Here are a variety of stats across the 24 (announced) first-party developers under PS Studios, as well as their released and upcoming games during the PS5 generation. Below is a list of each studio and the number of released PS5 games:
Bend Studio: 1
Bluepoint Games: 1
Bungie: 1
Dark Outlaw Games: 0
Fabrik Games: 0
Firesprite: 2
Guerrilla Games: 2
Haven Studios: 0
Housemarque: 1
Insomniac Games: 4
Malaysia Studio: 0
Media Molecule: 0
Naughty Dog: 3
Nixxes Software: 1
Polyphony Digital: 2
San Diego Studio: 5
San Mateo Studio: 0
Santa Monica Studio: 1
Sucker Punch: 1
Team Asobi: 2
teamLFG: 0
Valkyrie Entertainment: 0
Visual Arts: 0
XDev: 10
Closed Developers:
Firewalk Studios: 1
Japan Studio: 0
London Studio: 0
Manchester Studio: 0
Neon Koi: 0
Pixelopus: 0
Other Stats
Disclaimer:
Unless specifically stated, the following stats don't include Firewalk and/or Concord. Specifically for Concord, even though it shipped, the duration of its availability was only 2 weeks. It therefore makes little sense to include in stats where it's now no longer relevant.
Game Stats:
Total PS5 games released: 37
Game(s) with highest Metacritic score: God of War: Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica) & Astro Bot (Team Asobi) - 94
Game(s) with lowest Metacritic score: Concord (Firewalk) - 62
Game with highest Metacritic score (second-party): Death Stranding 2: On The Beach (Kojima Productions) - 90
Game with lowest Metacritic score (second-party): Destruction AllStars (Lucid Games) & Firewall Ultra (First Contact) - 62
Most awarded PS5 Game: Team Asobi's Astro Bot with 195, including Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024
Most awarded PS5 Game (including remasters/remakes): Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II with 320 including Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2020 (includes awards from PS4 version)
Total 90+ PS5 games on Metacritic: 6
Total 80-89 PS5 games on Metacritic: 20
Total 70-79 PS5 games on Metacritic: 9
Total 60-69 PS5 games on Metacritic: 2
Total 59- 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: 10
PS5 games released in 2025 so far: 3
Released PS5 games that are remasters/remakes: 12
Released PS5 games that are on Xbox: 9 (4 excluding MLB The Show 21-25)
Released PS5 games that are on Nintendo: 6 (2 excluding MLB 22-25)
Released PS5 games that are on PC: 23
Released PS5 games that originated on PS3: 2
Released PS5 games games that originated on PS4: 10
Released PSVR2 games: 4 (2 excluding Gran Turismo games where it's optional)
Unreleased announced PS5 games: 10
Most recent released PS5 game: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach (June 26, 2025)
Next PS5 game: Lost Soul Aside - August 29, 2025
Studio Stats:
Studios in NA: 14 (excluding XDev US)
Studios in EU: 7 (excluding XDev Liverpool)
Studios in Asia: 3 (excluding XDev Tokyo)
PS5 games from NA studios: 25
PS5 games from EU studios: 11
PS5 games from Asia studios: 11
Released PS5 games from NA studios: 18
Released PS5 games from EU studios: 10
Released PS5 games from Asia studios: 9
Oldest studio: Naughty Dog (founded 1984)
Newest studio: teamLFG (founded May, 2025)
First acquired studio: Bend Studio (2000)
Last acquired studio: Haven Studios (March, 2022)
Studios created internally: 9 (4 during the PS5 generation)
Polyphony Digital (Tokyo, 1998)
San Mateo Studio (California, 1998)
Santa Monica Studio (California, 1999)
XDev ((Liverpool, 2000) & (Tokyo, 2020))
San Diego Studio (California, 2001)
Malaysia Studio (Kuala Lumpur, 2020)
Team Asobi (Tokyo, 2021)
Dark Outlaw Games (Los Angeles (CA), 2025)
teamLFG (Bellevue (WA), 2025)
Studios acquired during the PS5 generation: 10 (italics denotes a closed studio)
Valkyrie Entertainment (Seattle, WA - December, 2021)
Bungie (Bellevue, WA - January, 2022)
Haven Studios (Montreal, Quebec - March, 2022)
Neon Koi (Berlin, Germany & Helsinki, Finland - August, 2022)
Firewalk Studios (Bellevue, WA - April, 2023)
Studios closed since PS5 release year: 6
Manchester Studio (Manchester, UK - February, 2020)
Japan Studio (Tokyo - April, 2021)
Pixelopus (San Mateo, CA - May, 2023)
London Studio (London, UK - February, 2024)
Firewalk Studios (Bellevue, WA - October, 2024)
Neon Koi (Berlin, Germany & Helsinki, Finland - October, 2024)
Support studios: 7
Fabrik Games
Malaysia Studio
Nixxes Software
San Mateo Studio
Valkyrie Entertainment
Visual Arts Services Group
XDev
Studio with most new releases: Insomniac Games - 4 (excluding San Diego Studio's 5 MLB The Show games)
Studio with most remasters/remakes: Naughty Dog (3)
Number of studios with 0 released PS5 games: 9
Number of studios who have announced their debut PS5 which has yet to release: 3 (Dark Outlaw, Haven, teamLFG)
Studio with the longest duration since their last release (excluding remasters/remakes): Bungie with Destiny 2 (September, 2017)
Studio with the longest duration since their last release (including remasters/remakes): Media Molecule with Dreams (February, 2020)
Studio with the shortest duration since their last release (excluding MLB The Show, XDev and remakes/remasters): Team Asobi with Astro Bot (September, 2024)
Studio with the shortest duration since their last release (excluding MLB The Show & XDev, but including remakes/remasters): Bend Studio with Days Gone Remastered (April, 2025)
Studio with the shortest duration since their last release (excluding MLB The Show, but including XDev & remakes/remasters): XDev/Kojima Productions with Death Stranding 2: One the Beach (June, 2025)
Most recent second-party/XDev game: Kojima Productions with Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - June, 2025 (prev Ballistic Moon with Until Dawn Remake - October, 2024)
Largest studio by headcount: Bungie (Approx 850+ even post-layoffs)
Smallest studio by headcount: Most likely either Fabrik Games, San Mateo Studio or Valkyrie Entertainment (fewer than 50)
Studio with most Game of the Year Awards: Naughty Dog
Studio with highest average Metacritic score (including devs with just 1 game): Sony Santa Monica (1 game averaging 94)
Studio with highest average Metacritic score (excluding devs with just 1 game): Team Asobi (2 games averaging 88.5)
Studio with highest average Metacritic score (including remakes/remasters): Naughty Dog (3 remasters/remakes averaging to 88.67)
Studio with lowest average Metacritic score (including devs with just 1 game): Firesprite (2 games averaging 75)
Studio with lowest average Metacritic score (excluding devs with just 1 game): Firesprite (2 games averaging 75)
Studio with lowest average Metacritic score (including remakes/remasters): Firesprite (2 games averaging 75)
Five studios most likely to close (in rough order of likeliness):
Media Molecule
Bend Studio
Haven Studio
Firesprite/Fabrik Games
Bungie
Five studios least likely to close (in rough order of likeliness):
Sony Santa Monica
Naughty Dog
Guerrilla Games
Polyphony Digital
Sucker Punch
Studios waiting to be announced:
The Southern California team who is working with Naughty Dog/Visual Arts on the next Uncharted.
Studios most likely to be acquired (in rough order of likeliness, all of which are increasingly unlikely as time goes on):
Arc System Works (Guilty Gear, BlazeBlue, Marvel Tōkon)
Ultizero Games (Lost Soul Aside)
SHIFT UP (Stellar Blade)
Arrowhead Game Studios (Helldivers 2)
Ember Lab (Kena: Bridge of Spirits)
Publishers most likely to be acquire (all of which are incredibly unlikely)
Square Enix (Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest)
Nexon (The First Descendant, The First Beserker)
MiHoYo (Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero)
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:
989 Studios:
Twisted Metal III (PS1)
Twisted Metal 4 (PS1)
Bigbig Studios:
Pursuit Force (PSP)
Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (PSP)
SCEE Studio Cambridge
Ghosthunter (PS2)
MediEvil (PS1)
MediEvil 2 (PS1)
MediEvil: Resurrection (PSP)
SCEE Studio Camden
Dropship: United Peace Force (PS2)
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)
Patapon 3 (PSP)
Siren (PS2)
The Legend of Dragoon (PS1)
Wild Arms (PS1)
Wild Arms 2 (PS1)
Psygnosis
G-Police (PS1)
Second-party
Daxter (PSP)
Grandia (PS1)
Gravity Crash Portable (PSP)
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier (PSP)
Mister Mosquito (PS2)
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (PS2)
Pinball Heroes (PSP)
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP)
Secret Agent Clank (PSP)
SkyGunner (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)
Naughty Dog
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
San Diego Studio
The Mark of Kri (PS2)
Sucker Punch
Sly Racoon (PS2)
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
Takeaways:
The majority of games that have been ported over from defunct studios like BigBig and SCE Cambridge
When a game is chosen, Sony generally ports the whole series before moving on. E.g. the Pursuit Force and Syphon Filter IP.
Even if a game didn't initially release in a region, they still got the port. E.g. NA regions with 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)
