The next God of War pushes back a year, but picks up a release on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4
PlayStation have announced that the next God of War game, which is yet without its full title, will now release in 2022, to get the team more time to get it in the state they are happy with.
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But in more important news, it seems 2022 will get a few PlayStation 4 title from PlayStation Studios, as the next God of War is coming to it as well, in addition to Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7.
Hermen Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios took part in an interview with on the PlayStation Podcast, where he said the following:
It very much is. You can’t build a community of over 110 million PS4 owners and then just walk away from it, right? I think that’d be bad news for fans of PS4, and frankly not very good business.
Where it makes sense to develop a title for both PS4 and PS5 — for Horizon Forbidden West, the next God of War, GT7 — we’ll continue looking at that. And if PS4 owners want to play that game, then they can. If they want to go on and play the PS5 version, that game will be there for them.
That being said, it’s also very important to have showpieces for PS5, hence the development of Returnal and Ratchet that are exclusive to PS5.
So it seems some games will hit both generations of PlayStation, others will be only on PlayStation 5.
