"The strategy as we were developing it when I was there was that we need to go out to where these new customers are, where these new fans could be,"
Layden said last year. "We need to go to where they are... Because they've decided not to come to my house, so I've got to go to their house now. And what's the best way to go to their house? Why not take one of our top-selling games?"
Layden said he didn't expect Sony to ever start releasing games on PC day-one with consoles—it doesn't have to risk cannibalizing console sales if it waits two years to port its games to PC.
According to Barlog, it's still not a given that future games will come to PC, and he has "no idea" when the next God of War game, Ragnarok, might arrive. Even if the studios did sway Sony into giving PC ports a try, it sounds like they're still not the ones making the final call.
"Right now, we’re taking it one game at a time, kind of looking at each one and determining, 'Okay, is this the best thing?'" Barlog said. "And we’ll gauge how it does. Do people enjoy it? Did we do it right? Is there anything we did wrong? What can we do better in the future if we do this again? But at the end of the day, ultimately, it’s Sony’s decision."