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Sony Now Has More Live-Action And TV Shows Planned Than Video Games

Sony currently has seven films and several TV shows in development, compared to only three announced first-party game titles.

tech4gamers.com

• Sony’s focus has shifted from first-party PS5 titles to live-action adaptations, with more ongoing movie and TV projects than upcoming games.
• Major adaptations include Horizon New Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima Legends, and Until Dawn, as well as a sequel to Uncharted.
• With only three PS5 exclusives planned, Sony risks falling behind Xbox, which has more lined up this year.

Sony made several major announcements at CES, revealing adaptations for its popular IPs. Helldivers 2 is getting a live-action movie, though details remain scarce. Columbia Pictures is developing a Horizon New Dawn movie retelling Aloy’s story in collaboration with PlayStation Productions.

Ghost of Tsushima Legends was also revealed as an anime adaptation under Aniplex Studio. It will adapt the game’s Legends mode.

The Until Dawn movie, now in post-production, will tell a new story set in the game’s universe. The Last of Us Season 2 teaser was also revealed, set for release in April. Meanwhile, Gravity Rush is getting a live-action adaptation, though an animated approach seemed more fitting.

Twisted Metal Season 2 has wrapped filming and is expected this year. Sequels for Uncharted and Gran Turismo are also in early development at Columbia Pictures.

However, God of War’s TV adaptation on Prime has faced repeated delays since its 2022 announcement and remains in early production. Similarly, updates on the Days Gone live-action adaptation, reported by Deadline in 2022, are still awaited.

Compared to 7 movie adaptations and multiple other TV shows, Sony only has 3 first-party titles planned for the PlayStation 5. Ghost of Yotei is the only title planned for a 2025 release date, while not much is known about Marvel’s Wolverine and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

What kind of shill hit piece is this?

• With only three PS5 exclusives planned, Sony risks falling behind Xbox, which has more lined up this year.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Remember when Xbox was like TV, TV, TV, TV, living room, kinnect, always online, tv... maybe games later, and people rightfully gave them shit about it?

I guess that is where Sony is now, well except no spybox, and kinnect.

Care nothing for "gaming shows" .

 

[Shane89]

Partially correct,

Media Molecule, Bend Studio, Bluepoint and Housemarque are all working on unannounced titles.
Oh, and I forgot Santa Monica

 

[Punished Miku]

They gotta announce more of dem games

 

[PatientGamer]

Sony risks falling behind Xbox

LOL, Is this actually serious?

In what capacity exactly?

 

[Calverz]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[bundylove]

Facts

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[Sebastian1295]

He puts in his article 'No Games, No Problem: The Console King Goes Hollywood.' Nuclear levels of cringe.

 

[Zones]

It takes less time to make a movie than a game.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Any Anime shows?

 

[nial]

Shitty clickbait for people eternally butthurt over Sony like TC (and most of NeoGAF).
In reality, they have 10 games announced versus 6 movie/series productions.
Edit: said 8, but I believe that Days Gone and Gravity Rush aren't officially announced yet.

Any Anime shows?

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends.

Care nothing for "gaming shows".

CES is not a gaming show, fellow Gamer.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Announced, not necessary planned.

 

[semiconscious]

Partially correct,

Media Molecule, Bend Studio, Bluepoint and Housemarque are all working on unannounced titles.
Oh, and I forgot Santa Monica

well, we're now 4+ years into this gen. just sayin'...

 

[SlimySnake]

They should be spending all that cash on games instead of wasting it on streaming shows no one gives a shit about.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

• With only three PS5 exclusives planned, Sony risks falling behind Xbox, which has more lined up this year.

 

[Three]

We get this shit every year around this time

Astroturfing - Account Suicide - Xbox is now stronger and more alive than ever

4 community based games that need a wider userbase to survive going multiplatform hence bringing more money to MS and making Xbox healthier. They're gonna announce 10 new games this 2024 while Sony just announced no new first party games for the rest of 2024. Also they announced a new ultra...

www.neogaf.com

They're gonna announce 10 new games this 2024 while Sony just announced no new first party games for the rest of 2024.

and every year Sony has better games.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Insanity.

What kind of delusional mind would come up with the idea of a Gravity Rush live-action? Poor Kat doesn't deserve the vandalization that's coming to her. I summon Heimdall_Xtreme for an objective assessment of Hermen Hulst's deranged plans.

 

[DeepEnigma]

and every year Sony has better games.

And now Xbox games too.

 

[nial]

Remember the whole "Sony has no first-party games until April 2025, LMAO"?
And remember how this Sony first-party game was just announced 3 months later, released in September 2024 and went on to win GOTY at TGA?

 

[Imtjnotu]

They should be spending all that cash on games instead of wasting it on streaming shows no one gives a shit about.

its sony just not playstation wtf.


just tell them to stop making all consumer electronics and make games only.....

 

[TintoConCasera]

They've always made a lot of movies, no? It's just another branch for the company.

If you ask me, yes, they should have put out more games so far this gen, but I guess that's because games take way longer to develop nowadays. Also, Concord, I wish those resources would have gone towards more single-player games.

Maybe they pull out a PS3 this gen and end up releasing a lot of stuff near the end of the gen. That would be neat. I just hope it's more of the Stellar Blade and Astrobot kind of stuff and less of the boring cinematic stuff.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Remember the whole "Sony has no first-party games until April 2025, LMAO"?
And remember how this Sony first-party game was just announced 3 months later, released in September 2024 and went on to win GOTY at TGA?

Yep, it's that time of the year again:

Xbox Is About To Leave PlayStation Behind In 2022

The Xbox platform is much more than just a console, and soon Microsoft will leave Sony behind as it changes how we think about console gaming forever.

www.forbes.com

 

[Woopah]

What a load of nonsense. I guess that means Nintendo has as many movies planned as new games planned!

 

[SlimySnake]

its sony just not playstation wtf.


just tell them to stop making all consumer electronics and make games only.....

they just laid off 900 devs and closed multiple studios. sony should give playstation more money instead of the tv hacks. thats where the talent is.

 

[Three]

Insanity.

What kind of delusional mind would come up with the idea of a Gravity Rush live-action? Poor Kat doesn't deserve the vandalization that's coming to her. I summon Heimdall_Xtreme for an objective assessment of Hermen Hulst's deranged plans.

I doubt he's making the decision there but I agree Gravity Rush should be an anime. The cutscenes already were.

 

[ANIMAL1975]

They should just close Sony pictures, and Sony music, and Sony electronics, and Sony TV shows,
AND SPEND THE MONEY MAKING GAMESZ!!!

 

[Dick Jones]

LOL, Is this actually serious?

In what capacity exactly?

Alphabetically from Z to A

Huge if true

 

[bitbydeath]

Buying developers is cool again!

 

[fart town usa]

Sony have no clue what they are doing.

But hey, go buy the new all-black models of stuff you already own.

 

[bender]

In what capacity exactly?

Failing

 

[The Cockatrice]

True besides the fact that their movie lineup is trash and has been almost all trash.

 

[nial]

they just laid off 900 devs and closed multiple studios. sony should give playstation more money instead of the tv hacks. thats where the talent is.

Lay-offs suck, but SPE can fund itself, it's not like they only release flops as you may be led to believe; this year alone they had Garfield, Bad Boys, It Ends With Us and Venom. You may feel differently about their quality (I only watched Venom, which I didn't like, so I can't speak on the rest), but it's a fact that they were all successful.

 

[Unknown?]

Remember when Xbox was like TV, TV, TV, TV, living room, kinnect, always online, tv... maybe games later, and people rightfully gave them shit about it?

I guess that is where Sony is now, well except no spybox, and kinnect.

Care nothing for "gaming shows" .

I remember that, PlayStation isn't that. Sony Pictures is though, pretty fitting.

 

[RedC]

 

[Bojanglez]

I don't think they know what 'planned' means. The word they are looking for is announced.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

TV

 

[EN250]

"planned" means shit, Horizon was going to be a tv series planned to release on Netflix and that went south quick

It's ridiculous how useless they're, they have a TV/Movie branch and the gaming one and it took how many years to get just one good thing: TLOU and that's HBO doing, right? it wasn't even Sony backing that series

 

[Neolombax]

Sony is a corporation, it makes sense if they want to diversify. Also, if you think playstation is too relaxed, blame xbox for not being competitive.

 

[bitbydeath]

TLOU and that's HBO doing, right?

No, that was Sony.
Also Twisted Metal is even better than TLOU.

 

[Mr Moose]

Which one of you wrote this article?

 

[RedC]

Sony is a corporation, it makes sense if they want to diversify. Also, if you think playstation is too relaxed, blame xbox for not being competitive.

It's more than Sony being a corporation. They are a transmedia corporation. So it only makes sense to continue to milk successful IPs from their gaming sector into other media sectors they specialize in.

 

[March Climber]

So either ‘announce everything extremely early and look bad for years with delays and setbacks’

Or

‘Wait to announce things until they are a year or less away and look bad as if you have no projects on the horizon’

So I see that there is no winning in this scenario, at least to the public.

 

[Fake]

Modern Sony. DEI at max force.

 

[BennyBlanco]

‘Wait to announce things until they are a year or less away and look bad as if you have no projects on the horizon’

If there’s one thing they have it’s Horizon projects.

Honestly, who cares. Sony movies stink, but it’s a completely seperate endeavor from their gaming stuff. If you’re gonna crank out slop might as well use IP owned by the same parent company.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

Unlike Xbox, Sony actually own a movie/TV studio.

Now, i am not saying their films are any good; but it's not like these films are going to take away budget for games. These are different departments. You might as well complain about Sony making toys and t-shirts out of their gaming IPs. The quality would be a crapshot at best, but it does make sense to squeeze more revenue out of the IP you already own.

 

[bitbydeath]

Honestly, who cares. Sony movies stink

 

[ULTROS!]

I feel like the gaming media are doing a lot of hot takes and underestimating Sony and waaaaaaaaay overestimating the strength of Xbox. They keep forgetting the Xbox brand is nearly non-existent in non-US territories.