Our PS5 Predictions for 2025 - Results Revealed

As the year 2025 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the last 12 months — but more importantly, it's time to see who did the best (and the worst) in our predictions from January.

It's tradition around here for the editorial team to come up with a bunch of predictions for the year, and because we're all gamers at heart, we can't help but make it slightly competitive. Who's aced it with their crystal ball musings, and who's got to sit in the corner and think about where things went wrong?

Let's take a look at how we all got on.

Aaron Bayne, Video Producer

"Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet gameplay is revealed, plus a 2026 release window"

Given Sony's recent announcement-to-release cadence, we can forgive Aaron for assuming we'd see more of Intergalactic in 2025, but it was not to be. This Naughty Dog game appears to be a little further out than he thought, and with PS Studios already lining up at least three titles in 2026, Intergalactic seems likely to follow in 2027.

"PS Portal will get an OLED version"

A straightforward one, this — it's a negative. Sorry, Aaron.

In fairness, the PS Portal has had a fair amount of love from Sony this year, including significant functionality updates and some alternate colours to choose from. Unfortunately, though, an OLED model did not emerge.

"Opinion on the PS5 Pro will shift as more games benefit from it"

This one's a little tougher, as it depends on who you ask and what games they've played. We would argue, however, that the broad, general view of PS5 Pro is more negative than positive. Aaron's prediction was that opinion will become more positive over time, but with several misfires on high profile releases with regards to Pro support, it sadly means he loses another point with this one.

0/3 points

Khayl Adam, Contributor

"PlayStation enters an unprecedented new golden age"

This is a tough one to assess, but the spirit of the prediction is that PS5 will sell even better on the strength of its library and the multiplatform-ification of Xbox's games. On those grounds, well, it's still hard to say precisely how accurate this is, but PS5 did have a great 2025 backed by some excellent first-party titles, so let's throw Khayl half a point.

"Judas is released in Q1 2025, and it's the true successor to BioShock"

Ouch — not quite, Khayl! There's still no sign of Judas, the next game from Ken Levine and his team at Ghost Story Games. While we're all pretty excited to see what's next from the makers of BioShock, it's destined to be a 2026 game at the earliest, and the jury's out on whether it can match that legendary series.

"Sid Meier's Civilization VII is a breakout success for the series"

Unfortunately for history and strategy buff Khayl, this hasn't really come to pass. While the game reviewed pretty strongly, it had a very mixed reception from fans, with many lamenting its design deviations and other issues. Sales-wise, we don't know the full picture, but 2K boss suggested it had a slow start. It seems this wasn't quite the breakout success Khayl was hoping for.

0.5/3 points

Liam Croft, Assistant Editor

"Resident Evil 9 is announced for a 2026 launch"

Liam's hit the nail on the head with his first prediction. Resident Evil Requiem was indeed announced in 2025, and is scheduled for launch on 27th February, 2026. Predictions don't really come much cleaner than that!

"Death Stranding 2: On the Beach earns the highest Metacritic rating of any PS5 game released this year"

This prediction came fairly close to coming true, but unfortunately for DS2, 2025 had a huge number of stellar games release. Some of them, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Split Fiction ended up with a higher Metascore than Kojima Productions' sequel, great as it is.

"Hollow Knight: Silksong releases"

A very simple prediction that's paid off for Liam. This could've easily gone either way, but yes, Silksong really did finally launch in 2025, and it was a real moment late in the summer. So in demand was the game that it broke basically every digital storefront it launched on for an hour or two.

2/3 points

Robert Ramsey, Assistant Editor

"Starfield comes to PS5 as some kind of complete edition later in the year"

Sadly, this didn't come true in 2025. While Microsoft has brought many of its first-party games to PS5 during the year, Starfield has yet to join them. We expect this will happen sooner or later, but it seems Rob was a little quick on the draw here.

"Jin Sakai will be playable in Ghost of Yotei (through a flashback sequence)"

Rob's fan fiction about Jin Sakai didn't come to pass — it seems Ghost of Yotei doesn't feature Jin Sakai as a playable character at all. It would've been cool, but no dice.

Interestingly, Rob made a small, additional prediction relating to the Sakai family katana, and that did turn out to be true, so we'll give him a half point. Why not? It's the holidays.

"The Final Fantasy 9 remake is revealed, built on Unreal Engine"

It's a big fat no for Rob's final prediction, unfortunately. We're seemingly no closer to a Final Fantasy 9 remake. There's been a little bit of chatter about Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, and we did get Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles at last, but Zidane's grand adventure has yet to reemerge.

0.5/3 points

Sammy Barker, Editor

"Sony will announce a game playable on PS5, PC, and mobile"

This feels like a prediction that should've come true, but surprisingly it didn't. Sony has actually announced several mobile games in 2025, but no games that are playable across PS5, PC, and mobile. This feels like an inevitability, but it didn't emerge over the last year, so we have to chalk this one up as a miss.

"GTA 6 will have a modular multiplayer map allowing Rockstar to change parts of the city"

Unfortunately, we know about as much about GTA 6 now as we did when Sammy wrote his predictions, so this is another no-pointer. He's onto something with this modular map talk, though; it makes perfect sense given the game will likely have some hefty live service features. Unfortunately, there's still about a year to go until the game is in our hands, and that's if it isn't delayed again. Here's hoping.

"Microsoft becomes the biggest publisher on PS5 by far"

This has broadly turned out to be true. With Xbox pushing its games to other platforms more and more, and considering the sheer scope of what Microsoft's games publishing business looks like these days, many of the best-selling PS5 games of 2025 have come from the company. It's a scenario that would've felt ridiculous five years ago, but Sony's biggest competitor has become one of its key software partners.

1/3 points

Stephen Tailby, Assistant Editor

"We'll spy our first glimpse of Project 007 this year"

Ding ding ding! We did indeed get our first glimpse at the game, which turned out to be named 007 First Light. In fact, we've seen a good chunk of it; as well as the initial trailer, there was a State of Play all about it, and the stealth action game has been popping up at different showcases throughout 2025.

"Team Asobi isn't quite done with Astro Bot just yet"

Stephen's eagle-eyed observations about Astro Bot were worth the effort, as this prediction turned out true too. The game would go on to receive many additional DLC levels for free throughout the year, and with those came new Special Bots, even including the ones Stephen mentions. It seems that Team Asobi is finally finished with Astro Bot at this point, but the team really came through for this prediction.

"EA will announce an arcade racing game, and it's either a Burnout revival or a Need for Speed remaster"

Unfortunately, this one didn't land. EA didn't announce a new Burnout, Need for Speed, or any arcade racing game for that matter. It was good research from Stephen, but the publisher's let him down. Maybe there is an arcade racer in the works at EA, but none were made public in 2025.

2/3 points

So, this year we have a tie — it's Liam and Stephen with two points each! Congratulations on your great predicting prowess. Have a mince pie and some Quality Street to celebrate.

Watch out, because in the new year, we'll be making some fresh predictions about 2026. Keep your eyes peeled for that in the coming days. For now, have your say on our great guesses and fumbled failures in the comments section below.