Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But if Forspoken and Final Fantasy perform, and Spider-Man 2 does make it out this year, even with a monster like Starfield coming to Xbox, I still think that ultimately this would be Sony’s year.Įxcept, of course, when Nintendo ruins everyone with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. A year where Forspoken bombs, Final Fantasy is just okay and Spider-Man is delayed until 2023 would favor an Xbox which puts out Forza, Redfall and Starfield in a year and those all do well. That’s really the ultimate question here.

The main question is whether or not Spider-Man will actually hit its fall 2023 release date, or if it will be delayed into 2024. It’s a stellar game starring one of the best-known characters in the world, and a sequel is going to do monstrously well. We obviously don’t have full PS5 numbers yet, but Spider-Man: Miles Morales was the top download on Sony’s digital store last year. The first Spider-Man was the best-selling PS4 game with 20 million copies sold, beating out even God of War, Uncharted 4, The Witcher 3, The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn. I’m not sure people understand just how well Insomniac’s Spider-Man (and Miles Morales) have done for Sony. Final Fantasy XVI is due out this summer and is unlikely to be delayed into next year, I’d say, and any mainline FF game is going to do extremely well, without question, no real risk attached there.īut the biggest thing on the list is easily Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 from Insomnia. Video games that are PlayStation console exclusives because of their longstanding relationship with Sony.įorspoken feels like the biggest gamble here, a game that was widely mocked for some of its dialogue in early trailers, but gameplay itself has looked pretty incredible. The PS5 Heavies – Forspoken, Final Fantasy XVI, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 - Obviously, Sony is relying heavily on its relationship with Square Enix here, who thankfully has not yet gone too deep into their new blockchain obsession and are still making actual video games.

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