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The Studio was founded 1984 by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin as an independent developer. Naughty Dog started their PlayStation Partnership with the iconic Crash Bandicoot title in 1996. Acquired by Sony in 2001, Naughty Dog became one of the most respected and highly rated Studios in the Gaming Industry with GOTY Blockbusters like Uncharted or The Last of Us. |
| Projects | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| The Last of Us Remake | Released | 2022 | |
| TLOU Part 2 Director's Cut | Rumor | 2023-24 | |
| Multiplayer Game / Factions | Confirmed | 2023 | |
| New IP | Rumor | ||
| TLOU Part 3 | Rumor | ||
| New Uncharted | Rumor |
Santa Monica Studios are the creators of the beloved God of War Franchise. The studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker and was located in Santa Monica, California, until relocating to Playa Vista in 2014. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| God of War Ragnarok | Eric Williams | Released | 2022 |
| New IP/Second Project | Cory Barlog | Confirmed |
Founded in 1997, Sucker Punch Production was an independent development studio who has worked on iconic PlayStation Franchises like Sly Cooper or Infamous before they were acquired in 2011. With Ghost of Tsushima, they are currently handling the next big PlayStation IP |
| Projects | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Ghost of Tsushima Sequel | Nate Fox, Jason Conell | Rumour | |
Formerly known as Blank, Berlyn and Co. and Eidetic, which was founded in 1993, they were aqcuired by Sony in 2000 and renamed into SIE Bend Studio. The Studio behind the Syphon Filter franchise, finally made their comeback to home console games with the release of Days Gone in 2019. They are currently working on a new IP for the PlayStation 5 |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| New Open World IP | Confirmed |
The San Diego Studio has a long history with sportsgames from NBA to Karting titles. They are the developers of the long-standing MLB The Show franchise |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release |
| MLB The Show | Chris Gill | Confirmed | Annually |
In 1994 Ted Price founded the Gaming Studio Xtreme Software, which was renamed into Insomniac Games a year later. Over the coming years Insomniac became the biggest External Partner to SIE, creating franchises like Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance and the record breaking Spiderman games. On August 2019, SIE announced the Acquisition of Insomniac Games and made them part of their Playstation Studios |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Marvel's Spider-Man 2 | Bryan Intihar, Ryan Smith | Confirmed | 2023 |
| Marvel's Wolverine | Brian Horton, Cameron Christian | Confirmed | 2024-2025 |
| Multiplayer Project | Confirmed | ||
In 2014, six students from a Sony sponsored game development program and a pair of industry veterans formed a small gaming team with the name Pixelopus. The Studio was formed inside the Sony Headquarters in San Mateo. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| New Project in collaboration with Sony Pictures Animations | Dominic Robilliard | Rumor |
Founded in 2006, Bluepoint Games is a video game developer known for their high quality remasters and remakes of Playstation Games like God of War, Shadow of the Collosus and their latest success -> Demon's Souls. After joining the PlayStation Studios Family in 2021, Bluepoint announced that they are working on their first original game. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Demon's Souls Remake | Gavin Moore | Released | 2020 |
| First original project | Confirmed |
| On March 2021, the new game development studio Haven was founded by industry veteran Jade Raymond. Haven's vision is to create multiplayer experiences that brings gamers together in positive and meaningful ways. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| New AAA Multiplayer IP | Confirmed | 2024-2026 |
Firewalk Studios is a video game development studio that was founded in 2018. The studio is based in San Francisco, California, and is comprised of industry veterans who have worked on popular video game franchises such as "Destiny," "Halo," and "Mass Effect." In April 2021, it was announced that Firewalk Studios had entered into a partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment to create a new original multiplayer game for the PlayStation 5 console. This partnership includes the acquisition of Firewalk Studios by Sony, making the studio a part of the PlayStation Studios family. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| New AAA Multiplayer IP | Confirmed | 2024-2025 |
Guerrilla Games is a Dutch first party developer founded in 2000 as Lost Boys Games. The european powerhouse studio and creator of the Killzone Franchise was acquired by Sony in 2005, following the release of Shellshock: 'Nam 67. In the last generation they released their ambitious new open world title: Horizon Zero Dawn & also created their new Decima Engine, which they shared with Kojima Productions. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date | |
| Horizon Forbidden West | Mathijs de Jonge | Released | 2021 | |
| Horizon Burning Shores | Confirmed | 2023 | ||
| Horizon Online/MP Project | Simon Larouche | Rumor | ||
| Horizon (VR) | Firesprite Collaboration |
| 2023 |
Media Molecule, the flagschip team of creativity and originality among PlayStation, is a british Studio formed in 2006 by former Lionhead employees. After their big success with Little Big Planet on the PS3, they became part of the Sony Family in 2010. In 2020 they released their game creation system and service, called Dreams, which they plan to support over the coming years. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Dreams | Mark Healey | Released | 2020 (2023 End of Support) |
| New Project | Confirmed |
Originally established in 1993, London Studio was formed in 2002 by the merger of Studio Camden and Team Soho. In the past they produced a wide array of party titles like Singstar or games for external devices like the PlayStation Move Controller or the PlayStation VR Headset. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| AAA Gaas Project | Confirmed | ||
Founded in July 1995 by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen, Housemarque is the oldest active developer in Finland and based in Helsinki. Combining their arcade experience of the past with Action Games, Housemarque is one of the dark horses of the PlayStation Family since their acquisition in 2021. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Returnal | Harry Krueger | Released | 2021 |
| New IP | Confirmed |
Firesprite was formed in 2012 by previous members of Studio Liverpool. Over the years the team was heavily expanding and helping out on Playstation Projects like Playroom or Run Sackboy. As of September 2021 Firesprite has joined the Playstation Studios, with several projects on the pipeline. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date | |
| Horizon Call of the Mountain | Alex Barnes |
| 2023 | |
| Dark Narrative Adventure | Rumor | |||
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Founded in 1998, Polyphony Digital is the first party studio behind the Gran Turismo games, one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world with over 80 million sales as of 2018. They were originally a development group within Sony Computer Entertainment known as Polys Entertainment, but after the success of Gran Turismo in Japan, they were granted greater autonomy and their name changed to Polyphony Digital. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| Gran Turismo 7 | Kazunori Yamauchi | Ongoing | March 2022 |
Team Asobi was originally formed in 2012 as part of Japan Studio, but after their closure, Asobi was formally spun off into a independent studio within PlayStation. They gained attention with their Astro Games on PS VR and PlayStation 5. The Studio is focusing on creativity, humor and advanced gameplay within their games. |
| Project | Director | Status/Source | Release Date |
| 3D Action Game | Nicolas Doucet | Rumor | |
| Visual Arts Services Group, a multi-award winning team responsible for the cinematic performances and animations in premier Sony PlayStation franchises like Uncharted, The Last of Us, Spider-Man, and other iconic series. The VASG team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry's best minds and companies. |
| XDev, established in 2000 and based in Liverpool, collaborates with independent development studios to publish content for PlayStation platforms. They are working as a mini publisher inside Sony Interactive Entertainment, with their own budget and in search for fitting third party studios to work on first party games. In addition to funding projects, XDev offers production, project management and game design support. Recently published XDev Games were Returnal, Destruction All Stars or Sackboy's Big Adventure. Since 2020 Xdev is expanding into the Asian/Japanese Market looking for producers. |
| Valkyrie Entertainment is a video game development studio based in Seattle. Since 2002, they have worked mostly as a support studio with other game developers and publishers on games like God of War, Halo Infinite or Forza Motorsport They are currently helping out on God of War Ragnarok. Wether they will develop their own games in the future is unclear at this point. |
| Nixxes Software is a dutch game developer from Utrecht, founded in 1999. The studio is specialised in porting games to additional platforms like the PC. Prior to their acquisition by SIE in 2021, they were mostly working with Square Enix on ports like Deus Ex, Tomb Raider or Avengers. With PlayStation bringing more of their first party games to PC, Nixxes will undoubtedly play an important role. |
Naughty Dog:
- Uncharted 4 crossed 20 million sales
- Uncharted 4 was the highest rated Videogame in 2016 -> Metascore 93
- Uncharted 4 won 165 GOTY Awards
- highest average career score among the SIE Studios
- The Last of Us sold around 20 Mio Copies (Combined Ps3 and Ps4 Version)
- The Last of Us PII sold trough more than 4 Million Copies in it's first 3 Days, making it the biggest Sony launch title in history
- The Last of Us PII reached a Metascore of 93
- The Last of Us Franchise sold more than 37 million copies
Santa Monica Studio:
- God of War 2018 was the highest rated first party game in the PS4 generation -> Metascore 94
- God of War 2018 has won the most GOTY Awards in 2018 -> 198
- God of War 2018 is among the 10 best sold Ps4 Games in the current generation (US)
- God of War 2018 is the second best selling PS4 Exclusive LTD in the US
- God of War 2018 sold over 20 million copies
- God of War Ragnarok has sold over 11 million copies in 3 months
- God of War Ragnarok is the highest rated first party game of the PS5 Generation (as of March 2023)
San Diego Studio:
- MLB: The Show 18 set a franchise record for first month sales
- MLB: The Show 19 set a genre sales record
- The MLB Franchise has a average Metascore of 83 in this Generation [83,80,85,85,82]
- MLB The Show 19 is among the 10 best selling games of the year via NPD (as of July 2019)
- Lifetime Top 10 Games in the Baseball Genre (5 MLB Games - MLB 19 on it's way to Number 1)
- MLB The Show 19 is the best selling Baseball Game in US History
- MLB The Show 20 has become the fastest selling game in the history of the franchise -> number 3 in the NPD Charts of the launch month
Guerrilla Games:
- Horizon was the best Guerrilla debut ever, selling twice as much as their second best debut, Killzone 2.
- As of April 30th, Horizon Zero Dawn sold over 3.4 Mio Copies
- One Year after its Launch, HZD sold over 7.6 Mio Units Worldwide
- Two Years after its Launch, HZD sold well over 10 Mio Copies
- As of 2022, Horizon ZD sold over 20 million copies
- With an Metascore of 89, Horizon Zero Dawn is among the 5 highest rated PlayStation Games of 2017
Bend Studio:
- After just one month in market, Days Gone is the best-selling game produced by Sony Bend Studio in lifetime revenues
- Days Gone with debut month sales that rank as the 7th highest in history for a Sony-published title
- Days Gone is among the Top 10 best selling games of the year 2019 via NPD (as of July 2019)
Media Molecule:
Insomniac Games:
- Ratchet and Clank was the most successful Insomniac Game ever before the Release of Spiderman
- Spider-Man sold 3.3 Mio Copies in 3 Days -> Fastest Selling PlayStation Exclusive breaking Records
- 4 Months after Launch, Spiderman has sold over 9 Mio Copies
- Spider-Man is among the 10 best sold Ps4 Games in the current generation (US)
- Spider-Man sold over 13.2 Million Copies wolrdwide
- Spider-Man is the best selling Playstation 4 Exclusive in the US LTD
- Spider-Man Miles Morales is the third biggest game ever published by Sony in the US (by revenue)
Team Asobi:
- Astro Bot highest rated VR Game with a Metascore of 90 (as of 2018)
- Astro Bot won Best VR Game 2018 at the Game Awards
- Astro Bot second best sold VR Game in October 2018
Polyphony Digital:
- As of April 2018 the Gran Turismo Franchise surpassed 80 Million Sales
- GT Sport exceeds 14 million players
Sucker Punch Production:
- Infamous Second Son sold over 1 Million copies in nine days after its launch, making it the fastest selling installment in the series
- Infamous Second Son in the Top 10 LDT Sales of Playstation 4 Exclusives
- Ghost of Tsushima is the fastest selling new IP on PS4 selling over 2.4 million copies within the first three days of launch
- Ghost of Tsushima breaks PlayStation sales record in Japan
- As of January 2022, Ghost of Tsushima sold over 8 million copies
SIE London Studio:
- Blood and Truth is the first VR Game to claim the number one spot in the UK Weekly Charts
- Blood and Truth among the Top 20 highest rated VR Games with a Metascore of 80
Bluepoint Games:
Housemarque:
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