The selection of PlayStation 5 exclusives hasn’t expanded at such a strong pace this year, and this situation may not have been there by chance.
Sony’s first-quarter business report (covering April-June 2023) contains a one-sided section that makes the “blue company” status suspicious. Translating, we say: “Operating revenue is expected to remain unchanged compared to the April forecast, mainly due to the absence of first party [külsős, third-party] Due to the aforementioned increase in sales of titles and the expected decrease in costs, which is mainly offset by the deterioration in the profitability of PlayStation 5 hardware, mainly due to promotions by geographical regions and changes in the composition of sales channels, also as a first party [belsős, first-party] As a result of the effect of changes in the publication date of some titles.
The last part is important to us: therefore, the release dates of a small part of the PlayStation Studios games that were planned and not announced to the public have been shifted, and since this is a compensatory effect, we can talk about a move that reduces revenue results, which is usually not brought by the appearance of the game in early time. In other words, to put it more succinctly: the release date(s) have been pushed back, so more PlayStation 5 titles may not arrive until later!
Of course, Sony hasn’t written a single letter about the projects in question, but you can guess and name one: Naughty Dog’s multiplayer game The Last of Us (which, for lack of a better official name, we’ll just call The Last of Us: Factions). ) The studio recently said that they still need time to share more about it. Our other idea could be Twisted Metal. Since this is a TV adaptation, Sony is certainly making a comeback with an IP that has been neglected since the PlayStation 3, and Lucid Games (Destruction AllStars) is rumored to be developing the game until Sony handed it over to Firesprite. The third possible idea is the Stellar Blade. The rest is something yet to be announced…
We’ll see what the situation is.
source: WCCFTech
