PlayStation Head Hermen Hulst Commits to Strong First-Party Output on PS5

Oh good. I hate when the executives say that they're committed to bringing terrible games for the platform! I much prefer incredible games.

I’d prefer a style of play that wasn’t just another 3rd person action-adventure game. I loved Spider-Man and Horizon but if you actually look at the big exclusives from PS4, they’re all pretty similar. This is an industry-wide issue however, Ubisoft towers are commonplace from your bog-standard open-world game to BoTW. It’s possibly why Days Gone got a relatively lukewarm reaction compared to the other big first party games. Hopefully there’s more of a push next-gen towards map density and interactivity rather than big empty open worlds

@Ralizah To be fair, it IS a newsworthy comment, because it's the opposite of the messaging from companies like Microsoft and Google, who have essentially no exclusives of note.

@nessisonett I think Sony's worlds are more non-linear than open, for the most part, and they tend not to be empty (I'm not counting Death Stranding, which is not a Sony first party game). That said, I'm ready for a little more variety, myself, and I think we're going to get it at some point.

I think this is good to hear. Sony make incredible games, but could do with diversifying the portfolio abit to ensure they continue to interest different demographics. An exclusive rpg franchise, or racing franchise etc (im intentionally excluding Gran Turismo here) would be really handy for example.

Microsoft seem to have acquired studios that enable them to tick a box in each genre, which is handy to have.

@nessisonett Agreed, they are definitely similar... but then that's their 'niche', and they have become exceptionally good at it. In fact, I'd argue Sony's first-party studios are now the best at it.

That suits me, as it's probably my favourite type of game. And at a time when most others are chasing the always-online, first/third-person shooter, multi-player, MTX easy money, via relatively lazy, copypasta, uninspired drivel, I welcome as many of these games as Sony can put out.

@Rob_230 Sony could definitely do with a studio like Obsidian. Bloodborne was good for what it was, but with FF7R coming out, there’s definitely a hunger for a more classic RPG style. If you look back to the golden days of PS, there were several great RPG exclusive series like Wild Arms, Arc the Lad and Suikoden but they’re all gone now.

It would be nice to see more diversity and another push into the multiplayer space (like early ps3 days with MAG, SOCOM, Killzone etc). I’d love to see some RPGs developed by Sony.

@nessisonett
Days Gone innovated. It wasn't towers but bunkers 😋

This is good news. I think Sony should improve their exclusives politics, securing the full thing before anything can happen. I don't know how good things will go for them but we'll see if the current decisions were clever in the long term.

In the other hand, I hope Hermen to push for the return of older PlayStation IPs like Alundra, The Legend of Dragoon, Starhawk, MotorStorm and PS Allstars Battle Royale (hopefully the rumors are true and Capcom is working on this one).

@nessisonett
Wait 'Bloodborne was good for what it was'???
Sorry but you lost any common sense argument now

@JJ2 I love Dark Souls 1 and 3, Nioh and other Souls-likes but I just didn’t take to Bloodborne. It did its take on Souls gameplay well but I wasn’t a great fan of either the plot or many of the bosses. I can still recognise it was a good game but the DLC blew the base game out the water and showed what the base game could have been.

I can't wait for the sequel of ps4 big exclusive games on ps5, god of war 2, naughty dog new games, horizon zd 2, spider-man 2, days gone 2, new ghost of tsushima, persona 6, and all the new ip sony will make on next-gen

@nessisonett I'm with you there, I think that's why I enjoyed Death Stranding so much as the world itself became the game and the challenge as opposed to just wandering towards the yellow marker without even having to pay attention. I've really enjoyed games like Horizon with it's quite brilliant combat but the world felt largely lifeless outside of that. We definitely need some different types of games from them, whether it be RPG's, 3D platformers or just something completely new

@carlos82 That’s an interesting way of looking at it. That could possibly be why I enjoy DS so much too, it deconstructs the ‘fetch quest’ and makes the very act of travelling from point A to B interesting, rather than a chore.

I think Sony needs to either develop more rpg or acquire studios that can make good rpg games. I think a studio that has talent to do it is Asobo studios will be great purchase. Also Sony needs to think on bringing back titles like Socom, resistance and syphon filter with a good multiplayer

All the port begging just needs to end. PC fanboys are like roaches. PushSquare needs to start banning port beggers. We cannot even have discussions about the games themselves. Every topic has a ton of port beggers or people saying every game should be on every platform and its ruining this website.

@Morenoj1220 This is what we should be talking about. I agree as I have said that I want RPGs from them, both WRPG and JRPG.

whilst HZD and GoW are standout games for me this generation, and i am highly anticipating TLOU2, it's the more quirkly stuff from sony that i've found of more value in the last couple of years - shadow of the colossus remake, detroit become human, dreams, death stranding.. i don't like spiderman as a character, so the game didn't really interest me much, and days gone.. the bike and having to care for it put me off the title, not the reviews - i've a couple of friends that loved it, but i'm not a big fan of most open world games in the first place, and generally when a vehicle (or vehicles) are involved to get around them, it invariably means there's a lot of wasteful nothingness getting from A to B (eg: most of ubisoft's games this gen). uncharted for me is about nathan drake, and his saga had a satisfactory conclusion, not sure sony really needs more 3rd person action games, or to create a brand new studio to make more of what WWS are already good at. i'd really like to see them get back to the FPS genre, apart from killzone shadowfall (which wasn't nearly as good as 2 or 3 imo) as a launch title, it went a whole console generation without an exclusive flagship shooter.. which is a really poor effort. i'd take a reboot of killzone or resistance at this point.

The last part of his comment is alittle troubling. Sounds to me like Sony will still do some big sp exclusives, but their going to start dipping their toes in the mp microtransaction pool. Smh 🙄🤦‍♂️

I really don't trust this guy. He said he commits strong first party but he literally has lost exclusives as well. MLB the show is now going to ALL platforms and SIE San Diego is doing it why? HZD on p.c is becoming more and more true each day and I do think it will be announced this week. Ps lost their sense of identity and I don't trust Sony's words since they lied about Death Stranding for 5 years of being exclusive then 2 weeks before the games release date it was announced for p.c. Sorry but Sony doesn't care about exclusives nor it's customers especially for those who stood by them when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Sony wants to appease other platforms then fine I'll will stop supporting Sony and go independent myself..p.c. again, I don't trust Sony for lying way too many times.

@Odin1985x you need to stop crying and get laid ASAP

@Amppari You should take one for the team😉

@Amppari (chuckle) Well it seems that you provided a good advice but sadly I can get laid every night since I'm married so your advice doesn't vaild any point to what we are discussing.

Considering that I've read your past comments it seems to me that you have all the time in the world to write but don't consider to look at himself that YOU need to get laid...anyways back on topic here..

Sony's boss is not in for playstation exclusives or the brand. If he was why place exclusives on different platforms? I don't want to hear for more players to play or to make money. If you are gonna label on playstation only then it shouldn't be on other systems to appease other platforms cause they failed to achieve what Sony has done with this generation. Label Ps only then it goes onto other systems is false advertising.

Sony lied about DS and no, DS wasn't technically saying it will be on p.c it was possible for it, it wasn't confirmed til 2 weeks before the ps4 version was about to be released that is pretty stupid and shady for those who both have a p.c and ps4 l. To be honest if DS was announced at the same time as ps4 version..most ppl will just buy it for the p.c but Sony waited for Ps4 limited edition sells and then break the news to be ported onto p.c it's a shameful business practice. This is not whining, this is being a pissed off customer that was lied to cause to be honest PS systems are very inferior in performance and hardware. Hell even Stadia can be as good as a p.c and xbox if the system worked or had it's features and doesn't charge you 10 bucks more for games. Sony will never be as powerful as xbox or p.c I'll buy DS on p.c cause at least it's the far superior.

Exclusives should remain exclusives to which it was built on. So in all if all exclusives are leaving then there is no sense to even own a ps or xbox. Console gaming is dying, slowly.

@Odin1985x You are crying about exclusives on the internet, you are not married.

Also everything you said about DS is wrong.

@Amppari I guess you know me so well huh..kinda of creepy. And no I wasn't wrong about DS at all...DS was supposed to be exclusive to the ps4 only. Sony only held off to make those sales on limited editions so they can make more money. Sony funded the game even though they don't own Kojima Productions. You basically have no idea what you are talking about to anything that you are saying. Sony has no respect for the customers that stood by them when they were about quit. Sony has lied so many times and at this point I might just stop buying Sony systems for their bad customer treatment and yes they have the worse customer service. The new boss will make sure p.c and xbox get the better versions of the game while Sony gets the crappy versions..even 3rd party games look better on other platforms than ps. And everyone will jump ship from Sony consoles to play on better hardware and that's a fact Sony has the bad versions of 3rd party games. So now Sony's studio's ip will look better on xbox and p.c lol and I hope Sony fails and look what happened to xbox one..exclusives are also on pc and ppl jump to pc to play cause it looks better and plays better. So good job on Sony's part..big clap.

They can just keep doing what they do now. And they have my cash.

SONY makes some of the best story driven, single player games in the industry. And you need a playstation to play them.

Microsoft showed a spark of that in Gears 5 - but then they let me play it for $5 on PC Game Pass with Free online.

And Nintendo still makes games based on mechanics. They have not made anything even remotely like The Last of US. Or have a character like Ellie, Kratos or Aloy to build a narrative around.

Cherry on top, is that you get EVERY big 3rd party game under the sun. No begging or waiting 5 years for a port. I do not care what "exclusives" are on a hardware if it is missing half the top AAA games in the calendar year.

I'm still so glad that Sony realizes that many within their userbase still enjoys strong single player games just like PS1-PS3. Ever since 7th gen, many devs/publishers kept chasing that online gaming money and it has gotten worse.Still plenty of great SP games to experience for fans like us. Can't wait for TLOU2 among other games.

@nessisonett there is not much diversity in the gaming industry anymore. When people try to innovate you get those who call it a walking simulator, despite there being more to it.

The game industry doesn't take risks anymore, they stand by what's trending or selling the most and don't bother to create something that wows. Hopefully it changes, but 8 don't see it happening.