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The story
On August 24, Sony Interactive Entertainment released a video titled “Only On PS5,” showcasing PS5-exclusive titles. Six games were named, including Marvel’s Wolverine, Astro Bot, Gran Turismo 7, and Ghost of Yōtei, and thread posters quickly pointed out how small that number was.
Some questioned why GT7 — which also has a PS4 version — counts as an exclusive, while others compared the count to Switch 2’s exclusive lineup, noting “PS5’s already been overtaken.”
On August 24, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) released a video titled “Only On PS5 | PS5 Games” on YouTube.
Is this video a sign that game software is shifting away from multiplatform releases toward hardware-exclusive strategies?
Source: gamespark.jp / Original article here
What people said
Six games.
The exclusives are just that bad
[Bad News for Nintendo Fanboys] Sony officially stresses that Ghost of Yōtei, Wolverine, and other PS5 titles are exclusive — PC ports looking unlikely?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1787621783/
No wonder people say 'just get it on PC.'
Doesn't matter if you show it off —
this junk console still ain't gonna sell, lolol 😂
https://gadget.phileweb.com/post-120489/
Truly the weakest first party out there.
Also, the exclusives themselves are just plain weak.
Sony? …eh, who'd even care.
but that means you're fine never getting Microsoft's games in return, right? lol
It's not a lie —
even their own PR team doesn't care enough to know it's cross-gen.
So that's about one a year, huh…
lol
That is genuinely pathetic
First-party studios have zero motivation left
Worldwide hardware sales for July:
PS5: 784,000 units (boycott underway)
Switch 2: 707,000 units
Xbox Series: 115,000 units
VGChartz: 'PS5 sold 2.6 million units at retail in FY25 Q4!!!!' Sony: 'We shipped 1.5 million.'
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1778214624/
VGChartz: 'Sorry, turns out PS5 was actually losing badly the whole Jan–Mar stretch ☺'
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1778246086/
– Marvel's Wolverine
– Astro Bot
– SALOS
– Gran Turismo 7
– God of War Laufey
– Ghost of Yōtei
PS5 exclusive third-party titles:
Guess you don't get a lineup like this without third-party trust (striking a smug pose)
lol, every single one of them jumped ship to Steam or Switch 2
Turns out PlayStation actually posts better earnings the fewer exclusives it has
Pokaosu's highest-earning video was actually the Tsushima swordfight one
Doesn't Switch 2 already have more exclusives than that?
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Tears of the Kingdom Musou
Kirby Air Riders
Mario Tennis
Pokoa
That's already just as many.
GT7 isn't even exclusive, so Switch 2's already winning on numbers lol
Bragging about a bigger pile of garbage doesn't really help (lol)
Blackout Dawn 2, Whatever-Numeral 20, and Space Bald are all still coming to join the exclusives lineup, no need to panic.
They're already padding it out with an unreleased 'Hag 20' filler entry
Switch 2 has 15 released exclusives
PS5 has 13
Yep, it's been overtaken
Background and Key Points
PlayStation has always leaned on third-party multiplatform software rather than a deep bench of first-party exclusives — unlike Nintendo, whose hardware sales are driven almost entirely by games that never leave its own platform. That structural difference is why a promotional reel naming only six “PS5-only” titles nearly six years after the console’s November 2020 Japan launch reads as thin to some and unremarkable to others: Sony’s business model was never built around exclusive volume in the first place, and several of its acclaimed first-party games (the God of War and Horizon series, Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima) eventually shipped on PC anyway as a second revenue wave.
The thread’s actual disagreement isn’t just “six is a small number” — it’s whether Gran Turismo 7 belongs on the list at all, since it released simultaneously on PS4 and PS5 and is therefore cross-generation, not hardware-exclusive in the way Astro Bot or Ghost of Yōtei are. Posters treat that inclusion as either sloppy marketing or outright misleading.
What the thread glosses over is that “exclusive” is being used loosely throughout — some tally console-exclusive (never left PlayStation hardware) against platform-exclusive (never left PS5 specifically), and the Switch 2 comparison in the back half conflates both standards without anyone reconciling them. The cited hardware-sales figures are single-month worldwide totals, not lifetime numbers, and Sony’s shipped-versus-sold discrepancy raised in the thread reflects a longstanding industry reporting gap (shipment-to-retailers vs. confirmed consumer purchases) rather than evidence specific to PS5 alone.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry / Geha) thread “[PS5 Exclusive] SIE Releases ‘Only On PS5’ Trailer Showcasing PS5-Exclusive Titles.”
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