We’ve also chosen only to list release dates for games where the publisher has chosen a concrete date with both day and month. This excludes games without release dates that may have been previously announced - like Elder Scrolls VI and the Fable reboot, for example - and any games that were released for either console in 2020, including launch titles. We’ve compiled the list below to help you understand every game coming out during the first year of the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S. That leaves us with one big issue: how do you know what new games are coming out for which platforms and when? There’s also the painstaking process of parsing whether a game company is giving out a free next-gen upgrade of a cross-gen title, charging a little extra, or releasing a next-gen-only game.Ģ021 is packed full of new releases and full optimizations of cross-gen games that should further pad out what’s available to play on your new system of choice. Sony also introduced the PlayStation Plus Collection, a library of PS4 games available for free with its online subscription service.

And thanks to some genuinely consumer-friendly initiatives like Xbox Smart Delivery and similar upgrade programs, plenty of the games we own now or are planning to buy in the next couple of months will not only work on the new platforms, but in most cases, they’ll also come with free upgrades from the standard PS4 and Xbox One versions. You can not deny that this game looks pretty. No longer do you have to abandon what you were playing on your old device and start anew. The first LBP gave the world the concept of Play, Create, Share, and showed how exciting a SackBoy can be. This changes the calculus a bit with regard to buying a new console. The new consoles let you take a majority of your existing libraries with you With both consoles early into their lifespan, it’s easy for many to return to older games to help fill the gap in between long wait periods for more titles to be added to each console’s library.

Every Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One game currently playable on existing Xbox One hardware (minus Kinect games) will be playable on the Series X / S, while Sony is supporting a “vast majority” of PS4 games, totaling more than 4,000 titles. And while it’s likely within the first year of both consoles’ lifespan that many of the hottest titles may launch on last- and current-gen simultaneously, there’s still a good chunk of games that will be exclusive titles playable only a PS5 or Xbox Series X / S.īesides 4K, the solid-state drives, and other spec changes, Microsoft and Sony have pledged to support close to every title in the existing console platforms’ libraries. Yes, both consoles arrived within seven years of the last generation of console hardware. Giving consumers unprecedented freedom in deciding where they want to play

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