Rumour: Death Stranding Is a Timed PS4 Exclusive, Coming to PC

You wont see this on Switch for reasons other than being Sony funded

But still, since Sony has been so on and off with their marketing, it's hard to tell. Everthing could be timed exclusive these days...

@Knuckles-Fajita Same Goes for Bayonetta:p

I hope it stays exclusive. Reason is my only incentive for having a console. Otherwise i would go back to pc gaming (During ps1/PS2 period i played tiberian sun and half life a lot) >>> PS2 had awesome exclusives and was the sole reason i quit pc gaming

So Sony funds this game, provides the engine for it but put it on another platform but Playstation?! I really dislike the direction Sony is taking lately.
Hope this rumor is just a rumor.
We need competition not this
"let's all dance around the fire dung.

I don't see the problem, PC is a different market to console and it won't appear until sales on PS4 have slowed to a crawl so what's wrong with Kojima and Sony making a bit of extra cash?

I'll be playing it on launch day so I'm not really bothered who plays it a year later

@Flopsy That's an amazing amount of stupid you've managed to fit into a relatively small paragraph. Kudos.

Only on playstation mean nothing, remember Detroit?
Sony is not stupid, If they do this, PS5 will fail as like xbox.

For goodness sake I'm getting sick of this. Sony literally are slowly becoming Microsoft. If this is something that's going to become more common I definitely won't be investing in a PS5.

@ShulkZetta This! Why invest in a Ps5 if you could play games on a more beefy pc?

Geez these comments are something else!

Cool if true, I'm sure this game will look amazing on a high end rig, not that it doesn't already.

Are people really that 'butthurt' over this? Even if true, why on earth does it matter that others get to play the same games you got to play first? Timed or otherwise, it makes absolutely no difference - I could understand it if the game you were looking forward to playing either jumps platform or is cancelled, but releasing on 'other' platforms too as NO impact on you or your ability to enjoy the game.

Did those people that bought Nier or Hellblade enjoy it much less because it eventually released on Xbox? Hellblade is now on Switch too but does that now make this award winning game worse? What about Crash Bandicoot? Surely its better that games can be enjoyed by gamers regardless. So what if some of the games you get to enjoy first are then enjoyed by others at a later date - its not stopping you from enjoying it on your preferred Platform and, in the case of this (and other titles in the past), first!!

@Sanquine I enjoy console gaming because of the comfort and controls. In addition to exclusives.

@BAMozzy @redd214 Laugh all you want but with that attitude console gaming Will die (eventually)

@Cutmastavictory Mouse and keyboard is much more enjoyable with FPS games

@Sanquine the funny things about opinions though.... they differ and that's okay. Mouse abs keys may be more precise.... but more enjoyable is relative. I find controller far more enjoyable, and that's fine.

As if people are actually mad about this 😅 I'm clearly getting out of touch

@Sanquine lol really it's not that serious bud

@Sanquine My comment was that it wouldn't be able to run the game.

I can see sony buying kojima productions

Wasn't this a pretty known fact since Kojima started the new studio?

@BAMozzy you beat me to it!!!

Sony still owns the Death Stranding I.P. (just like Detroit, Heavy Rain and Journey) so whether it comes out on PC in a year or two after doesn't make a difference - just extra cash for them. Like others have mentioned, the bulk of the sales will be on PS4 anyways.

And again, I thought that was kinda common knowledge that it would be PS4/PC release from the announcement.

I guess its making them extra money so whats the problem. If it lets them fund some other games that are strange and different im on board.

It did seem unlikely given Guerilla games involvement and the Decima engine

I thought this was common knowledge? They said back in 2015 it will arrive first on PS4 and later on PC. Good on them, they didn't get trapped by any contracts.

Uh oh a PS4 exclusive is coming to another platform. RIP Sony

Never liked timed exclusives.

This was already known long time ago don’t know why people are pissed. It’s good more people get to play it.

And yet still no word on the PS4 version of Labyrinth: The Computer Game. Disgusting.

This is going to spread like wildfire and no one is going to bother fact checking.

“It’s not 100% confirmed like the release date I knew about and some other informations I didn’t share yet ”

Now I’m curious about the other information that is 100% confirmed.

It’s on decima engine, I don’t think sony want to port the engine to pc.

didn't kojima tour around different studios looking for an engine after the announcement with sony, before finally settling on GG's decima?. it would be surprise if it came to PC with the decima engine, imo. it's been built for PS4/5.. i know it could probably work on PC with a bit of work, but i doubt it supports directX 12. it's not the same as if he'd used U4 or CryEngine or something.

DS trademarked by Sony and I saw pics of 'only on PlayStation' on the cover.
Now I don't care, whatever, but dislike misinformation in the media

Edit
Oh and Reseterrara is a joke

Baseless rumour on old and outdated information. Kojima mentioned his new game would be a timed exclusive, however this was stated BEFORE he had Decima Engine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_(game_engine)

Decima Engine is a proprietary engine developed by Guerilla Games. Before Kojima, it had no name. Kojima Productions helped develop further the engine but it still proprietary to Sony Interactive Entertainment and currently has no compatibility to run executable files on Windows. Until Dawn is not on PC specifically because it was developed using Decima. Supermassive Games is using Unreal Engine 4 for Man of Medan because they wanted to make a multiplaform title. Decima is incapable of running on Windows.

You can have a look on the list of titles made using Decima and see that there's a consistency in development. By the way, in order for Decima to run on Windows, they'd need a compiler, which I don't they have given the nature of the engine.

good, it should look amazing on my new system i plan to buid using the new ryzen 3000 cpu and navi

I think Sony should release more of their games on Pc like MS does

People get way more bent out of shape over exclusives than it's worth. I'm not downplaying their importance, they are important, but now people get worried over Sony not having total exclusivity over some games. I don't see a reason to worry that much. There will always be exclusives, plenty only on PlayStation. Sony have no reason to stop that, especially after the profits some of them pull in. Some games going multiplatform ain't gonna kill them, like it didn't before with former PS2 exclusives Devil May Cry, Tekken, and Metal Gear Solid, not with all the money PS4 has made them.

We all have PS4s, right? Go get Death Stranding when it's out. What's stopping you?

Don't worry guys, this is indeed a rumor, a wrong one...
Sony fully supported kojima, founded the game and gave Kojima Productions it's best game engine GG's Decima, so don't expect this masterpiece to get out of it's gome out to the whiny pc plebs

Not having the only on playstation phrase means nothing, persona 5 doesn't have and switch ain't getting it, plus if you go to the playstation blog it does say on the website "only on playstation"

I think this will do well on PC, PC is for "edgy" folk

@Cutmastavictory To be fair, you can use a PS4 controller on a PC (wirelessly too) and have the PC plugged into your TV or streaming the gameplay from another room to your TV if for some reason you don't want it in your living room.

The main difference nowadays between PC and PS4 is the ease of use and simplicity. Going back to my PC recently after not using it for over a year, I had to troubleshoot Windows updates failing, drivers not installing, surround sound not working properly... If it was a PS4 it'd be one quick update for everything and surround sound would just work automatically for every game.

Wow. The one console wonders on here get upset easy.

Pathetic that people care more about the exclusivity than the actual game.

Enjoy the game.

Strange decisions from Sony of late, it's almost as if they don't want to remain King's of the next console generation.

@Lino Lmaooo, good luck with your future rig, but you'll never see this game or any other SONY first party game out of Sony's playstation, this timed exclusive thing is a rumor, a false one, so you better keep/get yourself a ps4if you really want to play this...