Across the several decades Sony Interactive Entertainment has been around dominating with their PlayStation brand, exclusive titles have always been what drove gamers, regardless to the casual or hardcore market, to the blue team. From the original PlayStation becoming a household name thanks to Final Fantasy VII, the PlayStation 2 blasting past both Microsoft and Nintendo due to not only having a DVD player in a console but the library of games that you could’ve gotten only on PlayStation was something to marvel at. With PlayStation 3 being the lowest selling PlayStation home console and considered a failure, it still pulled up over their biggest rival. How did they do that though? The same way they do now — first party exclusives. And last generation’s PlayStation 4, the console which saw Worldwide Studios (the previous name for PlayStation Studios) fire on all cylinders.
Into the PlayStation 5 we go, full steam ahead, right? Well, wrong. Sony had acquired developers left and right but unfortunately, the trickle of exclusive games we used to know and love is undeniably gone at the moment and Insomniac Games has carried the torch throughout most of the generation so far. So what’s going on? Sony has taken the approach to announce games within a year or so of launch, instead of announcing a game in 2023 and having it launch in 2028.
Today we’re going to be discussing every studio with an unannounced game in development, ranging from the small, unknown teams from Shanghai to the largest, most respected in the industry like Naughty Dog, we’ve got a load to dive into.
Internal Development studios :
- Asobi Studio
- Bend Studio
- Bluepoint Games
- Bungie
- FireSprite Games
- Guerrilla Games
- Housemarque
- Insomniac Games
External Development studios :
- Unnamed Indian studio
- Madrid Studio
- Shanghai Studio
- XDEV
Please note that several studios like San Diego Studio and Guerrilla Games have External Development branches as well and we will be discussing those on their Internal Development slides. Also, Supporting Development studios like San Mateo Studio, Malaysia Studio, and Nixxes Software, all who do not make their own games and only work on Internal Development studios’ titles, do not count. Additionally, I will not be discussing studios with titles already announced unless they have a secondary team or more working on different titles, hence why someone like Haven Studios is not on the list above. This article will evolve as more titles are announced and will be updated to reflect that, and once studios like Haven Studios launch their first game, their pages will be added here.