shikamaru317 said:
Some of these 25+ won't even release in the next 4 years probably: -It seems like Naughty Dog is just getting started on their next game/games, as apparently the whole studio pretty much was on TLOU 2 from 2017 to 2020. TLOU 2 took 6 years to develop, from 2014 to 2020, though it didn't enter full development with the whole studio working on it until after Uncharted Lost Legacy released in 2017. With Druckmann recently implying in interviews that Naughty Dog is still trying to decide what their next big game will be (TLOU 3, a new IP, or a new game in a legacy IP), and Schreier reporting that Naughty Dog had been co-developing a new Uncharted with Bend, which might be cancelled now since Bend was asked to be moved back to being independent so that they could work on a new IP, I'd say we could be looking at as much as 5 or 6 years before the next Naughty Dog game releases (other than TLOU 2's standalone multiplayer, which has been in development for awhile already), unless that Uncharted game was in development for longer than I think and Naughty Dog decided to find a new co-development studio to take over, instead of cancelling it. -Sucker Punch took 6 years to develop Ghost of Tsushima, from summer 2014 to summer 2020. If Sucker Punch is doing a sequel next, it might only take like 4 years, but if they decide to do another new IP where they have to start from scratch with world building and such, it could be another 6 years before their next game releases. -Polyphony is a notoriously slow studio, and though they will be releasing GT7 in 2022, they are reportedly working on an open world, Forza Horizon like racing game as well, and if that rumor is true, that could easily take them 4-6 years after GT7 releases to release, judging by their past release schedule. -Guerilla Games moved into a much larger building in 2020, reportedly so that they could become a 2 team studio again. If this new 2nd team is working on a new IP, it could take them as much as 6 years to release, seeing as Horizon: Zero Dawn was in development for 6 years as a new IP. Sony will definitely have some smaller games in the pipeline, from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party. At least 3 of their first party studios are likely doing smaller games right now, namely Media Molecule, PixelOpus, and Japan Studio (which is just the AstroBot team now after the other teams were all laid off or retired). They will likely have more 2nd party single A and AA projects coming as well, plus you have 3rd party AA projects like Kena: Bridge of Spirits coming. |