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No DS2. I still believe in late 2024 release

Death Stranding 2 Launching In 2025, According To Artist

Death Stranding 2's launch window might have just leaked, as it's listed for a 2025 release.

www.thegamer.com

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Also, where the fuck is SH2. Not a single image, preview, tweet about the game from Blooper or anything since the announcement .. Show the damn game already.

 

[SkyHighTrees]

This fucking music is trash and hairy ass

Sony is catering too much for the normies

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

There's also the editorial page featuring the games from the trailer here:

The best new and upcoming PS5 games of 2024 - Guides & Editorial | PlayStation

What games are coming to PS5® in 2024? From Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Rise of the Ronin to Tekken 8 and Silent Hill 2, discover more about the biggest upcoming releases for PlayStation 5, watch the trailers and learn more about release dates and features on the official PlayStation website.

www.playstation.com

 

[Danjin44]

For now these are only games I care about in 2024

 

[CamHostage]

They haven’t announced a new AAA 1st Party game since Wolverine in 2021. 3 years now.

That's simply not true. Just at their own last Showcase last May, Sony announced Marathon, Fairgame$, Helldivers 2, Concord, and the PlayStation Portal hardware (and in the past have announced and launched the PSVR2 and its games, plus TLoU2 and Spidey 2 and Stellar Blade and other stuff.) Looking at the PlayStation Studios slate, eight have released products in the last three years and then we do know of and have seen the next new games for six of their 16 production teams (minus support studios.)

...Problem is, little of what they've announced has been the great big blockbuster (aside from Spider-Man 2) that people are antsy for. We want the next huge Santa Monica game, the next Naughty Dog new blockbuster, that kind of big big stuff. That's happening, but slowly, we ain't got it yet.

It sucks that we're not getting bangers every year like we did in the PS1/PS2/PS3 days, but it's reality. (BTW, this slowdown was already apparent in the PS4 days, and PS5 is even slower but not too different if you look at the total PS4 release slate.) And it's not uncommon compared to other publishers and its competition hardware makers. Publishers just aren't a one-stop shop for all your gaming needs anymore. Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft aren't going to make all the best PlayStation and Switch and Xbox games you buy all year long. (Sadly, even Nintendo is challenged to keep the hose running, even without its "second pillar" without a dedicated console/handheld split.)

I mean, to be clear, I hate the current state of game publishing, and am frustrated as anybody that PS5 & XBS aren't always delivering at speed and on the level that I imagined seeing their announcements in 2020, but reality is what it is. "Announce more stuff" isn't reality; what they have is what they can make under their current market plan/budget/timeline/market saturation/sales expectations, and how long it takes to make it determines how soon they can announce it.

 

[Sanepar]

So it will be a year of thirds on ps5? No big exclusives fp?

 

[adamsapple]

So it will be a year of thirds on ps5? No big exclusives fp?

Last of Us Part 2: Remastered.

 

[Jigsaah]

Might give helldivers a shot on PC. Unfortunately have to wait for FFVII Rebirth.

 

[Woopah]

WOW! The remakes and 3rd party titles, i'm SO EXCITED!

Xbox prob not gonna be any better... hopefully both companies have more than revealed for 2024 so far, at least by end of year?

So it will be a year of thirds on ps5? No big exclusives fp?

Helldivers 2, Concord, Rise of Ronin and Stellar Blade are all published by Sony.

Does anybody else think all these games are going to come out in the 1st half of 2024? Most of those games are already given a release date of January - March of 2024.

No, I think its just that there are more H1 games announced than H2 games.

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Bunch of those I’m very interested in, FFVII: R, Stellar Blade, Helldivers II, Rise of the Ronin, Silent Hill 2, MGS: Snake Eater, Pacific Drive, Plucky Squire, Granblue Fantasy, and ofc TLoU: Part II remastered for a tenner.

Way too much shit for me to keep up with personally.

 

[Clear]

So it will be a year of thirds on ps5? No big exclusives fp?

They aren't going to announce anything new when they have that much product for the first half of the year.

Burning through content is idiotic, they want to maximize return on every major release.

 

[Ar¢tos]

So it's The Plucky Squire and a ton of trash....
I guess my wallet won't be harmed much this year.

 

[deriks]

Since the Silent Hill movie is coming out this year, makes sense both be launched at the same time

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

For now these are only games I care about in 2024

That's like 600h of gameplay right there lol. Will you even manage to 100% complete them?

Edit: Those are my picks as well though + Eidolon Chronicles and Dragon's Dogma 2 which I've already preordered. Oh and Stellar Blade, too . There's also Yakuza Infinite Wealth but that's like 150+ hours of gameplay and I just can't right at the start of the year lol.

 

[IDKFA]

I need to see some more first party stuff from Sony. Something that isn't a 3rd person action title.

I want a new FPS, RPG, SIM....just something different, please!

 

[Danjin44]

That's like 600h of gameplay right there lol. Will you even manage to 100% complete them?

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Do we know anything about Concord? It’s a shooter, but is it FPS, third-person, space combat?

What are we shootin?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

You next month when 3 of those massive JRPGs you've mentioned release.

 

[Danjin44]

You next month when 3 of those massive JRPGs you've mentioned release.

I will manage somehow.....

 

[Baki]

Gonna be a good year.

Gram blue is a major exclusive coming out in 3 weeks, why have they not included Granblue in any trailers? Such a strange omission.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I've made a gif with the Stellar Blade gameplay showed in the video:

Wait, this looks suspiciously like an actual Character Action title. Could it be...?

 

[CamHostage]

Gram blue is a major exclusive coming out in 3 weeks, why have they not included Granblue in any trailers? Such a strange omission.

Yeah, a little weird. They did include it in the recent State of Play and also did a recent report on it, so it's on their radar and getting some exposure, but it would have made some sense to place here. Obviously this isn't every PS game coming out in 2024 and they went with big games mixed in with some variety in the indies, so the picks included seem right to me, but GranBlue Fantasy Relink could have been on there.

(BTW, this also might be a multipurpose ad for like movie theaters and Youtube pre-roll and such? So there's probably a reason why they cut it to exactly 2:00 on the dot. It fit the games it could fit for that purpose.)

 

[Bkdk]

sony didn't manage their first party studios well, thus their productivity is pretty low overall and they will have to spend money to turn third party games into exclusives this year for their ps5 pro launch. All I hope is that sony won't ruin shift up with some of their garbage DEI education in their dev studio.

 

[bender]

Death Stranding 2 Launching In 2025, According To Artist

Death Stranding 2's launch window might have just leaked, as it's listed for a 2025 release.

www.thegamer.com

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Also, where the fuck is SH2. Not a single image, preview, tweet about the game from Blooper or anything since the announcement .. Show the damn game already.

Hopefully Konami cancelled.

 

[3liteDragon]

Wait, people are excited about SH2 now?

As someone who hasn't played the OG version I'm a little excited but knowing it's by the Bloober Team, I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

[Mahavastu]

That's simply not true. Just at their own last Showcase last May, Sony announced Marathon, Fairgame$, Helldivers 2, Concord,

which of these games is Playstation exclusive, which is playable as single player?
Many players on PS are like me, in that they ignore multi player games because they are not for them, so most of those GAAS games are just not interesting for them.

plus TLoU2 and Spidey 2 and Stellar Blade and other stuff.

SM2 and Stellar Blade were announced long before the showcase, TLOU2 is just a minor upgrade to the already great PS4 version.

It is just that it feels like a 1st party exclusive game drought, only 1 game (SM2) last year, nothing known for this year, maybe some 2nd party games.

...Problem is, little of what they've announced has been the great big blockbuster (aside from Spider-Man 2) that people are antsy for. We want the next huge Santa Monica game, the next Naughty Dog new blockbuster, that kind of big big stuff.

The problem is that they announced hardly anything 1st party exclusive after SM2 beside Wolverine in a distance future.
Yes, they can buy some 2nd/3rd party exclusives to fill time, but if they want us to buy the PS6 they need to show us at least something soon.

 

[dotnotbot]

Based on those shots, SH2 looks super off - not only it's too sterile but even MGS3 seems to have better quality animations. Sony should've helped them with motion capture but I bet Konami isn't willing to pay for that.

 

[bender]

What are we shootin?

Grapes

 

[iHaunter]

WOW! The remakes and 3rd party titles, i'm SO EXCITED!

Xbox prob not gonna be any better... hopefully both companies have more than revealed for 2024 so far, at least by end of year?

There was like 2. Calm down.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Gonna be a good year.

1:50
" vertical stand sold separately"

What thieves they are.

 

[mckmas8808]

They aren't going to announce anything new when they have that much product for the first half of the year.

Burning through content is idiotic, they want to maximize return on every major release.

This is something that I've understood is Jim Ryan's approach. It never was Sony's approach before him. Maybe it has helped sell more games though. They focus heavy and hard on the next 3-6 months. But never more than that now.

 

[dotnotbot]

1:50
" vertical stand sold separately"

What thieves they are.

That was normal thing before PS5 fat.

And the stand wasn't cheap either.

 

[R6Rider]

The music is alright, I don't get the hate. I felt the same with that Prince of Persia trailer.

Lots of people have lame tastes in music that isn't within their narrow view of genres.

The song used in the video isn't amazing by any means, but it's far from bad and of course is still music.

 

[magnumpy]

I love it!!1 pure video game porn. or rather, it's just a taste of what is to come which is the purpose of a teaser lol xD

 

[nial]

Death Stranding 2 Launching In 2025, According To Artist

Death Stranding 2's launch window might have just leaked, as it's listed for a 2025 release.

www.thegamer.com

After the Insomniac leaks, I wouldn't trust these ArtStation artists' portfolios too much.

 

[Gambit2483]

Nice! They should do one for Xbox next..

 

[CamHostage]

The problem is that they announced hardly anything 1st party exclusive after SM2 beside Wolverine in a distance future.
Yes, they can buy some 2nd/3rd party exclusives to fill time, but if they want us to buy the PS6 they need to show us at least something soon.

Again, they can't announce what they aren't ready to sell.

(Or rather, it's a dangerous play to announce too far ahead; they're going to have a rough time holding heat after announcing Wolverine real early, especially now that pre-production and docs have leaked over a year or two before release, and MS and Nintendo are still paying taxes on Perfect Dark and Metroid Prime 2 going to press too early.)

Production has slowed up and cut back at every publisher in the biz (and in many businesses outside games.) It'd be nice if they just made a lot more more games, so that they could please fans with more announcements, but that's not what the market can bear right now and that's not what their production teams are booked for doing. Them not announcing big new AAA franchise-defining single-player games in 2021, 2022, 2022 wasn't them hiding their cards and robbing the hype train, and we can see the truth of that now: they didn't have the product.

Hopefully 2024 and beyond will be a different story (please, please, please...), but we're only four days into this year so far and we don't know yet what they'll show or when in the next 362.

Sony's not trying to sell you a PS6 right now; it's taking all they can handle to make PS5 buyers (and PC, to some degree) happy at the moment.

 

[nial]

So, they have Helldivers 2, Rise of the Ronin, MLB The Show 24 and Stellar Blade all for H1, with The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Destiny 2: The Final Shape being additional bonuses. Then, Concord, Convallaria and Lost Soul Aside at some point of the year. I would only need confirmation for Astro Bot and Death Stranding 2, and the heavily-rumored God of War and Twisted Metal games, and it would be a great, varied year.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Also, where the fuck is SH2. Not a single image, preview, tweet about the game from Blooper or anything since the announcement .. Show the damn game already.

they can't

 

[CamHostage]

This is something that I've understood is Jim Ryan's approach. It never was Sony's approach before him. Maybe it has helped sell more games though. They focus heavy and hard on the next 3-6 months. But never more than that now.

I'm confused why you say it was Jim Ryan's approach and/or never Sony's approach before to announcing games on a different timeline than now? I don't think it's that much different.

In the PS2 days, they would announce Jak & Daxter or SOCOM or GoW at the E3 in May just a few months ahead of the Christmas or Q1 season they sold those games in; then in the PS3 days, they announced Killzone 2 and Uncharted and Heavenly Sword years before releasing. Now, Spider-Man 2 had a 2-year publicity cycle (and Wolverine will have at least twice that) but Horizion: COTM and PSVR2 were just over a year (since they used CES to announce it, otherwise maybe we wouldn't have seen PSVR until E3 time?), GT7 was only going to be about one year but it got pushed back a bit and GoWR / Horizon 2 were probably going to be about the same 11-15 months if they hadn't slipped, Returnal was less than a year and Sackboy just 5 months.

They for sure do go way over 3-6 months now (though you're right that their focus is "heavy and hard on the next 3-6 months", as that's when they do State of Play re-showings and gameplay previews,), and they do at times still have the foreshortened cycle of trailer-to-buyable by Christmas (albeit not often with the big blockbusters.)

So I don't see a lot of difference in their announcement structure against release dates. The press cycle is different, since they don't let anybody touch a game before it's past alpha, and also the "leak" process is different since press generally doesn't dig into upcoming projects now that it's 3-5+ years for a project. (Back when scoops only meant a tease for what was to come at that E3, press was more into digging through the trashbins for hints, and quietly, publishers were sometimes into leaking a bit to get some steam going or to get ahead of some of what was likely to come out anyway.) Publishers are more experienced in how they handle product marketing cycles now than before (and they have way more control since they all have their own YT and even blogs to cut out the press,) so you are right that there are differences and newer tactical approaches to selling product, but each game is still its own hype train ride.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Odd year for sure, especially with the amount of money spent on gaming from Sony.

I’ll surely get Final Fantasy 7 Part 2 for sure, that’s a low risk purchase let’s face it part 1 was brilliant.

The amount of AAA multiplatform games will be there.

My question to GAF is have we ever seen an off year from Sony before? Because I don’t see many of the games listed reaching the masses and not a threat to Microsoft or Nintendo.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Odd year for sure, especially with the amount of money spent on gaming from Sony.

I’ll surely get Final Fantasy 7 Part 2 for sure, that’s a low risk purchase let’s face it part 1 was brilliant.

The amount of AAA multiplatform games will be there.

My question to GAF is have we ever seen an off year from Sony before? Because I don’t see many of the games listed reaching the masses and not a threat to Microsoft or Nintendo.

i don't think the issue is if it is an "off year". Timing wise sony should be ready to show the lineup for the rest of the gen.

befeore the leak, financial reports and latest internal shakeup; i was 100% sure sony will deliver (that's their track record) now i am 80% sure. which means, Sony should be a able to announce the games but the cadence of release will be longer between them.

 

[[Sigma]]

<--The game that's going to make me put The Finals on the backburner for a while. Democracy calls!

 

[rkofan87]

mgs in this vid was shock i do not see mgs coming this year only thing mgs i see this year is master set v2.

 

[Aenima]

2024 is packed with games i want to play.

- Dragon Dogma 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Stellar Blade
- GranBlue Fantasy Relink
- Rise of the Ronin
- Persona 3 Reloaded
- Unicorn Overlord
- Black Myth Wukong

And fingers crossed Bloober does a good remake of my favorite horror game ever. Sillent Hill 2

404 Western games not found

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Also, where the fuck is SH2. Not a single image, preview, tweet about the game from Blooper or anything since the announcement .. Show the damn game already.

Bloober passive aggressively threw Konami, the publisher, under the bus about the lack of information. Konami controls the marketing, even though it seems very apparent that Bloober wants to show the game off. There was a leak a lil while ago about a late March release date. It's possible DD2, Rise of the Ronin, SH2, and South Park all drop within a week of one another. Would be crazy

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

I've made a gif with the Stellar Blade gameplay showed in the video:

I can't wait for Stellar Yams.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

This fucking music is trash and hairy ass

Sony is catering too much for the normies

Do the normies even like shitty rap that Sony found in the gutter?

 

[Salz01]

I like the song. I’m trying to find it.

 

[Heart_Attack]

The only game published by Sony that I care about is Rise of Ronin. As always, Japanese Third Party Developers are carrying Playstation.

- Dragon Dogma 2
- Tekken 8
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Visions of Mana
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- GrandBlue Fantasy Relink
- Rise of the Ronin
- Black Myth Wukong

I have no expectations for the Silent Hill 2 and MGS 3 Remakes.