PlayStation 5, the new Sony console, will be released at Christmas 2020. Before we know its first party catalog, we review the games already confirmed.
A logo and a date, that is what future PlayStation 5 players can take advantage of right now. The next generation of Sony will not risk with its nomenclature, PS5; the great changes and jumps will take place inside a console that will aspire to compete once again for dominance in the market from Christmas of 2020. The crucial thing, above all, will be its video games. And that is what we are going to talk about in this article, of all the confirmed video games to date for PS5.
One thing should be made clear before we begin: we will not find here any title that has not been officially confirmed; those will go in a separate, differentiated epigraph, so that there is no room for confusion. We will stick, however, in those titles that have explicitly confirmed that they will see the light in the next generation of consoles (from Sony, in this case); either intergenerationally or only in the new machine cycle that starts at the end of the year.
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(Last update: February 17, 2020)
Godfall
The Game Awards gala usually promises surprises, announcements, unexpected names. TGA 2019 fulfilled its promise and left us with the new Counterplay Games and Gearbox for PC and PS5: Godfall. Shortly after, a controversial six-minute video was leaked that left fans of this type of RPG action titles quite cold, so the company had to go out to explain what it was.
Godfall
"We can confirm that the trailer that is circulating corresponds to PC sequences from a year ago, used as part of an internal presentation," they began by saying, discarding that the game, planned for computer and PlayStation 5, is truly much less ambitious than estimated. “We are full of energy thanks to your emotion and we hope to show us how far this game can go. Stay tuned for more details soon, ”they concluded.
We know that Godfall will be a video game with a third-person perspective and that it will be set in a devastated world full of monsters. There will be looting, multiplayer mode for up to four players and the option to complete the adventure also individually. The release date is unknown; but it won't arrive before Christmas 2020.
Outriders
The new People Can Fly changed their mind just a few days ago. His plan was to go on sale throughout this first semester, but finally his new launch window is the end of 2020 turned into an intergenerational video game: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.
"We really want to finally reveal what we have been working on for the past four years," said Bartosz Kmita, director of the game at People Can Fly. “It's our first game after leaving Epic Games. It is the title that we have always wanted to do and this idea has been growing until it became the most ambitious project of People Can Fly ”, concludes Kmita.
Outriders
A shooter with RPG elements awaits us set in a very dark science fiction universe, with a humanity close to extinction.
FreeGameTips has been able to test the game after having moved us to the offices of the studio. In this article we tell you what we thought about the game after playing it for three hours in Warsaw, Poland.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is, as a base, one of the most anticipated video games for the next generation just by name. If you like Tolkien, this title has to get your attention.
This past January we knew the first details of the game, whose objective is to launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X; and that will be based on Tolkien's universe. The game is using Unreal Engine 4 as an engine and will tell us "the story of Gollum from a perspective never seen before." Its gameplay will be based on action and stealth, deepening especially the double personality of the character. Its departure is scheduled for 2021, although there is no specific month or quarter.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Likewise, in the pages of one of the latest EDGE issues it was said that it will have “gigantic dimensions levels and aesthetically inspired by the drawings made by Tolkien himself” and that we will travel a large part of Middle-earth while we cross “hostile faces and friendly. "
Despite the economic difficulties of Daedalic Entertainment, the company has confirmed this February that financial vicissitudes are left out of the project; At least right now.
Rainbow Six: Siege
This last case catches us very closely. It was this February 17 when Ubisoft, in statements to Engadget, confirmed that Rainbow Six: Siege – whose community has more than 50 million players – will have a version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X since launch. When exactly? That does not depend on the French company, but when the machines are launched to the market.
Rainbow Six: Siege
There is a certainty: Rainbow Six: Siege will be out on PS5 and Xbox Series X with all the contents that the current versions already have; no cuts and cross play (for now, all PlayStation on the one hand and all Xbox on the other).
"I can't give you a date because those dates depend, in the end, on the people who are making the new generation of consoles," he begins by saying about the specific departure date of Rainbow Six Siege for PS5 and Xbox Series X, which depends on the day in which these are put on sale. "What I can tell you is that we will be there (PS5 and Xbox Series X) since launch." The goal is that, in the future, the crossplay is total. They have not confirmed what visual and technical improvements the PS5 version will have.
Watch Dogs: Legion
The most ambitious installment of the Watch Dogs saga will also be one of the great attractions of the firm led by Yves Guillemot in the next gen. We go back to last October, specifically when Ubisoft presented the financial results for that quarter (Q2 / FY2019). The CEO of the giant gala commented that Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine and Gods and Monsters (which had been delayed days before) would be intergenerational video games: cross-gen. For both PS4, Xbox One and PC, and for PS5 and Xbox Series X.
Watch Dogs: Legion
For the title that concerns us, he warned that his exit window will be between April 2020 and March 31, 2021, although later we have learned that Ubisoft expects to have 3 AAA video games on the market between October and December 2020. If Watch Dogs: Legion is one of them or not is something that seems likely, but is not confirmed. We will leave doubts later.
Guillemot did not comment on that meeting with shareholders what improvements will Watch Dogs: Legion on PS5 and Xbox Series X, so we do not know if there will be anything beyond the expected: improvements in resolution, FPS, loading times …
Gods and Monsters
We continue with Ubisoft; this time, with the expected project of Assassin's Creed Odyssey parents, also delayed with respect to the initial plan. In this case, we know that the video game will be released between April 2020 and March 31, 2021. Gods and Monsters was presented at E3 2019 as an action adventure by Ubisoft Quebec; an ambitious bet that they want to convert even into a franchise if the commercial response accompanies.
Gods and Monsters
"We have made the decision to spend more time polishing our game, so that we can offer an even more incredible and memorable experience on all platforms," they argued to justify the delay at the end of last year.
The game will keep certain reminiscences at the design level with its previous project, only this time turning more than ever into the fantastic theme and benefiting from the virtues of the animated worlds to recreate all kinds of jumps, weapons, aerial enemies and demolition skills barriers: everything goes. In fact, they defined it as an Assassin's Creed Odyssey "with asteroids." It will be on PlayStation 5.
Rainbow Six: Quarantine
If we have talked about Rainbow Six: Siege before, a phenomenon rarely seen judging by its community of active players every month, the next iteration of the saga (This time, a parallel spin-off) will have as its main rival its predecessor. There are voices that point the delay, precisely, to Siege's success, which can be counterproductive for both of them if they fail to live together without cannibalizing each other. The difference between the two is what can allow both to follow their own path.
Rainbow Six: Quarantine
In any case, Rainbow Six: Quarantine will be intergenerational. The initial plan was to go on the market before April 2020, but after the restructuring that the title launching calendar underwent, this parallel sequel will come out sometime before March 31, 2021.
As far as we know, the game is based on the Outbreak event that Rainbow Six Siege himself received months ago. In the title we will have to face a mysterious alien parasite that is infecting humans and transforming them into lethal creatures. At the playable level, a cooperative shooter awaits us in teams of three people, PvE and with a science fiction setting for the first time in its history. It will be cross-gen, with PS5 version.
The new Bluepoint Games game
That Bluepoint Games has something in hand is something we have known for a long time. They are the authors of the first two installments of God of War, Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, ICO and especially, the acclaimed Shadow of the Colossus Remake. Now they will go one step further with their first game for PS5, the "biggest" game in their history.
The game, whatever it is, will be released on PlayStation 5. "We are working on a great game right now," said Marco Trush, president of the studio, last October. "I will let you find out the rest," he said, without further ado.
The only thing we know officially about this project, beyond its already confirmed platform, is that it will be "a reimagining", a reinterpretation of a game to adapt it to the current times.
"Our latest project is the largest so far, and aims to define a visual ribbon for the next generation hardware," they argued this January. “Our founders were part of the Metroid Prime development team, and they have been in the industry for 20 years. (…) With each game, we try to establish graphics and gameplay that define an industry, while the growth and success of our study. ”
What will it be? We do not know. Nor the release date, no matter how much it sounds for the launch of the console this Christmas.
Addendum: what is happening inside Sony Computer Entertainment
Apart from what is reviewed in this article, we know that Media Molecule is working with an experimental version of Dreams for PS5. They consider it logical that, in the future, the game will see the light in Sony's fifth home console, especially so as not to fragment the community; but, today, they have nothing to announce. Of course, the game can already be operated on a PS5.
We also know that from Sony, the team of Mark Cerny, the main architect of the machine, is working with an adapted version of Gran Turismo Sport with the development kits. As he commented in that advance granted to Wired, he could feel when the wheels stepped on the pianos in a curve with a different vibration, more sensitive and rigid, than when the vehicle added meters on the asphalt, thanks to the DualShock with haptic triggers that the new one will have PS5 controller. We do not know if they plan a Gran Turismo Sport 2.0 or an eventual Gran Turismo 7 launch, but it is possible because, as they themselves have officially cited, they are working with Gran Turismo on PlayStation 5. In addition, its creator has confirmed that they already work in The next installment of the saga.
Insomniac Games (Marvel’s Spider-Man), Sony Santa Monica Studio (God of War) and Guerrilla Games (Horizon: Zero Dawn), are already officially working on their next projects, which will be exclusive to PlayStation.
