Sony’s London Studio, the crew behind trailblazing PSVR content material PlayStation VR Worlds (2016) and Blood & Reality (2019), are making a brand new on-line co-op fight recreation that the studio calls its “most bold title to this point,” but it surely doesn’t characteristic VR assist.
Co-studio head Tara Saunders describes London Studio’s subsequent undertaking in an SIE blogpost:
Our subsequent undertaking is a web based co-op fight recreation, which as you may see right here, is about in a contemporary fantasy London. The important thing factor about that is that it’s a PlayStation 5 title—it’s not a VR recreation like our final title was. And it’s our most bold undertaking to this point.
There are some necessary points communicated on this picture. It’s a contemporary fantasy London, it’s cooperative motion. And what we actually love about this undertaking is that it’s giving us a chance to showcase numerous surprise and magic. So we’re actually excited.
Right here’s the picture Saunders was referring to:
Because the principal studio behind a few of PSVR’s most imaginative and main content material, we have been actually hoping for one thing much like come to the next-gen follow-up, PSVR 2, which is due out someday early subsequent yr.
It’s not totally clear why London Studio wasn’t tapped to once more take the lead on VR content material, nonetheless co-studio head Stuart Whyte says their market analysis guided the choice:
We reached out to some sister studios for his or her enter, and at last, we really did some correct market analysis. We polled a whole lot of avid gamers within the UK and the US for his or her suggestions as effectively—and all of those completely different inputs and views all culminated within the undertaking we’re engaged on now.
Within the meantime, there’s a rising record of studios pledging to assist PSVR 2, though Sony has to date solely trumpeted eight video games publicly: Horizon Name of the Mountain, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4, Demeo, No Man’s Sky, The Strolling Lifeless: Saints & Sinners Chapter 2, and Firewall Extremely.