Ex-Sony exec opens up about efforts to convey PlayStation hits to PC

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Sony has an extended historical past of maintaining its first-party video games behind the walled backyard of console exclusivity.

So the corporate’s option to convey its PS4 hit Horizon Zero Daybreak to PC in August 2020 felt like a precedent-changing transfer away from that barrier to entry. It represented a seismic shift for a writer protecting of its big range of console exclusives.

However as former CEO of Sony Interactive Leisure Shawn Layden tells it, adopting a extra open technique for porting first-party titles to PC was really a simple resolution.