Confirmed: Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC
Play Horizon on PC this summer
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PS4exclusiveHorizon Zero Dawnwill come to PC, it’s been confirmed bySony. This was largely expected – but it doesn’t mean you should anticipate every PlayStation exclusive to make the leap in future.
Hermen Hulst, head of worldwide studios at PlayStation, mentioned the port in an interview withPlayStation Blog. PC players can get their hands on it this summer. ASteam pageis now live for the game, but there are no system requirements yet. It’s the complete edition, with The Frozen Wilds expansion.
“Yes, I can confirm that Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC this summer,” Hulst said in an interview that strangely seems to downplay the announcement. “There will be more information coming from Guerrilla, from the new studio directors [Michiel van der Leeuw, JB van Beek, and Angie Smets] pretty soon.” Hulst is a co-founder of Guerrilla.
This is fantastic news for PC players – but don’t expect this to be the start of PS4, and later,PS5games launching on PC day and date.
“I think it’s important that we stay open to new ideas of how to introduce more people to PlayStation, and show people maybe what they’ve been missing out on,” Hulst elaborated.
“And to maybe put a few minds at ease, releasing one first-party AAA title to PC doesn’t necessarily mean that every game now will come to PC. In my mind, Horizon Zero Dawn was just a great fit in this particular instance. We don’t have plans for day and date [PC releases], and we remain 100% committed to dedicated hardware.”
Mouse and keyboard control will be a great fit for Horizon, which features a lot of precision combat with a bow and arrows. WhenKotakubroke the story of Horizon coming to PC back in January, it was suggested that the game would launch on bothSteamand theEpic GamesStore – but it was noted that plans around this weren’t finalized.
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Nothing more is said about Horizon on PC in this interview, but as Hulst suggests, more news will be forthcoming.
What next?
Surely this is a test by Sony to see what works on PC – if Horizon sells a lot of copies, PC could become an important secondary market for PlayStation games. Horizon is more than three years old at this point, so the exclusivity period definitely works in PS4 owners' favor.
PC players surely wouldn’t complain if they got the likes of Spider-Man,God of Waror Dreams years after PlayStation players – but it sounds like Sony is treading carefully, here, so as not to upset its existing player base.Death Stranding, another game once thought to be a PS4 exclusive,is coming to PC on June 2.
Either way, Horizon on PC sounds like a win-win. We can’t wait to see how it performs.
Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Editor, he’s an expert in Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix shows and general streaming stuff. Before his stint at TechRadar, he spent six years at PC Gamer. Samuel is also the co-host of the popular Back Page podcast, in which he details the trials and tribulations of being a games magazine editor – and attempts to justify his impulsive eBay games buying binges.
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