Most of the lineup is 2021, but Project Athia is listed for January 2022 and Pragmata isn’t out until 2023
[Update: In a January 15 upload of the CES footage, Sonyaltered the release infoto only mentionRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart(2021),Horizon Forbidden West(2021), andReturnal(June 14, 2025).]
In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment at CES 2021, Sony disclosed a handful of release windows for the 2021 slate of PlayStation 5 games – as well as pair of high-profile titles that are much further out.
These up-to-date release windows appeared at the end of a montage duringSony’s digital press event:
Some of these – likeGhostwire– feel right on cue. Others, includingHorizon Forbidden WestandRift Apart, don’t seem like they’ll be out of reach much longer. And then we haveProject Athiafrom Square Enix andPragmatafrom Capcom, which I’m starting to wish hadn’t been announced so early.
Even if many of these windows are still too vague to latch onto, it’s nice to have an informal mental roadmap. I like to plot out what the rest of my year in gaming looks like. This new list helps, even if it’s not exhaustive. There will assuredly be other important games in 2021 beyond these highlights.
Anything jump out at you? Or is this PS5 (and partially still PS4) lineup what you’ve been expecting?
