While exclusive games for Microsoft consoles developed under the Xbox Game Studio flag, produce Currently 18 Teams Gaming News for PS4 and PS5 specifically for Sony. In this article we want to introduce you to Sonys so-called first party studios more precisely. You will learn about which games you are known and what projects are currently in development.
Info: Since the portfolio of the in-house studios of Sony is always changing, we will update the item continuously for you.
Update on September 9th of September 2021: Sony has bought the VR experts from Firesprite.
Bend Studio
Established: 1993 Location: Bend, USA Known for: Days Gone, Syphon Filter, Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Current project: TBA
While the studio was known for the PS1 and PS2 era, especially by the syphone filter series, they are today for the PS4 exclusive Zombie game Days Gone. Although Bend's up-to-date project has not yet been officially announced, but from job advertisements, however, we know that this is an open-world title again. Meanwhile, a report by Jason Schreier announced that a pitch for Days Gone 2 was rejected by Sony. As part of a longer interview, Jeff Ross, the Director of Days Gone and now former Bend Studio employees, has addressed several points from Schreier's article. Due to the contracts, however, he can not go closer to the Days Gone 2 rumors. Whole Bend Studio is currently working, is currently uncertain.
Firesprite
Established: 2012 Location: Liverpool, England Known for: The Persistence, participation in The Playroom VR
News Project : Theaters of War (Star Citizen)
The studio already has a long history at Sony behind. The founding members were part of Studio Liverpool / Psygnosis and have worked among other things to WipeOut. The studio could thus return to the roots and actually develop a new offshoot of the futuristic race game series. In addition, however, a VR project for the upcoming PlayStation VR 2 would also be possible.
Forward Works
Established: 2016 Location: Tokyo, Japan known for: mobile gaming
News Project: Everybody's Golf, Disgaea RPG
Forward Works is one of the young and rather small in-house studios, which focus on the mobile market. Anime Games like Disgaea, Arc The Lad R and Toropuzzle are primarily aimed at a Japanese target group.
Guerrilla Games
Established: 2000 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Known for: Horizon Zero Dawn, Killzone
Current project: Horizon 2: Forbidden West
Were Guerrilla Games for many years known for their futuristic shooter diet, the Killzone makers were facilitated with Horizon Zero Dawn for PS4 and PC of the biggest success so far. Currently, the studio is working on the new Open World Adventure with Hero's Aloy in the main role to appear on 18 February 2022.
Housemarque
Established: 2000 Location: Helsinki, Finland Known for: Nex Machina, Resogun
Current project : Returnal
The Finnish Studio Housemarque has been working closely with Sony together for more than 14 years. The latest game is the PS5 Exclusive Return, which has taken care of Arcade and Roguelike fans in 2021.
The team is known for entertaining, baturing games that focus fully on gameplay. With the acquisition but also with upcoming games story concepts should be brought into the foreground as well as already happened at Returnal.
Insomniac Games
Established: 1994 Location: Burbank, USA Known for: Spyro, Resistance, Marvel's Spider-Man
News Project: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Insomniac Games has since 2019 to Sony's own and famous studios. The US developer celebrated his big breakthrough with Spyro The Dragon (1998) and most recently released the Launch of the PS5 Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales. Already in mid-June, the next exclusive game will be published, which the Ratchet & Clank series should continue successfully.
London Studio
Established: 2002 Location: London, England known for: Singstar, Eyetoy
News Project: Blood & Truth (PSVR)
While SONYS LONDON STUDIO stood primarily for the PS2 and PS3 era for the popular Singstar series and Eyetoy, the focus is today in the Virtual Reality area, for whom you specifically developed a render technology called LSSDK.
Malaysia studio
Established: 2020 Location: Malaysia Known for:
Current project: TBA
One of the youngest Sony studios is located in Malaysia, which works vague rumors after returning a popular PlayStation brand. For more information, however, there is not yet.
Media Molecule
Established: 2006 Location: Guildford, England known for: LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway
Current project: Dreams
After the great success of LittleBigplanet, Media Molecule was added to the Sony family in 2010, has since produced four games for PS3, PS Vita and PS4. In recent years, the complete attention of the English Studios Dreams, a kind of creative kit, with the player: develop their own games and share them with the community.
Naughty Dog
Established: 1986 Location: Santa Monica, USA Known for: Uncharted, Jak & Doxter, Crash Bandicoot
News Project: The Last of US Part 2
As well as well-known in-house studio, Naughty Dog was known in the 90s for her colorful Jump & Run series Crash Bandicoot, before it became thematically gradually become darker after the acquisition by Sony in 2001. Currently, the studio is probably working on a multiplayer project, which is most likely the independent multiplayer to The Last of US 2.
NIXXES
Established: 1986 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands known for PC ports from: Tomb Raider, Marvel's Avengers, Deus ex
Current project : TBA
The studio is more in the background and has not developed a separate game yet. Much more have been the pedigree team of Square Enix for many years when it came to play PC ports of games. They work as among other things to the implementations of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Marvel's Avengers and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
What you will now make for Sony is still unknown. But much suggests that NIXXES was bought above all to strengthen the expertise for PC ports in the PlayStation teams.
Pixelopus
Established: 2014 Location: San Mateo, USA known for: Designed, Concrete Genie
Current project: TBA
Pixelopus is one of Sony's smallest studios and consisted of its founding in 2014 predominantly from students who formed a team of nine persons together with more experienced developers. About your new project is currently not much known, but it should be again an adventure that appears exclusively for the PS5.
Polyphony digital
Established: 1998 Location: Tokyo, Japan known for: Gran Turismo
Current project: Gran Turismo 7
Polyphony Digital, formerly Polys Entertainment, is one of Sony's premiums that have been responsible for the development of the Gran Turismo series since the end of the 1990s. Currently, the studio is working on Gran Turismo 7, which was shifted to 2022, but should orient itself back to the former offshoots including extensive career.
San Diego Studio
Established: 2001 Location: San Diego, USA Known for: MLB The Show, NBA
News Project: MLB The Show 21
Similar Polyphony Digital is San Diego Studio nowadays almost exclusively for a franchise, the MLB The Show series. Although even minor titles appear at irregular intervals such as LittleBigPlanet Karting or Modnation Racers, after the elimination of the NBA games, the US developer stands above all for baseball. It is interesting that your coming MLB offshoot also appears for Xbox, even finds the way into the Xbox Game Pass.
San Mateo Studio
Established: 1998 Location: San Mateo, USA Known for: CO development
The Studio in San Mateo has been responsible for the CO development of First Party Games since the founding in 1998, in this function, among other things, in the recent past, has participated in Marvel's Spider-Man, as well as the Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank series .
Santa Monica Studio
Established: 1999 Location: Santa Monica, USA Known for: God of War
Current project: God of War 2: Ragnarök
Founded as a pure Sony studio end of the 90s, Sony Santa Monica is dedicated to the God of War Series around PlayStation Icon Kratos. Incidentally, the studio acts as co developer in many games. Thus, among others, the Order: 1886, The Unfinished Swan and Journey was developed. This year, God of War 2 should appear, but information about the continuation are still RAR.
Sucker Punch Productions
Established: 1997 Location: Bellevue, USA known for: Sly Cooper, Infamous
Current project: Ghost of Tsushima
Sucker Punch celebrates its ten-year Sony anniversary in 2021. After the studio was already attentive to the turn of the millennium with the Sly Cooper trilogy, the awareness rose with the Action Series Infamous. However, the biggest success so far succeeded with the Open World Game Ghost of Tsushima, for which rumors are currently being worked on a continuation.
Team Asobi
Established: 2012 Location: Tokyo, Japan known for: Astro Bot Rescue Mission (PSVR)
News Project: Astro's Playroom
Founded as a developer team under the direction of Sony Japan, Team Asobi has been independently due to an internal restructuring since 2021 to Sony's First Party Portfolio. The big breakthrough succeeded in 2018 with astro Bot Rescue Mission, which is one of the best VR games ever. Her last project, Astro's Playroom, is already preinstalled on the PS5 and serves as a tech demo for the functions of the dualsense.
How to look at Microsoft?
So that you have a complete overview, you will also find the first-party portfolio of Microsoft on Sony, including Studios such as Ninja Theory, Obsidian Entertainment and the Bethesda Game Studios.
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