Sony plans to proceed supporting PC with its first-party video games, however it might take “at the least a 12 months” for the video games to launch for the platform.

That’s in line with PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst who added that the agency’s live-service video games could also be launched sooner than one 12 months publish launch.

Various first-party titles have already been launched on PC, and these embody Days Gone, God of War, and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. In the PC pipeline is Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Uncharted: The Legacy Collection.

Speaking in an interview Julien Chieze (through VGC), Hulst mentioned it was “nice” for Sony’s studios to have their video games launched to PC because it has attracted extra gamers. But, whereas Sony is happy with how properly its video games are doing on the platform, it would not plan to launch its video games day and date on PC à la Xbox.

“I believe going ahead we’ll see at the least a 12 months between releases and on the PC platform, presumably except live-service video games,” mentioned Hulst, noting that “dwell service video games are somewhat bit totally different,” as a result of they want a “robust neighborhood” and robust engagement from the second the sport goes dwell.

“So we’d within the case of our dwell service choices go day and date with PC and the PlayStation platform,”: he mentioned.

Live service video games are one thing Sony is bullish on, as earlier this 12 months it mentioned it plans to launch 10 dwell service video games by 2026. According to the corporate, the Bungie acquisition was partially made with a view to capitalize on the studio’s experience and applied sciences within the dwell service area.