It sure sounds like Sony is done sharing its newest toys with the rest of us. Following up on his report from March, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier said today that PlayStation boss Herman Hulst confirmed to staff that singleplayer PlayStation games will no longer come to PC. The news drives a wedge in the company's publishing efforts on the platform, which it ramped up in 2020 with a PC port of Horizon: Zero Dawn.

We've yet to hear Sony's rationalization for the decision, nor its public confirmation (PC Gamer has reached out), but it's the sort of action that explains itself. Much like Xbox's renewed interest in its own box, Sony is responding to a waning interest in consoles by reinforcing its "narrative singleplayer games" as system sellers once again. Multiplayer games like the upcoming Marvel Tōkon will still come to PC, but if you want to play the next prestige action game from the likes of Naughty Dog or Insomniac, you'll need a PS5.

A few years ago, this would've sucked. Sony is responsible for some of my favorite games of all time, and the availability of gems like Horizon: Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, and God of War on Steam put those games in front of friends who would've never played them otherwise.

But as I gaze at the future of PlayStation studios, I wonder what we're really missing out on. Here's a quick reminder of Sony's upcoming and recent output, with PS5 games likely to be withheld from PC bolded:

Release TBD

• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog)
• God of War remakes
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake (Singleplayer, but if it's ever finished it'll probably get a PC release)
• Fairgame$

2026

• Marvel's Wolverine (Insomniac)
• Saros
• God of War Sons of Sparta
• Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls
• Kena: Scars of Kosmora
• MLB The Show 26
• Marathon

2025

• Ghost of Yōtei
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• MLB The Show 25
• Lost Soul Aside

PlayStation is working at a blistering pace of two, maybe three, non-multiplayer, non-baseball games per year. Its most acclaimed studio, Naughty Dog, hasn't released anything new in six years, and its next game is likely years away still. Calm down, don't everyone line up for a PS5 all at once!

And what a poorly-timed switcheroo: Thanks to the AI bubble and tariffs, a PS5 costs $600. The PS5 Pro is $900. Couple that with Trump's war in Iran driving up the cost of being alive, and the idea that those friends will go buy a new box just to play Ghost of Yotei is, frankly, a fantasy.

Honestly, the gap between a PS5's usefulness and its asking price is a crater these days. The prevailing joke about the PS5 is that it has no games, and nearly six years into its run, that's barely a joke anymore. The glacial pace of big-budget development has turned the "prestige" Sony game, once the company's ace in the hole, into an endangered species. For the crowd who will still be able to play 99% of new games on a PC, the loss is a blip.

Meanwhile, the most versatile gaming platform is only getting more versatile. Thanks to SteamOS and Linux, the dedicated living room PC is a certified thing now. I play half of my games on a docked Steam Deck from my couch, and the console-like experience is so good that I understand why folks are excited for Valve's Steam Machine (and custom builds like it).

Owning a decent PC is already better than being stuck on a console in so many ways, and now boxes are rapidly losing the convenience argument, too. At the same time, PC gaming is on the rise as younger generations get hip to the rewards of the platform's extra steps. It's not a new observation, but that is likely a big factor in Sony's PC skittishness: If Valve is on its way to taking the "PC console" mainstream, best to treat them like a direct competitor.

If we still lived in world where PlayStation exclusivity meant missing out on Killzone 2, Demon's Souls, Flower, Infamous, Wipeout HD Fury, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time, and Uncharted 2 in a single calendar year, I'd be bummed. But it ain't 2009 anymore.

A single skill tree upgrade in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred has sent its most loot-hungry players into a frenzy. In one click you can gain more power than Blizzard probably intended, covering the ground in so much loot the game can't handle it.

Lord of Hatred's new activity skill trees let you customize the game's various dungeon types with things like bonus loot and tougher bosses. Many players overlooked an option to respawn slain enemies while a shrine buff is active early on, but now they've recognized its true power. With it, you can create a chain reaction of respawning treasure goblins, Diablo 4's most lucrative monsters.

YouTube user FP has proven that the Nightmare Dungeon "Gauntlet" upgrade can net you over 2,000 treasure goblins—2,401 in their case—in a single dungeon. But, they warn, this is far too many treasure goblins for one player to kill. All the bright piles of loot eventually start to disappear as the game struggles to maintain the number of individual items on the floor, like some kind of cosmic punishment.

If anything, FP's video is a proof-of-concept for a farming strategy that beats out everything else in the game as long as you don't push it too far. The trick requires finding a dungeon filled with guaranteed shrines and resetting it until you find some treasure goblins—a rare event that can take quite a while to show up. Before you start smashing them, you need to plan out a route so you can activate several shrines in a row. Any goblins that are killed while the shrine buff is active will respawn as it ends, giving you an opening to activate another shrine and keep the chain going.

The "Gelatinous" goblins are what you're looking for because they split into several smaller goblins when you kill them. Those smaller goblins will respawn as bigger ones, raising your goblin stonks exponentially as they multiply.

Barbarian players using the popular Whirlwind build, like FP, can spin through the dungeon without having to actually see what's going on underneath all the item text. Everyone else might want to utilize Lord of Hatred's new loot filter settings to make only your desired items visible. I'd also recommend flipping on a podcast or a YouTube video while you sort through the heaps of loot the goblins drop.

FP says they lost pretty much all of the loot and will be reigning it in for the next run. They hope that a more modest 399 goblins will keep the game from deleting their rewards. Here's my worry though: Diablo lore tells us that demons never truly die and instead regenerate in the depths of hell. FP may be setting up their own demise when these goblins inevitably come back to life with a thirst for revenge. None of that loot will matter when an army of goblins come to take back what's theirs.