Get ready for a deluge of great PS5 games to come. PlayStation Studios currently has more than 25 PS5 games in active development, and almost half of them are new IP. PlayStation Studios head Herman Hulst confirmed this number in a new interview with Wired, looking back on the PS5’s first six months on market and what the future of the console holds.
The 25 games in development under PlayStation Studios include both first and second-party releases under the umbrella. Think Housemarque and Returnal, for example. Housemarque is an independent studio that released the PS5-exclusive Returnal as a PlayStation Studios title with the support of Sony.
?There?s an incredible amount of variety originating from different regions,? Hulst said. ?Big, small, different genres.? A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of first-party PS5 games from PlayStation Studios includes Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart next month, Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West later this year, and Sony Santa Monica’s God of War sequel (which is increasingly looking like it will get pushed to next year). But there’s also PlayStation Studios’ partnerships with other studios to consider. Jade Raymond’s new Haven development team is working on a new IP for PlayStation. Firewalk is hard at work on a new multiplayer game exclusively for Sony’s platform, staffed by devs who have worked on Destiny, Call of Duty, and Mass Effect. Ember Lab is bringing Kena:...