@Grumblevolcano right on, my thoughts exactly. This could actually be a godsend of sorts for their optics if they play their cards right going into the summer. A state of play with a couple heavy hitters would be exponential in their relatively brightened appearance within the industry, and with more room to breathe sans GTA 6, there’s a lot they can push for to gain marketing momentum.
The silence is weird. It would be really neat if Sony managed to catch leakers off guard and a SoP/showcase announcement was actually a surprise but the absence of your typical SoP/showcase rumour article from Push Square (usually happens around a month before airing) feels like Sony's going to coast off the Xbox showcase.
@Zazu Sony had 3rd parties on their side so even though Sony really messed up their 1st party pipeline by going all in on live service, the 3rd parties propped them up.
1) Grubb being one of the primary sources for something like an upcoming PS show hasn't been saying much, largely I suspect for personal reasons given what happened with his last gig, and he's likely focusing on a number of things at this time. Maybe he'll chime in soon, but I know when he was last prompted online, he said he hasn't heard anything.
2) Jade Raymond leaving her own studio, which many are inferring from poor internal reception to Fairgames, could be another reason and an unfortunate one at that. It could be that Sony was hoping to show off gameplay for a summer show of theirs like they did with Concord and are perhaps now afraid of a repeat situation. That's obvious enough to us... it's basically a matter of time before we hear that Fairgames gets put away for good. Nonetheless, it messes Sony's plans a bit for how they organize their own show, as they probably had a trailer ready to go and placed, but now have to can it with this sudden change of affairs.
3) Summer Games Fest and Xbox Showcase - like you said. I think it's (sadly) quite probable that Sony will rely on Xbox to show what games are coming to their platform given that they will now display what platforms will be receiving their announced titles in their trailers. And for Geoff's show, it's almost expected now to see a major PS announcement, and they may just amp up what they have to present here instead of their own show.
I honestly hope they don't pass on their own presentation, as I still enjoy them despite their strange pacing approach to trailer reels, both Nintendo and Microsoft seem to have a better read of their audiences on this front. But we often see at least a few very interesting games, including a first party title if we observe this past year's pattern. I'm maintaining end of the month still for a show, but we've had some bad live-service news recently which casts doubt on what they'll do.
@Enriesto Marathon news and the announcement of teamLFG (Gummy Bears) earlier this month were negative too. Considering the potential proximity of those 3 meaning they may have ended up getting new news in an event and that Push Square reported on Horizon Online perhaps being a 2025 release, it may have been that Sony were planning another live service blowout similar to the 2023 showcase.
@Grumblevolcano There seems to have been a plan of winding up the next batch of live service titles, now thwarted by these updates we’re getting. Arrested development in action… it could very well have been a showcase, which we will certainly not be getting anymore with this chaos seemingly peaking with their remainder projects. Hell, I forgot about the Horizon multiplayer, though I think we’ll still see what that’s about at some point.
Seems now at best we receive the standard SoP to kick off the summer. A big game like RE9 to initiate, and then a first party reveal (hopefully with gameplay) to cap. I think that’s the most we can hope for. Otherwise, they’ll give Keighley the reigns for any updates on the platform at SGF ‘25.
@CaptD there is a distinct lack of Spy thrillers of any gameplay style, stealth or otherwise. Hopefully Splinter Cell and 007 is the end of this. Along with the crime genre, spy thriller is criminally underutilised in gaming
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@CaptD well they were chatting up a remake of the original a few years back… maybe it actually escaped from development hell. If so, following on from AC Shadows… the slow emergence from the corporate-designated quagmire that Ubisoft found itself in continues? From one Ubi-stan to the only other one left… we can but hope 😅
@CaptD I don’t believe the rumour but Nintendo Life last year reported on a rumour about Blacklist coming to Switch 1 as part of a plan to fill in 1st party Switch 1 gaps with 3rd party releases.
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I thought Blacklist was a great game and I’m astonished it never came to PS4 especially as it was released mere months before that gem started.
@Jimmer-jammer Yakuza is a weird one. I like the charm and the stories in general from what I've seen, but I can't hack the gameplay being like an arcade game, and the environments being bland and filled with repetitive "action"
It feels like they are lazy developers keen on pumping out quantity rather than ever making their game appeal to more than their core fanbase. And I'm always shocked they don't catch heat like Ubisoft for recycling games, because they are far more prolific and recycle far more: mechanics, assets, quests etc etc than Ubisoft do, and they do it in much smaller game worlds. They don't even fully voice half of the game and just play the same music over text scrolling.
Honestly, it pains me and winds me up that they don't at least try something new 🙈🙈🙈 and thus I try not to think about the series. I know I'll never be able to finish any of their games because I always get frustrated part way in 😭
@Zazu I'm not calling them lazy developers, as such, if you notice how I worded it, but it just gives the impression of that because of this one element of recycling and putting out games more frequently, rather than spending more time on fewer releases to really take their games to another level and break away from their pretty usual peak sales numbers. Obviously each release will require a lot of work, but if their owners changed up the release schedule, maybe the devs could actually do some new things to advance the games, rather than just meet the regular expectations and move on once again. And it always surprises me more people aren't fed up with the formula, but then again, it's maybe because it's the same x number of people buying and playing the games, and any that don't gel with it simply continue to ignore the franchise as they know it will be the same.
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@CaptD I do wonder how much of it was the Xbox backwards compatibility program. The program got big uptake from 3rd parties in 2015-2019 but then completely stopped after a one-off batch in 2021.
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Possibly, however I do remember that for a number of Ubi and EA titles released around the start of the PS4 gen had a £10/$10 upgrade and Splinter Cell was strangely absent (obviously as it didn’t have a PS4 version). I took advantage of the programme for AC Black flag and I think Battlefield.
I just wonder what they were thinking.
I think Jade Raymond was in charge so perhaps she had left by then.
@Zazu@CaptD I could see something like the Splinter Cell Remake showing up during Sony's show, as the drop for its existence, and then Geoff's showing carrying a bit of gameplay along with a release window if it's ready for one.
I’ve kinda given up hope when thinking about Showcases/State of Plays after the last couple of years… but one thing I’d love to find out about would be Cory Barlog’s next project at Sony Santa Monica.
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I’m of the opinion that Intergalactic won’t be released until just before the new gen, it seems to be ND’s MO at this point so perhaps summer 2027.
What I’m hoping for this week (or at Game awards) is a look at the new Housemarque game as I reckon that is next up (after Ghost).
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