Days Gone Remastered launches on PS5 this April
It was only a matter of time after the reveal of a PC version, Sony’s much loved Days Gone is getting a remaster for PS5. New content includes a permadeath mode, an enhanced photographic mode, accessibility features, a speedrun mode, and a brand new horde assault mode with waves of enemies.
The trailer does not give any details of graphical enhancements but there is a PS5 Pro version. Days Gone Remastered will launch on April 25th 2025.
Days Gone sold at least 5 million copies but Sony classed that as a commercial failure.
Sony Bend pitched a sequel in 2019, but this was shot down by Sony and eventually led to a bit of fallout as game director Jeff Ross and fellow game director John Garvin departed at the end of 2020. It seems there’s still some bitterness about this as Ross took to Twitter.
“At the time I left Sony,” he tweeted, “Days Gone had been out for a year and a half (and a month), and sold over 8 million copies. It’s since gone on to sell more, and then a million+ on Steam. Local studio management always made us feel like it was a big disappointment.” He added that it “Definitely didn’t generate God of War numbers, but neither did Ghost… or Death Stranding,”
The other suspicion is that Days Gone suffered from a protracted development cycle and a few public delays, all of which will have expanded the game’s budget – Ross previously admitted that the budget ballooned. In the here and now, Ross noted that they actually had a comparable development period to Ghost of Tsushima. “[Sucker Punch] worked on [Ghost of Tsushima] for 6-7 years, and had an open world engine, and a team who understood open world. We had to do all that from scratch, and we made the game in 6-7 years, depending on how you measure.”
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