The decade-old PlayStation 4, released each the mode backmost successful 2013, has continued to person big, caller exclusives from Sony, adjacent if those old-gen ports consciousness outdated oregon inferior. But now, it yet seems similar Sony is acceptable to determination connected and permission the aging PS4 behind. Well, astir ready…

It’s somewhat hard to believe, but the PlayStation 5 was released implicit 2 years agone connected November 12, 2020. Yet, the past fewer monolithic Sony exclusives—Horizon: Forbidden West and God of War: Ragnarök—were released connected the PS5 arsenic good arsenic the aged PS4. And portion it was bully that much folks got a accidental to play these large games, it besides felt unusual to spot Sony inactive supporting this weird epoch of cross-gen games into 2023. This was the aforesaid institution whose boss, Jim Ryan, infamously said successful 2020 that Sony had ever believed successful “generations” successful effect to Microsoft promising semipermanent enactment for cross-gen games, meaning you tin lone beryllium successful 1 epoch astatine a time. Fast guardant to aboriginal 2023, and portion Microsoft successful 2022 failed to truly ship…anything for immoderate procreation of Xbox, Sony did people a fewer large titles. But astir launched connected some PS4 and PS5, seemingly going against Sony’s content successful separate, chiseled generations.

However, that yet seems to beryllium changing based connected a caller trailer from PlayStation. In the caller video published yesterday, we spot a montage of 23 games coming retired successful 2023. And lone 8 of them are coming to some PS4 and PS5. And each of Sony’s exclusive games, including Spider-Man 2 and the Horizon VR spin-off, are skipping PS4 entirely.

Here are each the games and DLC expansions shown successful the video:

1. Final Fantasy 16 - PS5 Only
2. Horizon 2 DLC - PS5 Only
3. Spider-Man 2 - PS5 Only
4. Assassin’s Creed Mirage - PS5/PS4
5. Resident Evil 4 (Remake) - PS5/PS4
6. Forspoken - PS5 Only
7. Suicide Squad - PS5 Only
8. Dead Space - PS5 Only
9. Stellar Blade - PS5 Only
10. Street Fighter 6 - PS4/PS5
11. Star Wars Jedi Survivor - PS5 Only
12. Alone In The Dark - PS5 Only
13. Firewall Ultra - PS5/PSVR 2 Only
14. Pacific Drive - PS5 Only
15. The Lords of the Fallen (2023) - PS5 Only
16. Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain - PS5/PSVR Only
17. Destiny 2: Lightfall - PS5/PS4
18. Eternights - PS5/PS4
19. Tchia - PS5/PS4
20. Season A Letter To The Future - PS5/PS4
21. SynDuality - PS5 Only
22. Hogwarts Legacy - PS5/PS4
23. Wildhearts - PS5 Only

If you’ve been paying attraction implicit the past year, you’ve apt noticed that galore third-party publishers and developers are starting to marque the modulation to the current-gen, leaving down the Xbox One and PS4 successful the process. So connected the 1 hand, it’s not astonishing that Sony is too.

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But past again, it was conscionable a fewer weeks agone that Sony released 1 of the biggest games of 2022—the caller God of War—for some its shiny caller PS5 and the aging PS4. And sure, the PS4 larboard of the crippled was great. In fact, it mightiness beryllium 1 of the astir technically awesome games released connected the aged console, a cleanable swan opus for Sony’s machine. But aft playing it for a fewer hours, it felt similar the PS4 (and its fans) were struggling to support up. So portion I’m not shocked to spot Sony signaling truthful publically that it is yet ditching the PS4, I’m inactive blessed astir the news.

I person to ideate galore devs are besides acceptable to determination forward, without having to equilibrium truthful galore antithetic console specs among the PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, One X, One S, and Series X/S, and conscionable absorption connected a few, bigger, nicer-looking versions of games that are becoming progressively hard to marque for adjacent 1 platform.

It’s apt that Sony was hesitant to determination guardant into a PS5-only aboriginal portion it was intolerable for astir to adjacent bargain the console. Things are starting to alteration connected that front, and it’s getting easier and easier to snag a PS5. And arsenic much radical bargain the upgraded console, it becomes easier and easier to yet look guardant into the adjacent procreation of gaming.