Here are a variety of stats across PS Studios and their released/upcoming games over the PS5 generation.
There's 22 (announced) first-party developers under the PS Studios umbrella. The following list are their names and their number ofreleased games on PS5:
Bend Studio: 0
Bluepoint Games: 1
Bungie: 1
Fabrik Games: 0
Firesprite: 2
Firewalk Studios: 1
Guerrilla Games: 1
Haven Studios: 0
Housemarque: 1
Insomniac Games: 4
Media Molecule: 0
Naughty Dog: 3
Neon Koi: 0
Nixxes Software: 0
Polyphony Digital: 1
San Diego Studio: 4
San Mateo Studio: 0
Santa Monica Studio: 1
Sucker Punch: 1
Team Asobi: 2
Valkyrie Entertainment: 0
XDev: 8
Other Stats
Game Stats:
Total PS5 games released: 30
Game with highest Metacritic score: God of War: Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica) & Astro Bot (Team Asobi) - 94
Game with lowest Metacritic score: Concord (Firewalk) - 62
Game with highest Metacritic score (second-party): The Nioh Collection (Team Ninja) - 87
Game with lowest Metacritic score (second-party): Firewall Ultra (First Contact) - 62
Total 90+ PS5 games on Metacritic: 5
Total 80+ PS5 games on Metacritic: 21
Total 70-79 PS5 games on Metacritic:6
Total 70- PS5 games on Metacritic: 3
Total 60- PS5 games on Metacritic: 0
PS5 games released in 2020: 6
PS5 games released in 2021: 8
PS5 games released in 2022: 6
PS5 games released in 2023: 4
PS5 games released in 2024 so far: 7
PS5 games that are remasters/remakes: 10
PS5 games that are on Xbox: 6
PS5 games that are on Nintendo Switch: 4
PS5 games that are on PC: 16
PS5 games that originated on PS3: 2
PS5 games that originated on PS4: 8
PSVR2 games: 2
PS5 games from JP studios: 4
PS5 games from EU studios: 4
PS5 games from NA studios: 30
PS5 games from JP studios (only released): 3
PS5 games from EU studios (only released): 4
PS5 games from NA studios (only released): 23
Unreleased announced PS5 games: 6
Most recent released PS5 game: Astro Bot (September 2024)
Next PS5 game: Lego Horizon Adventures - Date currently N/A
XDev released PS5 games: 8
Studio Stats:
Studios in NA: 13
Studios in EU: 7
Studios in JP: 2
Oldest studio: Naughty Dog (founded 1984)
Newest studio: Haven Studios (founded 2021)
First acquired studio: Bend Studio (2000)
Last acquired studio: Firewalk Studios (2023)
Studios created internally: 6
Polyphony (1998)
San Diego Studio (2001)
San Mateo Studio (1998)
Santa Monica Studio (1999)
Team Asobi (2021)
XDev (2000)
Studios acquired during the PS5 generation: 10
Housemarque (June, 2021)
Nixxes Software (July, 2021)
Bluepoint Games (September, 2021)
Fabrik Games (September, 2021)
Firesprite (September, 2021)
Valkyrie Entertainment (December, 2021)
Bungie (January, 2022)
Haven Studios (July, 2022)
Neon Koi (August, 2022)
Firewalk Studios (April, 2023)
Bungie v2 (TBA)
Studios closed in PS5 generation: 3
Japan Studio (April, 2021) *
Pixelopus (May, 2023)
London Studio (February, 2024)
* Team Asobi transitioned out of Japan Studio after its closure.
Support studios: 4
Fabrik Games
Nixxes Software
San Mateo Studio
Valkyrie Entertainment
Studio with most new releases: Insomniac Games (4)
Studio with most remasters/remakes: Naughty Dog (3)
Number of studios with 0 PS5 games: 8
Studio with the longest duration since their last release: Bend Studio with Days Gone (April 2019)
Studio with the shortest duration since their last release: Team Asobi with Astro Bot (September 2024)
Largest studio by headcount: Bungie (850+)
Smallest studio by headcount: Neon Koi most likely (50-)
Most recent PlayStation Studios game: Team Asobi with Astro Bot (September 2024) (prev Firewalk Studios with Concord) (August 2024)
Most recent second-party game: Shift Up with Stellar Blade (April 2024) (prev Team Ninja with Rise of the Ronin) (March 2024)
Studio with most Game of the Year Awards: Naughty Dog
Studio with highest average Metacritic score: Sony Santa Monica & Team Asobi (94)
Studio with highest average Metacritic score (more than 1 game): Team Asobi (88.5)
Studio with highest average Metacritic score (no remasters/remakes): Team Asobi (88.5)
Studio with lowest average Metacritic score (no remasters/remakes): Firewalk Studios (62)
Five studios most likely to close (no particular order):
Firewalk Studios
Bend Studio
Firesprite/Fabrik Games
Media Molecule
Neon Koi
Five studios least likely to close (no particular order):
Guerrilla Games
Insomniac Games
Polyphony Digital
Sony Santa Monica
Sucker Punch
Studios waiting to be announced:
The Southern California team who is working on the next Uncharted.
Jason Blundell's team (COD Zombies creator, ex-Deviation).
The team of ex-Bungie employees who were spun out of the developer to create a new studio.
Studios most likely to be acquired:
Arrowhead Game Studios (Helldivers 2 developer)
SHIFT UP (Stellar Blade developer)
Ballistic Moon (Until Dawn Remake developer)
Ember Lab (Kena: Bridge of Spirits developer)
Ironwood Studios (Pacific Drive developer)
Publisher most likely to be acquire: Square Enix (still very unlikely).
PS+ Premium Stats
Many PS1/2/3/PSP games from PS Studios now have a PS5 port that are included with a PS+ Premium subscription or bought a la carte. Although it makes no sense to include them in other pages due to their retro nature, there's still some interesting facts, so here they are!
Defunct PS Studios Games:
Bigbig Studios:
Pursuit Force (PSP)
Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (PSP)
SCE Studio Cambridge
Ghosthunter (PS2)
MediEvil (PS1)
MediEvil: Resurrection (PSP)
Sony Interactive Studios America
2Xtreme (PS1)
Cool Boarders (PS1)
Jet Moto (PS1)
Jet Moto 2 (PS1)
Key of Heaven (PSP)
Rally Cross (PS1)
Twisted Metal (PS1)
Twisted Metal World Tour (PS1)
Japan Studio
Ape Escape (PS1)
Ape Escape Academy (PSP)
Ape Escape Academy 2 (PSP)
Ape Escape: On the Loose (PSP)
Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light (PSP)
Echochrome (PSP)
Echoshift (PSP)
Everybody's Golf (PS1)
Everybody's Golf 2 (PS1)
Intelligent Qube (PS1)
Intelligent Qube: Final (PS1)
Jeanne d'Arc (PSP)
Jumping Flash! (PS1)
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival (PSP)
No Heroes Allowed (PSP)
The Legend of Dragoon (PS1)
Wild Arms (PS1)
Wild Arms 2 (PS1)
Psygnosis
G-Police (PS1)
Second-party
Daxter (PSP)
Gravity Crash Portable (PSP)
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier (PSP)
Pinball Heroes (PSP)
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP)
Sly Racoon (PS2)
Incognito
War of the Monsters (PS2)
Current PS Studios Legacy Games:
Bend Studio
Resistance Retribution (PSP)
Syphon Filter (PS1)
Syphon Filter 2 (PS1)
Syphon Filter 3 (PS1)
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PSP)
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP)
Guerrilla Games
Killzone: Liberation (PSP)
Housemarque
Super Stardust Portable (PSP)
San Diego Studio
The Mark of Kri (PS2)
Takeaways:
The majority of games that have been ported over from defunct studios like BigBig and SCE Cambridge
It seems like when a game is chosen, Sony like to finish off the whole series before moving on to another.
For example, getting all the Pursuit Force and Syphon Filter games ported before moving to others games from those respective developers.
Even if a game didn't initially release in a particular region, they still received the PS+ port.
For example, NA regions received the second Intelligent Qube and Ape Academy 2
Different names for the same games:
The less globalized world was different in the 90s and early 2000s. The internet was in its infancy, let alone broadband-enabled online gaming, and game development pipelines were also more closed off. As a result, many games not only released months/sometimes years apart in different regions, but also under different names. Here are the legacy games that had multiple names depending on the region:
Ape Escape Academy (NA) / Ape Academy (EU) / Piposaru Academia: Dossari! Sarugē Daizenshū (JP)
Ape Academy 2 (EU) / Piposaru Academia 2: Aiai Sarugē Janken Battle! (JP)
Ape Escape: On the Loose (NA) / Ape Escape P (EU) / Saru Get You P! (JP)
