It looks as though PlayStation could be laying the groundwork for Trophy support in its PlayStation Studios games on PC.
That’s according to TrueTrophies, which regularly scrapes the PSN backend to discover newly-added trophy lists. The website says it’s scanners picked up an odd trophy list to that caught their attention for a number of reasons. Firstly, it wasn’t attached to any particular game, indicating that it could have been a test of some kind. More importantly though, it listed two platforms – PS5 and a platform not yet seen in these lists, “PSPC.”
From the jump it’s obviously pretty easy to make an assumption that PSPC would indeed refer to PlayStation games on PC, but TrueTrophies reckons it’s even more solid than that. They say this new platform signifier couldn’t have come from a third party, and that after further investigation it does appear to be a separate platform with the potential to share a unified trophy list with PS5 – opening the door for Xbox-style cross-progression that includes trophies.
Image: TrueTrophies
Over a year ago, dataminers found evidence of a separate PlayStation launcher for PC games and references to PSN accounts within the PC release of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, so this isn’t the first time that speculation around a shared ecosystem has come up. As TrueTrophies notes in the report, Helldivers II is set to launch on both PS5 and PC soon and, being an online-enabled multiplayer title, would be a fitting use case for something like this.
