. We should be looking into this.

Eventually, I think it reached that tipping point. When we sent so many suggestion box suggestions, they were like, ‘I’m tired of hearing all this. Fine, we’ll do this.’ It’s a process; we’re still figuring it out as a company and as individual studios how to do this and what the process and strategy will be,” Barlog said. We’ve written before that these ports only happen when financially reasonable (it’s no coincidence that there’s at least a year between PlayStation console and PC release… it’s Sony’s way of pulling in hardware sales and sales through its PlayStation Store/Network/Plus/Now services).

We can see, to some extent, that the time for exclusivity is slowly diminishing. Horizon Zero Dawn came to PC three and a half years later (February 2017 to August 2020), Days Gone took nearly two years (April 2019 to May 2021), but Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy are pushing the timeframe higher again… and those two games are coming to PC this year.

Regarding God of War Ragnarok’s potential PC port, Barlog said, “Right now, we’re taking it one game at a time, kind of looking at each one and determining, ‘Okay, is this the best thing?’ And we’ll gauge how it does. Do people enjoy it? Did we do it right? Is there anything we did wrong? What can we do better in the future if we do this again? But at the end of the day, ultimately, it’s Sony’s decision” when, after the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 version of the sequel to the story of Kratos and Atreus, will come to PC…

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