Imagine how much worse would it be without Insomniac. As of October this year, they will have put out 3 games and a remaster since the launch of PS5.

Other Playstation studios really need to step up their Game in terms of dev cycles.

For me personally Sony hasn't had a good year in a long time so it would be hard to choose which one is the worst.

Naughty Dog in particular has fallen bad. Everyone was shitting on PS3's complex architecture, yet ND was effortlessly producing one critically acclaimed and visually stunning game after the other, 4 of them (plus a new engine?) within a single generation. Insomniac is the closest thing in this generation to "PS3 era Naughty Dog", at least in productivity.

Yeah, it's been a a bit of a down year certainly. Can't expect every year to be a super year. It also might be a little tactical move by Sony, they knew Starfield and other big stuff would be coming out, so might as well wait a bit and just keep things in the oven for now.

Probably. I'm looking at the list of 1st-party games that were on PS2 and PSP in 2006 and they don't seem to stand out. 

Depends on what is exciting

Sony published:

PS5:

- Rise of the Ronin

- Wolverine

- Death Stranding 2

- Stellar Blade

PS5/PC

- Helldivers 2

- Concord

- Fairgame$

- TLOU Online

I have the opposite feeling.

Concord, Helldivers 2, and possibly Wolverine seem likely from announced.

Unannounced could include some Santa Monica, Team Asobi, Sucker Punch; maybe some others.

I'll echo the sentiment that PS2 and PS3 launch years were worst as far as 1st party input from Sony. My launch PS2 was pretty Tekken Tag Tournament (3rd party) and a DVD player for about a year. For PS3, I had learned my lesson and waited a year before buying.

I'm sure a handful of years from the PlayStation 1 & 2 era were much weaker than this year, based on the amount of first party studios Sony had back then, but if we're talking about this generation, then 2021 is firmly the weakest.

Sony releasing SpiderMan 2 and MLB is the equivalent of Take Two releasing GTA6 and NBA2K.

Depending on what you're searching for in Sony's library. If you're just playing their first party games, then of course, the offering has been quite meager in comparison to some other years. Not saying the quality of their rare games is bad but that's when you realize they'd prolly win more at diversifying their portfolio with less intensive productions with more AA projects or innovative IP's in scope.

Which I have some doubts about this being their current plan looking at how they want to release a ton of live services in the next few years.

Interesting. The Wolverine game definitely has my interest is piqued as well as Rise of the Ronin. I didn't love Death Stranding as much as some people but I'm willing to give the sequel a chance since it's Kojima.

The other ones don't interest me as much. I used to love playing Helldivers in couch co-op with my wife but it seems like the second game won't have that feature so I'll give it a pass.

Thanks for the information.