As Sony continues to expand the PlayStation ecosystem with PC ports of its first-party games, the company has just announced a change that will likely please PC gamers. The upcoming PC port of the critically acclaimed The Last of Us Part II Remastered, which will be released on April 3, 2025, won’t require PC gamers to log in with PlayStation Network account.
Sony is also making PlayStation accounts optional for three of its existing games on PC, Marvel’s Spiderman 2, God of War Ragnarok, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. “Players who still opt to sign into a PlayStation Network account will also enjoy added benefits like trophies and friend management,” the company said today.
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It’s not exactly clear if all PlayStation games on PC will drop this PlayStation account requirement going forward, but this is certainly a step in the right direction. Last year, the company had to backtrack on its plan to require Helldivers 2 players on PC to sign in with a PlayStation account due to complaints from PC gamers. The PC version of the PlayStation-exclusive game had launched without PlayStation account support, and implementing that into the game would have also forced Sony to pull it from all markets where PlayStation accounts aren’t available.
Ghost of Tsushima, another PlayStation game that launched on PC last year only required a PSN account for using the in-game PlayStation overlay or accessing the Legends multiplayer. It doesn’t make sense to make PlayStation accounts – or any other accounts – mandatory for single-player games, even though other game publishers on PC have been doing this for years.
These days, PC gamers have to deal with lots of different accounts and game launchers, and that’s probably all because game publishers want to know about monthly active users or other metrics. It would certainly be better if all of this was entirely optional, but maybe what Sony is doing with four of its PC games will inspire other game publishers to offer a similar choice.
