Sony confirms more PC ports are coming, because it's making a ton of money
The Last of Us Part 1 on PC has not gone well, to put it mildly. Eyebrows Joel(opens in new tab) was fun for a while but it's been a month now, and Naughty Dog is still struggling to get it right(opens in new tab). Sony's overall strategy of putting out more of its first-party games on PC, on the other hand, seems to be going very well indeed.
The sign of Sony's healthy PC strategy emerged from the company's FY2022 financial report, specifically under the «Others» category in the Game and Network Services Segment Supplemental Information(opens in new tab) section.
The document defines «Others» as «revenue from peripherals including PlayStationVR and revenue from sales of first-party titles on platforms other than PlayStation consoles.» And the numbers over the past two fiscal years are pretty remarkable.
Fiscal year 2021 was fairly flat (all numbers are in millions of yen, and the USD conversions are at today's yen-to-dollar ratio):
2022 was a different story, however, and ended up almost doubling the sales of 2021:
It's impossible to say exactly how much of the jump can be attributed directly to PC game sales. «Peripherals» covers a lot of ground including devices like controllers, and the PSVR2 released on February 22, right in the middle of Sony's fourth quarter: Whether or not it was a sales success seems to be a matter of some debate(opens in new tab), but even at the low end of estimates, it accounted for a hefty chunk of change.
But while we can't extract PC game releases specifically from that category, there's no doubt that it was a very big year for Sony on the PC. Sony's FY2022 releases on Steam include Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered(opens in new tab), Sackboy: A Big Adventure(opens in new tab), Marvel's
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