Sucker Punch may surprise us if they take the expansion approach we saw with Uncharted Thieves Legacy/Miles Morales and build a new smaller story set in Yotei's world. They partially dabbled in Raytraycing features in Yotei and I could see them using a smaller project to go all in and build the frame work for their next full game.

I think Corys game is the most likely from their AAA studios. It'd of course be built for the PS5 just Ragnarok was built for the PS4, there was nothing about it designed around the PS5s tech.

It either targeting  late 2027 (launch title) or early 2028 imo. Whether the PS6 launches next year is still a big If though 

Bold to assume none of those studios are getting closed, I fully expect some to close along the way. MM, Haven, Housemarque Firesprite and Bend  may already have released their last game.

I don't think there's any concern for Housemarque. Returnal was considered a success, Saros has just launched but is apparently performing better. Legs will determine how well it performs. Even if it doesn't do well, I think Sony would just have them make something less niche next time before giving the studio the chop. A bullet hell shooter is never going to be a massive hit but I presume all parties are aware of that and the target for this game is like 2-3m

It was more like an overview than assuming anything lol but I can buy the idea of HAVEN and Bend closing, if Fairgames fails HAVEN is done, if the service push ends Bend is most likely also done. 

Media Molecule is 100% in danger, when London was closed rumors say it was a decision between London and MM. The key factor here is the 6 years in the same project, if that game wasn't good enough it would have been cancelled by now, Sony had multiple chances. I don't see MM closing before releasing their game. 

Firesprite already paid with blood, half the studio was out when Sony cancelled their service in 2024. This one could be in trouble but I just see other options being better than closing FS, also they are making a single player game and Sony will be short on those in the next few years.  

And in the case of Housemarque idk why people are so fixated with HS closing lol, Sony knew perfectly Returnal numbers when they decided to acquire them but hey never say never right? We can resume that conversation in 3 months when the 2026 1/4 financial report is out. If Sony is happy with whatever number SAROS sold in 3 months then it doesn't matter if it sold 1 or 1M copies. 

If I have to guess what studios are in danger of layoffs/closing this year or next I would say HAVEN(closing), Bend(closing), LFG(closing), Guerrilla(layoffs) and Bungie(layoffs).

Between the PS6 Portable, PSSR 2.0, and Sony's renewed focus on exclusivity, I'm starting to feel like the PS6 has all the ingredients to be Sony's most successful console generation ever.

Pricing is a pretty important point, and right now getting an mass appealing price is really hard to achieve.

I sure hope they can get the PS6 price right, but that may not be on their hands.

I know that those Sony bitches won't share sales numbers for games but still, a tradition of imposed disappointment at this point LOL.

No Yotei update, no Marathon (Bungie lost value again so I give them a pass) and no Sons of Sparta (their first true small game of the generation, 300k+ copies using the 3% rule).   

Haven is an interesting proposition considering that Sony green-lit all 3 of their games. I wonder to what degree that helps them in the event Fairgames doesn't work out. But I really hope they are putting all their effort into having an approachable and fun gameplay loop.

Bend is definitely dead if their new game doesn't work out. They're going to regret not just taking over Uncharted when they were given that chance. Stupid decision on their part (just as stupid as their management not going through with Days Gone 2). I'm shocked that they're still around tbqh. 

MM... I dunno if I believe the rumours of London vs. MM. The answer to choose who to close was 9/10 times always going to be London if you ask me. I still hope that MM is holding onto Dreams and still utilising it as their game engine. Would be a massive disappointment to not invest in the engine when it holds so much potential. 

Media Molecule is so absurdly creative, it would be really sad to see them get shut down.

Honestly if they can't hit big numbers anymore, Sony should make them release AA games in a faster output so they can bring out many ideas in different projects that cost a lot less, and both help Sony fill gaps in their AAA spread and bring more diversiy to the platform.

Maybe one of those AA games can find a big audience and a team be expanded into making it a franchise even. Like Little Big Planet.

Getting rid of MM, like they did with Japan Studios, would be such a stupid thing. They could find at the very least a new Astro Bot success cases or two within MM, IMO.

No doubt it, the loss of MM would be unfortunate. But, outside of 2 LBP games, I don't think they've shown either the ability to crank out popular games or even games on a consistent basis. 

They need to go back to LBP imho, but that ship may have already passed after Sackboy's Adventure. 

All the best to them, bit if they aren't doing a new LBP, I hope they're doing a train simulator using Tren as a base.