Taking a step back, this entire generation, we did not see a PS5-only game from Guerilla, Sony Santa Monica or Naughty Dog, the last of which became a meme for its endless remasters of its Last of Us games. Naughty Dog has announced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, but that may not be out until PS6 itself. We have no idea when either new Horizon or God of War games are coming from those studios, much less them branching into potentially new IPs instead of endless sequels. Sony purchased Bungie this generation for $3.6 billion, but it did little except drift on with Destiny 2 and hammer away at a game that seems on the verge of bombing, Marathon. And neither of those games are exclusive, much less PS5-exclusive.
It’s not like there was nothing to play, but true PS5 exclusives were few and far between, and it’s a situation where the most significant introduction of a new IP was Stellar Blade, not even a game from Sony directly, merely a deal it had secured. The same goes for Final Fantasy, where Square Enix seems to now be realizing locking themselves to PlayStation this tightly may be a sales mistake.
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