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[Sephimoth]

Only included notable Sony-published exclusives / first-party-adjacent. Not counting remasters/ports unless they were major remakes.
Missed any?

PS4

• 2013 Killzone: Shadow Fall, Resogun
• 2014 inFamous Second Son, inFamous First Light, Driveclub
• 2015 Bloodborne, Until Dawn
• 2016 Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian
• 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn, Gravity Rush 2, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• 2018 God of War, Shadow of the Colossus remake, Spiderman, Detroit: Become Human
• 2019 Days Gone, Death Stranding
• 2020 The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima

PS5

• 2020 Demon Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• 2021 Returnal, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• 2022 Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok
• 2023 Spider-Man 2
• 2024 Astro Bot, Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade
• 2025 Ghost of Yōtei, Death Stranding 2
• 2026 Saros, Wolverine
• 2027 God of War: Lulzfey

Thoughts?

For my tastes PS5 is giga weak. Too many safe, more-of-the-same sequels to PS4 games. Absence of major studios and too much GAAS chasing.
Back half of PS4 was loaded, 2016-20 being peak. But doesn't look like PS5 is going to get that same late-gen rescue.

Carried by third parties like Capgod.

 

[Kikorin]

PS5 output is embarrassing. I can't wait for GTA VI at this point, so I can give some sense to my PS5.

 

[PlayerPurple]

PS4:

PS5 wins for correcting that alone, I'd say.

 

[Ziglax]

Many of these games are available on PC too, the real exclusive list is maybe 1/3 for both PS4 and PS5

 

[German Shocks]

 

[Robb]

Shouldn't Spider-Man: Miles Morale, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and God of War Ragnarok all be counted in the PS4's favor, as those are just cross-gen PS4 titles?

 

[intbal]

I thought this thread would be about the quality of the HDMI signal coming out of both consoles.

 

[memoryman3]

Shouldn't Spider-Man: Miles Morale, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and God of War Ragnarok all be counted in the PS4's favor, as those are just cross-gen PS4 titles?

Yeah.

The PS5's lineup would look a lot stronger in retrospect if some of the second party adjacent stuff like Stellar Blade stayed true exclusives.

Late PS5 lineup actually has some AAA true exclusive games coming that don't look too bad. I would say Astro Bot was the first of them.

 

[FireFistAce]

Now do the PS3 comparison. Sony's output has been declining.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Missing Ps4: The order 1886, and LBP3. I don't know why the order 1886 is shunned so much.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Only included notable Sony-published exclusives / first-party-adjacent. Not counting remasters/ports unless they were major remakes.
Missed any?

PS4

• 2013 Killzone: Shadow Fall, Resogun
• 2014 inFamous Second Son, inFamous First Light, Driveclub
• 2015 Bloodborne, Until Dawn
• 2016 Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian
• 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn, Gravity Rush 2, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• 2018 God of War, Shadow of the Colossus remake, Spiderman, Detroit: Become Human
• 2019 Days Gone, Death Stranding
• 2020 The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima

PS5

• 2020 Demon Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• 2021 Returnal, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• 2022 Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok
• 2023 Spider-Man 2
• 2024 Astro Bot, Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade
• 2025 Ghost of Yōtei, Death Stranding 2
• 2026 Saros, Wolverine
• 2027 God of War: Lulzfey

Thoughts?

For my tastes PS5 is giga weak. Too many safe, more-of-the-same sequels to PS4 games. Absence of major studios and too much GAAS chasing.
Back half of PS4 was loaded, 2016-20 being peak. But doesn't look like PS5 is going to get that same late-gen rescue.

Carried by third parties like Capgod.

New IPs in red.

 

[RayBoy]

PS4 >>>>>>>>>>> PS5

 

[R6Rider]

Now do the PS3 comparison. Sony's Everyone's output has been declining.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Obviously, the PS4 is the best, simply because it has Gravity Rush 2.

 

[Cumulus]

My overall playtime on my PS5 was <100 hours in the 5 years I owned one, of which ~70 hours were the Demon`s Souls remake.
I put more than double my total PS5 playtime in Bloodborne alone on the PS4....
Tastes vary ofc, but to me the PS5 was a total dud since I use consoles as first-party only machines and Sony`s output this gen was garbage imho.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Shouldn't Spider-Man: Miles Morale, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and God of War Ragnarok all be counted in the PS4's favor, as those are just cross-gen PS4 titles?

Miles Morales is not a a cross gen game, only on Ps5.

 

[Ziglax]

Real PS4/PS5 exclusives :
PS4

• Killzone: Shadow Fall (2013)
• inFamous Second Son (2014)
• inFamous First Light (2014)
• Driveclub (2014)
• Bloodborne (2015)
• Ratchet & Clank (2016)
• The Last Guardian (2016)
• Gravity Rush 2 (2017)
• Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (2018), PSVR
• Shadow of the Colossus, remake (2018)

PS5

• Demon's Souls, remake (2020)
• Gran Turismo 7 (2022)
• Astro Bot (2024)
• Ghost of Yōtei (2025)
• Saros (2026)

All in all, both lists are pretty slim, but the PS4 one was still significantly meatier over a 5-year span.

 

[TheLikou]

PS4:

PS5 wins for correcting that alone, I'd say.

Some people don't have fun playing games but only by counting frames and seeing DF videos.

 

[Topher]

Miles Morales is not a a cross gen game, only on Ps5.

No it was on PS4 as well

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales - PS4 and PS5 Games | PlayStation

Experience the rise of Miles Morales as the new hero masters incredible, explosive new powers to become his own Spider-Man on PS5.

www.playstation.com

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Can't use these for PS5.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok

 

[Celcius]

Real PS4/PS5 exclusives :
PS4

• Killzone: Shadow Fall (2013)
• inFamous Second Son (2014)
• inFamous First Light (2014)
• Driveclub (2014)
• Bloodborne (2015)
• Ratchet & Clank (2016)
• The Last Guardian (2016)
• Gravity Rush 2 (2017)
• Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (2018), PSVR
• Shadow of the Colossus, remake (2018)

PS5

• Demon's Souls, remake (2020)
• Gran Turismo 7 (2022)
• Astro Bot (2024)
• Ghost of Yōtei (2025)
• Saros (2026)

All in all, both lists are pretty slim, but the PS4 one was still significantly meatier over a 5-year span.

You mentioned GT7 for PS5 but not GT Sport for PS4?

 

[PlayerPurple]

Some people don't have fun playing games but only by counting frames and seeing DF videos.

It's called having standards for what feels good to play.

You should try it.

 

[Markio128]

Can't use these for PS5.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarok

These were new games for both PS4 and PS5 so still count in my eyes. They aren't PS5 exclusives, but they are PS5 1st-party output.