Sony have a tough decision to make

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LipeJJ said:

Kerotan said:

God of war 2 will be out in 2 to 3 years. Around ps5 launch or at least year 1. Do Sony make gow2 multiplatform or do they use it to showcase and push the ps5? 

 

If they leave ps4 out they'll likely be ignoring a user base of around 120m. That could be a lot of lost revenue. 

 

What should Sony do? 

I was thinking exactly about this. The thing I know for sure is that they won't make it a cross gen game, it will either release on PS4 or PS5. Althought nothing is guaranteed, I think they'll want to save it for an early PS5 release. 

Imagine how helpful it would be to have GoW 5 releasing on PS5's first or second year? It would assure an extremely fast adoption.

One of the considerations we haven't factored in is the new god of war 2 is a sequel meaning you could be seen as disenfranchising a large part of your audience from the first game if you move it to the new platform , and if it is say only 2 years and  PS4 sales hasn't done the unlikely and fallen off the cliff , you only strengthen that point , another option is to release it on PS4 then release a remastered version for PS5 of both games as an appetiser for GoW 3 for PS5 if they can spin it out to 3 games, also you might be better having your big hitters spread out from year two onward where new consoles tend to start to refine their schedule leaving year one to highlight other IP.