By June we'll be around 7/8 months into the new gen, in a pandemic and Sony will have exclusively released:
Demon's Soul
Astro's Playroom
Spider-Man Miles Morales
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Returnal
Ratchet and Clank A Rift Apart
Other than Spider-Man, which is only big due to it's general brand name (as a game its a million miles from the likes of TLoU, UC etc..), I'm not seeing where these "Big AAA, samey, cinematic, etc..." games are?
People seem to be literally only freaking out because Sony axed Days Gone 2 and asked Bend to help out on a TLoU1 remake. That's literally it. Days Gone is a generic open world games with generic zombie/post apocalyptic tropes, how can people seriously argue that a sequel to a game like that would be considered "fresh"? It'd be a million miles from fresh. People are ignoring the good news from the article which is that Bend are working on a new IP, surely that's a complete slap in the face to the people saying Sony aren't investing in new IPs.
Ok lets for arguments sake say Sony aren't investing in fresh IPs, what have Xbox released in the past 12 months or have coming up in the remainder of the year that is superior to Sony? Xbox literally has no worthwhile exclusive games period, let alone "fresh" ones. The biggest Xbox game on the horizon is Halo infinite, the 8th game in an FPS series that just got 3 previous games remaster. Wow so fresh, so exciting!
We're 5-6 months into the gen. At this exact point last gen we had no idea that the likes of Death Stranding, Spider-Man, Bloodborne, Days Gone, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, Dreams, Until Dawn, The Last Guardian and Concrete Genie, which were all Sony developed totally new IPs, were going to release for PS4. So why are we suddenly impatient and wanting Sony to announce an entire generation worth of games now? If in a year or two new releases/announcements aren't forthcoming then yeah I'd understand the concern 100%. But I just don't get it now, seems people have heard TLoU1 is getting a remake and have jumped to the definite conclusion that PS5 is just going to be a TLoU/Uncharted machine.