Sony is clearly entertaining the idea of bringing more of its first-party titles to the PC platform in the future. While Hermen Hulst, the head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has stated that Sony won’t be looking to bring all of its former exclusives to PC, that hasn’t stopped the publisher from beginning to step foot into those waters later this year whenHorizon Zero Dawnofficially comes to PC. Now, if recent changes on the PlayStation website are to be believed, it seems as thoughGod of Warcould next be joiningHZDon PC.When looking at theweb page forGod of Waron the U.S. version of the official PlayStation website, the listing no longer contains the “Only On Playstation” signifier which can be found on a litany of other first-party published titles from Sony. Even though this might not seem like a major deal at first, this “Only On PlayStation” verbiage is used to identify titles that are PlayStation exclusives on every applicable game that can be found on the website.Titles likeÂBloodborne,ÂDays Gone,ÂMarvel’s Spider-Man, andÂDreamsall prominently feature this exact wording on their web pages in one place or another. However, games likeHorizon Zero Dawnand other former PS4-exclusives such asÂDetroit: Become HumanÂandÂDeath Stranding have had this label removed once it was announced that they would be heading to PC. Some quick glances on internet archive websites prove that this is true in all cases.God of War, in particular, also at one pointhad this “Only On PlayStation” label present on the game’s web page.So what exactly does this mean forÂGod of War? Well, it could be one of a few things. For starters, this could be a mistake or just a total omission on Sony’s part. If you look atÂGod of War’sÂweb page in another region, takeAustralia, for example, the game is still clearly listed as a PlayStation Exclusive quite prominently. While the “Only On PlayStation” stamp isn’t found on this region’s site, it still annotates thatÂGod of Waris an exclusive in the game’s description.
The other option is, well, thatÂGod of Warindeed isn’t going to be “Only On PlayStation” any longer. Much likeHorizon Zero Dawn, Santa Monica Studio’s 2018 smash-hit could indeed be coming to PC at some point in the future. And if this proves to be the case, could you really blame Sony?ÂGod of Warstands asone of the best-reviewed gamesof this entire console generation and won a litany of Game of the Year awards back in 2018 – includingour own here at DualShockers. For Sony to bring the game to a new platform would surely net the company millions of more dollars in sales.
Not to mention, this exact prospect is something thatÂGod of War’sÂdirector, Cory Barlog, has said he outright supports in the past. Despite previously acknowledging that the decision to bringGoWto new platforms isn’t something he has any say on, it’s an idea that he loves. So if one of the game’s most vocal developers is a huge fan of the idea, why wouldn’t Sony also be willing to do the work to then bring it on over to PC?
Look, I want to make it abundantly clear right now that we could be grasping at straws and this all could mean absolutely nothing. We are getting into semantics about details on a website page, after all. That said, there is somewhat of a precedent for updates like this that occur on the official PlayStation website to point to happenings that could come about in the future.
Just last year, before it was officially announced to be coming to PC,we reported thatDeath Strandingwas removed from the list of exclusive titleson PlayStation’s official website. A few short months later and Kojima Productions promptly announced that its new IP would be landing on PC in 2020. Yes, that situation was indeed different from this one withGod of War, but it still shows that things which have been updated or changed on the PlayStation website previously later proved to have real developments come about.
At the end of the day, Sony is clearly going to bring more of its first-party published titles to PC within time. Hermen Hulst has made clear as much already, so you might as well prepare yourself to see this happening a bit more often. If you were going to put together a shortlist of PS4-exclusives that you’d want to bring to PC,God of WarÂwould absolutely be near the top of that list. Whether or not the game officially ends up coming to PC remains to be seen, but it certainly seems like the possibility is in play.
