 How's it going lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I want to talk about PlayStation 5 but also PlayStation Virtual Reality because of the way that Sony believes in Virtual Reality going forward, if we want to talk about PS4 or 2 games we're going to have to be talking about PS5 games that is of course because of this whole hybrid situation which is excellent. I think it means that any potential first-party game from Sony at least has a really good chance of becoming a hybrid game, having Virtual Reality at least in some degree, in some form, I think that's definitely worth looking into. That's why I want to take a quick look at every single one of Sony's first-party studios and maybe a few of their second-party partnerships that we know about as well and see what do we know what these guys are working on, is there a likelihood that we might see Virtual Reality in what we know, if that makes sense. So I've done some homework, I've listed out every single studio and I've listed out every kind of known project and every maybe rumored project as well and I think we'll start with maybe Sony's best studio although that title is now in contention thanks to Insomniac if you ask me but their traditional best studio which is Naughty Dog. Now surprisingly we actually do know a decent base of what Naughty Dog is working on even if it's not been announced and you know everything's liable to be changed, cancelled, whatever. We know that they're working on The Last of Us factions or The Last of Us online or The Last of Us multiplayer mode whether it's going to be a standalone release or whether it's going to be added on to The Last of Us part two, we don't know that just yet but just the fact that they're taking so long to make us and the fact that they seem to be you know putting a big push behind us I would suspect that maybe it will be its own separate standalone thing could be free to play, maybe who knows there's rumours that it's going to have like a battle royale style because there's been a leaked map and the map has locations from different maps all put together into one big map which is like a trope at this stage when it comes to battle royale games so that's a big clue there that it could be a battle royale title and if it is battle royale free to play is kind of the way to go battle royale these days so keep an eye out for that. Now is The Last of Us multiplayer going to have a PSV or two mode that seems unlikely to me mainly because of how far into the development they are already are you would imagine it's going to be built upon all the systems from The Last of Us part two and then they're just working on the online functionality from there the networking you know all that kind of stuff that's not to say one can't be added in I mean it just seems like an unlikely one to me like for you know Nazi dogs very first virtual reality experience to be The Last of Us multiplayer I don't see that happen now we also know that they're working on the Uncharted 4 and the Lost Legacy remaster for both PS5 and PC which is coming out in early 2022 and I think it's safe to say that's not going to have virtual reality support so you can kind of forget about that there but it's still nice to know that they work well I should note that we don't know for sure if it's actually been dealt with in-house they haven't announced any other studios like working on it from what I understand uh at least not the PS5 version it's possible they have someone else working on the PC port whether that's Nix's or whether that's somebody else I'm not too sure yes but we can like look at the history The Last of Us part one for example that was remastered on PS4 and that was done by a Nazi dog themselves in-house but then you had the Nathan Drake collection which was done by Blue Point so I guess that doesn't really tell us anything either not that it's important one way or the other for Vior because we're not going to see Vior in Uncharted 4 or the Lost Legacy I don't think the last project that we know about and of course all up in the air because it was never officially announced is the last it was one remake which is apparently happening thanks to the Jason Shryer big Bloomberg report that was leaked earlier on this year where we kind of learned about what was going on behind the scenes with Days Gone 2 and stuff like that so a lot of Sony secrets got spilled including the news that Sony want a remake of The Last of Us part one or I think it was a remake I don't yeah it was a remake because the remasters already exist obviously it would seem wise that if this is something that's going ahead they would want to release that to coincide with the HBO show that they're working on that has you know Pedro Pascal is that his real name I don't know now it's interesting about this you know a lot of people never asked for a remake for The Last of Us part one first of all it's not even 10 years old you know it holds the original holds up well the remaster holds up even better so if they were to release you know another The Last of Us what are they going to do to change that up virtual reality has the potential to make that game worth getting again to get people excited about it again you know being in that world being right up close and personal with Ellie and Joel and the infected and all that that could be something worth keeping an eye out for so let's move on to studio number two then which is Insomniac now thanks to the most recent PlayStation showcase we know of two more projects that we're working on I mean we all guessed that Spider-Man 2 was going to be there but then they also announced Wolverine was coming which was like a big surprise at least to me they had recently just released Ratchet and Clank and then just a few months before that they had released Miles Morata so they've been busy they have like multiple teams they have a history with virtual reality over on the PC the ore side of things which the Stormlands and another game as well I can't remember so if you're talking about Spider-Man 2 I mean look Spider-Man is a game that Sony themselves seem to be pushing as a viewer experience we know that when Spider-Man Homecoming came out we got that little experience for free on the PlayStation Store they did it again with Spider-Man Far From Home which was a better attempt this time you could actually kind of freely web swing around a certain segment of New York less and it wasn't polished it was rough janky but it was free and it was enjoyable our Insomniac going to go ahead and add you know fully realized virtual reality mode in the big triple A marquee PlayStation 2 title PlayStation 2 Spider-Man 2 title coming exclusively for PS5 I don't see why not you know if they're going to do us if this hybrid situation is a real thing that Sony are pushing for then I don't see why they wouldn't Spider-Man has kind of worked with these you know these demos that we've got Insomniac have the experience they've got the IP and while we're talking about you know the Marvel heroes that could work well in virtual reality the Wolverine game certainly has potential I mean what's Wolverine's weapon of choice he's got his two claws what are the PS5 viewers controller they're two motion control orbs so you can imagine you can have a good time stab and slice and whatever in fact I would say Wolverine has a better chance than Spider-Man 2 because you know for talking about Wolverine I'm having a hard time picturing that being like a big open world I can see it being more of a linear thing which might sooth virtual reality a little bit better Spider-Man again it's all up in the air but I think Wolverine has a better chance than Spider-Man but I still think Spider-Man has a good chance as well while else could Insomniac be working on they did just recently release Ratchet and Clank so it's possible they're working on some DLC for that as well although that is unlikely based on the history of that franchise but no one that team they probably have two other projects you know ready to go as soon as Wolverine gets out the door and Spider-Man 2 2023 so that's gonna be a while to waste PS4 or 2 will you know in theory be out by then so that's Nausie Dog and Insomniac out of the way the two big heavy hazards next up let's talk about Sucker Punch so Sucker Punch just recently finished with the Ghost of Tsushima director's cuss which added the expansions you know DLC plus the enhancements for PS5 to Ghost of Tsushima which was like a really well received game I'm excluding myself I really like that game there have also been rumors recently of an infamous game making a return whether those rumors you know come to fruition or not remains to be seen we know that infamous has had like a little bit of a history with motion controller support and it was one of those early weird kind of games that supported the move controllers I never used in myself infamous in virtual reality I mean you can see it happening especially if you're building a ground up doesn't have to be the same characters they've established already infamous second son already moved away from Cole McGrath so we could move away from delson row and whatever his powers are maybe they work very well in virtual reality you know as for a ghost of Tsushima sequel which also seems likely based on the popularity of the first one how well it was received people might be thirsty for a little bit more that's it's harder to say whether that's gonna have your support I mean obviously we can all imagine samurai dudes being very cool with motion controls and whatnot when you're in that world but again remains to be seen sucker punch no real history with virtual reality just a little bit of motion control support however again first party own studio sony might be making a push I don't know if they're gonna be like forcing them I think that wouldn't be kind of against sony's policy of kind of not policy but the reputation of being you know the ones who give creators of freedom to these studios if you're forcing them to add viewer and they don't want to do us I can see sony be like okay fine if you can't do it you can't do it but if you can please try so yeah just be aware of what's going on at sucker punch there's always of course the potential for them to come along with another new IP next who knows now next up are garela games what are they working on right now we know that they're working on horizon forbidden west which is coming out in february next year for ps5 and ps4 beyond that we don't know much about what they're doing we know they have a history with killzone it could become a situation where they go for horizon to killzone horizon kills on for or for we know they're done with killzone and we're just going to stick with horizon for a trilogy or something before moving on to a new IP or they might go for a new IP straight away after this now when it comes to horizon itself i mean we'll talk a little bit more about horizon but there is reports rumors of a horizon virtual reality game just that it's not coming from gorilla so the fact that they're not handling you know this rumors horizon virtual reality game maybe speaks to the fact that they don't want to do vore or they're more comfortable focusing on the flat stuff and then lending out that IP to the other studios and might do that we'll talk more about that in a bit next up polyphony digital these guys only do one game and they've been doing it for you know 13 you know 25 years something like that's grand charisma that's their game that's their jam that franchise has traditionally been like sony's best selling franchise because it's global you know it's that it speaks to a lot of people we know they have a history of virtual reality support they added this in their previous grant charisma game grant charisma sport so going by that's going by sony's push for hybrid games you would have to imagine that grant charisma seven although they have not confirmed us is more than likely going to have ps viewer to support if not at launch because it's it's launching and marriage i don't expect the headset to be out by then i'm sure they'll update that when the when the headset finally does arrive to have ps5 viewer support and then after that you know they're just going to support grant charisma seven for a few years before you know we get another grant charisma likely unless grant charisma seven is like a massive disaster or a flop can't see that happen next up then is media molecule and they're kind of in a unique position they're a fairly small studio they've got this game dreams the sony seem to be back in 100 even though i would suspect many people see dreams as kind of being a bit of a failure it's not exactly set the world in fire every once in a while someone will make something cool in us like pt you know they remake pt in dreams playable then that will go viral or whatever but then after that it kind of dies down again i'm not sure there's many players playing at simultaneously at the same time however that game does have ps viewer support yeah has it right now actually not even a history of it they have it right now ps viewer support everyone's kind of expecting their next thing to be just a port of dreams on ps5 i don't see them moving away from dreams like making another game alongside dreams i think they'll stick with dreams for another while yes until sony either says okay it's time to pull the plug on this thing or it's time to move on to another project but if and when that day does happen and a new ip comes out from them i can see that having you know virtual reality support easily because they are one of those experimental studios that sony have and they'll try out the they'll try out the weird and wacky stuff next up is pixel opus probably sony's smallest studio i think don't quote me on that but they're probably the least well known of the sony studios the latest game was concrete genie that did have ps viewer support but it was only for like as unlimited separate mode they're kind of a dare course when it comes to will their next game have viewer support i'd be leaning towards yes maybe because again first parody sony are pushing us and they have a history with viewer support obviously remains to be seen it's just speculation really but my gus is leaning towards yes they will support viewer whatever they do next will it be concrete genie too who knows i mean i don't think that game set the world on fire reviewed relatively well you know didn't get 90s or anything like that but like people enjoyed that one very little known about that studio like nothing really leaks out or whatever you know so i've added nix's in here because they are technically owned by sony first parody studio but these guys specialize in ports sony have come out and said these guys were going to be putting them to work doing pc ports so i just wanted to mention them briefly i don't expect ending from these guys when it comes to virtual reality at least for ps five you know maybe they'll port and ps viewer game to pc that's possible but uh not really good for us as a ps viewer dedicated channel of course you know uh get that pc grab out of here am i right so next up then i want to talk about fire sprite studios which is the most recent sony acquisition i mean they only acquired them like last week or so and these are the guys with very strong virtual reality you know history they worked on what they created the persistence which is a highly regarded ps viewer game and these are the guys who are rumored to be working on horizon virtual reality um so they've announced officially playstation have that these guys are working on two projects right now one of them is like a groundbreaking multiplayer title and then the other one is a dark narrative you know more single player focused thing i'm not sure either of those would be horizon viewer would like would that fit into those things i don't know if i call horizon like a dark narrative thing unless they take a dark twist to it maybe i can't see it be multiplayer but could be wrong about that as well it's possible that they just don't want to talk about horizon viewer at all they don't want to be because whatsoever or hint about it at all until you know ps viewer 2 or ps 5 viewer headset is ready to show up and then they'll really be left there but yeah when they did acquire fire sprite it was one of those bullet points that a herman hose said is like yes we can we can definitely use their experience with virtual reality that's something that's going to be nice to have in our tool belt after that then we have team esobi which was kind of met up this year or last year i can't remember which of sony japan studio kind of got broken down and then remnants of that were rammed into this team esobi who are kind of known for the astro bot game is playroom robin you know rescue mission obviously huge virtual reality history with them i would definitely expect their next game to be a hybrid i would expect to be playable flask but also playable virtual reality i feel like if i was going to bet the house on any of these studios making their next game being like a hybrid game i think team esobi are most likely to be the the safest bet there i'll also stick my neck out and say they're probably gonna be making another astro bot game but who knows next up we have another one of the heavy hitters the sony santamonica studio these guys last two games well this next one hasn't released yet but god of war and now we're expecting god of war ragnarok to come out in 2022 they don't have a month yes or even a period not expecting virtual reality sport for ragnarok obviously i think that's too soon maybe it's something that can be updated down the line but i'm not expecting that too much however we do know that ragnarok is going to have a new director so not courier bariloc who's a big reason i think why the first god of war was as successful as it was he's moving on to like the secret project now that he's not talking about he's teasing us a little bit that could be anything that could be virtual reality i'm kind of excited about that when i think that has the potential to be the hybrid title and there's lots of rumors in the past of santamonica working on like a sci-fi game obviously a lot of things could change we'll wait and see there so next up we have house mark these guys also a small studio i wonder if they're bigger than pixel albus i'm not too sure their most recent game was Returnal christie hill's success i haven't finished it yet but i'm really enjoying that game when i get a chance to get back into us i had to guess i would imagine they're probably working on dlc for Returnal now because of how well received it was i'd be surprised if they drop it completely maybe add a new biome or whatever after that then it's all up in the air you know this is a studio well known for the arcade style twin stick shooters they've said they had to move away from that and they have to go AAA now hence Returnal but if you ask me Returnal like really still felt like arcade style it wasn't twin stick shooting but you know it felt like that i wouldn't be especially confident that their next one will be a hybrid game next up we're talking about san diego who kind of like polyphony digital they're kind of relegated to just doing one franchise they're kind of shackled to that i wonder if they would like to do something else but regardless what they work on is MLB the show baseball game which i've always you know thought was a real shame because baseball isn't popular in europe at all so it's kind of like i feel like a studio that never really does anything for me and as a sony fanboy it makes me very sad do i see MLB the show 23 or whatever they're doing next do i see that being virtual reality you know enabled or whatever possibly now that the MLB have forced san diego's hand or sony's hand i should say and they've forced them to make these games available on xbox and other platforms or whatever uh maybe in order to differentiate you know in order to add value to the playstation version they could say well you can play this in virtual reality i mean we sports did baseball you know motion control works for baseball i can see that being a virtual reality you know i can i can see them fitting together nicely that genre of sport plus virtual reality plus motion controls seems like a fist you know next up then are sony london studio now that horizon viewer game that i was talking about earlier on that was originally kind of pinned to sony london studio and then it moved to fire sprays so there is a kind of a question of are these guys still into virtual reality now they did ps viewer worlds they're probably the biggest virtual reality studio that sony had up until this point they did blood and trutes but there has been reports you know suspicious kind of changes to their websites where they kind of removed all mention of working on a virtual reality title it's possible they're moving away from it but it just seems strange to me that with their experience and their history and their know-how that whatever they're working on next wouldn't at least be hybrid you know if not a ground-up virtual reality only experience that would be kind of a surprise now they are hiring for a project but i just don't know what it is could be the getaway three it could be blood and truth two could be anything and then the final first party studio is sony bend so these are the guys who did days gone they wanted to do days gone to according to the big leak from jayson schreyer they pitched days gone to sony we're not impressed with this either because whatever they pitched wasn't good enough or because the performance of days gone one wasn't where it needed to be in terms of sales or whatever even though it was you know successful enough game and it certainly has a fan base after that sony asked them to continue on with the uncharted franchise which they began to do for a period of time but at some point they kind of put their foot down and said we want to do something unique we want our own ip and whatever they pitched them after that sony said okay you can do that so we know what they're working on a brand new ip no other details although based on their you know based on their work with days gone you'd imagine maybe they want to build on what they've already done so i would imagine it's probably open world whatever it is will it be hybrid virtual reality who knows you know so that's where bend is as and that's where kind of all the first parody studios are as as of right now i just want to touch them on some kind of second parody studios which is kind of you know true for three of these and then not necessarily true or correct for this next one i'm going to talk about which is blue point so originally i would have put blue point games in the first parody section of this because there was that leak a few months ago where sony announced that they had acquired house mark but then by accident they put up that they had acquired blue point like an image somebody created this image they put it up there instead of house mark so you know it was like okay well they've obviously acquired blue point but this has been months and they've since acquired fire spryce and announced us they've said nothing about blue point so at this point i'm not even i'm always confident as i used to be that blue point has been acquired by sony i still think they probably are maybe they're waiting for a trailer to be ready before they announce it for whatever they're working on next but as of right now i'm putting them down as a second parody studio because that's the relationship they've had with sony so far you know shadow of the classes remake demon souls remake the most recent one both excellent games these guys are fantastic at remaking games from the ground up classic games and there really is you know i suppose that would say that there's little potential for whatever they're doing next to be a new ip so whatever they're working on next is more than likely going to be another remake this is what they're known for more than likely as well i would say it's a playstation owned ip whatever it is working like whatever this remake would be so yeah over the last number of years you know one of the big speculate and things one of the things people are always talking about wondering about is what they had our blue point making next you know after shadow of the classes what are they working on next who turned out to be demon souls after demon souls what are they working on next apparently there was rumors that they were working on two projects at the same time so alongside demon souls something else was already in development what could that be speculation that it's cycling filter legendary dragoon metal gear solid stuff like that there's like a ton of rumors no history with virtual reality but there's a first time for everything of course and if sony or you know trying to get them to sweeten the deal or whatever then they would i'm sure put hybrid virtual reality support on the table whether or not they would accept that as another story plus again it's another potential studio i can put another game in our library our virtual reality library so then these next three studios i'm going to talk about are kind of strange everything about this kind of thing is strange with these three because two of them were just recently formed all three of them have gone into deals presumably to make an exclusive ps5 game with sony we'll start with the order they came in so the first one is from haven games this is the studio that was founded by jade ramond who has like a history with ui soft i think she was like a producer behind the original assassin's creed so she's kind of a big name in the game dev industry the only thing they revealed is that it's a new ip for playstation presumably playstation 5 i'm not expecting to see anything about this game for at least another year maybe but yeah completely open the air as to whether or not this will have virtual reality support but again it's another one keep in the back of your mind this is potential arise and the same is true for the next one firewalk studios this studio has been formed since 2018 so whatever they're working on they've had maybe potentially close to three years already developing us we know it's multiplayer but that's kind of all they've said about is the new ip multiplayer and it's come into playstation 5 but the potential is there same with the final studio we're going to talk about which is deviation games they are working on an original ip and they are also newly formed and they've got like talent from games such as destiny and i think guitar heroes well or something like that um so potential there for a multiplayer game so yeah that is all the studios all the first party studios plus three that we know for sure have a second party agreement with sony and one in the form of a blue point that either will become first party or more than likely even if they don't they will likely become second party partners once again with whatever they're working on next and the whole point of this video is to just keep tabs on these guys because now the sony are saying that hybrid games are the way to go for virtual reality that means all of these games have like a really high potential or all these studios i should say have a really high potential of putting something else for ps viewer 2 for ps5 viewer whatever you want to cause i wish they would just give us a name so i could stop juggling between those so let me know what you think in the comments below if i missed a potential ip or something very obvious or whatever that you know i think the studio could be working on and i didn't talk too much about killzone that's ideal for virtual reality i know insomniac also have resistance under their belt another one ideal so yeah let me know what you think what you'd like to see what you think wouldn't work do you think like the last of us multiplayer would be like a bad fit you know maybe some games just don't work in virtual reality as well as they would flash let me 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