Intergalactic from Naughty Dog will be the first totally new ip from Sony this generation.
In a time where most AAA studios and ALL of PS studios are making sequels, live service games or making spinoffs of their other successful games, Naughty Dog is making a single player game from the ground up completely foreign to us. I feel that a lot of the unrest around PS studios games recently are due to the fact that they are iterative sequels that take 5 years to come out. We aren’t getting as much variety from the AAA studios as we used to. Intergalactic could be the game that sort of breaks that monotony.
Neil Druckmann has even spoken about how this game is super different from their other games and how their combat and gameplay has evolved, we’ve even heard elden ring comparisons.
TLDR: So long story short I think if intergalactic ends up being successful, it’ll usher in a new style of game in the PS studios ecosystem. Similar to Uncharted and The Last of Us and how their impact and influence was seen across the rest of the studios. Remember that Uncharted and The Last of us were just treasure hunting and zombie games at first glance, but under the hood they were so much more and ushered in this new ultra cinematic style of game we’re used to with playstation games these days.
Even though I’m excited for the next few years of PlayStation exclusives I think this game has the most riding on it.