Rumor: Sony Has 'Smaller 1st-Party Games' Planned for 2024, Including New Astro Bot - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 April 2024 / 7,275 Views
Sony President Hiroki Totoki earlier this year revealed PlayStation does not plan to release any new major titles based on existing IP in the next fiscal year, which runs from April 2024 to March 2025. However, this does not mean PlayStation won't release any first-party games before April 2025 as they could release major titles based on new IP, as well as smaller titles like the remaster of Until Dawn.
Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb on the Game mess Mornings podcast stated PlayStation does have some smaller first-party games planned for 2024, including a new Astro Bot game.
Grubb this week also claimed Sony is planning to host a PlayStation Showcase or State of Play sometime in May. He expects the remake of Silent Hill 2 to appear at the showcase.
"I have heard that there will be a PlayStation something, either a State of Play or a Showcase, next month, in May, so this is probably going to be there," said Grubb at the time.
He added, "I've heard both a Showcase and maybe State of Play. It seems like it might lean towards Showcase, it’s definitely in that timeframe of when they did the Showcase last year."
Thanks, GamingBolt.
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Yes pls. In general, Sony should try their hands at smaller budget games without huge pressure to sell crazy numbers and therefore allow them to experiment. Astrobot is a perfect franchise for this
A new Astro Bot would be legit hype!
This could be a great game, Team Asobi is great!
Astro Bot was my first PS5 platinum followed by Demon Souls and Returnal!!!👍
I hope the next Astro game can be played both with and without VR.
My son is in love with that Astro bot game. I left it installed on a new PS5 I had to buy (I normally delete it) and he hasn't stopped playing it since then.
Astro was the perfect introduction for me to PS5 and loved and enjoyed every bit of it.
Truly excited and hoping for a new one!
C'mon Omega Boost!
I platinumed the free ps5 game!
And it would def be welcome addition to first party ps exclusive line up sorely missing for this year!
After the HUGE success of Helldivers a $40 game and they knowing what is taking the most money from them is development cost I want to BELIEVE they got the message. Not every game has to be big, small games can make you enough money.
Sony has actually always been good at managing big budget with smaller budget (it's how stuff like Fat Princess and Journey made such headway in the PS3 days). At the same time, their big budget stuff hasn't been capping them at the knees like people think (Spider-Man is the exception because of licensing fees and such). Helldivers was also not something that was a sure fire hit. Like Palworld, it was a sleeper!
Too much to hope for another try at Gravity Rush?
Astrobot is dope! More of this
Yes please.
We don't need cinematic expensive games as the vast majority of Sony titles.
Gravity Daze 3?
While they're at it, they might consider putting first Astro Bot on QUEST store, like they're doing with their non-VR titles and STEAM.
Oh come on! Keep making expensive games! And don't forget that huge technological leap for PS6. Even more expensive games to produce!
Let's go multiplayer Astro Bot!
The fact these big companies don't do this to me is always weird. Sony alone has loads of IPs in their library they could easily farm out to studios willing to create a game for them on commission. Many studios might welcome the stable income and Sony get loads of smaller titles to boost up their offerings. At the moment, I buy a few big games a year, a load of smaller indie ones and play some F2P. The indie titles are always some of my most played, they are usually more innovative and casual fun.
