All are PS Studios published 2024 releases that can be played single player.
Helldivers 2 and Rise of the Ronin are PS Studios games. They have a nice PS Studios logo at the start of the game:
You may not care, but some PC players may care. For some of them they are new because couldn't play them before.
Some PS players that maybe already had them may be interested on them to play them on their laptop or handheld PC, or in the PC they have in other place different than where they have the console, or because are interested in some stuff like ultrawide screen.
No, because AAA games now need 5-9 years to be made and these studios grew enough to be able to work in more than one game more recently, mostly during the Jim Ryan + Hermen Hulst era (starting in H2 2019). So in most cases they didn't have enough time to release new games with these 2nd teams.
SSM released GoW 2018, GoWR in 2022 (4 years later), GoWR Valhalla in 2023. They also overviewed and supported the GoW 2018 PC port.
Cory started to work on the pitch of his new IP in summer 2018. Doing the needed preproduction work, prototypes, pitches and approval process, if lucky and greenlighted then it would have started maybe early 2019 if they already have a big enough 2nd team to start its production.
Nowadays AAA games take 5-9 years. Let's ignore new IPs take more time, covid delays, the challenges of starting a new 2nd team and choose the shorter one in the 5-9 range: 5 years. That would mean that if the Cory new IP is under development it would have an early 2025 release being very optimistic, but being more realistic, probably will be a 2026 or 2027 release. But we could see it announced or at least teased in 2024.
They are also overviewing and supporting the tv show adaptation of GoW, maybe the same ones who supported the exernally developed PC ports.
Guerrilla's main Horizon team released:
- HZD: early 2017
- HZD Frozen Wilds DLC: late 2017
- HFW: 2022
- HFW Forbidden Shores DLC: 2023
- They are working now in Horizon 3
Another team worked to codevelop with Firesprite:
In 2018 they hired back the Killzone 2 MP director, who was working as Rainbow Six Siege director, to lead another team who would work in:
Apparently NC Soft is doing a mobile + PC focused, maybe Asia focused, Horizon themed MMORPG. Someone from Guerrilla may be overviewing it and maybe codeveloping it. May or may not be the same Horizon Online game mentioned above.
There's a Netflix adaptation of Horizon in the works, they may also have someone overviewing or supporting it, maybe the same people who overviewed the externally developed PC ports.
Polyphony has 4 studios split between Japan, USA and Netherlands.
They had a team developing GT Sport content while other one was working in GT7. After the GT7 release they had 3 teams:
- GT7 post launch content
- GT7VR adaptation
- Development of their nex game (make sure it's GT8)
Their boss said they are working now in a bigger action game than the Astro games, in addition to multiple prototypes and experiments with current and future hardware that may end becoming part of their future games. With the restructuring they moved theirr 2nd party team to a separate office and changed their management, so they are a relatievely small team (they already were). Tean Asobi hopes to grow to 100 people.
I think we could see their next game being announced this year, but I think it's more likely to see it released next year.
They are probably the best studio in the world in what they do. They are very likely the most profitable SIE studio.
This is wrong as I shown above. ND also has multiple teams:
- Months after shipping TLOU2 their SP team started to work in another SP game, pretty likely in early 2021 (no TLOU 3)
- A new SP team started a SP game in H1 2023 (not TLOU3)
- Their MP team started to work in TLOU Online, which got cancelled. A good chunk of this people will be moved to their other two SP games or may have started a 3rd SP game (I assume TLOU3)
- Some small team overviewed and supported Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection, TLOUP1 remake, TLOUP2 remaster and their PC ports, plus the movies and tv show adaptations
As I mentioned Sony will have in 2024 minimum a dozen releases, most of them playable in single player.
I didn't say you should care. I say they exist and are Sony single player releases even if you don't like them or aren't intterested on them.
This isn't true, as I mentioned this is wrong. You not liking something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Your personal taste or interests don't define what exists or doesn't exist.
They are still paying costs related to recent acquisitions and have to improve profitability, so very likely -as they said last year- won't make acquisitions in the short term. Because they need to improve profitability in the short term, not to damage it even more.
But even if they make acquisittions -let's say Arrowhead- they'd still need time to develop their next games, like any other team. In the case of Arrowhead, very likely they'll be focused on fixing, improving and expanding Helldivers 2 with post launch content during a few years before starting to work in their next game, something they'd do while at the same time they continue supporting Helldivers 2.
. By the end of the yr ps will have published more games in 2024 than 2023.
