2020 Games Preview: 40 Notable Releases Including Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us Part II, and More

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 22, 2020

In the gallery above, find details on the most-anticipated games that are expected to be released for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC during 2020. (They're listed in alphabetical order.) While our list only includes games with confirmed release dates or that seem more likely than not to come out this year, you'll also find some of the more remote possibilities for 2020 compiled at the end of the gallery.

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The new consoles

The console wars will return this year (likely in November) as Microsoft and Sony introduce their first major new hardware iterations since 2013. The former's next-gen hardware is the Xbox Series X (pictured above) and will represent an increase in processing power and graphics (with up to 8K resolution) but will not be a major overhaul—except maybe in aesthetics, since the new console looks more like a tower PC than an Xbox. For the near future, the Series X will have no exclusives: Games will be released for XB1 and Xbox Series X simultaneously, though they'll look better and play faster on the latter. Over time, as the technical requirements for new games increase, they'll gradually stop showing up on the older console. The new Xbox will be fully backwards-compatible with all prior versions of the Xbox, and should launch concurrently with Halo: Infinite (details later in this gallery).

Fewer details are known about the PlayStation 5, and Sony will skip this year's E3 conference, though the company is expected to reveal more about its new console in February. The PS5's redesigned controller will include haptic feedback (which offers more nuance than the previous "rumble" technology), and the console will continue to include a Blu-ray drive. The only confirmed PS5 console exclusive at this point is Godfall, a "looter-slasher" from Gearbox Software that will also be available on PC

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