The 2021 consumer show started today – practically, of course – and during a video presentation Sony revealed information about the release date of about half a dozen games. But it did not announce this data as you would expect. Instead, all the new information comes from the text that appeared at the bottom of the screen just a few seconds in the middle of the video. But, good news: we have a launch month for the mysterious Square Enix Athia project.
Sony video covered a number of the company’s business, analyzing new products that the massive corporation intends to launch in the next year or two. New TVs, movies, etc. But buried in this video are a few minutes dedicated to PlayStation 5 and Sony’s gaming division.
This segment, hosted by PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, was not very interesting, focusing mainly on what the company has done with the launch of PS5 and the games released so far. But right at the end of the segment, close to the 10:39 mark, you can see the slide that contains a lot of new information about future PS5 games.
- Return – 19.03.2021
- Pragmatic – 2023
- Solar ash – June 2021
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits – March 2021
- Stray & GhostWire: Tokyo – October 2021
- Little Inner Devil – July 2021
- The Athia Project – January 2022
- Hitman 3 – January 2021
- Horizon: Forbidden West – 2021
Some of this is old information I already knew about, ca Hitman 3release date. But there is apparent news. As I mentioned, we now have a launch window for Athia project, the new Square Enix game which will be exclusively for PS5 for two years. If it comes out next January, that would mean that Xbox Series X players will have to wait at least 2024 to play the still mysterious game.
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Wandering, the PS5 adventure with a cat in a futuristic city of robots, seems to be coming in October. I knew it would be released in 2021, but this is the first mention in a month. Same with GhostWire: Tokyo, The ghostly FPS from Tango Gameworks, which had only a vague launch window in 2021. And it aims to come out in October.
Finally, Pragma, that weird game from Capcom first revealed during a PS5 event back June 2020, seems to have been delayed. It was scheduled to appear sometime in 2022, but now comes a year later based on information from the CES video.
Small print in the middle of a random video is a rather strange way to announce essentially a bunch of new PS5 release dates and I expect these games and their respective studios to announce this news more officially with formal posts and trailers on Twitter. In the meantime, I can’t wait for the next batch of PS5 games to be revealed at the end of a random pop-up ad on the internet or something.