Sony is more than happy with the sales data of PlayStation 5, which are through the roof, particularly shot in recent months, when the supply problems of the demanded console, which totals 38.4 million sales, were finally solved.
Things can only get better (2023 is predicted to be the best year ever for PlayStation) thanks to this year’s new games, with one standing out in particular: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Despite the fact that the new from Insomniac Games does not have a release date (beyond the fall of 2023) nor, strangest of all, has any image or gameplay been seen, Sony assures that the game will be out this fiscal year 2023.
Marvel’s Spider-Man is the PS5 header game for this year, the only one?
That has been said in the financial report published today, Friday. Verbatim, they say that “We also plan to llaunch a major title, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, this fiscal yearand our goal is to continue creating new IPs, launching back catalog titles for PC, and strengthening live game development as a service.”
Let’s be clear that the fiscal year is up to March 31, 2024, so even if Spider-Man were pushed back to February 2024 (as Horizon Forbidden West was, which was expected in 2021), they still wouldn’t get the hang of it. fingers.
But clearly, Sony’s plan is for the new Spider-Man to be his star game in autumn for Christmas salesbecause they expect 25 million consoles to be sold throughout the year.
In fact, from the way they say it (“we plan to release a major title, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, this fiscal year”) it sounds like Sony won’t have any other first party “bombs” this year, although it doesn’t need them either, if it can lean on the sales of other third party games such as Hogwarts Legacy, Street Fighter 6the new Call of Duty and above all Final Fantasy XVIwhich will be a temporary PS5 exclusive for quite some time.
Let’s not forget that in May Sony is expected to hold an event PlayStation ShowcaseE3-style, where we should know much more information about the future exclusive games from Sony studios that will be released on PS5 in the coming years.
