With how PC is regularly turning into a part of Sony’s monetary plans to attract in additional gamers, it isn’t a nasty time for Sony to implement this function right into a recreation, particularly one which’s already confirmed to be fairly widespread with the PC crowd. 

In August shortly earlier than Spider-Man launched on PC, an FAQ on the PlayStation web site indicated that gamers would not presently require a PSN account to play PC video games. That stays the case, and is a notable distinction from how how Xbox video games on PC function, whereby sure video games require an Xbox Live account. 

Currently, it seems that the account linking solely results in in-game rewards, and will not permit for options reminiscent of cross-save or cross-progression throughout techniques. It’s not clear in the intervening time if such options are within the playing cards, or what different advantages will include account linking as extra PlayStation titles are ported to PC.

Spider-Man is the primary of Sony’s PC ports to have the hyperlink account possibility. It stays to be seen if the same replace will hit retroactively for different titles reminiscent of God of War, or if this will likely be built-in at launch for incoming titles reminiscent of Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves or Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.