Rumour: Days Gone PS5 Remaster Speculation Starts to Spread 1

A rumour rapidly gathering pace on social media suggests Sony may be remastering Days Gone. The open world game from Bend Studio launched at the tail end of the PS4 generation, in 2019, but was updated on the PS5 to run at 60 frames-per-second. It actually looks and plays great on new-gen hardware with backwards compatibility.

Speculation seems to have started with VGC reporter Jordan Middler, who retweeted a story claiming there’s a “less exciting” remaster from Sony on the way. He added the caption: “If he was angry that his character is in Astro Bot, he’s going to lose his mind at this.”

Those of you who’ve been paying attention may recall Days Gone director John Garvin putting Astro Bot on blast for protagonist Deacon St John’s cameo in the platformer. Unless this is some kind of joke, all this appears to imply that Days Gone is the next remaster on the way from PlayStation, alongside Horizon Zero Dawn.

If true, this would be an unusual move from Sony: it appears to have little interest in continuing the Days Gone franchise, after a sequel pitch was rejected. Bend Studio is currently working on a new project which will build on some of the technology introduced in the biker title, but won’t be a direct sequel.

There has been some chatter about a movie, although very little concrete has been announced. In fact, this project doesn’t particularly make sense to us; it’ll be relatively easy for Guerrilla to upgrade Horizon Zero Dawn to the same quality as its successor Horizon Forbidden West, but with no sequel in development for Days Gone, we’re not sure why this would get made.

All should be revealed at next week’s speculated State of Play.

Would you buy a Days Gone remaster?

[source x.com, via resetera.com]