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Despite the failure of Concord and the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, Horizon Online is an essential part of PlayStation’s plan to assert itself with live-service games.
That is, of course, courtesy of Jason Schreier, who made use of an appearance on Spawn Wave to inform audiences that “Horizon Online is [Guerrilla Games’] next product, not the third single player game, looks like.”
“So, that one may be ways off,” he explained, “PlayStation’s live service initiative was no joke, everybody was like ‘it’s live service games all around.’ Horizon is one of the few ones that hasn’t been cancelled or hasn’t come out and flopped the way Concord did and so year, a lot of questions. A lot of people are working on that.”
Simon Larouche is the ‘online game director’ at Guerrilla Games. He was most recently working on an unannounced title, and the chances of it being the Horizon Online game are very high. Killzone, Guerrilla’s other notable franchise, hasn’t been in the works for years now, and reliable leaks haven’t uncovered any inkling that it’s going to be revisited, lending support to the possibility that this game will be Horizon focused.
Oddly enough, Eurogamer has reported that the Horizon multiplayer project is going to be “co-op focused.” It’s possible that this is still going to be the live-service game that Schreier has mentioned, though it’s also possible that these co-op features are actually being worked on for the next mainline entry into the Horizon series.
With how bullish PlayStation has been on Horizon – the remaster announcement and then the Horizon Zero Dawn price increase – there’s no doubt that it’s one of the IPs that the brand is aiming to focus on for its identity.
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