“It’s almost like printing money”: Former Sony exec says PC ports of PlayStation games are too valuable to ignore, and he wanted to see more first-party games come to PC

Releasing PlayStation’s big games on PC via platforms like Steam is “almost like printing money,” says former Sony Interactive Studios president and indie initiative boss Shuhei Yoshida.

Speaking to the Sacred Symbols+ podcast (paywalled, and reported by Push Square), Yoshida says he advocated for PC releases of first-party titles when he was president, but Sony wasn’t keen on the idea at the time. However, after testing the waters with a few ports – which, technical issues aside, unsurprisingly found success on PC – and, not to mention, the massive simultaneous launch of Helldivers 2, the company has come around and learned to acknowledge the value of PC gaming.