The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show started today – virtually, of course – and during a video presentation Sony revealed new information about the release date of half a dozen games. But he didn’t announce those dates as you might expect. Instead, all the new information came from text that appeared at the bottom of the screen for just a few seconds in the middle of the video. But, good news: we have a month of release for the mysterious Athia Project.
Sony video covered a number of the company’s businesses, examining new products that the large corporation is planning to launch in the next year or two. New TVs, movies, etc. But buried in this video are a few minutes dedicated to the PlayStation 5 and Sony’s gaming division.
This segment, presented by PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, was not very interesting, focusing mainly on what the company did with the launch of the PS5 and the games released so far. But at the end of the segment, close to the 10:39 mark, you can find the slide that features a lot of new information about the upcoming PS5 games.
- Return – 3/19/21
- Pragmata – 2023
- Solar Ash – June 2021
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits – March 2021
- Stray and GhostWire: Tokyo – October 2021
- Little Devil Inside – July 2021
- Athia Project – January 2022
- Hitman 3 – January 2021
- Horizon: Forbidden West – 2021
Some of this is old information we already knew about, to like Hitman 3release date of. But there is some apparent news. As mentioned, we now have a launch window for Athia Project, the new game Square Enix which will be exclusive to PS5 for two years. If it launches next January, it would mean that Xbox Series X players will have to wait at least 2024 to play the still mysterious game.
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Scattered, the PS5 adventure starring a cat in a futuristic robot city, apparently arrives in October. We knew it would be released in 2021, but this is the first mention of a month. Even with GhostWire: Tokyo, the ghostly FPS of Tango Gameworks, which had only a vague 2021 launch window. It also plans to launch in October.
Finally, Pragmata, that weird-looking game from Capcom first revealed during a PS5 event in June 2020, seems to be late. It was scheduled to happen in 2022, but now it is coming a year later, based on information from the CES video.
Small print in the middle of a random video is a pretty weird way to announce, essentially, a bunch of new PS5 release dates, and I hope that these games and their respective studios will announce this news more officially with formal Twitter posts and trailers. In the meantime, I can’t wait for the next batch of PS5 games to be revealed at the end of a random Internet pop-up ad or something.