We are two months after the launch of the new consoles, but it already feels like Sony has won the generation.
I thought for a while that this console generation would be different. It seems like Sony is moving around a bit and hardly anything about the PS5 While Microsoft has fueled the story of the Xbox Series X as the most powerful console, Game Pass has grown and grown, and major acquisitions have been made. Even after snatching up Skyrim and Fallout developer / publisher Bethesda, it’s hard to see how PlayStation will not continue with a large margin – at least in a powerful console.
As I said elsewhere on the site, Microsoft has a lot to prove and is currently not doing much to allay fears, although I’m pretty confident that Xbox is in a much better position now than it was seven years ago. Sony, on the other hand, has stormed the gate with a series of excellent PS5 games, a supposedly less powerful console that outperforms the more powerful machine on paper, and more importantly, it has games that are familiar and partially dated.
Destruction All Stars, the competitive race / running game that was delayed with the launch of the PS5, arrives in February and will be included in PS +. It’s an exceptional PS5 exclusive, but perhaps the least hip game coming to Sony’s new console. Giving it to all Plus members will at least ensure that it has a decent chance of getting an audience, and although I have yet to see anything that suggests it is the next Rocket League-style success story will not be, it should offer some excitement.
I reckon Returnal can surprise a lot of people.
The key for Sony is that the games keep coming, even if the first two are not very big hits. In March, Sony will release Returnal from Housemarque. There’s a bit of negativity surrounding this release as a full prize game, mainly because the studio’s previous titles were arcade-like versions, but it seems very unfair about what looks like a beautiful shooter from a team that almost never did not set foot. wrong.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the first so-called ‘big’ PS5 exclusive to arrive from Sony in 2021, which will be launched in the first half of the year. Insomniac has already managed to dazzle on the PS5 with cross-gen Spider-Man Miles Morales, but Rift Apart must show the studio what is possible on PS5 if only the next-generation system is targeted – although year-one- games rarely the absolute best from a new console. Footage looked great and the Ratchet & Clank games are always a lot of fun.
MS-owned Bethesda is releasing Arkane’s Deathloop, exclusively on PlayStation 5 and PC. Arkane is known for delivering incredible game mechanics thanks to the Dishonored games, and this FPS looks equally inventive. At a time when the Xbox Game Studio titles seem so short, the fact that they have been locked away is glorious. Ditto for the more mysterious and supernatural Ghostwire from Tango Gameworks: Tokyo, though one will not get a fixed release date yet.
In the second half of 2021, Sony has a trio of absolute child storms to be released, with Gran Turismo 7, Horizon: Forbidden West, and God of War: Ragnarok. While it is confirmed that Forbidden West will also be coming to PS4, and Sony has not yet clarified the situation with the release platform with Ragnarok, it can not be denied that the sequel to three of PlayStation’s biggest franchises within a year after the PS5 launch is great. to make fans extremely happy.
GT7 will probably be big for Sony and the PS5.
GT7 is the first proper game in the series since 2013 and will show up with high expectations and the knowledge that Polyphony has built up by supporting GT Sport just as well. What’s more, we can get Gran Turismo on PS5 before we get a new Forza on Xbox Series X, something most would bet against. There was a sigh of disappointment when Sony revealed that Horizon: Forbidden West would also be coming to PS4, a feeling that we might not see Guerrilla Games fully flex its technical chops, but the debut preview seems quite reasonable if you look at me ask.
I still do not really believe in God of War: Ragnarok will be released this year, but not because I heard anything suggestive otherwise – I just did not expect a sequel to my favorite PS4 game so soon in the PS5’s life would not come. . If Sony Santa Monica can indeed get the game ready for the end of this year, even if it’s also launched on PS4, it’s going to be the best that ever looks like one of the best in PlayStation history. And there is every chance that the year could deliver more, even without considering what games come from third-party publishers.
What I have done excellently according to Sony is to give PS5 owners and potential buyers a clear idea of the year ahead. As a PS5 owner, I’m happy with the games I have, and there’s a steady decline in quality titles that are planned for the coming months. Can Xbox PS5 beat? Perhaps, but a turnaround of such magnitude in 2021 seems very unlikely.