Good news for everyone! Now you can link your accounts together Steam and PSN. If you're not already shaking in your boots, don't scream with delight, that means you can claim some super-rad free stuff in the PC versions of some of the PlayStation games. No kidding or sarcasm, this marks Sony's latest move to take over the PC platform.
Want an example of some of the benefits? How about buddy Miles Morales from Marvel's Spider-Man? If you link your accounts Steam and PSN, you can get some cosmetic and in-game bonuses, including the Resilient Suit, an early unlock of Concussive Blast, and two skill points.
But what else does that mean besides Miles Morales players getting a slight advantage if they decide to purchase the game on PC right now. As mentioned earlier, this is a pretty important milestone in the game's slow but steady progress on the Sony platform. We've seen it hustling here and there for a while now, thanks to services like PlayStation Now that let you play games like Bloodborne on PC, but this new connectivity adds an extra rationale for porting Sony's biggest games to this one. platform.
However, this does not mean that we should expect simultaneous releases in the near future. Just last week, PlayStation boss Herman Hulst said that Sony's first-person games won't be coming to PC for "at least a year" after launching on PlayStation, reaffirming the console-centric stance we've come to expect from the megacorporation.
However, this loosening of control implies recognizing the power of the platform as an additional source of players and, of course, sales. This may also not be true for live service games. As Hulst later states in the aforementioned article, games for live services could be released in less than a year. Sony previously announced its intention to release up to 10 games with the live service, and since Sony has stated its desire to support crossplay, launching them on both PC and PlayStation could help create a major hitter in this space.
This is still a long way from Microsoft's approach, which essentially sees the PC and Xbox consoles as two halves of the same business strategy with Game Pass and joint release dates. However, it's worth noting that the company has the infrastructure to support this, while Sony is, for the most part, an outsider of the PC ecosystem.
