“The cost of developing games is getting more expensive”: PlayStation head Jim Ryan explained the transfer of Sony exclusives to PC

Together with the announcement of the computer version Days gone Head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan in an interview with GQ, he explained the company’s new policy of releasing its titles on the PC. He noted that in light of the fact that the cost of development is constantly growing, and porting games, on the contrary, is becoming easier, these two factors made the decision quite obvious.

“As of early 2023, our internal teams and games are in better shape than ever before. This is especially true in the second half of the PS4 cycle, when our studios released a number of great, excellent games.

Now we have the opportunity to introduce our great games to an even wider audience, taking into account the economic peculiarities of their development, which in themselves are far from always obvious. The cost of creation with each generation only increases in price, and the scale of our IP is increasing.

But along with that has grown the ease with which we can deliver our content to a non-console audience. So the decision was pretty obvious to us. “

The first ported to PC exclusive from internal Sony studios was an action RPG Horizon: Zero Dawncreated by forces Guerrilla GamesSpeaking about it, Ryan noted that Sony was evaluating the reaction to the release not only from PC players, but also from the PlayStation community.

“We evaluated the release from two sides. First, in terms of the direct success of publishing the game on PC, people liked it and they bought it.

We also looked at it through the lens of how the PlayStation community reacted to it. There was no massive backlash, so we will continue to take steps in this direction. “

Days Gone is coming to PC this spring. The company is already preparing to release on the platform “a whole scattering” of its other exclusives

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