I know you're trolling or have a low IQ, but this is a Lego game, not a horizon game. In the sense that Lego is the overarching brand and they make things related to a lot of IP's, like Fortnite.
It's like when Kratos' Fortnite skin was available on Switch, that must mean they're now day and date on switch (PS games)
That was a skin. This is a whole-ass game.
IMO there's a difference.
So this is a live service game?
"Bilbill-kun also adds in his report that the game will be available on day one on both PlayStation 5 and PC, which is in line with PlayStation's latest comments on releasing live-service games together on both platforms. "
A new report has detailed that LEGO Horizon Adventures will be revealed during Summer Game Fest.
insider-gaming.com
It could be "live service" the same way Ghosts of Tsushima is. Some MP modes you can play online, but not live-service as in GAAS where the core of the game is built around a persistent online community & element.
We really don't know anything until it gets revealed. But IIRC, there were two separate spin-off Horizon projects and one was specifically GAAS. I don't think this LEGO game is that one, since that GAAS title has Guerrilla as one of the main developers.
The difference is.....
Lego most likely paid Sony to use Sony's IP, not Sony paying a developer for the rights to publish their game, that's a big difference.
Rise of Ronin and Stellar Blade were funded (either fully or partially) by Sony, that's what makes those games first party games, if it was merely publishing only they wouldn't be first party they would be third party published by Sony. Even Rebirth is paid for exclusivity. Even those games could have come to PC day and date, it depends on the agreement.
Still a bad deal on Sony's part IMHO. Again, they have the leverage in that situation; Horizon is one of their tentpole story-driven IPs, it's a modern-era IP, and they know (or maybe they don't?) the optics in having a new Horizon game, regardless of visual style, be Day 1 on PC if it's not a GAAS.
They should know this, and if they're expecting blowback then that's one thing. But they better not act surprised if a lot of core console owners ask WTF, when they see that PC (Steam) Day 1 text right there in the reveal trailer.
Either way, there is a huge difference between a third party developed game (whether first party published or not) and a first party internally developed Sony game coming day and date and that was my point, we can have this conversation again when that happens.
No, I don't think there is much a material difference at all when we're talking about the same tentpole IP in both cases, and it being a non-GAAS title. Because if Herman & Hideki meant only WRT internally-developed 1P titles, they should have said it at the business update.
But, they didn't. Either because they didn't mean anything that specific, or they were aware of how that'd be construed by fans and press as being oddly specific to worm about releasing other games co-dev'd with 3P based on big tentpole IP Day 1 on PC.
And again, materially, that's about the same as internally-developed 1P non-GAAS going Day 1, if the actual amount of said games is very small to begin with over the course of some years. Which for 2023 & 2024, will absolutely 100% be the case. Maybe 2025, too.