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An industry insider has claimed that Sony could be pulling back on releasing PlayStation games on PC via Steam, and alleged that the upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine may stay exclusive to PS5.
On Episode 294 of the Triple Click podcast, Jason Schreier (of Bloomberg) claimed that Sony could be re-evaluating whether its PlayStation games leave its hardware. The former Kotaku reporter explained that he feels the company is “backing away” from putting “traditional single-player stuff on PC”.
Schreier later explained that he believed that he: “wouldn’t be surprised” if Marvel’s Wolverine “never came to PC”. This insight is bolstered by the fact that he did not think PlayStation games coming to PC were “that successful in the first place”.
The vast majority of PlayStation’s current gaming catalog has made its way to PC, usually a year or two after the game arrived on PS5. Earlier this week, a PlayStation Blog post announced that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was coming to PC and revealed the full system requirements. Other exclusives, such as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Yōtei, remain locked to the platform for now.
PlayStation Studios has a storied history of releasing PS5 games on PC via Steam. As well as Kojima’s post-apocalyptic walking sim, other upcoming games include Arc System Works’ Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and the recently unveiled live-service Horizon Hunters Gathering.
After the podcast episode, Schreier took to the ResetEra forums to explain that it’s “not speculation” and that it was more of a point of conversation, but that hasn’t stopped social media threads from heating up in response.
Marvel’s Wolverine will likely still arrive on PC
While it is possible that Schreier could be correct, and Sony may refuse to port its highly anticipated superhero game to PC, the omission of the platform would not make much sense. A wealth of Marvel games are already available on Steam, including Spider-Man Remastered, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Spider-Man 2, so why would PlayStation (and Nixxes Software) rule out Wolverine?
Granted, this comment may denote that Marvel’s Wolverine may arrive later than the typical one/two years that we usually see platform exclusivity for. You only need to look at the sales figures; Spider-Man 2 became the “fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game” in the company’s history, and went on to sell over 16 million copies.
Wolverine, as a character (arguably), isn’t as popular as the Wallcrawler, but X-Men remains a massively popular franchise in 2026. Even if Insomniac Games’ upcoming title doesn’t quite reach the heights of its predecessor, it will still likely rank among the best-selling PS5 games. Porting it to Steam (with its install base of 30 million daily users) would only further increase the game’s reach. Withholding it would be counterproductive.
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