Video: The Biggest PlayStation Surprises of 2024

Astrobot winning GotY and 3 other awards. In a world of 40 hour open world epic rpg did not see a 12 hour single player platformer winning. Though these people also gave “ It Takes Two” GotY so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Concord bombing was not a surprise, seemed almost preordained. Sony then retconning out of existence instead of trying to make a go of it free to play at least thru the episode of it’s show was surprising.

Helldivers 2.

The fact that we still don’t have a remake/remaster/60fps patch for Bloodborne.

Edit-Sorry, I thought the question was ‘What was the most unsurprising, expected, predictable thing PlayStation did in 2024?’

I like speculating on the future of the industry , but this just shows you cant really anticipate unexpected events. 2025 might start with a surprise too, if Sony ends up acquiring Kadokawa.

@rjejr It's way longer than that if you play every level.

Game of the Year means nothing to me if I don't plan to play those games, I only play those that gives enjoyment and if said games happened to be new and got the nomination, good to know👌👏
Also, many like me just follow news and don't bother to vote, even sometimes like the polls here

For a 'bad year' for Sony, it's overall been a pretty darn good year for PS5 owners.

I don't think Concord bombing surprised normal gamers. Although I didn't expect it to fall quite as flat on its face as it did, lol

@rjejr That's a little disingenuous. I spent a little over 20 hours and didn't actually 100% Astro Bot. I also haven't played any of the newer challenge or update levels.

Sony has hit the highest highs and the lowest lows this year.

The industry will definitely change...... and I am optimistic that it will be for the better. So many games have flopped this year when many were sure that it would be a guaranteed success. but the opposite was the case.

I'm excited to see what awaits us next year.

The biggest surprise was that the game that I wanted to win game of the year didn't win game of the year so I'm going to complain about that.

Just kidding! I'm extremely happy that Dragon's Dogma 2 won GOTY but it certainly wasn't a surprise by any stretch.

Xbox slowly turning into a multiplatorm developer is the biggest surprise to me. Concord failing was no surprise whatsoever, the unmitigated disaster it was is the surprising part.

This supposed slow year for PlayStation we keep hearing about is such an insult to Team Asobi. They absolutely crushed it with their Astrobot charm offensive.

Good surprise: how much I enjoyed Animal Well.

Bad surprise: how disappointing Rise of the Ronin was (although I've only played bits of it on a friend's PS5). Thought that was a banker.

@Gremio108 Played a chunk of Ronin myself and you're not wrong.

@Balaam_ The fact that we still don’t have a Dark Cloud 3.
Edit-Sorry, I thought the question was ‘What was the most unsurprising, expected, predictable thing PlayStation did in 2024?’

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Astro bot was a very nice surprise as im sure Sony said no major IPs this year - way to go Sony marketing!

Dragon Age Veilguard being such a good game was a nice surprise too - from early showings I wasn't really excited at all, but bought it after its review here. I would easily give it a higher score of 9/10, and its my 2nd place GOTY.

Pro wasnt a surprise as it was rumoured heavily and expected.
Its price wasn't really a surprise either - its a good enough price (not great, but calling it ludicrous is ridiculous!) - I think I was predicting a little less, but that was with 1Tb SSD.

Getting a Pro on launch day was a nice surprise as I was sure Sony would mess up with too few units as they did with PS5 launch - but they did really good here (then f'd up disk drive numbers.... but that hasnt affected me).
The number of games patched for or around launch was a nice surprise given PS4 Pro.

Concord failing wasn't a surprise, but the extent to which it failed was - with Sony refunding.

Finally, the loud minority hate campaigns/crusades against certain games that are trying their best to be inclusive, and optional consoles purely because of price, has not surprised me - but is saddening.
However, thankfully, it does appear that more and more people are starting to get fed up with this online 'hate crusade' behaviour.

Concord flopping does make this a bad year for Sony at all. We've had Astro Bot, HellDivers 2, Horizon Remastered, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin and FF7 ReBirth. The Pro released to decent sales, Xbox porting over their games with Indy and Outer Worlds 2 next year, and we've had a big improvement to the Portal with cloud streaming. The year was capped with Astro Bot winning game of the year and who knows maybe they can announce the acquisition of Kodokawa before the year ends.

2024 has been a good year.

@Blauwe_Chimay That game totally took me by surprise. Friends got it for me mor Christmas and I’ve been loving it!

@rjejr I'm finding it hard to believe that anyone clocked Astro Bot blind in 12 hours.

For me the surprises were:

• Asian devs carrying this year hard.
• PS Studios disappointing year, except for Astro.
• Half the industry still imploding (including Sony’s live service push cuz Concord and Bungie disaster).
• Microsoft’s effective killing of Xbox in pro of Microsoft Gaming.

The outer worlds 2 announcement that it's launching on PS5 also. Okami sequel in the works. Astro stealing my heart in a full blown game. Dragon age being pretty great.

What are some of your biggest PlayStation surprises from 2024?

Me : For me, BARBIE : PROJECT FRIENDSHIP on PS5 and other consoles was my biggest surprise.
The first Barbie game on PS5 by Outright Games, I was so happy because the fact there was a publisher which still want to release girlie franchise for kids like Barbie on powerful console PS5, it was really something special for me and also for other Barbie fans.

@rjejr I'm glad a fun for all game got the recognition it deserves, hopefully a turning point away from umpteen soulslikes, meteoidvanias, live service etc etc.

@Anti-Matter I have no words 🤣

@Jrs1
Well, I'm different here.
I don't play games like every users here.
I only play kids games even on PS5, with very very few rated Teen games like The Sims 4, FF X/X-2, FF XII TZA, Street Fighter games, etc.

@Anti-Matter Whatever floats your boat bud 👍