The lack of first party games from sony in 2024

[Shinobi-san]

Not sure why others are not concerned. But something is definitely up.

Been saying this for a while now - a lot of PS gamers have bought into the PS ecosystem specifically for games that come from PS Studios. We have almost nothing announced - with Insomniac churning out games almost yearly or bi yearly. Bluepoint, Team Asobi, Bend Studio, Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog have all had major releases 3-4 years ago. Some might say it takes that long to produce a AAA game, which I would agree with but if many of the games coming are sequels I would say the 4 year+ dev cycle is not okay. Regardless we have nothing announced for 2024, so if games are arriving in 2025 that would be a 4-5 year wait between releases. Are we really saying it should take 5 years to make a new Astrobot game???

There could be many reasons for these delays and excessively long dev cycles. Scope creep, multiplayer/live service focus, creative differences with regards to which IP to invest in etc. Either way Sony is clearly doing something right with Insomniac and something wrong with the rest in terms of game development efficiency. At the rate we are going Insomniac alone would have put out Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman 2 and potentially Wolverine - before Suckerpunch releases Ghost of Tsushima 2. If you don't see anything wrong with that then I don't know what to say.