The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today – of course, of course – and during a video presentation, Sony unveils new launch date on half a dozen games. But it did not disclose these dates as you would expect. Instead, all the new information comes from text that only appeared in the middle of the video at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds. But good news: we have a release month for the mysterious Square Enix Athia Project.
Sony’s video deals with a number of businesses of the company and is about new products that the massive enterprise plans to release in the next year or two. New TVs, movies and so on. In this video, a few minutes are devoted to the PlayStation 5 and Sony’s gaming division.
This segment, presented by CEO Jim Ryan, was not very interesting, and focused especially on what the company did with the launch of PS5 and the games released so far. But at the very end of the segment, near the point 10:39, you can see the slide with a bunch of new information about the upcoming PS5 games.
- Return – 19/03/21
- Pragmata – 2023
- Sonas – June 2021
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits – March 2021
- Stray & GhostWire: Tokyo – October 2021
- Little devil are – July 2021
- Athia Project – January 2022
- Hitman 3 – January 2021
- Horizon: Forbidden West – 2021
Some of this is old information we already knew, as Hitman 3release date. But there is apparent news. As mentioned, we now have a release window for Athia Project, the new Square Enix game it will be exclusive to PS5 for two years. If it appears in January next year, it will mean that Xbox Series X players will have to wait until at least 2024 to play the still mysterious game.
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Astray, the PS5 adventure with a cat in a futuristic city of robots, apparently arrives in October. We knew it would be released in 2021, but this is the first mention of a month. Same with GhostWire: Tokyo, the haunting FPS of Tango Gameworks, which had only a vague release window in 2021. It also plans to come out in October.
Finally, Pragmatic, that weird game from Capcom that was first unveiled at a PS5 event June 2020, seems to have been delayed. It would take place sometime in 2022, but it comes a year later based on the CES video’s information.
Lowercase in the middle of a random video is a weird way to essentially announce a bunch of new PS5 release dates, and I expect these games and their respective studios to announce this news more officially with formal Twitter messages and trailers. Meanwhile, I can’t wait for the next series of PS5 games to be announced at the end of a random internet pop-up ad or something.