Warning: intolerable back slapping incoming. We don't normally look back on our press conference predictions in too much detail – usually because we're wrong – but we called Paris Games Week 2015 pretty darn impressively. Don't believe us? Go back and re-read our original article – and no, we haven't edited it after the fact.
Here's what we got right:
- Quantic Dream did announce its new game, Detroit: Become Human, and it is an extension of the Kara short story.
- A new Gran Turismo game was announced – although it's called Gran Turismo Sport and not Gran Turismo 7.
- Evolution Studios did reveal a fresh expansion for DriveClub. However, we said that it would be a second Season Pass, when it was actually motorbikes. Half-point there.
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End's multiplayer mode was debuted – and Naughty Dog did take the opportunity to remind everyone that the beta will be open to everyone with Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.
- Media Molecule did attempt to explain what Dreams is – even if it didn't do a brilliant job during the exclusive's ten or so minute demo.
- We thought that this was a long-shot, but Horizon: Zero Dawn did get an updated demo. And as we predicted, it wasn't anything entirely new – just the behind closed doors stuff from E3.
- Alienation, Shadow of the Beast, and WiLD all appeared during the press conference, and No Man's Sky did get a release window. The only major digital game missing that we thought would be there was RIME.
- Sony did show some new PlayStation VR content, although we thought that a new game from London Studio would be announced – instead, Crytek took to the stage. Half-point.
- The platform holder opened its press conference with Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Star Wars Battlefront – just like we predicted.
- Despite the information leaking, Dhalsim was revealed as the latest challenger in Street Fighter V. We also got a release date for the game.
What we got wrong:
- We thought for sure that Far Cry Primal would put in an appearance during the presser due to its February release date, but it was nowhere to be seen.
- Also absent was NieR Automata, which seemed like a lock for the show. In fact, there was no sign of Square Enix at all, when we were expecting a segment from the Japanese company.
- Sony didn't update us on the PS4's sales – it'll probably wait until its investor report later in the week now.
- There was no mention of any firmware updates, so we got that one wrong, too.
- And finally, we thought that the platform holder may reveal November's PlayStation Plus offering during its media briefing, but the subscription service wasn't even acknowledged.
How do you think that we did with our predictions? Are you impressed by this winning streak? Tell us we got lucky in the comments section below.
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Why would they announce the PS Plus IGC, they'd only be pelted with rotten fruit.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi You've got a point - Ryan would never have made it off the stage in one piece.
@ShogunRok @Bad-MuthaAdebisi My line of thinking was that they may use the exposure of the presser to announce a "big" game will be available. They've done this at Gamescom twice before, when Assassin's Creed III and Red Dead Redemption were given away on the PS3.
But no, you've got a point!
I think the point is we van expect a not so great line-up, right? If there was a chance of anything big, they would have boasted about it.
Probably saving that one uo for PSX.
@Kidfried I keep reading this, but I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment. God of War IV and Sony Bend's games are literally the only big first-party titles left that we haven't seen yet.
I think it may still be a little to early to give away AAA titles just yet. IMO, once the new year starts we will start to see the occasional AAA added into psplus. I imagine alot of ps4's will be sold this holiday and lots of "older" games will probably have an up tick in sales, like Killzone, Knack, etc, for the new adopters. After the holiday dust settles I feel pretty confident we will start to see the "older" AAA titles given away on plus.
@get2sammyb @ShogunRok
It was pretty easy to make these predictions, but I guess you folks deserve some credit for being right anyway.
I predicted that "The Nights" would play at some point and it did. Proves that it's the number one song for game montages
@get2sammyb: Sorry, I think I wasn't really clear (was typing from my phone, could be part of the problem). I was referencing to the PS Plus predictions.
You were wrong about new Plus games being announced on PGW. Reason for it is probably that the November Plus line up won't be very high profile.
Last year they had a really big PS Plus Month in January. I reckon they'll do that again and announce those games at PSX.
The PSX will probably something like firmware, Sony Bend's game or God of War 4, a new VR game and (if we're lucky) FFXV. That would beat the PGS-presser though.
@get2sammyb Are we absolutely sure that God of War IV is coming? As far as I'm aware that this information came from Cory Barlog who said that "a God of War game was coming to PS4" but is it possible that he meant the God of War III remaster?
@adf86 I'd bet my left arm on it. Whether it will be called 'God of War IV' is up for debate, but there's definitely a new God of War on the way.
@get2sammyb
Shu said earlier today that Sony’s first party and second party studios "are developing over 30 games, maybe even 40 or 50", so there is still a lot we don't know about. Chances are a sizable chunk of these are VR games, but there must be more than GoW and a Bend game. Santa Monica for instance is usually involved with 3 to 4 second party studios at a time co- developing a game and same goes for San Diego. Some of the first parties have the capacity to work on more than one title simultaneously, so I do expect they have some surprises left
@Boerewors
Well, we know of those games is MLB 16 The Show. What I want to know in regards to the others is how many are VR exclusives, how many will utilize VR but can still be played 'normally' and how many are the smaller budgeted titles like Fat Princess.
they didn't reveal PS+ lineup because they were afraid of being linched of the stage after announcing an all indie lineup again
@Gamer83 There'll be a mixture of everything in terms of both scale and genre. Sony's very good at covering many different demographics and price points in my opinion.
@get2sammyb
I agree with that. Sony's always covered a wide range. Not everything is appealing but it's usually more good than not. Unfortunately a lot of the games don't get the kind of marketing push they deserve, however.
The only thing I predicted was No Man's Sky getting a release date. But of course, we all know the Last Guardian release date and an Alien: Isolation sequel will happen soon...right?...right?!
@Kidfried man ff15 is a great shout - after continual updates in and around the demo square enix have gone quiet. I really enjoyed psx last year and will have my sweet and salty Sainsbury's popcorn at the ready.
while I was watching the show, I was like "man, PushSquare got all their prediction right!"
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