OK. It's a fake document.
But are the games and their various platforms correct?
We know some of the games are real because we already knew them before the list was posted and we even knew in some cases platforms, in some cases game engine, platforms or even codenames.
In fact, we know that the list is bullshit because -in addition to other reasons- we know that some of the info posted there is wrong because we already knew it from before the list was posted. As an example, the game engine of the Ballistic Moon game.
It's a fake, so the games added there and their platforms are only fan guesses or copy pasted stuff from rumors, leaks or simply educated guesses. Example:
- Sumo Digital made a ton of games for Sony in the past and Sackboy did perform well, so even if acquired by Tencent they could make another one. So added it there 'Carbon'
- Twisted Metal was rumored to be under development at Lucid and later moved to Firesprite, so added there a car combat game (I think the 'genre' column has been added by the 'leaker' to let us know this game is Twisted Metal, because a Sony/XDEV wouldn't need that column in the document)
- Norman Reedus mentioned twice to be working on Death Stranding 2 and Kojima pretty much almost confirmed it, so listed it there even if the 'leaker' didn't know that the Japanese XDEV games are handled from the Japanese XDEV team (previously Japan Studio, now promoted to have their own office) and not by the XDEV team from UK
- Most big selling PS4 exclusives got a PS5 SKU or remaster, so why not Horizon? It's a good guess, so the 'leaker' added there a remake
- We know Ballistic Moon, ex-Until Dawn devs, is working for Sony on an spiritual Until Dawn successor. So listed a game from them as 'survival horror' (note: Until Dawn isn't a survival horror, the leaker clearly have no idea about game genres)
Regarding platforms, the leaker may have heard in the interwebs Sony is relasing all their games day one on PC, so added many of them for PC, and by the same people who develop the game. Guess what, only some games get ported to pc and aren't ported by the original team. Sony uses Nixxes and external teams like Iron Galaxy or Jetpack to handle the ports, not XDEV. And they are ported after the game is done, not during development (but I assume that for future games during development the games will start to have some stuff done to make later the potential porting easier).
So what is wrong with the dates? Maybe I'm missing something.
If 'Horizon Online' is really the MP where Gueriilla is working on since 2018, why XDEV staff is added there this past October? First, being an internal team wouldn't need XDEV engineers. Second, that engineer must be so fucking stressed working on six projects at the same time. This spreadsheet is fake as fuck.
Hey, 'Horizon VR' is almost gold because we heard today will launch with PSVR2 early 2023. But guess what, according to this document XDEV engineer was added last October, when the game must have been in development during several years.
Destruction All Stars was released on Feb 21, tanked and got dead after release, basically no support. Why would they need XDEV engineers? The rumored Twisted Metal was supposed to be under development since while ago but according to this 'leak' didn't get XDEV engineer until January 2022, why not before?
Rise of the Ronin has been under development since 7 years ago, and according to Team Ninja they have been working during years with Sony. But according to this document they got a XDEV staff only starting this January. And weirdly enought is staff from UK team instead of the XDEV Japanese team, who is the one who works with them.
TLDR: I can go through basically all projects. It's bullshit, most of these projects didn't have XDEV engineers or needed them years ago but according to this fake document got them months ago, in some cases when they didn't need them.