Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls Announced for PC via Epic Games Store

During Epic Games’ keynote at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Quantic Dream announced that its former PlayStation exclusives adventure games Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls are coming to PC.

[TheColbertinator]

Bwahahaha get in there. More PC goodness.

[Razzer]

Loving it!

[starchild]

Yeah, it's really nice all the support the PC platform has been getting in recent years. It's just too big of a platform to ignore and it's kind of a neutral ground for publishers where they can earn some more money from their properties while still maintaining exclusivity in the console realm.

[darthv72]

It's like QD took their ball (all of them) and went to a bigger playground. Maybe we'll see these on Stadia as well?

[IRetrouk]

They only have one ball (heavy rain). The other two balls they playin with are sonys. This is a good thing though and hopefully this will make Sony think about releasing more of their first and second party content onto the PC, this may even be a test for all we know.

[rainslacker]

Kind of surprised because I thought Sony owned the IP's since that's their typical way of publishing games they finance. I guess QD brought back the rights.

Good for PC players, as two of those are good games, and the third is half decent in it's own way.

[AnthonyDavis]

I have the PS4 of Detroit and didn’t play it so I will definitely play it on PC now for free.

[UltraNova]

Not that surprised people actually want to play these movies, ehm, games now...

I'm happy for QD for one, since this move will bring more cash in and that means more games of that type, I frickin loved all of their games, especially Detroit.

[SpaceRanger]

So glad people can and want to play these now! Excellent games for those with a sci-fi liking 👍🏼

[PowerOfTheCloud]

William
No worry there are lots and lots playstation exclusives left.

[Eonjay]

I'm actually Interested to know if the PS4 version is using the VulcanAPI like Detroit on PC. Detroit is a great game btw.

[NecrumOddBoy]

Heavy Rain and Detroit are both excellent games but Beyond Two Souls is not. PC community is going to of course get a hold of that Ellen Page nudity and run with it LOL

[MajorLazer]

I'm in the minority here when I say I enjoyed Beyond: Two Souls. Got it free on PS+ so went in with little expectation.

[Mystogan]

Does Sony really still own the IPs? Or did they sell it or license it back to Quantic Dream when QD decided to go multiplat from now on?

I think the latter is closer to the truth because why only QD games?

[mkis007]

"Detroit: Become Human™ ©2018-2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Developed by Quantic Dream. “Detroit Become Human” is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. All rights reserved."

Beyond: Two Souls™ ©2013-2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Developed by Quantic Dream. “Beyond: Two Souls” and “Beyond” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. All rights reserved.

at the bottom of the epic store page for Detroit and Beyond.

[Melankolis]

@mkis007
Excellent observation.

@mystogan
Assuming Sony as a publisher is not a typo, maybe Sony is testing the water since the fee on Epic store is quite low. The sales of those titles has already passed the climax and only a very little growth now.

And why QD games? Maybe genre-wise, QD games are unique, it's rare to see this genre with AAA calibre. If this becomes a habit, we might see titles like Little Big Planet, Dreams, etc coming to PC as well.

For what? Maximizing profit of course. Epic is probably offering them a huge money they can't refuse. Tencent, just like other chinese companies, love to disrupt the market. Everybody wins, since QD's games, while they sell well, they're not on par with other flagships , Uncharted & God of War for example.

Ok. Those are just my guess.

[Zeref]

I guess Sony is going multiplat as well now.

[jukins]

Sony probably doesnt wholly own Quantic dreams IPs. Quantic dreams have invested so much into motion capture and staff that can get the appropriate cast for their particular types of games that it be insane to let sony completely own the ip. Yea sony usually owns what they publish but theres always a unique case.

But now with Netease becoming a minority investor they probably made a deal with sony to publish on PC particularly the Chinese market and epic stores low cost to bring in some extra revenue on titles that have ran there course on the console that they eont wholly own

[-Ghost]

Damn, look at David Cage's tweet

https://twitter.com/David__...

[gangsta_red]

Lmao! How quick they turn

[rainslacker]

That's kind of a low blow towards Sony by Cage considering that Sony helped make them a bigger name in gaming. He could have announced this without the passive aggressive jab at Sony. I understand that he wants to promote his games, and the new partnerships he made, but one should't do that by burning bridges, because it's quite possible that Sony may wish to fund his games in the future, and he'd be silly to refuse that chance, because it's not like he'll always have funding for every project he wants to do.

[gangsta_red]

@Rainslacker

I'm not really understanding how that is a low blow to Sony? He's basically (literally) saying you don't need a Playstation to play those games as they're now on PC. How is that a knock against Sony.

This is why I'm laughing at the comments, people pulling their hair out over a tweet that isn't even in malice. Especially after years of being told how great QD and Sony's relationship was.

"it's quite possible that Sony may wish to fund his games in the future, and he'd be silly to refuse that chance, because it's not like he'll always have funding for every project he wants to do."

Didn't a billion dollar Chinese company NetEase just buy a major share of this company? I'm sure they have all the funding they need for their games now.

[Inzo]

Finally, after years of waiting PC is getting proper games.

[on_line_forever]

Steam should be smart now and bring bloodborn exclusive to her store

[badz149]

all I can say is WOW! these games aren't really selling THAT much anymore and have done their part pushing the PS4 sales. so I think this is Sony double dipping on sales. hopefully, no more PC gamers trash talking about "movie games" on PS4 now that they are coming to the PC too.

[The_Sage]

Bwahabaha... Enjoy our leftovers. We'll keep handing them out to you as we see fit.

[THC CELL]

Great treat for you pc players enjoy

[nyu1]

the more quality games the better :)

[ChrisW]

It's only great if the ports done with quality and care...

[THC CELL]

Forget moaning who owns what I can't wait to see the mods lol 😂

[annoyedgamer]

"Inappropriate"

[jivah]

Nothing remotely new either. I mean Sony had their hands in pc gaming for quite some time going back to Everquest. Wouldnt be the least surprised if they choose to do a little more in that arena being that eventually thats the direction things will eventually head

[italiangamer]

Sony keeps supporting the Epic Games store. For sure they got payed some money for it!

[TricksterArrow]

I was thinking the same. Why would Sony want to release these exclusives EXCLUSIVELY on Epic Store? They gain something from f***** over Steam? I mean, the sales number would be considerably higher on Steam...

[italiangamer]

They got payed a lot for sure, as Sony still is the IP owner of Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human and funded and published Heavy Rain.

[Eonjay]

Metro Exodus sold 2.5X higher on Epic than Last Light on Steam.

[Mr_Writer85]

@trickster

Would it be higher full price sales?

As Valve fans make a big song and dance about buying most games in sales.

100 sales at £49.99 = more profit than 300 sales at £9.99.

[Imalwaysright]

italiangamer

Is it? Tried to find who owns those IPs and couldn't find anything. It's possible that Sony never owned them.

[IRetrouk]

@ I'malwaysright, qd owns heavy rain ip, Sony own beyond and Detroit ip.

[Donnie81]

You need to rephrase your statement. It’s not exclusive it’s former exclusive. They are on pc now and by the fanboy definition that makes them multiplats.

[TricksterArrow]

@italiangamer Yeah, probably. I was just wondering if there is a bigger picture that we are not seeing.

@MrWriter85 Good point.

@Donnie81 It's not a statement, it's a question. Plus, you must be REALLY butthurt about something if that's what you take from what I asked.

[Christopher]

***Trademarks aren't rights to an IP. For Sony to own those IPs they would have to copyright the artistic work (story, characters, music...) and code of the game. Trademarks only protect names or logos.***

Please learn stuff that can be easily found on Wikipedia before saying things like this.

"A trademark identifies the brand owner of a particular product or service."

[Imalwaysright]

Christopher

Yeah, no. There are much better sources than wikipedia.

[PowerOfTheCloud]

@donnie

"They are on pc now and by the fanboy definition that makes them multiplats"

Not fanboy definition but common sense and logical thinking makes them multiplats, maybe console exclusives at best. Just like 99% of xbox 1 games which are multiplats/ console exclusives.
But this doesn't impact playstation that much because it has loads of true exclusives from first, second and third parties left.

[gangsta_red]

Doesn't Quantic Dream own these IP's? I don't think this has anything to do with Sony.

[italiangamer]

Sony owns Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human, while they funded and published Heavy Rain that's why you see these coming only on PC and not xbox.

[Persian_Immortal]

Heavy Rain I.P yes, Detroit Become Human and Beyond Two Souls are owned by Sony

Source: Justia Trademark

[gangsta_red]

@Italiangamer

I'm not sure if that's entirely true. Sony did publish those games but I don't think Sony actually owns those IP's you mentioned. And this does make sense that they're games would be coming to other platforms just like they recently said when they got a huge investment by another company NetEase (i believe)

[gravedigger]

It is true, gangsta.

Check justia trademark

[BehindTheRows]

Sony owns the trademarks of Beyond and Detroit.

[gangsta_red]

@Persian

I never knew about that website, that is definitely good to have on hand, thanks for that. So now the question is why the Epic store?

[Sevir]

This isn't anything new. The same thing is happening for Death Stranding... The game is published and funded on PS4 but will also release on PC some time after The PS4 release independently. And the new developments, it seems Kojima might put it not just on Epic Store but Stadia as well because he was super excited about that platform when it was unveiled yesterday.

[TheUndertaker85]

@below individuals: Sony also published Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon yet they held and hold no rights to either IP. Just because Sony publishes does not mean they have 100% control of the IPs or even those titles.

[gravedigger]

@theUndertaker

Sony published Spyro and Crash before, yes. But Crash and Spyro were never owned by Sony. It was owned by Universal Interactive Studios before. Later Activision bought Crash IP.

[Persian_Immortal]

Also for Japanese Trademarks https://trademark-search.ma...

US Copyrights https://cocatalog.loc.gov/c...

[IRetrouk]

He didn't just say Sony published these, he also said they owned two of the ips, and help fund the first, while funding or publishing itself does not determine anything , ownership does, and Sony do own both Detroit and beyond, so nothing like crash or spyro at all, you could argue heavy rain I suppose but I'd say Sony at least in part own something of it, they did fund the game after all, usually that means something. However the deal was done this is a good thing, more people get to play 3 really good games.

[Imalwaysright]

Persian_Immortal

Trademarks aren't rights to an IP. For Sony to own those IPs they would have to copyright the artistic work (story, characters, music...) and code of the game. Trademarks only protect names or logos.

[gangsta_red]

@imalwaysright

Hmmmmm, is there a difference between owning trademarks and owning the IPs?

I don't know...with the tweet David Cage just put out, it doesn't really sound like something Sony would have done on their own.

[IRetrouk]

Imalwaysright, here you go

https://ibb.co/KKrPrVF

https://ibb.co/VTWzC5W

https://ibb.co/XZQpSYb

Why would they only own the name or logo but not the IP itself? That would be silly, for a game they don't own?

[gravedigger]

Quote :

Hmmmmm, is there a difference between owning trademarks and owning the IPs?

I don't know...with the tweet David Cage just put out, it doesn't really sound like something Sony would have done on their own.

.....

Publishing rights and owning IP are two different things.

Just check the Justia Trademarks again. Who owns a Heavy Rain, yet who is publisher, but who own a Detroit and Beyond and who published them. You'll see the difference.

Universal Studio Owned Crash IP before, publisher was Sony, yet "Crash Trademark" was sold to Activision by Universal Interactive Studio.

[rainslacker]

If Sony still owns the IP, it doesn't mean they couldn't license it out, or even sell it back if they so wished. It's not overly common, as it costs money for the developers or the publishers who want to put it on other platforms, but it certainly not unheard of. If they felt those franchises weren't relevant to promoting their brand, it might make sense to make some extra money off doing such a thing. That isn't common for them at all, but until it becomes a regular thing, and Sony starts saying they're all for PC, I wouldn't read too much into it.

@Iamalwaysright

Owning the trademark is the same as owning the IP.

Quick google search

"Trademarks protect the intellectual property and use of a specific idea or symbol, and can be very useful for a business or person with a distinct brand."

Even if QD happens to own the content, which is unlikely given how Sony structures it's contracts for such things, Sony has the ultimate say on what can be done with it. They have the ability to sell it, trade it, use it for their own ends, etc. Even QD can't do anything with that content without Sony's permission based on trademark law....at least not without facing legal repurcussions.

Trademark is just the way one protects one's ownership of an intellectual property from being used by another party. One can own an IP without a trademark. One can not trademark a property they don't own.

Is it really that hard to believe that Sony owns the IP's in question, and QD got permission to use it? Or paid to use it in this way? It's not really that strange, other than we don't see it that often from Sony published games.

[Imalwaysright]

IRetrouk

Silly or not it wouldn't be the 1st time and won't be the last time that a company or someone has the rights to a name and/or logo and not have the copyrights of the products/services themselves.

@ gangsta_red

You can find detailed information here https://www.wipo.int/wipo_m... but basically trademarks protect names, expressions or logos while copyrights protect everything that makes a game a game from music to code, art, story, characters...

[Imalwaysright]

@ rainslacker

From World Intellectual Property Organization

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_m...

"IP is the lifeblood of the industry. IP rights are associated both with the tools used to develop games and the content included in a game. For example, copyright safeguards the creative and artistic expression that goes into the software (the code), the artwork and the sound (and music) of a game."

"What developers own is IP; what they sell (through licensing deals) is IP. In fact, all they have is IP, so they need to protect it."

Copyrights protect IPs

"Trademarks protect the names and logos associated with a game and its characters and can be used to set a company and its games apart from others in the minds of consumers"

Tradermarks protect names.

If you make a game and only file for a trademark that protects whatever name you gave it and don't protect it with copyrights I can legally sell your game under a different name. Trademarks do NOT protect IPs and aren't proof that a company owns an IP. The ones that copyright the IP, own it.

[IRetrouk]

Ok that's good knowledge, and a fair argument, if Sony were not given its dues on the epic store then you may even have a point, but as it relates to these games, Sony own 2 as another user pointed out.

mkis0071h ago

"Detroit: Become Human™ ©2018-2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Developed by Quantic Dream. “Detroit Become Human” is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. All rights reserved." 

Beyond: Two Souls™ ©2013-2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Developed by Quantic Dream. “Beyond: Two Souls” and “Beyond” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. All rights reserved. 

at the bottom of the epic store page for Detroit and Beyond.

https://ibb.co/30yMk1f
https://ibb.co/51zCvh2
https://ibb.co/tHgQvTp

[TricksterArrow]

Yep, it states on the Epic Store that it's a Sony licensed game.

[Kribwalker]

Sony is following MS lead and releasing their Ips on PC. The market to be able
to play on the platform you want is too enticing for them to ignore. Once again it has been proven that these companies really just care about their bottom line and not some silly console war

[IRetrouk]

Has Sony not published games before on PC krib? Is this their first? How are they following ms lead when they have been on PC for years? They even had a pc centric dev team didn't they? Sony releasing on PC is nothing new or startling and it's a continuation of what they have done in the past. Sony are not looking to copy ms in anything, they already have the most popular console, with some of the best exclusives you can buy, and a working streaming service, that also happens to be the most popular streaming service for games so far... what exactly do they need to or want to follow ms on again?

[The_Sage]

Hey, gangsta... Do you ever get tired of having at least 2 to 1 in disagrees?

[gangsta_red]

@The_Sage

If I didn't that would mean I was doing something wrong on this site

[SuperSonic91]

They did this partnership before with Gabe Newell and Steam for the Portal games. Nothin spectacular.

[Persian_Immortal]

Yep they also have a Publishing arm called Playstation Mobile Inc. which has put 3 games on Steam, Guns Up, Hell Divers and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture so it isnt anything new for Sony to put their I.P's on PC besides the major high budget triple A games like God Of War, Uncharted, TLou.

[DJStotty]

@Persian

Microsoft have exclusives on the PC "Lolz, xbox has no games"

Sony does the same "yeah thats ok, this has happened before"

[SuperSonic91]

Epic is now a USD $15B company because of Fortnite. They sure has the cash now and their partnership with SIE is very mutual.

PS4: "We only succeed if our third oarty partners do."

[harmny]

Fine for me

[-Gespenst-]

Fortnite money, which will definitely dry up in the next year or two.

[sleepyhead62]

Hate to break it to you, but fortnite earned only a small portion of what epic is worth right now.
They are not going anywhere with that unreal engine cash.

[neocores8055]

Wow amazing for PC people. Plz give beyond two souls a shot it's an amazing story and detriot and heavy rain are just amazing you guys will enjoy these

[PoSTedUP]

never played detroit. heard it was good

[CaitSith]

My GOTY of 2018. Go get it!

[PoSTedUP]

hmm guess i have to. beyond was great. thanks!

[Fist4achin]

I loved Beyond Two Souls. Great story telling there. I have yet to play Detroit. It's on my list.

[chazjamie]

The controls are the worst controls I have ever encountered in a game. Good luck trying to get someone to play that game for longer than 10 minutes.

[Veneno]

2 million have played the game. Maybe it's you?

[nowitzki2004]

Plenty of us "PC people" are gamers with consoles as well and have played those already.

[Blu3_Berry]

Well then, can't say I was expecting that. Though this is a little different as these were formerly a Sony exclusive so I can't complain to much when it was never expected a PC release to begin with. Still though, these won't be convincing enough for me to use the EGS.

[Larrysweet]

Theres no reason not to use it 2 sec download bunch crybabies get used to it or u gonna miss a whole lotta amazing games the first year of release

[SegaGamer]

Nothing will tempt me to use Epic's store.

[m2stech]

I like where this is going, Microsoft announces all the Halo games on Steam and then we get Sony's first party games on Epic store, it's like Sony and Microsoft fighting a proxy war on PC :D

[TheColbertinator]

As a PC gamer, I had only wished this happened sooner.

[generic-user-name]

Keep wishing, quantic was always 2nd party.

[Gamingsince1981]

What Sony first party games are on epic store?

[Gamingsince1981]

How can anyone disagree with my comment, name 1 first party game on the epic store ..........I'll wait

[opc]

Detroit Become Human and Beyond Two Souls are apparently still owned by Sony.

[porkChop]

These games are second party,not first party. Sony doesn't own Quantic Dream.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I am excited

[spicelicka]

Wow that's surprising!

[Cajun Chicken]

Massive and sneaky.

[TK-66]

More people get to enjoy bad storytelling I guess.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Finally someone called Cage out. Good at presentations and not much else.

[--bienio--]

What?? Damn it Epic!! You are forcing me to buy games from your store:))

[Wolffenblitz]

Are they? It doesn't say they're exclusive to Epic store. I still won't be downloading it.

[Traecy]

It's possible Sony may have a hand in this as well,these games are still PS gaming console exclusives.

[Eonjay]

More importantly they own the IP so they literally have to be involved. When the same start up, expect to be greeted by Sony Computer entertainment.

[mkis007]

Ya it looks like some 2nd party games are getting ports. Started with ThatGameCompany games. Seems like Epic Games percentages are favorable to sony.

[ocelot07]

Great for pc but surprised Sony is doing this?

[Traecy]

Not surprising,it's a niche game & they want to profit more money by putting it on PC.

[harmny]

Why not. Free money. The game was already released on ps4

[ocelot07]

True i just don't want to see Sony turn into Microsoft that's all.

[Veneno]

Dude Epic games is makin it rain ☔ I would be there 2 to take any money they wanted to get rid of!

[Father__Merrin]

I think these second party exclusives are suitable to be made available on epic games stores

[Orionsangel]

Loving the free monthly games on EPIC Launcher!

[Mystogan]

Definitely picking up Detroit Human. Now bring me Spiderman :P

[DillyDilly]

Damn how many Sony Games are becoming non exclusive ? Whats next the Kingdom Hearts collections on PC ?

[BehindTheRows]

Um, not many?

[DillyDilly]

We will see

[Xavi4K]

Nioh,yakuza, Nier to name a few

[BehindTheRows]

We will, especially since this move probably has much more to do with the fact that Quantic is now owned by another company and wants these games on other platforms. When the God of Wars, Horizons, Uncharteds etc, etc... start making their way over to PC (particularly as 1-year Epic Store exclusives), then the discussion can shift.

[rainslacker]

I dunno. Outside these two, I'm having a hard time thinking of any other Sony published exclusive, which is not not exclusive. Maybe the old crash and spyro games?

Two games isn't a major paradigm shift from Sony. It's an anomaly, which is not in any way common, and doesn't really change the discourse on the whole exclusive topic in the least.

But....bring on the hypocrisy insinuations.

[Xavi4K]

“Hypocrisy insinuation”
You mean like when people say xbox got no exclusive because the games are on Pc but now suddenly when ps4 games come to pc its still exclusive on ps4 console ☺️

[rainslacker]

@Xavi4K

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. History supports the theory that people will use these two examples to say that everyone is a hypocrite, or insinuate that this is a common thing with Sony games, when it really isn't. No one has really commented on that particular aspect of the long standing diatribe surrounding such things, but I already see some trying to get their attacks in now, even when no hypocrisy has been demonstrated. Many people think that because of what was true before, that because it's now no longer true, that the hypocrisy ends up being retroactive. The hypocrisy would come from those that defend this, but made a big deal about it before.

I personally wasn't one of those people that made a big deal about MS doing it before, and was perfectly content calling it a console exclusive.

[BehindTheRows]

@Xavi4K

Ni-oh, Yakuza, and Nier were never Sony games.

[BehindTheRows]

Interesting. Seven disagrees, no replies, and can’t prove it wrong.

I’ll help these out - none of the mentioned games were ever owned by Sony. Fact. Disagree if you’d like, but you’d be disagreeing with something indisputable. Being exclusive is another matter, but DillyDilly said ‘Sony games’, not ‘exclusives’.

[Monkeycan8]

TBH Kingdom Hearts collection should be everywhere.

[Zeref]

KingdomHearts is not owned by Sony. There will definitely be something on Xbox or Switch eventually.

[criticalkare]

Awesome!

[Brash]

More big companies are going to crutch on the Epic Games Store until Steam decreases its percentage cut, or enough players get tired of the exclusivity and move over, or maybe Epic Games will add quality-of-life improvements and convince players to move. I don't have a horse in the race.

[Kaiou]

A.N.A.L.E.D

[PlayableGamez-]

Bring bloodborne to PC sony.

[StormLegend]

Doesn't Sony still own these? They must want that epic games money.

[Veneno]

Epic makin it rain ☔ right now 💰

[timotim]

Sony going 3rd party???

[XabiDaChosenOne]

*Quantic

[gangsta_red]

*Sony owned IP's

[timotim]

Ummmm...wasn't Quantic always 3rd party? 🤔 They were never bought by Sony from my understanding...

[XabiDaChosenOne]

@timotim
They were second party since they made three exclusive games for Sony. Or is that not a term anymore?
@ I'm sure Quantic worked out a deal with Sony to get these on the PC, since they will be producing multiplatform games from here on out

[IRetrouk]

If its Sony publishing them then yeah, but they have released games on PC already so it's not really them going 3rd party so much as continuing their 3rd party releases on PC.

[OpenGL]

Shame they’re releasing them on Epic. Wasn’t interested in playing any of these again though.

[timotim]

Well now that the games are no longer exclusive to Sony's ecosystem, more people can play them...I might give Detroit a try on my PC...

[OpenGL]

It looked nice on PS4 Pro so I'm sure if the port is even halfway decent it'll be nice looking.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

While I don’t think Sony first party games being on PC would hurt PlayStation sales. I wonder how much did Epic pay Sony for Epic Store console exclusivity.

[Veneno]

It would have to be alot since these are Sony owned IPs

[Melankolis]

Too much to say no.

My guess is, QD with Netease's money got license to make those games on PC. Sony, put a high price tag + maybe some royalty fee from sales. Then QD and Netease put those games on sale on Epic store, backed up by another Chinese conglomerate, Tencent. I won't be surprised if both Netease and Tencent are two different animals owned by the same investor(s).

[harmny]

Death stranding on epic store please

[--bienio--]

It will be

[Veneno]

Death Stranding will be a Steam exclusive so that Sony can play both sides and never lose 😏

[Melankolis]

It's possible. If...Kojipro is bought by chinese conglomerate and offer hundreds of million dollars to Sony to buy back the copyright. Or maybe Epic itself buy Kojipro.
Rime. Is just an example before this case happen. The difference is Rime's developer buy back the copyright from Sony before the game was released.

[jagermaster619]

But but Sony doesn't put their exclusives on pc... Haha I'm loving it keep them coming!

[Veneno]

It's clear that you are trying to paint a narrative that Sony is desperate in some kind of way but don't get it twisted. Epic paid some good coin to get these games because they understand that Sony breeds quality gaming and Epic needs that to get their service off the ground. So in the end the PC port beggers are still bowing down to Sony.

[jagermaster619]

Nope just saying that Sony fanboys can bash ms about the same thing but when they do it there is no problem right? You guys crack me up!

[cliveo32]

There all great games well worth picking up

[Veneno]

I played the first 2 games. Loved Heavy Rain. So so on Beyond. Heard Detroit was good but still passed on it. I should get it because I was let down by God of War in 2018 and I'm thinking Detroit will be better for me.

[Tzuno]

Where they belong, after all, they are created on pc.

[callahan09]

Would love it if the console companies would start putting their exclusives on PC after a timed-exclusivity on the console. I couldn't see Nintendo ever doing it, but Sony, maybe? A year or two delay from console launch to eventually get games future Uncharted, God of War, Ratchet & Clank, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, games (and past ones) on PC? That would be so awesome. I've always really wanted Demon's Souls on my PC. My favorite game of all time!

[timotim]

This is how it begins...

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Misery loves company, keep dreaming.

[timotim]

I'm all for company, but who is in misery here???

[Zeref]

Xbox had the right idea, like always. Sony is following them in their footsteps. Just like how they will be releasing all 1st party on PSnow day and date sooner or later.

[TheGoodestBoi]

Sony is not following in anyone's footsteps, at least not in this case. Quantic Dreams is not first party, so at best there was a contractual clause for a certain period and now they can release on pc. We'll talk again when the likes of Unchartered God of war or Horizon gets released on steam or Epic

[gangsta_red]

Where have I heard these type of comments before....I know I have...

[Nasdac]

I can see the connection of Second Party Playstation Exclusives are strong with Epic Store.

[HaVoK308]

PC users rejoice! You’re in for about 50hrs of mind-numbing boredom.

[Zeref]

now its boring? lol

[shadowT]

Detroit is my fav of this console gen!

[AK91]

Holy sh*t I did NOT see that one coming, man the kids coming out of this are going to be hilarious.

[Dizzy11523]

Boring games.

[Majin-vegeta]

I wonder if netease paid sony to give full rights of the IPS to QD?🤔

[Xavi4K]

Ok glad that I waited for detroit gonna play it on my pc

[Xavi4K]

Spider man and bloodborne next !!

[jagermaster619]

😂🙏🤘 yup this stuff is great!

[--bienio--]

Anyway PC is on 🔥

[Einhander1971]

Stunning games enjoy some Sony goodness on PC.

[Fishy Fingers]

Quantic Dream goodness*

[ILostMyMind]

Great games.

[Malice-Flare]

must have been a very good deal that Epic Games Store offered Sony for these titles to release on PC exclusively to their storefront. i still abhor this practice of money-hatting for exclusives...

[Ninjamonkey82]

Bit off a large exclusive to be on the way to Pc but ey we have seen it in the past final fantasy Tekken etc. So same time im not surprised QD most off made out on a large deal with epic for this to happen, Same time I'd say some the epic store stuff will find its way to ps5.

[neomahi]

Morons. PlayStation (Sony) owns all of those IPs. It's not that Quantic Dream "took their ball and went to another program) it's Sony that said let's look into the PC market a bit more.

[saimcheeda]

I thought Sony owns the rights to these games

[Majin-vegeta]

The only thing I can think of.When Netease bought a percentage of QD they wanted the titles they made to go with them so they must have paid Sony to hand the rights over

[TheHateTheyGive]

In before the countless articles in the coming days telling us that all sony exclusives will now be on pc.

[bluebenjamin]

This should be the Norm for PC and no way we should be forced to limit our experience on hardware we dont want to play on lies lovin’ the support for higher frames

[bluebenjamin]

Lol 4 disagree with PC having more games and consumers having more freedom.But hay is for horses we know which fanbase gave the disagree it wasn’t Xbox or nintendo lol

[Monkeycan8]

Kinda weird but okay.

[Lexreborn2]

From console exclusive to platform exclusive, I thought Quantic Dreams was looking to broaden the scope not tie themselves back down.

[Saranya]

Yesssss!!!

[NeoGamer232]

This stuff is just inevitable. Exclusivity platforms are a thing of the past.

[plmkoh]

Haha the mods for these games are going to be bloody hilarious. Model swaps, sound swaps, level hacking...the games are gold mines.

[Question_Mark]

Maybe the mods will actually make the games good.

[babadivad]

Nice

[Youngindy21]

Detroit's a great game. But I can't help but to think at this point, you'd be better off building a decent PC and leaving consoles altogether since both Xbox and PS4 seem to be losing their exclusives.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Cool, have wanted to check these out for awhile. Depending on the prices, I may skip from the PS4 and get them on PC.

[Melankolis]

Hey. You're cool. You're better than a few (yes, a few) PC gamers who, celebrated this news but don't plan to buy the game anyway.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Lol thanks I think? My girlfriend tells me I should play more PC games, so I figured why not? Just hoping they are decently priced

[Orionsangel]

Why is everyone complaining so much about Epic doing this? Like this assclown - https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Just get the EPIC Launcher. I can stream with it just fine. I have all the game launchers from all different companies. It's no biggie.

[TheOptimist]

So you want to go to a store that has 1/10th the feature of the biggest competitor with 40% Chinese ownership who might be selling personal data by having spyware on your PC. Go ahead.

[Orionsangel]

I honestly don't care. I have the launcher from the competitor. I have everything. I just wanna play the game. Wherever it is. Everything has spyware these days. You think they're gonna tell you?

[A2X_]

I remember the "PC master race" calling these games shitty movies. Now they're all excited. Bunch of hypocrites lol

[SegaGamer]

Yeah, because ALL of us pc gamers said that /s

[leahcim]

Sony losing a big exclusive and not receiving another big that goes multiplat (cuphead).....
Bad week for Sony fans.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

PS4 exclusive on PC, gotta love it! Just to bad they're on the Epic store ;(

[leoms]

Pc gamers you're in for a treat. Enjoy. The xbots out there, your ignorance is not entertaining anymore

[TheOptimist]

Oh Daivid "Melodrama" Caige. Epic can keep the movies.

[81BX]

Lol love it!!!!

[EnsignHiro]

This is great news. So awesome to see all the support pc is getting. First halo mcc and now this. Now is the time to get a pc if you havent already got one.

[yewles1]

That Sony/Epic partnership seems to be growing.

[quent]

How does the ponies bashing Xbox fans go again, "I can play it on my PC so there's no point in owning a PS4", did I get it right N4G dwellers ?

[TheHateTheyGive]

CAn you play, Bloodborne, mlb 19 the show, god of war ps4, days gone, last of us 2 and hundreds of other PlayStation exclusives on pc? So what if sonys 2nd party studios are porting games to pc. Let me know when you can play sony ps4 1st party games on pc then we can talk. Sony "lost" yakuza from sega and quantic dream games to pc. Big deal. sony is not like xbox, we lose 1 exclusive and gain many more.

[Melankolis]

Whoa...that's too fast. Sony never make announcement that every exclusives will come to PC unlike Microsoft. Even now, the announcement was done by QD. What's going on behind the scene is yet to be confirmed.

[Romitajr]

Bring Bloodborne to PC

[XxINFERNUSxX]

That's nice, not supporting Epic, I only have Steam installed and that's it.
Thanks for the heads up I know what to look for on my favorite torrent sites. \o/ At this rate I will need a few more hard drives :D

[blanka4545]

hell yeah! :)

[The_Sage]

Is this pointing to a Sony/Epic Games collaboration?..

[Platformgamer]

cuphead on switch and now this?
what's going on?

[_LarZen_]

It's the start of the end of fanboys as we know it. Isn't it fantastic?

[cd1]

Apart from PC having fanboys too.

[Wulfer]

What's going on is gaming as you know is changing. Every gen the big boys change up things, sometimes good sometime bad. The one thing you can take away from this is gaming as you know it now is changing. Sony will change to meet the others or they'll be left in the dust. This happens every generation change.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I'm honestly shocked

[Jon_Targaryen]

Gonna get it, no doubt.

[FanboysKiller]

Is this normal?

[FanboysKiller]

Next news "Ratchet and Clank announced for Android and apple store".

[pyroxxx]

Heavy rain aged really poorly,..Just cannot get into it,.. BTS,.. is quite playable,.. Don't know about Detroid,.. but the demo looks jaw-dropping,..
In a way really happy more gamers get to experience these games.

[SkatterBrain]

Good Sony is Doing this and the little big planet phone app and fat princess app, they still make money on other platforms, I Still wonder if Microsoft is going to release Minecraft 2 on PS4 since they own minecraft ,i havent vothered to check if the PS4 got the minecraft Upgrade i saw in a video

[Master of Unlocking]

Now in an instant QD games have just become fully-fledged games and not interactive movies anymore in the minds of plenty of naysayers!

[Question_Mark]

Nope, they’re still crappy movies.

[jmtstan]

great.... Detroit Become Human is a great looking game... if on PC it would be more epic looking. Also people will put mods in it.

[DJStotty]

but but the exclusives!!!!

[Edito]

It makes sense Tencent Games bought Quantic Dreams or invested big time in the studio very recently and the same conglomerate has shares like big shares in Epic Games... But personally I think QD will lose themselves in the big stage.

[Majin-vegeta]

Lol some pepole here thinking that all of a sudden PS exclusives will be on PC😂.No QD recently had a percentage bought out by Netease.

So if you think you're gonna be playing God of war,Horiozn,Days gone,or BB you better keep your dreams down cuz thats only gonna happen through PSNOw.

https://www.google.com/amp/...

[FyBy]

Great games! Good job!

[Srelhow]

I feel like Steam must have started pooping all over and devs/publishers. Maybe gave them too many reasons to leave IDK. What I do know is having all these DAMN game/store launchers is driving me crazy. Complete unnecessary bloatware B.S.

[Majin-vegeta]

Well steam takes 30% while Epic takes 12% where do you think they will go?

[akbennyewu]

Love that any comment mentioning the change from exclusive to console exclusive immediately gets flagged as inappropriate. Suck it hypocrites!

[Tross]

That's great news for PC gamers who don't have a PS4. There's always a catch though. Looks like you will have to support the Epic Games Store if you want the PC versions...