Death Stranding coming to PC was surely because Sony and Kojima enjoyed a special relationship.
Originally, as mentioned, it was believed something like this would never happen Detroit coming to PC was more because Sony had terminated its relationship with Quantic Dream, surely, and the IP no longer held any value to them. It’s been fascinating to see how observers, many of whom were convinced something like this would never happen, have gradually adjusted their expectations and stances to allow for these developments. And just recently, Sony officially introduced the PlayStation PC label to the world, conclusively making it clear that they plan on continuing to bring their games to the platform going forward. Sony bought Nixxes, a development studio notable for porting console games to PC, earlier this year. All of this is on top of a surprisingly voluminous flow of Sony first party games on PC in the last few years – Detroit: Become Human, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, Days Gone, all came to PC in this period.
Additionally, an Nvidia GeForce Now database leak seemed to indicate that there would be several more games coming from Sony to PC in the future – including PS5 games such as Demon’s Souls. God of War is coming to PC next year, Uncharted is coming to PC next year, and Sackboy: A Big Adventure was leaked in the SteamDB database as well, indicating that it, too, is making the jump to PC soon.
