PS5's First Year Games Lineup Looks Amazing!

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shikamaru317 said:

Dallinor said:

Why? 

They released at least two big first party games every year following the PS4 release 2014-2020.

But they already have 4 big first party games scheduled for 2021 currently, Horizon 2, Gran Turismo 7, God of War 5, and Ratchet & Clank. That is total overkill, especially since they have 2 AAA timed hats releasing in 2021 as well, plus several smaller AA and A exclusives. Better to delay God of War and possibly one other to 2022 imo, because they likely have very little from 1st party studios coming in 2022, especially their AAA 1st party studios. Naughty Dog just released TLOU 2, they probably won't release their next game until 2023-2024. Sucker Punch just released Ghost of Tsushima, they probably won't release their next game until 2024. The rumored new Uncharted at Sony San Diego only began development in 2019, with that team expanding slowly, so it might not release until 2023 or 2024. Maybe Bend can get Days Gone 2 out in 2022, but Sony's 2022 line-up would look much better with both Days Gone 2 and God of War 5.

I see no good reason for Sony to have an overkill year in 2021, that would hurt them in mores ways than one; their exclusives would end up competing against one another for sales, and it would hurt their 2022 line-up.

how is it overkill? that's called incentive! And on top of that, the genres and styles are disparate enough that folks who are super into Gran Turismo might not care about God of War, and folks into Horizon might not overlap too much into Ratchet & Clank. I want 3/4 of those games, but still. And, since Horizon and a handful of other PS5 games are also coming out on PS4, it balances the marketplaces reasonably well. Not sure why you think releasing a lot of high quality first party games is a bad thing, especially not as the first year of a console. 

Do you have any idea how good of an impression that'll leave on gamers, seeing that many games in the first year alone - the year that typically is the weakest in a console's lifecycle?