The leaks surrounding The Last of Us Part 1 and God of War: Ragnarok were no coincidence, so it wouldn’t be a big surprise if we hear of more exclusives from PlayStation Studios later this year…
Speaking on the XboxEra podcast, Nick Baker (Shpeshal_Nick) and Jeff Grubb, writing for VentureBeat, said that Sony has yet to find the cause of the security breach, so it’s almost sure that we’ll hear about games for PlayStation 5 (and maybe even PlayStation 4…?) before the official announcements. Baker leaked gameplay footage of The Last of Us Part 1 (which Sony and Naughty Dog then “hurtfully” shared officially), so they might be onto something.
Also, with God of War: Ragnarok, there was talk of a more expensive collector’s edition before the announcement and that Sony was planning to announce a release date. Insiders had access to the PlayStation Blog post, but Sony just delayed the announcement and brought forward the return of Kratos and Atreus by a few days (all of which we’ve reported on in recent weeks).
Baker said Sony has a minor security issue, and Grubb agreed with his statement. Baker said he had received offers for more first-party, internally developed PlayStation games and then hinted at further leaks of God of War: Ragnarok. According to Grubb and Baker, “someone has gotten a hold of something” at Sony. A Reddit user pointed to a thread on the site a few months ago where a user bragged about having access to a company laptop with 100 gigabytes of data. Everyone brushed it off at the time, but it could be that someone took a risk and got into Sony’s internal network.
Whatever the case, it is safe to say that we have seen fewer leaks from the Microsoft/Xbox Game Studios area than Sony/PlayStation Studios has shown.
Source: PSL
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![However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well.](https://thegeek.games/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-gog-1-300x365.jpg)
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