There's no question that this year has been all about hardware for Sony. There have been many amazing games released in 2016, don't get us wrong – but it's the likes of PlayStation VR and PlayStation 4 Pro that have dominated the headlines. Speaking with Japanese publication 4Gamer, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida acknowledged that, noting that next year will be all about "amazing software".
Outside of Gravity Rush 2 and Horizon: Zero Dawn, we still don't really know which of Sony's big first-party published projects will release over the next 12 months; could Spider-Man or God of War sneak into the Fall? Either way, with the hardware already out, it's nice to know that the platform holder's turning its attention back to the games. We're hoping for lots of new virtual reality announcements in the New Year, updates on upcoming titles, and potentially a glimpse at a project yet to be announced like Bloodborne 2.
[source 4gamer.net, via dualshockers.com]
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I dont think bloodborne 2 can be considered something "new"
@AlejandroMora I mean something not yet announced. Let me edit.
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Per.... so..... na....
Squenix has to give us something this year, right? Either KH3 or FF7 Remake?
Just signed up for PS+ about an hour ago after taking 2 years off, so many PS+ games I downloaded on PS3 and never got around to playing that I can finally play, Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen is top of the list, I may never gt to play all of my new PS4 games.
So I'm in no rush for Horizon or GR2, as much as I want to play them, watching prices plummet on FFXV this holiday makes me leery of anything Day 1. I'm half price here on out.
@rjejr I dont mind paying the full price for brilliant games.
Think Spidey will swing in early 2018. I hope God of War makes it next fall. My PS4 is ready...2017.
Knack 2 yall!!! Lol
I'm sure it will be a great year. There's already so much coming out in January that it's hard to keep track off everything.
Only found out today that Digimon World: Next Order is launching January 27th!
Going to preorder after work today.
Dont really know what I'm most excited for. 4-way tie between Persona, Horizon, KH2.8 & Red Dead I guess.
But if GOW somehow released this year I'd genuinely take a week off work.
Will there be 2 Spider-Man games going out?
This one and one based on Homecoming?
@Gold_Ranger Don't think so. Marvel sorted it out with Insomniac and Sony.
My tentative shopping list looks like this:
February - Horizon: Zero Dawn, Torment: Tides of Numenera
March - Nier: Automata, Mass Effect: Andromeda
Q1 - Southpark: The Fractured But Whole, Red Dead Redemption: Remastered
Q3 - Red Dead Redemption: 2
That's 7 titles before 2017 even arrives, going by previous years multiply by 10 to work out how many titles I'll end up buying during the year.
There's more games that I really want on the first quarter of 2017 compared to all 2016. From horizon zero dawn to gravity rush 2 to persona 5 to kingdom heart remix to nier automata, there are a lot of games that I plan to buy in q1 2017.
@Flaming_Kaiser I'm with @rjejr on this one. I counted up all the games I bought this past year at full price, and out of all those games, I only finished one before it got a significant discount. The rest sat either unplayed or something I picked at occasionally.
Obviously it's at the discretion of each person, how big their backlog is, and their income, but for me I could've easily saved a couple hundred dollars by having some patience, a lesson I didn't start learning from until October.
Very hyped for both Spider-Man and God of War but can't see them being 2017 releases, that said there's still several exclusives I'm looking forward to. January to March are the big months with Gravity Rush 2, Yakuza Zero, MLB The Show 17 (retro mode looks awesome) and Horizon: Zero Dawn. Then Yakuza Kiwami is supposed to be a summer release and the Crash Trilogy I think is set for sometime in the spring. Most of the third party purchases I make, aside from Mass Effect (it'll always ben an Xbox franchise to me) will be on PS4, so I'd agree it's going to be a great year.
2017 is gonna be the yr for exclusives for Sony. Can't wait for Days Gone, Horizon Zero Dawn, Detroit, Crash, God Of War ( which looks more like 2018 now ), Last Of Us Part ll, Second part of Uncharted, Death Stranding, Spiderman, GTS, and also looking forward to Mass Effect too. the list Just goes on and on.......................
I hope so. I dunno if Spider-Man and God of War will make it this upcoming year, but there's some good stuff coming up.
Please give us Bloodborne 2.... 😭
Looking forward to it! Can't wait for Spider-Man, Horizon, Tekken 7 and Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite in particular.
@rjejr I think we have to see FF7 remake episode 1 or KH3 this year. Who knows which - it's anyone's guess. I'm guessing FF7 episode 1 because of the anniversary. No way they also release KH3 if so. Guess we'll find out soon?
Okay, I planned this out already.
January: Gravity Rush 2
February: Play the crap I got for christmas.
March: Nier, Danganronpa Reload and hopefully Mass Effect.
April: Persona 5 and Yooka Laylee.
I also wanna fit in Horizon Zero Dawn, but it might have to wait until summer. Too many other long games. I probably won't even finish any of them besides Gravity Rush 2 because I assume that won't be very long. Maybe 10 or 15 hours. I wouldn't normally buy all of these full priced games so close together, but I've been waiting years for literally all of these. Oh, and throw in Uncharted Lost Legacy whenever the heck that comes out.
2016 and 2017 had and will have more games than I have the time to play. It's really amazing. What I'm really looking forward to, though, is seeing some more impressive VR games. Something that truly stands out.
All it takes is one amazing title to turn things around.
2017 Must-Haves
Future Must-Haves (2017 Release Possible)
My Imaginary 2017 Must-Haves
It's sad to see so many fathers giving up on their sons at this point.
@TrueAssassin86x Why dont you keep both? What future games on xbox have got you excited? Seems a weird decision to drop ps4 and putting all your eggs into the x1s when Microsoft have a new console due out next year. I'm an old x360 fan, I was considering jumping to x1s when the psvr and ps4 pro were announced. I came to my senses and my kids got the x1s for Xmas and I will likely play rare replay and give FH3 a good few hours at some point before jumping back on the better ps4.
@rjejr " I'm in no rush for Horizon or GR2, as much as I want to play them, watching prices plummet on FFXV this holiday makes me leery of anything Day 1. I'm half price here on out."
Maybe the majority of people are wising up to the RRP of games these days? But you have to factor in what you see as value for money - dropping £42 on FF15 at release and having those initial weeks of trading tips and exploring the game are when gaming is best and was worth the outlay, if I had waited until now although the game would still be amazing, there's no way I could have avoided the spoilers.
I agree that I am most interested in seeing what happens with VR. I bought it knowing that it was risky from a support point of view but I am only aware of a handful of new games in 2017. Would love to see more news on that front.
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Honest question. Is their any real evidence Bloodborne 2 is actually being made? Did something leak? Demon's Souls never had a sequel so I'm not sure how likely a sequel is here unless I missed something.
@RedMageLanakyn I will stand by my comment. If you ask a developer to invest millions in games, and complain about the smallest things. Then i wont be cheap if it's great. Dont think this is against you personal (or anyone else) this is my fullblown hobby and this is what i personally think. But this only goes for my most wanted games. I wont make this mistake with games i thought would be nice.
Don't mean to be the buzzkill here, but remember it's likely a lot of games could get delayed till next year, or be disappointing.
But I agree it looks like a potentially great year. Personally looking forward to Gravity Rush 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Outlast 2, Little Nightmares and Prey.
@Flaming_Kaiser Right, I get that 100%. With me, I have such a backlog of games that buying something like, say, dark souls 3 at launch when I have DS2 only partially beaten is a waste of money.
In other words, I'm not going to buy a new game if I'm in the middle of 5 other games. If you are the type of person that can buy a game and play it straight through till the end before buying three more, then yeah it makes perfect sense. But waiting, for me, as I pick through my backlog, just makes sense financially.
@RedMageLanakyn
This'll be my New Year resolution. No buying new games or consoles until I get through a chunk of my uncompleted games.
I wonder. There is Tekken 7, but honestly I can't think of much else. And was the FF12 rerelease next year as well? I guess that is at least worth a mention.
@Fandabidozi It is rough, I'd even say near impossible. I wish you luck, for me it's been my resolution since 2015, and I'm not doing too well. The only way I can get through a game is to appear offline and ignore messages, otherwise I'll end up getting sucked into overwatch or BF1 with friends lol.
@themcnoisy "there's no way I could have avoided the spoilers."
Well so far I've managed to avoid the spoilers not only on FFXV, but on Uncharted 4. Didn't think that would be possible.
Opposite viewpoint - people who waited to play Witcher 3 got the better menu system which they revamped after a year. Not that too many games do that much updating a year later, but it happens. I'm really hoping they fix whatever is wrong w/ chapter 13 before I get there.
What's worse than game spoilers though is tv spoilers. I'm up to episode 9 of Westworld and the whole internet is giving everything away.
@RedMageLanakyn That's my problem, but with Retro games included. Not to mention I just got a slew of PS1 and new PS4 games for christmas, WITH the upcoming release of Gravity Rush 2. I'll be paying full price for GR2 because I already preordered it, and I want to support the developers. But I won't be playing it until I at least finish FFXV. Hopefully it won't take long because I hate doing sidequests, so I usually skip them unless they are extremely interesting.
in 25 days I'll play Resident Evil 7
Has anyone seen both Sony's & Microsoft's exclusive's for 2017? someone even made a YouTube video on it because it seem's Microsoft is banking heavily Scorpio, as there software line up is pretty bad especially when you look at Sony's software for 2017.
And i don't mean bad game's just the amount of game's.
I think 2017 will have some amazing games, albeit many games that were announced at E3 and PSX will definitely not make the cut. I will be very surprised if God of War makes it to 2017. I'm also expecting a lot of delays. I'm expecting a heavy spring, light summer, and extremely heavy fall.
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