Gus Gaming Brief — Sony's exclusive doctrine, CDPR documents itself, and a tabletop Division
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The headline that platform-watchers are circling: Rock Paper Shotgun reports PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst is reportedly confirming the strategy to stop porting narrative-driven singleplayer games to PC. Ghost of Yōtei and Saros are the named casualties. Sony's read is that keeping big singleplayer IP exclusive for "a little bit" is good for the platform. The counter-evidence — Helldivers 2's PC release pulled in millions of players that PS5 alone couldn't have monetized — is in the same RPS piece. The honest take: Sony is willing to accept smaller absolute revenue per title in exchange for narrative-driven exclusives propping up console sales. Whether that's right depends on hardware-cycle math no public observer fully sees.
On the process side: Rock Paper Shotgun has an excellent piece on how The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are being built with a new documentation regime at CD Projekt Red. Both games now require devs to keep internal narrative bibles, tool guides, and asset folders current at every milestone. Technical writer team lead Jarosław Ruciński frames it as learning from the documentation chaos of the prior cycle. Boring as it sounds, this is the kind of process change that determines whether a sequel can be co-developed with multiple studios in parallel — which is exactly what CDPR is trying to do.