PlayStation Showcase Announced, Presenting the Future of PS5 Next Week

Finally!
Final Fantasy 16 and God of War pls

Wahey finally!

At least it’s at 9PM, it’s the day after my 21st so I’ll probably be nursing a hangover 😂

Finally! Give me God of War: Ragnarok and The Last of Us Factions!

Finally, something to look forward to from Sony. Here's hoping for some updates for Final Fantasy XVI

Final Fantasy 16 and God of War or I’m rioting

I want new franchises, indies, VR previews, and wacky stuff. Minimal time on sequels and existing franchises.

OMG piss my pants

Yesssss! As much as I want to see a proper GoW trailer, I’m just as excited for any new announcements!

Thank God. Now finally some people can STFU and I can have justification of my planned purchase of a PS5 around Christmas or for my birthday in January.

Roll on September 9th!

Looking forward to it, too bad it airs during my time at the gym. Oh well, I will watch the 4K version on my TV after the fact.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!! Please give me one bombastic announcement just one give me a new Sly Cooper and I'll actually cry

Definitely want to see new announcements. Not saying they should spill the beans like they did at E3 2016 but give us some exciting stuff to look forward to apart from the games we already know about.

God of War updates please!! I would also love to see some info on The Last of Us multiplayer game but I feel like that's still too far away to show off.

@koffing the blog post says they won’t be showing the new VR in this one but there should be a lot of stuff from PS Studios

Finally!
Hopefully we see more Ps5 focussed titles. Nothing against PS4 owners, but technology has to move on and we need more games that take fully advantage of the new consoles - especially now after 8 years with PS4.

Hopefully we see at least one huge surprise for Q4 2021 and something totally unexpected, like the return of a PlayStation classic franchise (Sly Cooper, Solid Snake, Jack&Dexter, Soul Reaver,…).

Probably Release of the SSD expansion firmware update shortly after?

@nessisonett Happy early birthday, good sir!

Is it crazy to hope for a PSVR2 update?

Ah-ha! I said they were going to have a surprise stream to fill out the rest of the year.

And I was right. In my guess.

Finally! As much I’m excited, I hope the showcase is good and not filled with the same 3rd person adventure games.

Finally!!!! That's all I can say! I hope they will confirm some rumours and get us keen for what is up ahead for Playstation. FINALLY!!

2023 will be the year of the PS5.

@hobbes242 the blog post says no PSVR2 in this one

Ready to be impressed ! Last September you guys blew the roof, please proceed in the same fashion !

I'd be happy if we just got some gameplay for God of War and perhaps one BIG surprise announcement, like say the announcement of a new remake from Bluepoint OR the announcement of a Resistance Reboot OR hell just the announcement of a Sunset Overdrive Definitive Edition or Sunset Overdrive 2.

My guess is we’ll see the new team asobi game assuming it isn’t a PSVR2 game. Also some of the rumoured side projects from guerilla and ND.

More deathloop!

Finally, a big PS event. Hopefully it's more like the June 2020 PS5 Future of Gaming than the September 2020 Playstation 5 Showcase.

Hoping for a 40 minute deep dive into Deathloop. Crazy that it’s almost here and we know nothing about it!

Shock announcement and gameplay reveal of MGS remake exclusively for PS5. Oh, and it's gone gold and launches on December 8th. Boom, drop mic, exit left. Done.

Finally! So excited!

Yay! About bloody time too. Looking forward to seeing what exclusives I can play on my future PS5. I’ve no interest in PSVR2 though unless it included big games like GTA V or something.

@Orange_Juice Either MGS Remake or new Silent Hill.

MOOOOMMM, Sony did Sony again...!!

@velio84 I'd guess TLoU2 Director's Cut with the extra content being Factions 2.

Finally, hopefully sony can put on the first decent presentation of the year

@Orange_Juice haha, highly welcome if it will be like that

More GT7 details please as DIRT 5 and WRC10 are my only go to car games

@velio84 - If the Bluepoint Acquisition isn't announced within the next two weeks, then I think we can truly brush off that 'Welcome to the Family' tweet as nothing more than a mistake, I HOPE Sony have acquired them, but if they had, I feel they will announce it within the next two weeks, before, during or after the PS Showcase Event, if not, we'll just have to accept the Bluepoint Acquisition just ain't happening.

Yes fellow Players!!!!!! FINALLY 🥳🥳🥳

I won't be getting a ps5 anytime soon so I'll skip this if there's not going to be anything for ps4

@Luigia Yep we need something as good as the next Forza Horizon looks

Knew it. I love always being right, fact.

God of War Ragnarok please

@Reeneman As a PS4 owner I even agree. I won't be able to likely get a PS5 until spring, but as of now I have zero reason to upgrade so I need to see something that pushes me to upgrade. Load times aren't that big of a deal. So far only Demon Souls looks next gen to me and I can't wait to play that. Here's hoping for some cool new games.

Would love a remake of Vagrant story and Legend of dragoon to show up.

@LiamCroft these would be my choices as well

FINALLY! Despite a console launch it's felt like Sony's been missing since last June.

@QB1 now your talking and would be awesome! I loved DriveClub on PS4 and something like this or open world just for PS5 would be amazing

Can't wait for this

Imagine a Parasite Eve Remake! Maybe they'll show the next Spiderman game?

Well of course Nintendo always has a Direct in September.

Wait, wrong Direct. 😂

Looking forward to having something to look forward to.

Good. Communication was really needed as Sept 9th is one week shy of a year since the last "big" Playstation showcase. 40 minutes should be enough time to make the PS5 feel relevant as a next gen system instead of a PS4 Pro Pro.

Cautiously optimistic on this though. There's no guarantee of something getting me hyped.

I'd love to see FFXVI here, but I doubt they'd have something for this event and not have, at least, a few new extra snippets to show for TGS. Which they confirmed was a no show

Hopefully I'm wrong tho

If it says future of PS5, then I don’t think next GoW, HFW, GT7 will be in presentation. Right???!

Because those aren’t ps5 exclusive as it will be on PS4

Well Sony has never had an exciting direct showcase so far so I wont get myself too excited with this one .
Whatever you guys are most hyped seeing probably wont be shown so go in with low expectations to save yourself from being hurt or upset over it XD

@nessisonett Happy birthday. You can play M rated games now. 😉. #dadjokes

@The_New_Butler so essentially new IPs. That works as well

@rjejr @hobbes242 Cheers, at least I can actually leave the house for this one!

Main thing I’m excited for is PSVR2, so with that off the cards…I guess GT7 and FF16

Hopefully we see some true PS5 exclusives.

Thank god Sony about save us from a boring gaming news cycle.

5 days before Deathloop.. Just to set my own expectations low, I expect a 15 minute Deathloop multiplayer demo, but I’m hoping for FFXVI and whatever first party things we haven’t seen before.

This is what we've been waiting for. The impatient chatteratti can pipe down now. Until next time that is. 🙄

PSVR2 please.

@PSoneboi true, it’s most likely the 60 fps upgrade that’s noticeable currently.
Ratchet and Returnal could be mentioned as well. Visually and and with such a fast Gameplay Rift Apart is definitely Next Gen.

But as always it takes some time until the huge uplift in visuals and gameplay is noticeable on a new console gen, currently even more delayed due to the pandemic.

@uptownsoul Yeah I love PlayStation. Can’t wait for developers to be allowed to take full advantage of the PS5 hardware. I know we’ve had Demon’s Souls, R&C and Returnal but nothing really killer yet.

In my mind, I’m thinking 2023/24 before we start seeing any proper PS5 exclusive games.

We’ll probably have this cross gen thing going on for a few more years but let’s see what happens at the showcase.

@Shstrick Deathloop for sure, but they mention the PlayStation game studios as well!

@Shstrick OMG if they show Deathloop again I swear 🤣

Feel like I’m in a Deathloop of seeing this awful game again and again.

Yes! Uncharted: The Chronicles of Sully - you heard (my idle speculation) it here first!

Great! Here’s to some PS4 versions being cancelled and a more ambitious game rising from it.

But that only gives everyone a week to build up unrealistic expectations!

@Voltan Sigh. I dared to dream (and didn't read the entire blog post, obviously).

Thanks.

fingers crossed they enable SSD expanion and be able to create folders to better manage my game library.

@PSoneboi

Load times aren’t a big deal until you experience the PS5.

It’s literally my favorite thing about the console and it’s games.

@TheRedComet Spot on and the Framerate boost. Loved it on FF7 (more news on Part II please!) and Miles Morales is a technical leap forward from Spider-Man.

Unlike some would love a remake of MGS and Silent Hill and hoping we get some news on what Bend and Naughty Dog are working on.

Hope it's a good show!

So it turns out us people who thought Sony might actually show us something this year were not deluded after all 😅... does that mean the people calling us deluded were the actual deluded ones though... how 'bout that! 🤷‍♂️

@nessisonett "at least I can actually leave the house for this one!"

We're 20 months into 2020, don't jinx it. 😉

Ha, had a feeling we'd hear something soon. Exciting! Don't really mind what's shown to be honest, just looking forward to some surprises.

Some surprise patches,, love a good patch

Am I the only one expecting the Bluepoint accusition announcement and a Kena trailer also in this showcase? Maybe a Ember Lab acquisition announcement too.

@hypnotoad PSVR2 is the one thing they stated wouldn't show.

@TheRedComet I've been playing a lot of the Lego games and they have horrible load times so I am sure when I finally get to experience it will be nice, but just not $400 nice at the moment lol. I do plan on getting one but they are just too hard to get right now and I'd rather spend the money on other things since most of the games I want are on PS4 as well. Now if the same games somehow looked way better on PS5 then I'd have to consider it. Maybe if they showed Horizon 2 side by side with the PS4/PS5 and you could see drastic differences with the PS5 I'd be sold. As a kid I bought every upgrade and was always left feeling like it wasn't worth it. So this gen I decided to wait a bit until I could really see a reason to move on. I am sure 2022 will have something to convince me.

Am I the only one that wants Sucker Punch or someone to announce a new Infamous game on PS5 hardware? Second Son wasn't great but it was good and I feel like it's about time we get a new one. First Light with Fetch was a awesome setup for a potential female protagonist for a Infamous game.

As someone who gets hyped up over every Nintendo Direct only to be left a bit disappointed, I am super hyped for this!!!

Yes amazing news.lets go sony.god of war new trailer.resistance trilogy remake.sly Cooper remake.give me a parasite eves and a syphon filter remake.dragon dogma 2.max payne 4.horizon zero dawn new gameplay.about new studios.level 5.bluepoint games.kojima.make it happen.etc.word up son

Thank you! Playstation is about to save of from all these lackluster showcases in that happened in 2021😊😂(I kid). I'd like to see what Guerrilla's other team is working on though I don't have any high expectation it will be shown. My expectations aren't too high for this one but I do expect a decent showcase at least.

About time! We need God of War, GT7, FFXVI and maybe some surprises. We know they are NOT coming out this year...and might even be late 2022 releases, but they should have enough to at least give us some information.

Hopefully they have some titles coming this year (like when they announced that Demons Souls was a launch title out of nowhere).

Only 40 minutes? I hope there’s a lot of smaller announcements and not just a focus on bigger titles.

After the Horizon upgrade news, i'm surprised they arent charging to watch the higher quality video streams

@koffing they confirmed no vr this time around , i think ps5 vr is going to get its own event dedicated to that.

@QBGaming12 im replaying infamous second son on ps5 it looks pretty nice with the 60 fps patch , i like it alot more this time around. i think its a pretty over looked game. i also would love a new infamous game though. even a full remake of the first infamous with second son graphics would be nice.

i'm excited to see whats to come.

@PSoneboi the irony of the TT guy saying that the R&C portals weren’t all that impressive wasn’t lost on me. I’ve been playing some Lego titles on my ps5 and the load times are still abysmal.

Not surprised after Push tantrum for nothing couple days ago. Always happen haha

Does this mean we can see the PS5 firmware SSD update next week as well? ¯(ツ)/¯

I hope they announce that they'll be charging me for next gen patches to games that I already own

@Lolwutz Oh God I forgot about that lol. Yeah I just cannot believe him after playing Lego Marvel 2 and getting a load screen twice before every level. I love the Lego games but they still check Lego Marvel Servers on every startup after this many years. Why this is still a thing baffles me and you have to spam X button to skip it.

'One thing we know won't be included is Sony's next-generation PSVR' THANK GOD FOR THAT!!! VR just bores me to death really(sorry VR fans) Just normal games is what I like + no need to make a note of it for me because it's all I will be thinking about for a week now

Can’t wait, I hope we get news on god of war 2 and gran turismo 7 single player portion

Oh, and maybe final fantasy 16 deep dive and release date too.

... And instead of all guesses you have written above we will be treated to some zoom conference for inclusivity in game development within Sony firts party studios. FOR TWO FREAKING HOURS. NON-STOP.
insert stupid smile here

Oooh noice as the kids say. I'll be tuning in for sure, PSVR2 will get it's own spotlight soon enough and I'll be ready for that. Not fussed what they show, just nice to get excited for future titles.

40 minutes of GT7 would be grand thanks 🤔

I have heard that 15 minutes is devoted to GTA5.

I swear, if we get 10-15 minutes dedicated to GTA5, Deathloop and Fortnite, I'm gonna lose my mind. This is going to be Sony's biggest event this year (so far maybe?) and I hope this one doesn't disappoint.

I do love how Sony have completely ripped off the Nintendo Direct approach - including Treehouse segments. 😂😂😂

On a serious note, I'm really hoping to see some concrete info on games due in the next 6 months and a complete shift away from PS4. I love my PS4 but really want some reasons to buy a PS5.

There’s going to be a reveal of a PS5 exclusive new IP by Fromsftware apparently

I'll just wait for the highlights on here or ign or elsewhere. I don't care for the jibber jabber.

@-Sigma-

I’m really hoping it’s Killzone. That franchise needs another chance.

@Lolwutz

I agree. To me the brilliance of the SSD for the portals was the complete absence of texture and asset pop in.

Had that game been released on PS4 I’m pretty sure there would be asset pop in.

Picking up some Depends from the store this weekend in anticipation of a God of War reveal… cause if it happens I’ll definitely shat myself. Hehe

@uptownsoul Missing in presence, I mean. Honestly I think the games they did put out lost a lot of "weight" without that PR presence. None of them landed with the same oomph as when they used to highlight stuff in the big shows.

Though I actually have somewhat ignored most of the games they've put out this year. Demon's Souls - I'm not a souls fan but I am curious enough I want to buy it, and I own all the other souls games, but not until it hits real sales because, well, I'm not a Souls fan. I do watch the sales for that. Bought Miles. Returnal is same as Souls, it's overpriced for what it is, and I truly hate roguelikes (Hades interested me for a couple hours, but that's it.), But it's unique enough I want to get it when it hits the right price. And R&C is the reason I wanted the console day 1. I'm not a sports game fan, but since it was on Game Pass I did spend a week or two playing MLB The Show. I wouldn't buy it, I don't buy sports games, but I did enjoy getting to try it out, so I count that among good memories from Sony this year. Even if I played on XB.

Other than HFW, GoW, and GT7 we don't have much we're looking forward to, yet, so hopefully this show makes that a lot more interesting.

@Luigia Totally agree, I loved Driveclub. I know it got alot of flack at launch but it was just a really fun racing game. I actually think it was slightly ahead of its time. The visuals were amazing pre-4K era. I can see a bit of Driveclub influence in DIRT 5 too, I think developer got absorbed into Codemasters. Forza seems to be the high benchmark ATM, let's hope GT7 is everything we hope it is.

I'm expecting a teaser for God of War Ragnarok.

No, it can't be. I have to be reading the title of the article wrong. Sony is having a major showcase that it hasn't had in far too long? Whhhhaaaaaaaat!?

In all seriousness, looking forward to it. Hopefully it's actually a good one given how rare these are (not counting game specific State of Plays).

GOW babyyyyy... give us something please Sony

A Surprise Studio Acquisition would be Atlus for me, I know it's a longshot but I would love to see it happen. They could still keep games coming to Nintendo and stuff but that would be so cool.

SSX Reboot
Just Cause 5 or 2 remake
GT7
GoW
Ffxvi

Something about the future of PS+/NOW/Crunchroll combination

Any of that would make me very happy.
Also, I'd like more info of Kena bridge of spirits.

@anoyonmus Nah, it’ll include those. They are PS5 games, hindered PS5 games, but still.

Let me mirror/ditto the "FINALLY!" sentiment. Don't do live events...fine. Don't do any events? Da hell?! It's hard to go from live events at E3, Gamescon, TGS, etc. to...nothing.

I'm sure it will be a well scripted and produced showcase. Hopefully it will be very light on CGI trailers and offer actual gameplay instead. Unfortunately, cringe and live gaffes will most likely not making appearances.

@QB1 your on the same page as me there. DIRT 5 is ace fun and I can tell some of the DriveClub influences.

I’ve just bought WRC 10 for PS5 and it’s ace!! More accessible than DIRT 2.0 and having Sega Rally vibes with the legacy modes and cars.

I just want a car game exclusive to PS5 to MAX OUT the 16Gb of GDDR6 RAM and blow the roof off the PS5

Can't wait to see what Bluebox show.

A proper roadmap for what the PS5 has in store over the next few years is pretty much all I wanted. Give me a reason to upgrade other than improved performance for games I already have access to and next-gen exclusive DLC.

Oh thank god! We can have a break from the "sony why aren't you saying anything?!!QQ" articles for a bit.

Oh man... i hope the rumored Wild Arms 6 gets confirmed. I want to go back to the wild west of JRPGs.

They’ll announce PS6 lol

@QBGaming12 NOPE. I don't think it can happen.

You see, Atlus is OWNED by Sega. And I personally do not want Sony to buy Atlus/Sega

@PSoneboi I definitely agree, except feel that you should add Ratchet & Clank to that:) it’s definitely a super awesome next gen experience. (And a lot more fun than Demons Souls to boot;)

@uptownsoul Again, I meant from a presence perspective. The company. The PR. Not the games.

I forgot about sack boy earlier. Did buy that. Shame sumo is tencent now

Okay. So this is my list of expectations and maybes from next week. Hopefully there will be more new stuff rather than just showing us more of Deathloop, Kena and games we have already seen.
I do not expect all of this to happen though but I expect some of this to happen:

• GT7
• Horizon
• Kena
• GoW
• GTA V Enhanced
• Stray
• Hogwarts
• Something about PS Plus / PS Now
• Something about Discord maybe?
• Something about SSD?
• Some new multiplayer game (Tlou maybe?)
• Some new IP from Naughty dog
• Some new IP from Santa Monica
• Third party ***** showings of Fortnite, Fifa, COD etc (hopefully not!!)

A while ago wasn’t there a story from someone of note saying Sony had a counter response to Gamepass in the works but it wasn’t ready for announcement yet? This would be the perfect time for that if that is the case.

Perhaps some kind of PS Now / PS+ / Netflix subscription do dar. The timing of the FF games PS Now announcements seems suspect to me but who knows.

Anyway, I have some high expectations for this one after numerous employees have said to get hyped for it. I think there will be some huge key announcements that we really were not expecting.

So pumped.

Can we finally, finally all agree that if the Silent Hill Sony produced game doesn't appear then it's not coming and doesn't exist!

@Ward_ting Yeah I think there's a possibility that Sony will reveal there answer to Game Pass maybe.

@pip_muzz I agree, there's no better time to announce it.

@Ward_ting I think it would be the right time too. They know that a lot of best PS5 generation games are still far away - the best of best will start to appear somewhere later in the generation.

So improving PS NOW would make a lot of sense right now.

I believe they have all necessary tools - PS Plus and Ps Now + streaming technology - they just need to create a new, modern and better concept for these services

I really just want to see GT, it's been ages since we've seen anything new. Should look even more amazing by now.

Shame about no VR2. You'd have thought they'd be starting to push it by now. Hope it doesn't mean they've hit problems.

Sony about to put the final nail in Micro$ofts coffin, fact.

@anoyonmus oh I know that but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a Persona announcement in this. Sony buying Sega or certain parts wouldn't be that bad in the future. Ryu Ga Gotoku and Atlus would be cool, especially if the head of Yakuza Studio leaves like the rumors say he is.

@uptownsoul I generally agree in terms of only the enthusiast niche paying attention to the big shows, etc. I've said here before that basically everyone here on this site isn't really Sony's market and the really don't actually care what we what. Sadly it sounds like even Nintendo is skipping TGS now, along with Sony. Those two are in lock step with each other these days. Ugh! It's not so much about whether these things are important to the enthusiasts, so much that the enthusiasts that used to be the primary customer now aren't even significant. (Edit: I shouldn't trust the tone of NL articles, apparently Nintendo never does TGS... That's a show I haven't really followed much, but it sounded like a change from the norm at first.)

Though I don't agree about Xbox being any less visible in the mainstream market. In the UK, probably, but in the US, Xbox is everywhere in the mass market's place, same as Sony. Heck everyone's PC start menu, even on enterprise servers, is an Xbox reminder.

@Majk_SVK PlayStation always market COD. I have no doubt they will show COD in the presentation

@SJBUK This is probably too optimistic but it could also mean they have enough to show about PSVR that it warrants a separate presentation a little later

@Voltan One can but hope! I
really should dig-out the VR this weekend and play Ultrawings again. VR2 flight games should look awesome!

@Neverwild If we get a a Legend of Dragoon remake or remaster i will go insane. 🤪

• ICO remake
• Legend of Dragoon
• Dark Cloud
• Twisted Metal World Tour
• Heavenly Sword
• Syphon Filter

And for thirdparty

• Dino Crisis
• Parasite Eve
• Breath of Fire
• Final Fantasy
• Legend of Legia

@Snake_V5 I rather see them annouce some brilliant new games.

i've seen a few stories that they are making a triple a developer based out of japan.

@uptownsoul Yeah, agreed on that one. Unfortunately.

@twitchtvpat
Yes. Mystic gives a good break down on his YouTube channel. It’s actually possible.

A lot of people asking for Final Fantasy XVI, but I would also like to see Final Fantasy Origins Stranger of Paradise to check if there have been any level of improvement since that ludicrous E3 trailer.

Jak & Dex reboot, Sly cooper, The getaway, motor storm reboot, Foke Lore , gta online ps5, and gta6 .