Sony has more than 25 first-partyPlayStation 5 gamesin development, and nearly half of them are new intellectual property, according to a recent report fromWired. “There’s an incredible amount of variety originating from different regions. Big, small, different genres,” Hermen Hulst, PlayStation head of Worldwide Studios, told Wired in reference to the PS5 games currently in development.
This is in line with what Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEOJim Ryan said last monthwhen confirming the PS5 will have more exclusives than ever before.
“We have been quietly but steadily investing in high-quality games for PlayStation, and we will verify that the PS5 generation will have more dedicated software than ever before,” Ryan told Nikkei (as translated by VGC).
The Wired post also delves into the development ofHorizon Forbidden West, a game that is reportedly due out in 2021.Forbidden Westis the forthcoming sequel toHorizon Zero Dawn, which first launched in 2017 from Guerrilla Games.
Angie Smets, the studio director at Guerrilla, spoke about the PS5 DualSense features specific toForbidden West.
“If you want to take a stealth approach to a combat situation and you dive into long grass,” Smets says, “you canfeelthose long grass leaves,” in reference to the DualSense’s haptic feedback support.Forbidden Westwill still launch for PS4, but if players want to experience haptic feedback, they’ll need to play on PS5.
Sony hasn’t provided an official update on the development ofForbidden Westin some time, so if it is launching this year as Wired claims, we’ll likely get some sort of blowout showcase soon, perhaps in the form of a State of Play. Interestingly, the Wired post did not make mention of the upcomingGod of War sequel, which was originally slated for a 2021 launch window.
Regardless of these two titles, Sony clearly has major plans for the future of the PS5, so there will be lots to look forward to.
