Sadly, Spiderman 2 was the only such game from Sony last year with GOW coming out literally 12 months prior.
Not true, last year Sony also released these games:
- Horizon Call of the Mountain
- Gran Turismo 7 VR (free version if you have the normal one)
- Firewall Ultra
- MLB23
- Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord
Plus these PC ports:
- Returnal
- TLOUP1
- Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
Plus these expansions / DLCs:
- Destiny 2 Lightfall
- Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
- God of War Ragnarok Valhalla
With Wolverine and Death Stranding 2 as the only other games from Sony first party (i know KojiPro isnt technically first party),
Feel free to fill out the rest if I forgot something.
They have announced first party games like TLOU2 remastered, Helldivers 2, Concord, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, Convallaria or Lost Soul Aside (and the HFW PC port) for this year. Plus also other ones to be released pretty likely later like Marathon, Wolverine, Fairgame$ and more I may forget.
There are other oficially mentioned/announced/confirmed games that they didn't shown such as Horizon 3, Horizon Online, at least two Naughty Dog single player games, an unannounced Bungie new IP, Bend new IP, London Studio new IP, new GoW game set in a new mythology, next Team Asobi game being an action platformer with humor that will be bigger than the Astro games.
From job offers we know Firesprite is working on a dark horror narrative adventure and a car combat (rumored to be Twisted Metal) MP game. There's also the Ballistic Moon (ex-Until Dawn/Supermassive devs) 2nd party game. But who knows when they can announce these 3.
TLOU3 and New ND IP - ND has revealed they are working on two unannounced titles.
Not long ago Neil said he wrote a first draft for the main TLOU3 story in case they decided to develop it somewhere in the future, but that they weren't working on it.
But recently we knew they were working on at least two SP games. We knew due to a Bloomberg leak that before 2021 they were working with Bend on an Uncharted spinoff until Bend moved away from that project and TLOU Online to focus on Bend's new IP once it got greenlighted.
This leads to think ND continued working themselves on that Uncharted spinoff without Bend (maybe with someone else like Bluepoint supporting them once they completed their job on GoWR) and that also started to work on a non-TLOU3 SP project. Which I assume it's fair to think it could be a new IP (or who knows, maybe something else: when asked which IP he'd like to adapt to a videogame he said Punisher, something I'd bet both Sony and Marvel would greenlight).
I assume that after cancelling TLOU Online, they'll start working on a third SP game that would be TLOU3, where they'd rehash a lot of work -mainly game assets- made for TLOU Online.
Ghost of Tsushima 2 - Likely a 2026 game.
Yes, but maybe even 2027 or 2028. Because after GoT they released GoT Legends and the PS5 version + Ikki Island DLC and because games now take longer to be developed.
SSM - Cory's new IP in dev since 2018.
It wasn't confirmed, but Cory said after releasing GoW 2018 had he'd take a handful months as vacations with the family and after it was going to pitch a new IP. I assume he did it and early 2019 that new IP got greenlighted.
Bluepoint - Revealed to be working on an Original Game instead of a remake thanks to the insomniac leak.
According to the game credits and the LinkedIn info of many workers, after Demon's Souls the full Bluepoint team moved to work on GoWR as support team until aprox. its release.
The "original game" was God of War Ragnarok, and they don't have enough game designers to be the lead studio of a AAA title.
Team Asobi - Only ones left over at Sony Japan
Japan Studio's XDEV team (the one who published the Japanese 2nd party games) was branched out to have their own office and grow to work on more games at the same time and publish also games from the rest of Asia, not only Japan.
And they also have Polyphony, plus other Japanese teams at Sony Music.
Sony just needs to go back to their E3 2015 and 2016 days and just show us what they are working on. TLOU2 was actually revealed at PSX 2016 and Ghost was revealed at Paris Game Show 2016 and I honestly didnt mind waiting 3+ years for these games. I hate the new secrecy model.
In recent years Sony only shown/announced with a trailer games planned to be released in the next year and a half aprox, maximum a couple years. With Wolverine being the exception.
The reason is because between hardware, accesories, game sub, 1st, 2nd, 3rd party exclusives, multi AAA games with some marketing deal, indies with timed exclusivity, PC ports and movie/tv show adaptations they have a ton of short term stuff that they must market, so don't need to market stuff to be released in 3 years or more.
On top of that, if the gameplay they show is from games to be released in a year or less, that gameplay very likely will look almost exactly like in the final game, avoiding downgrade complains from players who don't understand that the videos they see of games announced 4+ years before their release are target render videos or vertical slices and not the final game, and that devs normally can't predict how the game will look 4 years or more in the future because there are a lot of unpredictable issues that rise during the development.
