Separate after cancellation The Last of Us multiplayer games and trouble in the name Concord Sony is not going to back down and continues to stick to the division of games into single-player and live service. The change greatly affected the teams at PlayStation Studios, which is probably why we've been waiting so long for a proper exclusivity. Guerrilla Games will serve as an example. Since 2018, an ambitious online game from the world of Horizon has been created in a Dutch studio.
It looks like Guerrilla Games has Horizon Online a high priority. According to journalist Jason Schreier, who is one of the best-informed journalists in the industry, there are a lot of people working on the project. Development leads Simon Larouchea veteran of the Killzone series who just returned to the studio in 2018. With that in mind, the project could be in the final stages of development, while work on the Horizon Forbidden West sequel is likely only in pre-production.