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PlayStation 5 Cross-Buy Graphic Spotted, Sparking Hope That Sony Will Finally Introduce Dual PS5 And PC Purchases

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A “Cross-Buy” graphic spotted on the PlayStation Store has sparked speculation that Sony is set to announce cross-platform purchasing for its games across consoles and PC.

References to a “crossbuy-tag” seen via the PlayStation Store and a PS5 console store graphic featuring the word “Cross-Buy” were recently spotted by social media user Amethxst and investigated by Dealabs.

Now, Dealabs has verified both the PlayStation Store code and image are legitimate, confirming — if nothing else — that Sony is indeed thinking about some kind of Cross-Buy offering.

How exactly this offering may work remains to be seen, however. Would Cross-Buy only be available for first-party games currently released on PC? Would access be granted free for future PC launches? And what about third-party titles?

Indeed, there’s no formal confirmation this Cross-Buy feature relates to PC at all. Amid reports of a future PlayStation handheld being in development, perhaps the scheme will simply be offered for games that work across the PS5 and a new PS5 portable?

One thing seems certain, however — these are relatively new images, added by Sony in June 2025, according to Dealabs. That rules out this latest development as relating to anything left over from Sony’s last foray into cross-buy schemes — back during the PlayStation Vita era.

Cross-buy is of course offered on Xbox, where owning a game on console also allows you to play the same title without further charge on PC (or via streaming on your phone, or Ally X handheld, or wherever else you’re playing that’s an “Xbox”).

By comparison, Sony has been more protective over its first-party games. Sony ported Horizon Zero Dawn over to PC in 2020, three years after it released on the PS4, and has sporadically launched a swathe of other first-party titles on PC since. But, crucically, it has typically held off from launching its biggest blockbusters outside of PlayStation until a year after their original console launch.

Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has previously criticized PlayStation for its staggered PC release schedule, pointing out that consumers are forced to wait for months or years, then pay twice for the same content. But Sony has defended the practice, with previous PlayStation boss Jim Ryan committing back in 2023 to a staggered release of first-party games on PC for the forseeable future.

Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social