NEW YORK — Sony Interactive Entertainment is shifting back toward stricter console exclusivity for its first-party single-player narrative games, effectively ending the broader PC release strategy it aggressively pursued in recent years, according to multiple reports Monday.

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported that during an internal company town hall meeting this week, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed that future first-party narrative-driven single-player titles will remain exclusive to PlayStation consoles. The move marks a significant reversal from Sony's earlier push to bring more of its biggest games to PC, a strategy that began accelerating after the PS5 launch in 2020.

The policy change means highly anticipated titles such as the reported Intergalactic project will not receive PC versions, at least in the foreseeable future. It also provides clarity after months of ambiguity, following an earlier Bloomberg report that Sony was reconsidering its PC ambitions for certain first-party releases.

Industry observers had already noted signs of this shift. In interviews promoting Saros, developer Housemarque sidestepped questions about a potential PC release, fueling speculation that Sony was tightening its approach. The new directive appears to draw a clear line: multiplayer and live-service games may still head to PC, but traditional narrative single-player experiences — the core of PlayStation's critically acclaimed exclusives like The Last of Us, God of War and Horizon — will stay on PlayStation hardware.

Sony has not issued an official public statement on the policy,........

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