Jason Schreier (Kotaku Splitscreen) : "Sony will have PS5 only titles at launch"

Deleted member 135 · Jan 11, 2020

It will be really interesting to see what kind of new features and gameplay systems come out of games that are exclusive to next-gen systems.

Imagine being able to ride a stormbird in Horizon Zero Dawn 2 because the high bandwidth memory and the 128GB/s+ SSD allows for loading fast enough to handle previously unseen speeds in games. And that's just a rather simple idea.

xxracerxx · Jan 11, 2020

Podge293 said:
Wait until all these exclusives are just remasters of ps4 games

Do you actually believe this will be the case?

Xando · Jan 11, 2020

PS5 exclusive remaster of TLOU2

Renfran · Jan 11, 2020

Hanbei said:
Like Godfall.

Well no, Godfall is on PC and isn't a 1st Party game.

litebrite · Jan 11, 2020

Podge293 said:
Wait until all these exclusives are just remasters of ps4 games

I highly doubt selling remasters will be viable next gen for last gen games. Some will simply get next gen patches for free.

Foffy · Jan 11, 2020

Gonna hijack a Demon's Souls remaster to this approach, I bet. :(

SharpX68K · Jan 11, 2020

yagal said:
This.
7 fucking years of jaguar

This.

Microsoft will be releasing games for a couple of years that have to run on fucking Jaguar, even though Xbox Series X (and Lockhart) have Zen 2. Sony will be taking advantage of Zen 2 right out of the gate.

rottenpie · Jan 11, 2020

That's the strategy I like :)

Baccus · Jan 11, 2020

Sony looks at the past, MS at the future. Let's see what the market finally rewards.

Podge293 · Jan 11, 2020

Gero said:
Good. Not sure about MS tho. Its good for casuals but bad for the rest

Why?

"hardcore" gamers still gonna get the upgrade.

Ms will increase their user base maybe

Win win for MS

Dreazy · Jan 11, 2020

Who cares about cross gen or exclusive its about the games, whos gonna have the best looking games come november, thats what going to matter

Podge293 · Jan 11, 2020

xxracerxx said:
Do you actually believe this will be the case?

litebrite said:
I highly doubt selling remasters will be viable next gen for last gen games. Some will simply get next gen patches for free.

Twas a joke folks.

Master Alucard · Jan 11, 2020

if they didn't i wouldn't have any reason to buy a ps5.

Jon Carter · Jan 11, 2020

Marble said:
At what time did you wake up today?

All their exclusives will be cross gen the first 2 years.

Guess I didn't follow this thing closely enough. No next-gen exclusives for two years is certainly a strategy. Good luck to them.

Dark Cloud · Jan 11, 2020

Foffy said:
Gonna hijack a Demon's Souls remaster to this approach, I bet. :(

Why do you still have this avatar?

80s Old School · Jan 11, 2020

Oh so no Last of Us 2 or Ghosts of Tsushima? Hmmm.

Jawbreaker · Jan 11, 2020

I would hope so.

Podge293 · Jan 11, 2020

Dreazy said:
Who cares about cross gen or exclusive its about the games, whos gonna have the best looking games come november, thats what going to matter

It's gonna be who has the cheaper console

Marble · Jan 11, 2020

Yesterday said:
You don't need exclusives for that

Not if you consider scaling up resolution and framerate as "next gen".

Games need to be designed around the SSD drive and new CPU and GPU to really showcase what is possible. We need bigger cities, countless NPC's, huge draw distances, super dense forests and worlds we can move through at huge speeds without pop-in or textures loading in.

H-I-M · Jan 11, 2020

100 million customers that will gladly, GLADLY buy the brand new PS5 to play exclusive games.

Dark Cloud · Jan 11, 2020

Dreazy said:
Who cares about cross gen or exclusive its about the games, whos gonna have the best looking games come november, thats what going to matter

We already know who will

xxracerxx · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Oh so no Last of Us 2 or Ghosts of Tsushima? Hmmm.

What? You will be able to play those on a PS5.

Renfran · Jan 11, 2020

Podge293 said:
It's gonna be who has the cheaper console

It's gonna be who has the better games. Games sell systems. Not the graphics, not the price, and not anything else is as important as the lineup of games.

Iwao · Jan 11, 2020

Baccus said:
Sony looks at the past, MS at the future. Let's see what the market finally rewards.

This post… it's ironic.

pargonta · Jan 11, 2020

as it should be

darkside · Jan 11, 2020

Baccus said:
Sony looks at the past, MS at the future. Let's see what the market finally rewards.

Uh I think you have it backwards?

This would be like if Apple went out of their way to keep supporting the iphone 5S or something. At some point its not unreasonable to just ask folks to upgrade

Baccus · Jan 11, 2020

Iwao said:
This post… it's ironic.

Not talking from the pov of game tech but market reach.

Desfrog · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Oh so no Last of Us 2 or Ghosts of Tsushima? Hmmm.

This doesn't mean there won't be backwards compatibility.

BadWolf · Jan 11, 2020

Iwao said:

lol

Podge293 · Jan 11, 2020

Renfran said:
It's gonna be who has the better games.

If either of the two release a console that's 100 quid plus cheaper that console will sell better.

Do you think the average Joe gives a shit about quality at the beginning? It's about price

Barnabas Reynolds · Jan 11, 2020

Dreazy said:
Who cares about cross gen or exclusive its about the games, whos gonna have the best looking games come november, thats what going to matter

Should have stopped after the first comma and you might give the impression of being someone that knows what they're talking about.

zombiejames · Jan 11, 2020

Next-gen games on a next-gen console. Thank you.

J_Viper · Jan 11, 2020

Good for me

I can still enjoy MS exclusives on an Xbone for another year and change, and get a PS5 if the exclusive launch line up is a hit.

Very curious to know if Horizon 2: The Dark World will make it to launch

80s Old School · Jan 11, 2020

xxracerxx said:
What? You will be able to play those on a PS5.

Would the major IPs Sony is launching this year not count as cross gen? Or are we to believe they have another major IP or Big Budget game coming to PS5 this year they haven't told us about?

Podge293 · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Oh so no Last of Us 2 or Ghosts of Tsushima? Hmmm.

Or they'll just release a ps5 version. Wouldn't be unheard of seeing as they did it with TLOU

Cactuar · Jan 11, 2020

808s & Villainy said:
Is this surprising or different from every other new console ever released?

It's different from the Microsoft because Xbox Game Studios will have no next gen exclusives on release nor up to two years after.

Richter1887 · Jan 11, 2020

I don't understand MS decision if I am honest. Like I could understand them wanting the games on everything there is but If I was an Xbox fan then I would wait until a good deal before I buy the Xbox 4. Meanwhile if I wanted to play Days Gone 2 or God of War 5 or Demon's Souls Remake/Bloodborne 2 I would have to buy a PS5 which results in more hardware sales for Sony.

I just don't see the reason to rush out and buy it. I hope this works for them though.

FIREKNIGHT2029 · Jan 11, 2020

criteriondog said:
I can't wait for those PS5 exclusives! Can't wait to see Horizon 2 :)

Me too. Have a feeling that HZD2 will be a launch window game. The first one is almost 3 years old and I don't think they'll be building a new engine for the sequel on PS5 so I think we are due for a huge reveal.

BizzyBum · Jan 11, 2020

"PlayStation 5 will have exclusives"

I will now buy your system.

MrBob · Jan 11, 2020

Didn't Sony say they want a fast transition to ps5? Have an aggressive ps4/ps4 pro trade in program and good ps5 exclusives will do the trick.

asd202 · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Would the major IPs Sony is launching this year not count as cross gen? Or are we to believe they have another major IP or Big Budget game coming to PS5 this year they haven't told us about?

Yes? Sony is obviously having PS5 games they haven't talked about one will be the Bluepoint game and other from Japan studio at least.

80s Old School · Jan 11, 2020

Podge293 said:
Or they'll just release a ps5 version. Wouldn't be unheard of seeing as they did it with TLOU

How is that not cross gen?

J 0 E · Jan 11, 2020

This is the better approach.

xxracerxx · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Would the major IPs Sony is launching this year not count as cross gen? Or are we to believe they have another major IP or Big Budget game coming to PS5 this year they haven't told us about?

I would assume there is a game or two that they have not told us about until the PS5 reveal.

80s Old School said:
How is that not cross gen?

Just because you will be able to play God of War on a PS5 doesn't make it cross-gen.

BadWolf · Jan 11, 2020

80s Old School said:
Would the major IPs Sony is launching this year not count as cross gen? Or are we to believe they have another major IP or Big Budget game coming to PS5 this year they haven't told us about?

Not really.

They are PS4 games.

PS5 will be able to play them due to backwards compatibility.

Salty Rice · Jan 11, 2020

Baccus said:
Sony looks at the past, MS at the future. Let's see what the market finally rewards.

PS5 is the past and Xbox One is future confirmed.

I know what you meant

DriftingSpirit · Jan 11, 2020

Baccus said:
Sony looks at the past, MS at the future. Let's see what the market finally rewards.

I mean, it doesn't have to be either/or. We already saw what "looking at the past" did for Sony this gen. The question is how things will work out for MS.

I can see them both being successful in different ways.

Jaxar · Jan 11, 2020

zombiejames said:
Next-gen games on a next-gen console. Thank you.

Yep my thoughts too. Bring it on.

KoolAid · Jan 11, 2020

It should be obvious by now that Series X isn't the important part here, it's Game Pass. Microsoft is hoping that, since you already own the titles on Game Pass, you might as well buy the Series X since it's a better console, but if you don't wanna, you can still keep playing on your Xbox One, for a bit at least.

Doctor_Thomas · Jan 11, 2020

It's almost like being market leader for 3 out of the 4 gens they've already been part of has given Sony a bit of an idea as to how to approach releasing a console.

Microsoft's approach is utterly baffling to me.

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