Sony pulling back from PC also means it's pulling back from China

Sony's surprise decision to reverse its strategy of porting singleplayer PlayStation games to PC has drawn scrutiny. Bluepoint Games' head of technology suggested it was likely because Sony's more worried about Valve than about Xbox, while our own Morgan Park pointed out that Sony is only robbing us of maybe four half-decent games.

Alinea Insights has been analysing PlayStation sales and found notable details on the PC side. A full 42% of Death Stranding 2's PC sales came from China, which was its "biggest Steam market", and China is a top market for Stellar Blade on Steam as well. Steam's last hardware survey showed 39.48% of users have their language set to English and 21.85% to Simplified Chinese, making it the second-most popular language by a large margin.

It's difficult to figure out how many actual people that comes to though, since a bunch of those accounts will inevitably belong to internet cafes; some estimates put the number over 30 million.

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