Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape
After last night's State of Play, you'd be forgiven for thinking we're coming to the end of the PlayStation 5 generation. The big guns of Sony Santa Monica and Guerilla are silent, the teased-out reveals of Insomniac's Wolverine, Bungie's Marathon, or Kojima Productions' Death Stranding 2: On the Beach remain exactly that, still merely teased. Naughty Dog's next thing is lurking, off in the distance, gathering whatever secret power that studio ritually summons every near-decade to squeeze impossible reserves of lifeblood from end-of-generation hardware. And here comes a spate of middling remasters and kind-of-neat-looking third-party games to tide us over! Read more
After last night's State of Play, you'd be forgiven for thinking we're coming to the end of the PlayStation 5 generation. The big guns of Sony Santa Monica and Guerilla are silent, the teased-out reveals of Insomniac's Wolverine, Bungie's Marathon, or Kojima Productions' Death Stranding 2: On the Beach remain exactly that, still merely teased. Naughty Dog's next thing is lurking, off in the distance, gathering whatever secret power that studio ritually summons every near-decade to squeeze impossible reserves of lifeblood from end-of-generation hardware. And here comes a spate of middling remasters and kind-of-neat-looking third-party games to tide us over!
