All PS5 First-Party Exclusives

Like with every new generation, nothing good or interesting so far. Nothing special. Have to wait for next ND project and some of the other 1st parties.

@Grimwood This line-up looks better than the first two PS4 years combined!

Nothing interesting?

I'm really excited for Demon's Souls, Horizon, Ratchet & Clank and Astro Bot, and also will very likely be checking out Sackboy, Spider-Man, GT7.

Personally it's easily the most appealing bunch of games announced pre-console release ever.

@Grimwood say no to drugs ok.what are you talking about.ratchet and clank is amazing.demon souls etc.word up son

Playing through Ratchet & Clank on PS4 right now. It's a simple game but so much fun! Really looking forward to the sequel.

Most exited for Demon's Souls and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. I have yet to play Spider-Man and Horizon so I'm probably going to be playing those before I'm getting my hands on the sequels.

This line up is excellent so far!So many games im already excited for.Still,some people are never satisfied.

What I'm eying is ps5 horizon special edition....

Pretty much excited for all of these, Returnal looks the most intriguing but the ones I am most looking forward to are GT7, Spiderman, Astrobot & Horizon so pretty much all of them 🤣

And to think this is only the very beginning for the PS5.

Outside of Demon's Souls I want every one of them!! Too many games not enough time lol!

It's a good start from Sony overall. The key question is how many of these will make it for launch.
That said there are at least 3 titles here I am absolutely looking forward to playing. Good to have a reason to buy a PS5 pretty much right away.

This is a great line up tbh..
Quite a few titles I'm looking forward to

.. Love all of these.. Can you please do a "these are the launch titles" section (maybe including games that will use PS5 at launch via update, etc) it's a shame 99% of these will be 2021+...

Cant wait to see that Horizon sequel to come on P...C like the first game.

@N1ntendodo Going to be quite the wait! 😉

Horizon, Horizon, Horizon.

Oh and the rest aren't too bad either.

😆

A really solid lineup so far! Cannot wait for PS5.

Miles Morales is the thing that makes me hesitate between the XSX and the PS5. If I could know with certainty that PS5 will receive a Smart Delivery-like process, the same amount of optimization than Microsoft's console on games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2, Yakuza like a Dragon and the others, I would feel a lot better!
Microsoft is talking a lot about optimization, with specific icons on the boxes, and Sony is weirdly silent and I don't like it. Plus, I would like for the PS5 to be silent. Please, please, please be silent. I had an original PS4 and now a PS4 Pro and they both make a hell of a noise!

GT7 is at the top of my wishlist. So excited about that one!

This is such an amazing lineup of games. I’m really excited for Gran Turismo 7, Ratchet and Clank, Horizon Forbidden West, Spider-Man, and even Sackboy!

I never played a Dark Souls game but Demon’s Souls is definitely interesting me as well.

@OneManDroid at this point: launch is only Miles Morales’ Spider Man game. Unless you also want to count the packed in Astro Playground.

I’m still crossing my fingers Ratchet and Clank is 2020, but have a feeling if they thought they could deliver that at launch, we would already know it.

Despite being the only confirmed launch title, we still have to see gameplay for Spider Man.

@Octane
And this isnt even including other 3rd party launch titles. I'm really hoping for Ghostwire:Tokyo to make it in as a launch title.

And I agree, the first two years of the PS4 were awful. Such a bleak, dysmal array of underwhelming boring and unimaginative titles to choose from. The PS4 didn't become intersting until around 2016 if that. 2019 was a great year thanks to Capcom making a killer come back etc.

I loved the PS1, didn't care for the PS2(I was a Dreamcast+GameCube guy) as sony regurgitated the same dualshock 1 controller, the console was ugly and the majority of games looked like they were drained of color boasting drab, grey and brown color pallettes. It rubbed me the wrong way and i hated how it was responsible for killing the Dreamcast. it just didn't scream fun or excitement the same way the DC and GameCube did imo. The PS2 felt like the beginning of the end.

Meanwhile I absolutely hated my PS3(worst console I've ever owned) and I
I've been enjoying the PS4 a lot more so since christmas 2019.

I'm hoping to make the PS5 my new PS1. There's no doubt in my mind that it will be thee greatest PS yet. It will have the PS1 bowing down on its little 32-bit polygonal knees.

@Vriess

The 30fps and blur implementation kind of suck and take away from visuals enormously, but you eventually adjust. And I agree, it's a lot fun. I was surprised by this one. Make sure to play it on hard!

@Bentleyma-
Me too, In all honesty i havent been excited for a PS console since the PS1. Don't get me wrong I was nearly all aboard the PS2 hype train until I went hands on with the thing.

PS1 - Absolutely Fantastic
PS2 - Wasn't really my cup of tea.
PS3 - Horrible. The worst.
PS4 - 2019 & 2020 were and continue to be excellent years, yet pre-2017 the PS4 was kind of lack luster, while its first two years were incredibly bleak. 😦 it's definitely a console you won't regret catching on its tail end and games are plenty cheap, and it's got VR support. Another big win.

@Octane yes but with a lot of TBA’s for release dates this could be the first two years of PS5!

@playstation1995 I think it’s you who needs to say no to drugs. He was saying it’s a good lineup not a bad one!

@Dodoo no he wasn't he was hating on the games playa.word up son

I am going to buy........
Demon's Souls, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal AND Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Only because theres no Knack 3 :-I)
I currently have £709 saved, Possibly £1000 next month?
Ps5 and the Pulse 3D headset....... what ever is left will go on games

@BNAG_Gamer the only game on that list available for purchase at launch is Spider-man, so at least you won't need much for games.

@Dyrual so far, no PS5 version of Yakuza like a dragon has been confirmed. It's supposed to be available for Series X at launch. Maybe it comes to PS5 at a later date

@pip_muzz only spider-man and Astro will be launch titles

@ViperXT Yakuza is a HUUUUUUGE deal for me, so it's gonna count a lot when time will come to choose a next-gen platform.
I don't understand Sony's communication: too many vague things like backward compatibility and upscalling.
Microsoft got it right on it, with clear indications on game boxes about Smart Delivery or the "Optimized for XBox Series X" badge.

Spider man isnt the only game thats available at launch, Yes they wont be first party games BUT I will be buying more than 1 game

Astro Bots is pre installed on the every Ps5, Its basically going to be Sony demo for the Haptic feedback on the Dualsense controller

I want Naughty Dog's game.

I'm going to be broke at launch. Doesn't help that CAD economy sucks so I'll be paying 25% more for console and games 😰

@Grimwood i agree with you. Not much that defines PS5. PS5 is just the same as PS4. No new experiences. Just expansion passes.

Some fantastic games there. R&C and GT7 being my personal stand outs. Will be a drop the mike moment for me if they casually let us know Astro Bot can be played in VR.

That you get every big 3rd party under the sun is also important. That is what PlayStation has always delivered. Port begging is minimal.

SONY's 1st party are just the amazing cherry on top. And I see 5 there.

How many "exclusive" does the Nintendo Switch have?... Yet I use it every 3-4 months because everything else is not available or months late.

Great list. My only concern is Demons Souls. Can i justify paying 70 pounds for something i may not like given the difficulty. I may be waiting for a sale on that one

@playstation1995 I agree he should stop using drugs.

Bunch of games need to be removed from this list lol

@Dyrual buy the xsx and play miles morales on your pro, between this and horizon 2 being ps4 games theres not a lot of reason to go ps5 just yet...

Isn't the new Horizon also coming to ps4?

1. Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart
2. Astro Playroom

@menchi In your definition of exclusive maybe

Demon's Souls and Cyberpunk for me until the new year with a sprinkling of Mario 3D All-Stars and the PS4 exclusives I missed like Days Gone and Ratchet and Clank on the ps+ classics thing. Maybe a bit of GTAV too as I haven't played it since the original release on PS3. It's going to be a fun winter gaming-wise which will hopefully help take my mind off our crumbling civilization.

After that I'll have to wait for some deals or price drops as I can't be spending £70 on games no matter how good they are.

@Old-Red

Keep an eye out on PS store sales I got Days Gone a couple of weeks back for £16 (£14 for PS Plus subscribers).

Coupled with places doing offers of PSN top up cards it cost me about £13 in the end.

I also got in a sale 12 extra months of PSNow for £30, over the summer, crazy prices.

This is the first time since I’ve been gaming that I’ve wanted a new console at launch. The lineup is really good this time.
MS’s GamePass is certainly a big draw for Xbox but I can’t help feeling like Sony will dominate again simply because of their excellent exclusives.
If you want the games on Xbox you can play them all on PC. This isn’t true for PS games (in general).

Just noticed that Ratchet and Clank for the PS5 is 10% off at Base.com (£7).

Hopefully we shall see the retailers find the level that the market is willing to buy at.

The end of 2021 onwards will be a good time to pick up a PS5. There's life in the PS4 Pro yet, especially with some PS5 games going to be released on it. Most of these games aren't releasing until mid / end of next year, and by then we'll know a lot more about the system.

@Rob_230 if you played any Dark Souls game you should have a good idea about whether it’s for you. And you can test this out cheaply if you haven’t! DS 1,2,3 are very cheap now.

Do some of them count as PS5 exclusives if they’re getting PS4 ports now?

It's better than the PS4 at it's launch with just Knack and Killzone

@Octane "This line-up looks better than the first two PS4 years combined!"

This line-up also looks like the last year of the PS4. 🤣

@AdamNovice You count a game coming to PS4 and PS5 as a PS5 exclusive? You count games coming to PC and PS5 as PS5 exclusive?

@Wavey84

You missed out.

That was the only console generation where I owned all three consoles (PS2, GameCube, and Xbox) and I can tell you that the PS2 was by far the best if we are solely talking about exclusive experiences.

With that said, my two favorite games of that generation were not on PS2. Metroid Prime and Halo 2 were my favorite games of that generation. To this day I don’t think I’ve ever been hyped for a game as much as I was hyped for Halo 2. But metroid prime was my overall favorite.

@TheRedComet
I was hardcore into the Dreamcast until it eventually died off within a year and a half. once the PS2 came out, i was so put off by the fact that sony did nothing new with the controller(Other than slathering it in black and adding in those awful analog stick buttons), and i wasn't crazy over any of the launch titles. I played a bit of devil may cry 1(my favorite), silent Hill 2, Tekken, Time Splitters, twisted metal black, DMC2, Virtua Fighter just to name a few but i never bothered to invest much time in the console because i was getting a little tired of video games at that point and the console itself just felt so souless and try hard-mature(so many games had such ugly dark brown and grey color schemes) in compairson to the exciting 'arcade in your home' dreamcast.

Looking back, i would of enjoyed mega man X8, maybe the first Jak & Dexter, Fatal Frame, Klonoa 2, Katamari, Silent Hill 3&4 and small handful of others, but after all of the videos that i've seen, and research i've done, and eventually getting one myself with some games, it really just wasn't for me and neither was the PS3. Dreamcast & Gamecube were my choice for that generation. but during half way through the gamecube years i dropped out. i was 19, all i cared about was drinking and babes at the point until i turned 21.

the DS(lite) got me back into gaming, starting playing a bit more gamecube while hopping aboard the wii hype train. i really liked the Wii. it brought back 2D platformers, the virtual console and revolutionary wii motion pointer tilt controls when done right. if the Wii had been another traditional console i probably would of lost interst. gaming as a whole was getting stale at that point. not even the HD twins could win me over with their sparkling HD next gen graphics, even though i owned both.

@Wavey84 I also was onboard with the dreamcast from early on. Great console, wonderful unique games you couldn’t get anywhere else except arcades. Shame about the rampant piracy and poor security. The controller wasn’t the greatest imo.

The PS3 Controller wasn’t Sony’s finest hour but I feel like they took a ‘if it ain’t broke’ approach. The motion controls were abysmal and useless. The PS4 controller is my fav iteration. It’s just so comfortable. But they have one major design flaw. The way the USB cable connects to the controller means I’m constantly breaking the connector if I drop the controller or rage quit and throw it down.
I liked the smaller controllers released for the original Xbox. I found 4 of them at a thrift shop in perfect condition for $10. The original version was clunky as hell and I kind of feel that way about most XBOX controllers.

@TheRedComet yeah the PS2 was unstoppable at that time. I had gamecube and Xbox too but the sheer variety of games and exclusives meant I went back to PS2 again and again.
Not many people I knew owned gamecube. But it was worth it for Twin Snakes and REmake and Mario sunshine. Pretty forgettable controller though 😕

@Arnna

the wii remote was amazing when done right. Metroid prime 3 was a religious experience which i've said dozens of times already, but only if you used the wii remote on a SDTV CRT(they have zero lag and you need every single ms with motion controls and set the controls to advanced. easily the greatest fps motion pointer implementation done on the wii period.

I couldn't believe how mind blowing those controls were...going back to bioshock, resident evil 5 and dead space on the xbox 360 felt like a complete step back....i mean really? i had to go back to fiddling my thumb on stick to aim a reticule? it sucked, it sucked big time and nearly put me to sleep and stripped away all of that immersion i had with prime 3's wii remote controls...

at that point, i dropped out with the HD twins. the wii remote took certain genres to another level, even wario land shake it's tilt controls were an absolute blast(think boxing wheelie vehicle or the UFO), even the flash light pointer controls in silent hill shattered memories were great(although it was a mediocre game, and a complete lousy waggle fest with the nightmare areas), wario wario smooth moves were done well enough, the 'Sword fighting' in wii sports resorts etc. a lot of good times between the wii and DS lite. can't say the same for the PS3 and XBOX 360.

however gyro/pointer controls are a rarity these days, so i've had to adjust back to analog aiming. it works fine for games like the resident evil 2 & 3 remake, but it annoys the hell out of me knowing how much more fun these games would be if they used pointer controls....and then there's VR and glasses stereoscopic 3D, both of which i'm a huge fan of.

@Wavey84 I never had the pleasure of trying RE4 with Wii motion controls. Everyone tells me it is a great way to control the game but I never had a Wii and never got used to motion controls. I was a bit of a hater because I saw it as a dumb gimmick when I should have been more open minded.

@Wavey84 PS3 was a troublesome child some great first party stuff, many ports or versions which ran like crap because no one knew how to program for the unique architecture. The UI was not good, the controllers were the worst iteration of Sony’s classic design.

@Arnna

nooo, when motion pointer and even tilt controls are done right they can be absolutely outstanding. But you need the right set up and the right games. RE4 Wii Editions pointer controls were solid, but my main problem was that the reticule was always wandering around the screen when you weren't aiming and it made the main game way too easy. They should included professional mode from the start, because it's a much better fit with pointer controls. you'll be popping off genandos heads like a rock star with the former difficulty in no time.

I'm all for motion pointer/tilt controls, glasses stereoscopic 3D and VR....because staring at a rectangular screen, even if it's 65" feels horribly restrictive to something like VR, where you feel like you're 'in' the game. i'm not saying everything needs to be in first person, not at all. but to have a spectators persective or 3rd person lets say, but with all of that real world peripheral vision around you would be enough to make look and feel prehistoric in comparison. glasses 3D when done right makes video games come alive, and makes them all the more enjoyable, immersive, as do pointer controls which also enhance immersion by making you, the player feel like an extension of the character you're playing as.

as for the PS3, it made for a good bluray player. yet it was terrible with a lot of multiconsole 3rd party releases, RE5, ghostbusters, mass effect, bioshock all looks soft, had terrible washed out contrast, missing effects and more slowdown and other graphical oddities that weren't present in the far better looking xbox 360 versions. plus i hated the PS3 controller(same crap), the system menu etc.

@Wavey84 yeah I played through RE5 on both 360 and PS3 and the 360 version looked so much better and ran better. Far less screen tearing and glitches. This is what I get for buying multiple copies of the same game.

@Arnna
lol the XBOX 360 was the clear winner that time around.
The controller itself felt so much more premium and of higher quality imo. I remember watching the RE5 trailer on my XBOX 360 and remembering how impressive and razor sharp everything looked. the graphics popped thanks to the great contrast and whatever....flash foward to the PS3 Version and i just about cried haha....blurry visuals, grey black levels/contrast that made the visuals washed with zero pop, missing effects and more slow down. nice.

RE5 was fun at the time, albeit flawed, but these days, like 0 & 6 it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

@Wavey84 I understand why people dislike 5 but I found it very replayable and fun. Hated 6 though... and Zero was ok but after 2 playthroughs I don’t feel like returning.
RE5’s graphics were so good at the time it still looks better than a lot of PS4 games.

@Agramonte what do you mean with “exclusive” so far Nintendo released for almost every month a Nintendo/Switch exclusive since launch. Yeah some where ports but nonetheless games asked for when look at it sales.

I think that if Nintendo had no so-called “exclusives” that no one would buy their consoles. But I just let Mario and Zelda and Animal Crossing sales speak for themselves.

@Arnna
I agree. I know there is a lot of fuss about gamepass but it's a service not a console. The hype for PS5 is mental.
I havent changed my opinion since the first time I saw the SeX revealed at GA.
This next gen is going to be a blood bath haha.
I may be wrong but I dont really care so theres that 😀

Thanks for the list

@rjejr I don't think anything can top TLOU2 for me personally!

I thought a few of those games are on PS4?

@ViperXT Demon's Souls and Sackboy were both confirmed as launch titles by Sony. It's one heck of a launch with those plus Spidey and Astrobot. Godfall is one, too, but I'm not sold on that one by any means.

@Menchi No I count them as Playstation exclusives

@AdamNovice So not PS5 exclusives. Gotcha. Even though they're on multiple platforms. So why are they on PS5 exclusive lists?

@Octane TLOU2 is, as I just mentioned to my wife the other night as we finally got around to starting The Witcher 3, the game that kind of came and went. She didn't even remember it released already. I honestly don't recall anything about it. I suppose it released while I was busy with the pandemic but it just seemed like it came and went. God of War had literally a patch a day for it's first 10 days, then shortly after had photo mode was added. I can't recall anything about TLOU2 post release. Not even an article about PS5 enhancements. Just poof. OK maybe some review bombing, but not even much of that I don't think.

So, was it really that good? I do think I read it ended, but there could be more, like Horizon ZD?

I think I've been more focused on Ghost of Tsushima. That seems to have a lot more staying power than TLOU2. Certainly a lot more pics in my Twitter feed. I'd probably play Ghost 1st, TLOU2 just seems too depressing. Maybe after the pandemic. TW3 will probably take me thru Christmas.

Question is - is 2020 the PS4s last year, or 2021? 2020 was the obvious choice 2 weeks ago, but with HFW in 2021 next year may still count. 2020 will certainly be viewed as better but 2021 may be it's last year. Has God of War been definitively stated to be PS5 only yet? I still can't believe HFW is coming to PS4, so maybe? Immortals Fenyx Rising looks pretty good too.

I suppose 2020 is PS4s last year for exclusives, but I'll be playing it awhile longer yet.