Even though we are now in the launch week for Microsoft’s Xbox One, the resounding success of Sony’s PlayStation 4 is still echoing through the industry. Today, the president of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida confirmed in an interview with the Financial Post that many PS4 games of those being worked inside Sony will be based on new IPs (intellectual properties), rather than on established franchises. This is good news for those who were worried of the infamous Sequelitis.
We have a large network of studios in the world-wide studios. We are launching PS4 with five first party titles. Knack, Killzone Shadowfall and Resogun, and Flower and Soundshapes from PS3. But there are a lot games in productions and there are many great studios working on PS4 titles. Many of them are new IPs, and we are waiting for the right time to announce them. So down the line, great games are coming from these first-party studios.
He also added that Sony is waiting for the right time to announce them. Many have been wondering why they didn’t announce them already, but it is clear now that this is part of Sony’s strategy, and after all it was only natural to believe that the strong effort placed by Sony on PlayStation 3 and Vita in 2013 would have been replaced by the newborn PlayStation 4 in the following years.
