Breaking down Sony’s huge PlayStation lineup

At first sight this updated list of forthcoming PlayStation releases looks enticingly massive. The official blog post is pages long (even excluding the pages of comments below it) but once you take your personal tastes into account things shrivel quickly.

Not into min-eSports style competitive multiplayer?
Not wild about PC ports?
Not up for more twin stick arcade shooters?
Not hot for indie games?

That’ll cut out up to 70% of this list and you can ignore another chunk of it that covers recently released titles. What’s left for PlayStation fans to look forward to? By my estimate about 74 exclusive releases between PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita. Only a dozen of those are likely to be major retail releases and surely some of these games are going to slip to 2016 or beyond.

The good news? If you’re a fan of anime/manga then PlayStation will treat you well. There’s a surprising number of games either based on or inspired by Japanese properties, most of which I’m unfamiliar with.  Sony also hasn’t completely cut off ties to a few oddball titles I was worried about. Both Shadow of the Beast and Everyone’s gone to the Rapture are, at least, mentioned on the list. The Last Guardian, however, is nowhere in sight.

It sure makes for a flashy blog post and headline as every other outlet copied and pasted the listing instantaneously. But really give it a look over for yourself and decide how many of these 220 titles you need a PlayStation console for.