A new State of Play will air this week – find out when and where to watch the livestream through here – but it’s not the E3-esque blowout many had expected. Instead, this will primarily be dedicated to Deathloop, with a sprinkling of third-party and indie announcements on top. There will be no God of War: Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, or next-gen PSVR.
So, when can we expect the next full-blown PlayStation showcase? Well, as has become customary from the format holder, there’s no roadmap to look forward to – but the manufacturer has hinted at more news over the coming weeks. “Stay tuned throughout the summer, as we’ll have more updates soon,” PS Blog’s Sid Shuman teased.
Sony has become impossible to predict of late, so we genuinely couldn’t tell you whether it has a major event in the pipeline or not. This new State of Play should at least provide some welcome updates on third-party titles at least, though, giving us something tangible to look forward to – even if it’s ultimately not what many had expected.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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I want an avi support for a Media Gallery on PS5.
If these announcements come by way of a blogpost one random weekday morning, PlayStation's marketing team should be fired. These games deserve their own giant events.
Late April: Ratchet
Late May: Horizon FW
Early July: Deathloop
I think we can safely assume there'll be another update in August as well. Hopefully they go big leading up to Gamescom.
I think the next big event will be next month in August.
@Snake_V5 And so the cycle starts anew.
Omg sony hurry
August 6th is next rumoured date. Popped up even before this July 8th State of Play was rumoured. Hopefully more first party reveals and not just updates. Kinda want to see what 2022 is looking like.
Playstation right now are doing great regardless of what some believe but now and then it would do good for the fanbase for Sony to put on a big showcase to give people a clearer idea at what Sony has coming over the next two years.
Right now we only know of Horizon and GoW coming within the next year. In all likelihood Sony will have far more then that from both 1st party, 2nd party and timed exclusives.
I want to know about 2022 first party lineup
If we get 1 in August it''ll prolly focus on Kena, which i dont mind at all
It will happen soon enough. My biggest hope is that we will finally see Factions so we can get onto the conversation about Factions being part of The Last of Us Part II Director's Cut 😆.
@scottdevine48 I'm an insider and this is actually the big announcement of Thursday's show.
@AK4tywill Insider? I barely knew her!
Would love to see some first party ps5 exclusives at some point. Jim Ryan said they we going for it like never before THIS gen and all we've got to look forward to is overpriced cross gen games.
I'm sure they have plenty of games in the works but how far out are they?
These deep dives into single games don't cut it for me. 3 minute gameplay/story trailers are more than enough. The more I know, the less interested I get.
@RBMango #FireRyan
Arkane are one of the best developers out there. I reckon death loop is going to surprise a lot of people. I want to see how much it's coming out for and what the exclusivity is.
Indies?... don't mention Indies!
Third parties? Gotta be silent hills!
@nessisonett Hahaha got me!
@The_New_Butler I tend to agree with you. I know Sony doesn’t NEED E3 anymore, but I definitely wish they would do a big event near E3 when everyone else goes. I miss the old days of everyone going around the same time with the big blowout.
@WizzNL @CKFilms @Snake_V5 @MrDoug91 Fingers crossed this rumored August event IS Sony's late answer to E3.
Still shocked that they didn't do any big events in June.
Sony need to do something and quickly. The lack of games to play on the PS5 is embarrassing. Updates of PS4 games are okay but come-on is Returnal really the only reason to own a PS5? Other than load times and gimmicky feed back controller (fun for a while) There really isn't a good enough reason and has left me feeling like I should have gone Xbox instead.
Really makes me question if there will even be a fabled 'big' event from Sony.
I honestly think they will keep the State of Play events going every other month and focus on stuff that's actually coming out this year.
Then maybe save the GOW Ragnarok reveal for The Game Awards since that's a 2022 release anyway.
I want another PlayStation experience. I find the idea of watching these state of plays terribly boring. I love the set up, the talk up to a game being showed and the developer talking about it after it's shown. I would fall in love if they had a live event for a PSVR2 full reveal. With the vaccine masks are disappearing and I'm hoping we start gathering again and stop hearing about Covid interruptions.
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