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Sony’s PC strategy might be changing again, and PC players probably aren’t going to like it much. You know when you wish people would just make their minds up and get on with the job at hand?

A new report suggests Sony is planning to scale back PC releases for some of its major single-player PlayStation games, potentially ending the steady flow of former PS5 exclusives landing on Steam a couple of years later.

According to Bloomberg sources cited by multiple outlets, Sony wants to place more focus back on the PS5 ecosystem itself, with upcoming games like Ghost of Yotei and Housemarque’s Saros reportedly among the titles that may stay console-exclusive rather than eventually making the jump to PC.

That would be a pretty major shift after several years of Sony aggressively bringing its older exclusives to Steam. Games like God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us Part 1 all found huge audiences on PC, with some players simply waiting out the console launch knowing a port would probably appear later.

Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida even previously described the PC strategy as “printing money,” because Sony could effectively resell older games to a whole new audience years after launch.

Now though, it sounds like Sony may be worried the approach is hurting PS5 sales. If players believe every big exclusive is eventually coming to Steam anyway, there’s less pressure to actually buy the console.

With GTA 6 looming over the industry and expected to shift huge amounts of hardware, Sony reportedly wants to reinforce the idea that PlayStation is still the place you need to be for big blockbuster releases.

The reported change doesn’t appear to apply to multiplayer games or live-service projects. Sony still seems happy releasing online-focused titles across multiple platforms, especially after the company’s big live-service push over the last few years.

It’s also worth remembering that none of this has been officially confirmed by Sony yet, and plans can obviously change. But if the reports are accurate, PC players may need to get used to the idea that not every PlayStation hit is guaranteed to arrive on Steam anymore.

The thing is, the PlayStation 5 is a much tougher sell now since Sony recently jacked the price up. If it comes down to me, and I would expect many, having to choose between not playing the new Horizon game and spending around $800 on the hardware to do so, then I am going back to playing Subnautica 2.

For a while there, it genuinely felt like Sony had quietly stopped believing in the whole “exclusive” thing. That may no longer be the case. How does it go? For the players?