Five years ago, Sony’s PlayStation debuted its much-anticipated PlayStation 5 video game console amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2020. This fall, as the gaming system celebrates its fifth anniversary, it comes on the heels of much success for one of its most prominent exclusive titles: Sucker Punch Productions’ “Ghost of Yōtei.”

A 2025 Game Awards nominee , “Yōtei” debuted in October as the follow-up to “Ghost of Tsushima.” While “Tsushima” was made for the PS4, the Sucker Punch team developed “Yōtei” for a whole new console and its Dual Sense controller.

“For the Dual Sense, it’s a great controller, and we definitely lean into that where we can. It’s a big team effort between the combat team, the audio team and the programming team to integrate that stuff,” Sucker

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