Reaction: PlayStation Showcase 2021 Was Good, But Not Good Enough

What kind of article is this lol the show was great. The god of war comment is comical like yes it looks like god of war it just completely rebooted itself just one game ago what were you expecting?

good games, bad pacing

As someone who isn't into Star Wars at all and isn't super keen on superhero type games, you can imagine how that show felt for me in terms of new announcements, lol.

Well out of the big 3 sony had by far the better showcase, I think people went in with too high expectations. They needed to show off some kena Bridge of spirits instead of dishonoured 3 and showed what the days gone devs are up to and even show us some more horizon zero dawn

What more could you have wanted? Maybe a FF16 update or Persona 6 logo? This showcase was great. You just tend to whine at everything.

I think the games that were shown looked good. For the most part. I could understand the feeling that they’re holding back though, with that whole ‘20 games in development’ comment and us knowing about a scant handful.

@dark_knightmare2 a few writers on this site seem to enjoy s-hitting on Playstation quite a bit

Very well put. It was a great show while very laking at the same time...

This show was way better than Xbox e3 show just saying

I disagree. Outside of the “paid to be here” games, looking at you Tiny Tina, the show moved quick. Tons of big releases this year, next year, and the year after. Wolverine, Spider-Man, and KOTOR all big surprises.

You’re entitled to your opinion, but can’t understand what else you wanted. Thanks for the write-up.

I have to agree with this. On this website, I’m sure most will say it was better than Microsoft’s presser at E3. But I’d say it was about the same level. It’s hard for me to be too excited for my PS5 in the near term. And I still think MS has a bit of momentum ATM. But Sony will have it’s day…even if it’s a few years down the road.

Totally agree. The GoW comments on point. Yeh it looks good but, it's clearly a cross gen title. Santa Monica should have been bold and like Insomniac with Rift Apart brought us a PS5 only powerhouse.

Nothing really looked next generation. We are left hoping Insomniac can deliver again.

Where the hell exactly are Naughty Dog? A remaster? It's ok but, seriously.

It was OK, but nothing mind blowing. One thing is for certain Sony first party really aren't going for innovation. All the games will be good though I'm sure.

If it wasn't for Returnal this gen would have felt very stagnant. I'm not sure I'll get a better first party Sony game this gen personally.

Great article. At time I think the writers here give Sony too much of a pass but good to see Sammy realizes the company isn't above a little criticism. I didn't think this showcase was horrible by any means but I'd be lying if I said my expectations weren't higher.

To be fair, the stuff that did interest me has my hype meter turned up to the max. I was regretting at times being an early adopter of PS4 back in 2014 and even into 2015. That's hasn't been the case with PS5 so I give Sony credit for that.

Oh look another Sammy article b*tching and bemoaning Sony.

Dear Sammy... maybe you should write for pure xbox instead? Maybe the team in green is more your speed these days.

yup..its the same reaction every time , aint it ? ''not good but okay'' or something . personally im actually interested in some single-player games they shown

No big games this holiday season, no big titles releasing soon that justify the purchase of a PS5 beyond slightly better graphics and a fancy controller, very disappointing.

I agree Sammy, especially with the God of War footage looking like an expansion DLC, but we shall see I guess.

Only a few announcements got me excited, and all of them are years away from releasing.

They either showed things that are not coming out for several years (kotor, wolverine) or 3rd party things we already knew were coming out. There was almost nothing new, so what are we supposed to look forward to bewteen march 2022 and maybe mid-to-late 2023 that we already don't know about? We already knew about GoW and GT7 (no date still btw), uncharted is just going to be a port and another greedy paid upgrade, we knew about forspoken, we knew about guardians of the galaxy, spiderman was inevitable. What are we left with? Wolverine in 3 years' time at the very least? Is this it after a year of not saying anything but "sure we have a lot of first party games lined up"?

And of course we got the billionth trailer for Deathloop, a game that in a year will be on gamepass. What a garbage show

I was fantastic u loved it and i dont even own a PS5 yet but i cant wait to get my hands on one.

Agree with everything said.

The first 30 minutes were so underwhelming. I even checked my phone to see how much time was left - quite worried that this was it.

Luckily, the last 10 minutes saved what was a bit of a snooze fest honestly.

There must have been a collective sigh of disbelief when Deathloop started playing. Again. And GTA V.

Spider-Man 2 was the highlight but still years off. Wolverine looks great too but is it even in development yet? Or did they just cobble together a CGI trailer for the Showcase?

I lowered my expectations because I didn’t want to be let down but part of me still wanted Sony to hit it out of the park.

Swing and a miss sadly.

They need to do much better.

@fR_eeBritney of course there's absolutely nothing for wolverine, I assume it's coming even after spiderman 2. I love comics, and these 2 games were by FAR the best part for me, but one was inevitable and the other is years down the line.

Insomniac is truly carrying Sony.

In 40 Minutes they showed:
Knights of the Old Republic
Gran Turismo 7
Rainbow 6: Extraction
Project Eve
Forspoken
Wolverine
Spider-Man 2
Ghostwire Tokyo
Alan Wake
Vampire: Blood Hunt
Guardians of the Galaxy
Uncharted Remasters
God of War
And a few other games

Yet its still not good enough LOL. This website has become a bit of a joke. Every game but one or two will release by the end of 2022.

That doesn’t even include other games we already know about like:

Horizon
Call of Duty
Battlefield
Hogwarts: Legacy
Gollem
Kena
Sifu
And many more Im forgetting.

@AdamNovice yea the narrative that Sony is keeping quiet is getting tiresome...

Honestly it's like nothing is going to please him and others at this point.

@Flaming_Kaiser you don’t need a PS5. You can play (or may have already played) most of these games on the PS4 😉

@Waffles12415 but that list is mainly third party games... clearly Sony doesn't care about its fan base...🙄🙄🙄

That's the narrative being spun... along with "the year of silence"...

In 40 Minutes they showed:
Knights of the Old Republic - A logo for a game maybe 3 years away.
Gran Turismo 7 - We knew about it
Rainbow 6: Extraction - We knew about it
Project Eve - Give you that one. ONE suprise so far.
Forspoken - We knew about it
Wolverine - A logo for a game maybe 3 years away.
Spider-Man 2 - We knew about it
Ghostwire Tokyo - We knew about it
Alan Wake - We knew about it.
Vampire: Blood Hunt - A FTP battle royale that will die in 2 months
Guardians of the Galaxy - We knew about it.
Uncharted Remasters - Old games. Only good news for PC users
God of War - We knew about it.

inb4 a whole bunch a people piss and moan about Push Square crapping on Sony again, but honestly, it does indeed feel like the PS5 is losing steam. Really starting to wonder when we'll get some more new IPs.

Not bad just lackluster
There was all the stuff you expect. God of War, uncharted, spider man was a surprise.
Everyone expected Alan wake.
Kotor was was a very pleasant surprise.
So yea lackluster

I went in with my expectations in check and overall it was about what I expected. Although Project Eve definitely helped the presentation as a whole that was by far the most impressive game of the show. The rest was a bit meh though.

GOW looks great but more so than Horizon the cross gen factor definitely showed but as long as they improve the enemy variety from the 1st game it will be fine.

I'm beginning to get more than a little concerned about all the Marvel stuff though. I really don't want the game industry to go the way of the movie industry where you can't blink before a new comic book thing is pooped out.

I'm still plenty happy though with how PS5's 1st year has gone and look forward to next year.

As someone who has been very critical of Sony and their business practices as of late, this was a killer showing. Next time keep your expectations in check

If you don’t like the site then maybe don’t visit it and comment on the posts. You all come here for the news and the writers get opinions especially on their expertise. I was hoping for something more with the presentation. I dropped Sony after the PS4. Nothing on PS+, PS Now or VR. I don’t like remakes. I already played KOTOR when I was a preteen and Alan Wake when I was a late teen. I’m also not a fan of comic book movies/games. Ghostwire, Deathloop and that animal transferring game were the highlights. Project Eve looked great but I don’t know those developers. That genre has strong developers that I lean towards. Was hoping for some announcements for this year. They didn’t do E3 or Gamescom. I’m still not sold on why I would get a PS5. I know why I bought my switch and my Xbox. Was hoping Sony could offer a rebuttal but I guess I’m just content.

It was okay to me.

The only thing that really got me hyped was Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine. Well and Gran Turismo.

Everything else, I just wasn’t that interested in. I’m probably one of five people who weren’t absolutely blown away by God of War 2018. So Ragnarok isn’t a game I’m getting until it has a price drop. I got GOW in mid 2019 and never beat it. I got tired of it roughly a quarter of the way through.

@get2sammyb Agree with your points, and that's the one and done showcase for the year. Sigh.
At least the front end of next year is looking ok.

I'm between "good" and "very good". The ending was amazing. Wolverine?!! C'mon, incredible. Spidey 2 looked epic. GoW 2 as well. GT7, okay sure. KOTOR seems like a maybe (never really was into the original). And I'll probably play Forspoken.

However, the remainder (and the large portion) of the show was a total dud.

On no a writer on this site has aired their opinion how dare they !!!!!!! Lmfao

I agree with the article it all seems like anti climax especially with the very very long wait
Yeh a spiderman game even Stevie wonder saw that one coming , ok wolverine was a suprise but it's not like it's coming out anytime soon and to be honest even when they do say a game is coming out lately ( virus fault or otherwise) shove on some delays and by the time it does come out its either what have we waited so long or other games have overtaken all the excitement we had for them

It was alright, nothing spectacular though. GT looks great, but nothing else really wowed me. GOW looks exactly as I expected, & I like the idea of a Wolverine game. But yeah, overall nothing mindblowing, just decent.

Totally agree with this article. GOW in particular looked like DLC at best. I was taken back out how much it looked literally the same in almost all aspects as the original. Also GT7 looked just ok, for a game as long as in development as its been the track and environments look like early PS4 quality at best.

Considering its clear now that Sony is still focusing on cross gen, i can't help but feel duped by the promises and hype Sony shelled out prior to the PS5 release, its becoming very clear now, that these games are absolutely not pushing boundaries in order to be playable on last gen machines.

This was less than good enough to win back confidence in Sony for those capable of objective thought.

We all have to get used to shows containing less games and reshowing stuff we already know about.

There are less games being produced these days and we are having to wait longer for the big hitters. It’s just the way it is with big budget games and smaller companies being shut down or bought out.

Sony would do well to show smaller games though and indies and have more regular showcases, I’d imagine.

I’ve been disappointed by the show, but it surely wasn’t for me. I’m not a fan of GoW. Also, I don’t play superhero games. I’ve expected more Japanese/Anime stuff like Persona 6, Final Fantasy, a Tales of remaster, etc.. It’s a bit hard to see PlayStation really becoming more and more an American/western brand for a fan of anime'ish games.

@CapitanF There were videos for Project Eve doing the rounds last year (check on YouTube) so that wasn't even a suprise.

@4kgk2 “ This show was way better than Xbox e3 show just saying”

I thought both shows were great. Xbox has some great offerings, as well. Tremendous variety if you own both systems.

@get2sammyb don’t worry about the haters.

I personally don’t agree with your opinion, but I can see where you are coming from. You literally live and breathe PlayStation so you want them to give you more, it’s understandable.

As a wise man once said, we wouldn’t moan so passionately if we didn’t care so strongly (I just made that up but I think it rings true).

@get2sammyb completely agree with your thoughts and share them.

@get2sammyb so whats great?
botw2 that looks botw?
halo infinite that looks last gen?
starfield with cinematic trailer?
tes6 on 2026?

This article kind of reads as "Sony should have shown absolutely everything its working on" because your nervous we might not hear from them in a while...even though Tokyo games show is at the end of this month.

2022 is already a packed year with Horzion GT 7 forespoken and possibley GOW all being released Sony cant show a whole bunch of new games there other studios are working on when these "big hitters" are not even released yet.

I agree with the God of War Ragnarok assessment. It does look eerily similar to the 2018 game from what we saw. Not at all what I'd expect from a big, mainline sequel. Although perhaps we just need to see more of it.

Horizon Forbidden West, comparatively, has several improvements to it, both mechanically and presentation-wise, that are going to differentiate it from its predecessor.

And yeah, the silence from Naughty Dog is... surprising.

@get2sammyb Appreciate the honest analysis. This sort of clear-headed, non-fanboyish writing is valuable to the gaming community as a whole.

Welp, now for the "hell to pay" as commenters lament Sony not being like old Sony and threaten to leave for greener pastures while spending every article re-threatening to leave again and again and again... All with the wonderful backdrop of PS5s constantly selling out and these same people questioning where can they find one.

@Kienda I think it would be great going forward if they released some kind of schedule before the show. That way, you can taper your expectations and decide if it’s worth watching in advance. It’s not like we didn’t know most of these games were coming anyway.

Looks title and thinks "Sammy wrote this didn't he? And i was right 😂😂😂

I don't know what people wants. We know what major ps games are comming next year, horizon and gow, and most likely ff 16 (it will be on pc too i know).

What i wanted woth this show is now what they will bring AFTER 2022 because we only knew about gow as the last in the line. So the show was not perfect by any means but i have what i wanted so i'm pretty happy.

I thought it was a good show. Not quite the knockout that people in the industry were hyping it up to be, but solid. Still, it's something that people (rightfully) criticized Microsoft for and Sony deserves to be too... Too many games that are years away, although they still showed several ones that will be great or have the potential to be (God of War, Forspoken, Project Eve, Tchia).

So, in the end, I'm still pleased. It doesn't change the fact that I consider myself lucky to have a PS5 given how hard it still is to get for some people. I am looking forward to more games for the PS5 than I was a day ago, so that's something too. Project Eve being the most intriguing so far, and a potential game of the show if that existed for showcases like this.

One question though? Where's the "updates from some of the studio teams featured in the Showcase" that we were supposed to "stick around after the presentation" for? I was actually looking forward to stuff like that almost as much as the showcase itself, since it was only 40 minutes and didn't really allow for any deep dives into anything.

The only games that grabbed my interest were Project Eve and Tchia. They looked new and fun. The rest of the showcase were games we've known about, seen before or played before. And why remaster the Uncharted games? The visuals are already great, what else can you change? I wasn't expecting much but was still underwhelmed. Plus with nearly every game telling me 2022, I think why show me now? Show me closer to release or give a set date. I'll forget about the games that get delayed.

I thought the show was decent. I couldn't believe they showed GTA5 and Deathloop again, but it is what it is. Plenty made up for it. I think Its a stronger lineup than anything the competition showed at E3.

They showed a lot of great stuff. A couple surprises even. It was good. But I just wasn't blown away by anything. Nothing got me super amped. God Of War looks fantastic, but kind of more of the same. But that's to be somewhat expected I have a PS5, and have been enjoying it, but I was kind of hoping to be like, wow, that looks so next generation and amazing. This isn't really a complaint because the games look good. I just kind of agree with the article that I was hoping for something that felt extra special.

@dark_knightmare2 yeah the show was pretty good. ALMOST as good as the Nintendo E3 Direct.

I had low expectations but was left whelmed.

I don’t care about remasters. I don’t get into weeb games. GTAV can die. The Insomniac news was nice, Forspoken was ok, and GoW was as expected.

Overall it was a 4/10. That last ten minutes can’t save the entire show for me.

Saw several comments equating GoW2 to DCL.

Maybe someone will FINALLY listen to what I've been saying since GoW released - when we're done playing GoW2 we're going to realize it was 1 long game.

Usually Sony is good at showmanship, and that is where they faltered here.

Objectively speaking, they had a really good lineup, but they didn't present it as such. I honestly felt like their first-party studios didn't have enough time to put together proper trailers so they crammed everything into 6 minutes.

And it's weird that TLOU Multiplayer didn't get shown.

@TripleKing333 I wasn't even surprised that Deathloop will be in there considering the game will SOON be coming out. And Playstation pretty much markets GTA like all the time.

It is a decent strong lineup but for the coming years. NOT THIS YEAR considering Sony has nothing for holiday season unlike Nintendo and Xbox. Yes there are plenty of exciting games but some of these games aren't even coming it in a few years and considering the COVID 19 pandemic, it is more possible that these dates WILL change again.

@Hypnotoad107 Yeah. Both Xbox and PS had a great showcase this year. Xbox have Starfield, Plague Tale 2, Stalker 2, Forza, Psychonauts 2 (already released), Hellblade 2, AoE 4, Outer Worlds 2, Contraband (teaser), Sable, Eiyuden Chronicle and Atomic Heart while PS have Ragnarok, Spiderman 2, Forspoken, Kotor, Wolverine and Project Eve.

@rjejr with that logic wouldn't every sequel to every game ever be considered as dlc? games cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop these days , its just silly to call the new game " dlc".

The showcase was great. If you honestly think it wasn't good enough then I think you're setting unrealistic expectations. I can't believe any gamer could watch what was just shown and say "it should've been better".

Or maybe you're just mad that The Last of Us: Brotherly Love wasn't a thing.

@BrainHacker horrizon far west? you know they have a lot more games then that right?

@twitchtvpat Oh yeah I forgot to mention that and I think Cory Barlog is working on a sci-fi game.

An MGS1 Remake and nothing else would have made for an amazing presentation. Guess I have to keep hoping...

@UltimateOtaku91 Eh disagreed, Nintendo's was the best (but wasn't even that great). Metroid Dread and BotW2 were better than anything shown here or by Xbox. The entire industry's underwhelmed this year and seems to be really hamstrung by COVID, so it's hard to really declare a "winner", but Nintendo showed me the most games I'm actually interested in playing.

For me to really buy into PS5, I'm looking for platformers and adventure games with a unique gameplay hook (this is why, as you can probably guess, my primary console is always a Nintendo console, but I buy Sony as a secondary console with a few of their IPs I like and some third parties that don't come to Nintendo). Some of Sony's previous IPs that have fit this for me were Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Gravity Rush, and Knack. None of those IPs have shown up yet and we haven't seen any new IPs that have a similar vibe.

Didn’t watch the show, but I watched some of the highlights afterwards. It was ok. I think everyone’s 2021 expectations are just still too high. I am looking forward to the Persona 25 celebration.

Glad I’m not alone. I thought it was mediocre at best.

I did like Forspoken, Uncharted Remastered (depending on if it's a free upgrade), and GT7. Ghostwire Tokyo looks interesting...

@BrainHacker i'm pretty excited to see what Cory is working on, you also have the 2nd party studios sony is teaming up with, Jade Raymond , the former bungie guys , and the former cod guys.

@twitchtvpat Yeah. We are still in the early life cycle of the next-gen. So I wasn't really expecting new IP's right away. I'm sure Xbox and PS will have more games in-store for us in the upcoming years.

@MidnightDragonDX and you just know if Sony didn't show/mention games like God of War,Spiderman2 etc, they would make posts like "oMg StilL No GoW GaMePlAy"

I love all the people whining about how Sony has no big AAA games this holiday and are praising Xbox that has two. Those are literally the first exclusive first party games they're releasing in the entire lifespan of their new console so far and they're not even exclusive to the new consoles. This holiday has enough big games coming and a ton more early next year. Ps5 has Horizon, GT7, Forspoken, and Ghostwire in the first 6 months alone of 2022 yet some insane people are saying "everything they showed is years away". Christ some of you will never be satisfied.

It was underwhelming.

That being said, I have hope that they have saved a lot of the so-called hybrid games for the inevitable PSVR2 showcase.

Feels like a retread of last years showcase. GT 7 was the only thing that really looked great, but that was well edited.

GTA looked like a nice game on the PS4 Pro but the PC version with all the RT & real city/vehicle mods still Lois way better.

God of War looks like more of the same…on a PS4 Pro.

Is current gen suffering from these decisions to release on previous gen? I also wonder if this is another reason for all these delays

@BrainHacker its a good time to be a gamer.

@twitchtvpat I'm not calling it DLC, I'm calling it the 2nd half of the game.

I didn't even think of DLC when I watched it today, it looked different enough to me, that city on the river, that giant lizard thing. But they went out of their way today to say all 9 world's would be open, and Thor is in it, so it's completing the first game.

In the future no one will play 1 without the other, they'll just consider it 2 parts of 1 game.

I'm mostly just glad it isn't 3 parts. 😉

Edit: Here's the first time I referred to GoW:R as the 2nd half of the game, not DLC, May 2018, nearly 2 1/2 years ago, and probably at least another 8 months to go with HFW in February.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/05/god_of_wars_first_boss_fight_was_originally_two_to_three_times_longer

But if they showed most of the games in development, people would roast the next showcase saying we already seen all this since that's all they'd have to show still. I only expected to see Deathloop, Horizon, God of War and Gran Turismo today, with a few indies but we got much more.

Considering how showcases have gone since the pandemic started, Sony by far has had the best one.

I just really hope people are finally getting back to normal. Now we see how truly disruptive Covid was for game developers who still seem to be struggling to catch back up. 2020 and 2021 is this odd lull where game development didn't cease but it got darn near close and we're still suffering the effects of it. Normally we'd have plenty of bangers on the way by now but it seems that devs and publishers are still finding their footing after the disaster that was 2020.

Comparing to what they presented in their previous shows this one was great l believe

I thought it was a good show.

I don’t think I agree that it wasn’t good enough. There were some genuinely surprise announcements such as the KOTOR remake and Wolverine. The games we expected like Gran Turismo 7 and God of War look amazing as thought they would.

I am personally bummed to see Naughty Dog’s only appearance be in the form of two remasters from PS4. Factions is still not ready to show yet? Feelsbadman.

@4kgk2 you need to be blind as hell to say that

This post is proof that gamers will never be happy.

In the next 12 months we are getting God of War, GT7, For spoken, Horizon 2 (plus others).

Spiderman 2 AND Wolverine got announced.

A remake of KOTOR came out of nowhere.

Yet, some people call it a disappointment? What did you guys want?

My ONE question is: what is BluePoint up to? 👀

Either way, 8/10 for me.

@Flaming_Kaiser Same here but with the way sony's going we can just continue playing on ps4 lol

I appreciate the Push Square perspective. PlayStation based site, but not afraid to offer opinions counter to brand affiliation. It beats the hell out of the lapdogs that are pure brand zombies.

Sony has failed in their communication strategy over the past year+, and this showcase did not change that. Of Sony's 13 studios, we learned that "Insom" are Gods among mortals, Santa Monica gave us gameplay of Ragnarok (Gameplay automatically beats any other company's CGI 2023 trailers), and we learned that Polyphony Digital needs to do better (The Forza brand releases yearly and has surpassed the Gran Turismo brand...with and without organs and orchestras).

Sure it wasn’t the greatest show. But compared to Nintendo and Xbox, it had far more games shown that I will play.

Nintendo only had Metroid and BotW2.
Xbox had… Stalker 2 at E3, and nothing from the HALO campaign (I’m not interested in multiplayer)
PlayStation has Wolverine, Spider-Man 2, God of War, Kotor, Forspoken

So I personally definitely highly disagree with above article. To me Sony delivered most.

Meanwhile my Switch is catching dust and my XSX is starving for good games.

I completely agree with you, Sammy. As I said in the Round-up article:

Great showcase. Not enough to justify staying silent for pretty much an entire year, but still not bad at all. What I'd like to know now is what is going to be released in the upcoming months until 2021 ends, kinda hoped we would get a surprise announcement given Sony's silence.

It was fantastic, what's to criticize? There was a ton shown, I don't even understand the complainant, they showed so much, I personally have a lot of hopes and dreams like Bloodborne 2 but that's been the case for many console gens of hoping for sequals to games that may or may not get one

I really hate when websites put a poll up asking how people like something before they pin their own thought maybe about it. It is ok to have an opinion that doesn’t match the majority. If this was written before the poll article, it should have been published before it.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Glad Sammy speaks his mind as always because I agree.
Sony had a good showing but none of this stuff drops for a while, some even years.
Meanwhile I have Metroid Dread, SMT V and Pokemon all before the end of the year on Switch.
All this event has done is confirmed, I don't need a PS5 till 2023 at the earliest.

It was so disappointing, most of the games showed here have the same freaking ''realistic-3rd-person-shooter-adventure-games'' formula. Heck, even the fewer PlayStation Studios games showed here look the same as well. I know Insomniac saved us with 2 games, but they still have the same realistic look and i won't be throwing money to Disney. Like, where's the variety?

They don't need to show Sly, Jak, or even LBP, show us at least more of the 25 PS5 games in development that don't have the same formula. Or make an entire showcase dedicated to PS Studios games.

Come on Sony. You can do better than this. I'm tired of these ultra-realistic games

The big meh, but I have a huge backlog to keep me warm this fall and winter.

I have a XSX & PS5 and — so far — Xbox is burning the midnight oil.

@Subsided My biggest problem with the showcase is that most of the games have the same hyper-realistic graphics. Like i want to see a colorful platformer, not some gritty adventure games where you have to shoot at monsters.

@CWill97 whining increases traffic. That's all there is to it.

To sum it up, it was basically "we have great stuff coming...eventually. Everything else is pushed back. Good night"

Pushsquare has lately turned into a kindergarten for fanboys who just can not tolerate anything but praise for everything Playstation. It's like they expect...nay...demand, that every article be 100% positive, lest they fetch the torches and pitchforks.

Edit - And I called the mediocrity of the show a good while before it went down (just to assert my superiority)

@Milt sly and jak aren't happening , people keep thinking it will , and you are just going to let your self down. the problem is people keep putting out these fake rumors and people seem to believe anything these days.

Going in I had hoped to see 6 first party releases that we would see over the next 2 years. With Wolverine and Spiderman both coming from the same studio and given they have just released R&C I don't think we will see them for 2 to 3.

Third party games are great but not what I hope for from a PS showcase. Time will tell but given PS talked of 20 titles in development I had hoped to see more PS content not just gaming content. Still, clearly going to be loads to play over the next two years and 1st party will come later in the generation.

@Bdbrady How about news regarding Naughty Dog's TLOU MP? And maybe a release date at least for GOW. And where is Sony Bend at, and so on.

@rjejr yes, very realistic that the boy (Atreus) would be older in the same game.

And you say that without even knowing the game's length or cost

I swear to God. Some people...

@TooBarFoo we will get more events like this

@BrettAwesome So, criticizing Sony is fine, but criticizing pushsquare is not and it makes you a Sony fanboy? Following your logic, would that make you a PushSquare fanboy?

Look I get it. You expected Sony to throw everything and the kitchen sink. You were wrong.
2022 is going to be packed. From the top of my heads Forspoken, GT7, HFW, GOW and more
(Although Elden Ring is still my more anticipated game)

I though the show was good though not exceptional.
Wolverine is the mind blowing announcement though in early development.
I was worried GOW would just be more of the same but I’m very happy it’s not Cory.
Better more complex plot, less cheesy dialogue , better more varied enemies (DID YOU SEE THE ENEMIES?)
Forspoken looks great despite cheesy dialogue
GT7 in March is great announcement.
Kotor remake.

(Main complain from me is WHERE IS TLOU2 MP??? Naughty Dogs should get the heat for the lack of at least a trailer or a decent update)

So yea it’s great line up but obviously not the typical good pacing entertaining smoke and mirror TV show Sammy likes.

I'm happy. GT7 dated. Now it can be officially delayed. The initial Porsche had the #23. So I'm calling March 2023!!

This article kinda wierd Sony gave us what wanted and more for next few years and I'm sure that's not everything too..I only wish they showed FF16 guessing that game is still way off

@torne "Dear Sammy... maybe you should write for pure xbox instead"
Are you serious? That's just stupid. What do you even know about this site and the writers ...?

@AdamNovice "Also this whole "year of silence " narrative you made for yourself is nonsense."

No it isn't!

@naruball whining is an effective strategy indeed.

@Shepherd_Tallon
Totally agree with you.
Facts are more important than smoke and mirrors and ‘pacing’.
Just like saying ‘Sony has been silent’ in the other article was completely false, I think Sammy is more interested in pointless smoke and mirror show off rather than looking at the facts.
I’m sorry I may come off wrong sometimes because I’m just too honest and little time to spend in the comments to walk on eggs shell.

I thought it was good. Insomniac are sonys jewel in the crown at the moment. I called out a fair while ago that I was disappointed that God of war sequel was cross gen but I'm sure its still going to be a good game. I'm worried naughty dogs game will be a last of us remastered with actors from the upcoming TV show. I thought we might get a tease from them of what they are up to.

@Korgon this is my biggest fear for Insomniac. They are clearly one of the most talented PS developers now. Let them work on some new IP and be creative as well as technically top notch.

It's a shame they didn't release the new PS5 update like after the show. Based on past update releases, I'd thought Wednesday would have been the day to get it.

boring, I have little interest in sequels and remakes even less interest in logos and cinematics

I agree with this article.

It is an aggressively "okay" showcase with only two real exclusive titles we have not particularly seen.

God of War 5 again looks like a dlc for 4 and honestly unappealing. They cannot be bothered to add another weapon even? 4 was already lacking in combat variety with the same 2 weapon. Tired of seeing that dumb axe, give Kratos more of his old weapons back if you can't be bothered for new ideas.

Wolverine, again Marvel fatigue. I don't really care for another solo Wolverine story. What would it be at this point? Alpha Force days? Vendetta with Sabretooth? Going to Japan/fighting Lady Deathstrike? Why not just make an X-Men game, would have more to work with.

Spider-Man 2 looks great and had the most potential of what was shown both narratively and gameplay wise. However that game was expected and not really a shocker to anyone, and 2023 is a while now and who wants to bet it is delayed? And Insomniac becoming a Marvel games studio is just going to make Ratchet games come out with bigger and bigger gaps, I am not asking for PS3 amounts of Ratchet titles but a new Ratchet every 5 years would be lame.

People in the comment sections unable to handle people's disappointment and fanboying over 10 seconds of rendered cutscenes without any sort of criticism is just sad. You are the consumer, Sony isn't going to reward you for defending them.

Most of the people complaining had way to high expectations. Yes I would have loved to see that MGS remake, sly Cooper, jak and Dexter , silent hill, etc. Gaming websites and those YouTube influencers are destroying gaming with the false rumors and overhyping content. It's no wonder people are disappointed because the bar is set so high no gaming company can match that. It should go back to the old days, without the false rumors and hype trains. The showing was good, but yes if you believed and hoped what was being promised by websites and YouTube then it was really bad.

If had the worst start to a gaming showcase I’ve ever seen. Truly awful. And aside a few nuggets, it never recovered.

I'm kind of amazed how many people are praising this. How many of the people praising it watched Feb 2013 PS4 reveal? E3 "this is how you share games/399.99" 2013? E3 2014 year of dreams? E3 2015? E3 2016?

This was supposed to be Sony's breakout showpiece recalling the significance of those events after a year of silence. And this was 10 minutes of playstation games and 32 minutes of advertisements for the rest of the industry. They opened with the weirdest video I've ever seen, making no sense, showed kotr remaster, ok, pretty cool, yet another remake but if any game deserves it it's that one. Then most of the rest of the show was third party multiplats, most of which we already saw from their own publishers months ago, a few timed exclusives (2 of which are ms owned now, but not Sony's fault)... Guardians of the Galaxy? Square showed us buckets of that in June already. It's even on freaking Switch. Why is that in a PlayStation showcase? It's just industry advertising. GTAV. Remaster or no it's literally an ad for a PS3 game. We saw more Forespoken, that's cool, I'm still not quite sold on that yet. We saw more death loop.. So... Yay? Finally saw more GT7 and GoW2. I'm fond of GoW, so I'm looking forward to the sequel, but why is there no outage of the fact that it looks identical to the last one like happened with Halo? Games going to be good, it'll be more GoW. But nothing about that screams to PS5. And then the video abruptly stops. Not even a "thank you for watching". And insomniac now just makes Disney licensed games. Joy! Forget infamous and awesome Sony IP, what we really want us is more Disney. Maybe media molecule is working on a Frozen game.

We know they have more timed exclusives or real exclusives. Kena, stray, xvi, ff7r2 are nowhere to be found here.

We were hoping to get a roadmap and a "were still here and back in top form" statement tonight, but what we got was small glimpses into the PS4 games we already knew about and industry ads for multiplat games. It's so very Nintendo. And that's not a good thing.

It's not that the shown games were bad, but they don't really represent playstation, they mostly just represent the whole industry like a self contained second e3.

Treat yourselves and rewatch the 2013, 14, 15, 16 events. THAT was the Playstation we knew.

This event reminds me of the Microsoft 2014, 2015, 2016 events. So blah I just looked to Sony to give me that dopamine shot later. This year it's the other way around. Bleach. I'm sure in a few years they'll get better. They're clearly doing a Nintendo and holding all their cards. It's still annoying and makes me just engage with other platforms until then.

It's ok we have endless Marvel now. Just like Hollywood. At least Sony has a vampire game to rival Microsoft's vampire game? Does this mean we're past zombies now? Is this progress? Maybe we can license pirates of the Caribbean, too. Oh wait, Microsoft already got that one.

No matter. My PS4 Pro Plus has a lovely backlog anyway.

In fairness to Sony, i think the narrative that they have been quiet this year is a little off base. We've had several State of Play's and VR/indie showcases - and now last night's show - on top of studio acquisitions- all during a time they are desperately trying to make enough stock to fulfil the huge demand for consoles, in the middle of a pandemic

Microsoft have been loud to the point of being obnoxious because they are trailing the market leader. They HAVE to shout from the rooftops- and despite that have little in the way of exclusives out there yet - whilst Playstation has had Rift Apart, Returnal and others.

Turning to last night, it was great. It was pure hype and some great games were shown. KOTOR as a PS timed exclusive? Didn't see that coming! Project Eve? Lovely surprise. Forspoken - looks great. God of War, brilliant! Insomniac? Just mental, mental studio. 2 great reveals.

Alan Wake? If people were not so desperate to leak stuff, that would have been a wonderful surprise.

Honestly the only downer i had on the show was GTA5. And that isnt on Sony. Rockstar are pathetic at this point and a hollow shell of their former greatness. And whilst Uncharted is always good - i love Lost Legacy - remasters rather than a new game was disappointing

The other thing to think about is how much anticipation and hype there is for the next show. Sony left alot unsaid - likely for good reason. The pandemic has affected everyone's pipeline. But just imagine the next showcase if it contained the rumoured reveals of factions 2 Guerrilla's multiplayer game, reveals from firewalk and firesprite studios, silent hill, metal gear, whatever pixelopus are working on. Final fantasy 16, final fantasy 7 remake 2. The next few years for Sony are going to be absolutely stacked. I for one cannot wait to see it unfold.

Sony's slate for the next year also looks strong:

Kena
Deathloop
Horizon
GT7
God of War Ragnorak
Forspoken
Little devil inside
Ghostwire Tokyo
Stray

And others i am surely forgetting

I agree with the article. The show was lacking. Nit just because you old have skipped all but the last 5 to 7 mins, but because nothing screamed next gen. You can tell all these games will be coming to PS4 as well. You can tell their being held back for sales.

@NEStalgia i do agree on the ending. It felt like something was due to be shown after God of War but had to be cut for one reason or another

I love Pushsquare, but this article kind of sounds like a spoiled brat wrote it. You do realize that like, oh, I don't know, we're in the middle of one of the worst pandemics in recorded history, right? It's a miracle any production studio can get anything out the door. All things considered, that was a spectacular showcase.

You come to these sites to get excited for games. I watched the showcase and saw tons of games that excite me only to come onto Push Square to be told its not exciting. Maybe its because its 2021 and today's gamer is someone who expects everything their way plus 1? This also isn't everything Sony has to offer as there are loads of things not included that we know are coming. People just need to have patience or they'll be forever miserable!

Generally I thought it was a good show, but beyond an unexpected Wolverine was missing the true heavy hitters. Also understand Sammy's take on GoW Ragnarok. What if Metal Gear 4 looked the same as 2&3? There is a generation jump between, which you couldn't tell between GoW and GoWR.

Haha, hand in your press credentials

@StonyKL Amen, dude. This article makes me depressed. Game aren't made by machines; there are real people behind these products sacrificing their blood, sweat, and tears to make them during a time when the world is a mess and I'm surprised games are getting made at all. I'm greatful that company's like Sony are really trying during these difficult times, but people are too spoiled to see that, I guess.

@Milt And I want the opposite but I've had enough of platformers, it's not the 90's anymore!

I rated the show 8/10 as I was disappointed there was nothing from Naughty Dog nor any Final Fantasy footage, either from XVI or 7 remake Part 2.

It's not even been out one whole year and there are still lots of games not shown like HFW and Stray that are coming next year.

@Shepherd_Tallon
I could not watch live but I was listening on my headphone some guy streaming it in the hope he would explain what’s going on. Was so annoying all his childish whining and overreaction most of the time haha
I watched later and thought ‘but… it’s great?’ Haha

I thought it was a good show overall. Insomniac making a Spiderman sequel and a Wolverine game is amazing!!! I like the look of Forspoken, Ghostwire, Project Eve and a few others. God of War is looking like having a very interesting story too.

The lack of any PS Plus/PS5 software update was disappointing as much as the lack of new surprise titles.

@Oz_Momotaro
Oh I didn’t love all of it. ND lack of update was disappointing. Every one is different and has different tastes. Games are different for everyone enjoying different types.
I do like fact and information (I also appreciated the post show) more that pointless show off so that’s my point of view.

@naruball
Nope. Criticising Pushsquare is fine. It's just odd how it only happens when they are critical of playstation.

@UltimateOtaku91 Deathloop seems to play totally differently to the Dishonoured games. For better or worse, it looks much more action-oriented and has some kind of time loop (roguelike?) thing going on.

@Oz_Momotaro
Sorry for second post.
I do agree that there was crazy speculation but what do you expect? Sony showing half a dozen teasers for games coming after 2023? Next year is already packed. Some of these crazy speculation may still be real but we all know what the reaction would be for so many ‘in early development’ teasers for games a few years off.

The first half was good, with forsaken and project EVE being the standouts, but the second half only had GR7 for me. Not really interested in more Spider-Man and god of war. Guess Wolverine is intriguing.
Then again, I know others who think the second half was better, so I guess it depends on your tastes.
Only thing lacking for me were VR games, but I guess that needs to be in a different reveal with the hardware.

Feel kinda the same. Lots of CGI trailers not showing the game, lots of remasters and remakes (KOTOR is great news but was literally just the announcement), God of War looks damn good but still feels last gen (actually there wasn't much at all in the way of showing off the PS5's power). GTAV is just shameful at this point. Project Eve looks like some silly B-movie kind of fun though.

Was all a bit meh for me, not a Marvel fan and Ragnarok looks like an expansion to GoW not a sequel. Nothing new shown whatsoever. Plus the graphics didn't look much. Not a patch on what Black Myth looks to be delivering. Forspoken looks ok.

The show could be a lot better if sony drop some of the games, definitely drop deathloop, gta v remaster, and tiny tina, and make the shows 20-30 minutes instead of 40 minutes. And add gameplay for spider-man 2 and wolverine.

really good to see a date on GT7, which inevitably means we will see it Q4 2022. Also GOW was great.

Mst bizzarre imho was that exhaustively long sequence at the start with the woman fighting robots or something - very niche audience for that sort of thing (overly sexualised characters) I would have thought.

I was very disappointed. I hoped in at least some surprise. I was little surprised of KOTOR but who knows when we will ger it. And i am oversatiated of Spiderman and comic book games. Where is new inFamous, Metal gear remake or silent hill? And i don't want to describe how i am consternated of another pc release instead of new games. PlayStation is really playing safe here. Like a lot

@Big_Hat_Logan calm down, this isn't Xbox.

• Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic Remake - CGI, probably isn't in production yet.
• Project EVE - gameplay and in-game cutscenes
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - gameplay
• Forspoken - gameplay and in-game cutscenes
• Rainbow Six Extraction - a mix of CGI and gameplay
• Alan Wake Remastered - gameplay and in-game cutscenes (meh in term of efforts)
• GTA V Enhanced and Expanded - another meh but gameplay and in-game cutscenes
• Ghostwire: Tokyo - gameplay
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - mix of gameplay and in-game cutscenes
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt - gameplay
• Deathloop - gameplay, waste of space as we've already seen it not long ago
• Kid A/Amnesiac - something, I don't know WTF this is
• Tchia - gameplay
• Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection - mostly edited gameplay and cutscenes
• Wolverine - CGI
• Gran Turismo 7 - mix of CGI and gameplay
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - CGI
• God of War Ragnarok - gameplay and in-game cutscenes

So 4 CGI in total out of 18. A lot better than Xbox. I think people are undermining the extent PlayStation went to show gameplay for the games. Yes, we knew about most of these, but we didn't know how they'd play. Now we do. I'm starting to think that people whine about the lack of gameplay just for the sake of whining, they don't actually care, but that's me being cynical.

I also think some are disappointed because they wanted to jerk off to some PS3 games reboots and the wild rumors mill. I agree, however, that none of what PlayStation or Xbox showed wowed. The effects of last-generation are very apparent and are holding the games back. Makes me worried about the future of multiplatforms with the totally unneeded and gimped Xbox Series S.

There is something really wrong with this article (I'm saying this with all due respect as a fan and regular reader of your content).
Personally, I went in with very high expectations, too high. Still, show was a B for me, which is on par with Nintendos showing in my book (Team green getting a C).
Pacing might have been a bit bad, starting with boring content through first half that seems like it had to be in there due to contractual obligations, but man did it open up after that. Games like Forspoken, Project Eve, Ghostwire, GT7, Uncharted 4 remaster, God Of War: Ragnarok and anything Insomniac Games wants to touch or work on (I'm calling it here, they'll be shaping MGU, Marvel Gaming Universe).. these were amazing. I don't think one can objectively dispute that.
Especially GOW, it's a sequel to a rebooted game that ended on a cliffhanger, it should be similar and continuation (ending?) of this story! It's the whole bloody point.

@dark_knightmare2

The article was accurate. Open your eyes. They showed 80% third party multiplatform games and three 1-year timed exclusives. Every single game shown except for Wolverine has already been confirmed to be in development and has already had trailers shown in the past except for GOW & Spiderman.

I’ve also given up on Sony actually stepping up and taking a bold chance at competing with RPG’s. They continue to take the easy way out by developing action adventure titles. Simplistic at best.

This show was a major disappointment.

Huh, I thought it was pretty good! I know a lot of the games we already knew of in some context (personally I'll never get tired of seeing Deathloop trailers, it's stylish as flip!) but I feel like most expanded on what we know about them nicely.

All the stuff I wasn't excited for was because it wasn't really my kind of game (Space Clancy, Gran Turismo, Star Wars), but it all looked decent. I guess the only thing I'd have personally liked to have seen was maybe more bright and family friendly stuff. I'm not going to ask for another Ratchet & Clank so soon but I would have been nice to have more than just Tchia in that vein. I swear Sony used to have a lot more of that and it's mostly been dropped for older audiences, which is fine I like them too but Sackboy, Astrobot and Ratchet just show how well they can do those games as well!

@CapitanF
So you want not just new games, but new games that will release soon, and that you haven’t heard about?

Are you also one of these people who complain that Sony have been “silent”?

Because the idea of both wanting games you don’t know about, releasing soon, and Sony giving more announcements, are clearly incompatible ideas.

Yet if Sony tells us about games too often they are also criticised.

I swear, if some people don’t have new games announced every couple of months, due to be release within a couple of months, which they could never have anticipated, then they are simply not happy.

The show was great but it was a few games light and next year still looks short… as does the end of this year… (and so has the rest of the year) A few of these are a good few years off. Xbox looks stacked in comparison although 90% will be GAAS model and not solo player games. I do think Sony are three games light next year and one game light this year at this point 2023 needs to be a bumper year. The issue being they won’t flood a year to make up for it so the first two years and a bit of ps5 are a big disappointment in terms of games

They weren't 'ready' to show Insomniac games, they are years away! The way I saw it was it was a sign of confidence in the studio i.e. 'we can show it now because we know Insomniac will not disappoint'. Where does this leave the others? My main complaint was almost total lack of game variety. Third person shooters and third person adventure games is all we got.

I enjoyed the show - though it was solid rather than spectacular. I also would have liked to see more information about PS Studios games, but my take is a bit more positive than Sammy's.

The key thing is that I could see myself buying a lot of the games shown, which means a steady flow of gaming on my console. At this stage I'm very interested in:

Forspoken
Project Eve
Deathloop
GT7
Spider-Man 2
Wolverine
GOW: Ragnarok

I also don't really get the negativity in the comments around the God of War trailer...I personally was itching to get back into the impactful combat.

I didn't watch it, but the Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine announcements were huge! Those are the kind of things that get me excited over the idea of eventually owning a PS5.

I love it when they announce stuff that's coming in the future. It makes you feel like there's a great roadmap ahead for your new console.

This article and the upgrade question on Uncharted are in very poor taste. Come on Push XBOX.

It was a very good showing for all kind of gamers and it feels like Push is just trying to bash Sony the whole time. Give credit where its due and stop being B*tches all the time. its a Pro Sony site FFS.

I'm increasingly concerned at the anti-Sony bias this website shows in articles, and particularly from Sam. It's always justified with 'keeping Sony in check', which is great, but many on your Facebook comments and article comments can see the scales are tipping the other way - heavily. I've even seen several users comment that a sister site of yours is Microsoft-funded, which arguably shows a reason for the almost constant put-downs.

This site is great for news, but I'm slowly becoming disillusioned with it.

I can tell the voice acting on Forspoken is going to really annoy me! It just looks like an Infamous game set in the desert.

This was probably the best showcase they put together in a long time, if you ignore the cringey, post-show self pat on the back. The only thing I wish they would announce is some enhanced titles for the PS4 back catalog, like SoTC, Last Guardian, Unchartered Trilogy etc. Wishful thinking though eh?

What are you people talking about? If anything, this site usually has a pro-Sony "bias".
I couldn't be happier seeing this headline and reading Sammy's take on the show. You go mate!

When my thoughts align with Sammy's I feel good about my opinions.
This wasn't good enough! In fact, the majority of games is multiplatform and Uncharted is coming to PC (ugh). Those last 8 minutes were pure bliss, though!

I think this clearly shows that Push Square have lost their minds and I can longer consume their content.
If this is genuinely the thoughts of writers here then they are out of their tiny minds and have lost their enthusiasm for games.
I'll consume some proper journalism elsewhere.

I think the show was good, but there was also a lot missing people probably expected. We already know GoW and Spider-Man 2 are coming, so the only surprises for me were K.O.T.O.R. and Wolverine.
I kinda was expecting to see what the other studio's are working on, like Bend, Sucker Punch, Housemarque, Asobi or ND.

It was good , even though i was expecting some updates on ff16 , dq12 and ff7 part 2

What is this article? Y’all sounding like spoiled children at Christmas that get all the toys but still aren’t happy. Something has changed with Pushsquare, and it’s not for the better.

That God of War comment 😂😂

Very disappointed. I feel like console gaming is just becoming too homogenous for what I personally want out of the hobby, not enough actual variety. Third person narratives. Sometimes there’s a gun, maybe an axe, sometimes there’s magic, sometimes you’re a mutant, but it’s all just coats of paint on the same general experience. If that’s an experience you just can’t get enough of and you’re happy to relive it over and over and over again, then I can see why you’re stoked.

@Ultrasmiles there is always Tokyo Game Show in a couple of weeks to potentially see at least one of those (although i get the impression that DQ12 is some way off)

The only thing that sony does lately, is to convince me more and more not to buy a ps5 and shift to pc after 25 years on playstation.

I felt the showcase was ok. Pacing was fine though structure could've been a lot better, I feel some of the announcements from the last 10 minutes (Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection, GT7 release date, Wolverine, Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnarok) would've been better spread out across the showcase rather than all at the end. I think the main point which puts the showcase as ok rather than good is the silence prior to the event and the lack of variety in the announcements.

Sony treated this as the big showcase for the year much like how companies used E3 as the 1 big event for the year in the past but instead it felt like the kind of showcase that would be present if there had already been a major showcase in June.

@Oz_Momotaro I really want to play Demon Souls, Returnal, Rachet and Clank that want i want one. Faster loading times better FPS on older games is also a great bonus. Because i have enough i want to play and why not play it in the best way possible.

The kotor reveal alone made it for me.

@Cherip-the-Ripper At this point its probably the best/ only way because i cant get my hands on another console.

How on earth can you complain that what was shown was 'underwhelming' when the comparison points over the last couple of years (e3, Nintendo first direct's, Xbox conferences in particular) have been absolutely woeful. It's like the editors of this website have been insulated since the start for what to realistically expect from conferences.

I must say in general I am a little concerned with the direction of this website in general - this is another article that feeds into a totally unjustified skepticism and concern over the brand, as if the people that write on it and run it don't even want to be a part of the PS community. Instead, we see too much regurgitating of the gas lighting and fake concerns about the PS5 that are seeded from bad faith actors or out and out Microsoft shills with their constant FUD campaigns.

Out of all shown all I'd buy if it all came out tomorrow would be GT. Though I thought some of the in-game footage looked pretty flat in parts, need to see more of that. Nothing else had me on the edge of my seat, nothing I thought a PS4 Pro couldn't pull off. I haven't seen it all in 4K yet, though.

Coming from a base PS4 I'm happy enough at the moment, I've a lot of good enhanced PS4 games to play. After that, PSVR2 next year will keep me on PS. If PSVR2 falls flat, though, I'm starting to think PS5 may be the last console purchase. Family seems to spend more time on PC's than the PS5.

I thought it was great.

Basically sums up my feelings about the show. I expected Sony to at least have an ace for this holiday season but apparently they are handing it over to Xbox and Nintendo.

Wasn't a fan of CG-only trailers, ANOTHER Deathloop trailer or the Uncharted ps4 games remaster. I mean I will probably get Deathloop but did it really had to take up space if it releases next week?

I did like what I saw of Forsaken, Project Eve, Gran Turismo 7 (!), God of War: Ragnarok, Ghostwire Tokyo

Just to confirm, Holiday 2021 is going to be dry as hell, right?

@arsmolinarc Sony has handed nothing to MS/Ninty and numbers will continue to show that. Outside hardcore Sony communities, the reveal was very well received.

What exactly were people expecting that didn’t like the show?

@naruball Well I say that knowing the length and cost of the first game having played it, knowing 3 worlds were locked, Thor shows up for 3 seconds at the end and Odin I'm pretty sure was mentioned, as was the big guy.

How many parts is Final Fantasy 7R going to be when that is finally done? Are people going to consider that 1 long game or multiple games?

Ever watch movies? How many movies have they made 1 movie into 2 parts but we still all know it's really 1 movie despite the length and cost? Harry Potter Deathly Hollows, Twighlight 3, The 3 Hobbit movies are basically 1 movie, same for LOTR, The Hunger Games Mockingjay. I wouldn't count Infinty Wars and End Game, those are different enough to stand alone, you can easily watch 1 w/o the other. I've only ever watched End Game once, I've seen Infinty War several times, much more to my liking. Doesn't matter what happens in End Game, Thanos won. End Game is practically a What If, what if the Avengers discovered time travel.

Would you be OK calling it 1 long game if they had actually called it God of War part 1 and God of War part 2? B/c at that point it's really just semantics.

I'm willing to wait and see. If people wind up saying - "You don't need to to play God of War to play Ragnarok, they are 2 different games." then they are 2 different games. But if people start saying "Don't play Ragnarok without playing GoW first you'll be lost, and don't plan on playing GoW without making time for Ragnarok, it's really the 2nd half of the same game." then they are the same game. I'm fully expecting that scenario.

Are you kidding me ?

wtf is this stupid article, if you think this showcase wasn't good enough, then the problem is with you.

please delete this embarrassing article and consult with your editors next time you think on posting polarizing stupidity like this again.

spoiled man babies, pathetic

@stormyuk they just put out a game last year... triple A games take years, as you know

When you look at the numbers and the reactions, it really brings to light how out of touch with reality PushSquare really is.

*PS Showcase gets millions of views and lots of positive reaction from both casual and hardcore gamers *
PushSquare: "it's not good enough"

@dark_knightmare2 yeah this guy is crazy - the internet is in agreement that this won all the shows this year

Wow, curb your fanboyism my dudes, it is getting super ugly in here. No company should be above criticism. Personal attacks, insane conspiracy theories, internet tribalism, etc. Gross.

@naruball I'm talking about the dry-ass holiday season. The showcase overall was strong but no first party titles for the end of the year while Switch has Metroid Dread out in October, Shin Megami Tensei V (not first party but exclusive) and new Pokemon in November, Advance Wars in December. *****, even MS is releasing half of Halo Infinite in December and the new Forza on November. So yes, handing it over.

I have a lot of trust in Sony's teams but I was not expecting the rest of 2021 to be so bare but maybe some us got spoiled by the PS4 gen that seemed to have bangers for every season for a few years. That said the first half of next year is going to be insanely packed.

@CapitanF so just because you knew about the game its bad? Talk about spoiled. Let me guess now that we know about Wolverine, you don’t wanna see anything else about it since we know about it? What about Spider-Man 2? KOTOR, don’t care? Well why even tune into events then if you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment. We wanted updates on known games and a few surprises sprinkled in and we got EXACTLY that.

Wow, what a negative article.
Everyone has a different opinion about these shows of course but personally, I really enjoyed it - I thought there was a lot in there and the wolverine trailer was a great surprise.

No disrespect but is the staff at this site ever happy?

It was a great advertisement on why I still don't need a PS5 likely even in 2022. I guess whenever the next Spiderman Game comes out is when I'll need a PS5. A lot of the games were already shown prior and none interested me. Hoping someone got something out of it, cause I sure didn't. Really considering just playing more on PC and then grabbing up the PlayStation games when they come there since I already have a nice gaming PC. No reason to spend another $400+ on a machine that has nothing special going on. This would be the first PlayStation condole I didn't buy in my 40 years of gaming.

Still no FFXVI and Persona 6. Wasted time on Death Loop and GTAV. But I still think that this was a good showcase. Wolverine and Spider-Man 2 were the highlights of this show for me. Project Eve looks promising and I might finally try the KOTOR Remake that a lot of people have been hyping up for years

I agree, whilst it wasn't a bad presentation by any means, it left something to be desired and was a bit underwhelming for me. Would have been nice to hear about / see more PlayStation Studios original projects and games from different genres, rather than stuff we already knew about and an announcement of more Marvel games. Cool as Wolverine is as a character, and as great a job as Insomniac are bound to do bringing it to life, where are the first person shooters like Resistance, Killzone or some new shooter IP? Where are the heavily rumoured and desired remakes like MGS? What's going on with BluePoint? No news about the hinted at evolution of the PS+ service? What the hell have Naughty Dog been doing these last 18 months? And what stuff are Bend, Sucker Punch, etc working on? It's just a bit weird to me, there must be lots of interesting games being worked on by Sony and whilst they might not have had footage ready to show, it would have been nice to hear about some of it. Also, how many games are being launched in February and March next year?? Spread them out a little eh, no-one has the time or money to consume 6+ big AAA titles in a 4-6 week timespan!

@Amppari Who cares about pacing? Just put out good content?

I'm not a huge fan of the now formulaic Playstation exclusives of 3rd person open world action game with light RPG elements, so it didn't really move the needle for me. All a bit samey. Tchia looks cool though, gimme that.

Project Eve and Ghostwire Tokyo were the highlights for me. Forspoken looks to have some promise too.

Everything else was just bland or overexposed already.

Although that new game Deathloop came as a bolt from the blue. I'll be very interested to see more of that over the coming weeks. 🙂

Jesus..Debbie downer strikes again,the show was great ,what exactly did you want to see ? More gamepass?

@gamer_since_83 My assumption is they are focusing on things that are coming soon and stuff very far off. This gets people to buy the games (releases in the next six to nine months) and hyped to buy a PS5 (far off releases 2023-24). I guess GOW is an August/September release, but I have nothing to base that on other than it looked good and you don't want to compete with COD.

They could have announced Factions for Fall next year, Bend for 2023, Santa Monica's other IP with Cory B, but they will hold those for next years show. Focus on what is coming soon and hype far off.

Just my two cents.

@PSoneboi luckily you probably won't be able to get your hands on one till 2023 anyway

@bozz Liam and that shogun guy are fine,but Sammy is like the eeyore of push square

It was good, not great.
Ports
Non-Exculsives
Games with no release dates
And PS4 standard games

It's like watching a Nintendo Direct, just with lower graphics than PS4

@vapidwolf I don't even want to be that harsh, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that's fine but given the current circumstances of the industry and what was presented yesterday from both the high-profile titles as well as the smaller ones, I just don't know how someone could be disappointed to such a degree.

@vapidwolf This is a much sadder fact.

@fR_eeBritney Cant play Returnal and Demon Souls and Rachet and Clank so i really do need one.

I'm not interested in every single game shown but I thought the showcase was great. We can't have everything all the time. THis was a lot better than other recent ones from Sony IMO.

Now if we could get PS5 in stores, which admittedly is not 100% in Sony's control.

@Bdbrady What big releases did they show for this year though. That is why I underwhelmed. Pretty much everything they showed is either years away, or just not really interesting to me. I know covid has complicated production across the industry and release dates, but I was just hoping to see more stuff for the coming year.

I agree completely with this article. It was a great show, yet still felt like a lot was missing. The two new reveals were just very brief CG teasers, everything else we already knew about.

Sony has what? 16 studios? I was expecting to learn more about what some of these studios are working on. The only surprise was Wolverine.

@Waffles12415 If any other company stepped up to an e3 stage and talked only about things that you already knew about you'd be complaining too, but it's Sony so they get a pass right? It's not "we have heard of this before, so it's bad", it's "sony's first party release schedule was already barren before this and they clearly had nothing to show for the immediate future". Of course they are not going to announce 75 games out of the blue, but we know absolutely nothing of what's coming out after MARCH. Gow maybe? and that's it. We are looking forward to one game in the entire year after march. wow.

It's also funny that you use Wolverine as an example. The one game I think should not have been shown. Does nobody remember that streak of like 3 E3s where they showed Spiderman?

@thefourfoldroot What like nintendo did with metroid dread? Did that not happen? Not announcing anything coming after march is absolutely worrysome. I came out of this showcase without any clear idea of ANYTHING coming out a year from now. Absolutely nothing. Is GoW coming out by then? Who the hell knows! I'm not expecting that every single title showed is a new game, but come on. There was nothing if not what we were already expecting, and what we were NOT expecting is YEARS away. That's the problem: this showcase changes nothing. You came out of it with the exact same information you came into it, except for games that don't even have gameplay to show. The first party part was the only strong one, gow could have instead recieved a horizon style exclusive showcase and the other 2 marvel games were cgi pap.

@Old-Red returnal was hardly a system seller... R&C was by far the better received game.

@cherryghost41 we're in September already. Anything that's coming out in 2021 will have already been announced. Deathloop being the main game I'd imagine.

@RicebinBernacky they are obviously working on stuff , but why rush just to show something that isn't ready to show off yet?

I suppose you can't make everyone happy..... (this is such a tone deaf piece.)

@twitchtvpat Wolverine had nothing to show, and yet they still showed it.

I'm so torn.

There was some good stuff there. I'm hyped about Project Eve now, which wasn't really on my radar before.

And I loved Spider-Man and Miles Moralis, so while I'm worried that working on TWO games at once could affect the timing and quality, I'm hopeful that I'll enjoy them both. But we're talking a serious wait - Spider-Man 2 (2023, assuming that holds) and Wolverine (no release date at all - I'm guessing 2025 is the earliest we could hope for).

I don't get the hate on God of War Ragnarok. Yes, it looks similar to the last one - which is AWESOME, because the last one was enjoyable and looked good, and hopefully this one will be even more polished. Remember zero actual loading screens between levels/worlds in the last game? I'm looking forward to shorter elevator rides and tricks to hide the loading!

Personally, I hate Gran Turismo because I think car racing on a gaming console should be a GAME - I don't want "ultra realism" when I can't actually feel the acceleration pushing me back in my seat, or the momentum shift as wheels lose their grip, but I'm not going to hate on a trailer for a game I know has a lot of fans. It looks like they're going to do a great job for fans of that series, so good for them. Meh from me.

But pimping Deathloop, again? Sheesh. Give it a rest, Sony. Did y'all bet the company on that game? Sure feels like it.

And so much time spent on so many multiplatform titles...I was getting so discouraged. They totally should have sprinkled first-party reveals through, instead of saving them all for the end. Heck, open with Ragnarok and tease the interview at the end to keep fans watching!

No news about the PS5 itself - no comments on the storage, no comments on new firmware advances (folders, anybody, please? It's the PS4 all over again - I don't want to wait four years for folders AGAIN). The "news" was definitely light, and I only hope it's about keeping secrets and managing expectations, and not that this is all they got.

@RobN it was an event about games , they aren't going to make firmware announcements at an event like this.

@daveofduncan I did say personally and Ratchet and Clank wasn't exactly innovative. In my opinion Returnal is an exceptional game that I will continue to play throughout this generation. I was done with R&C after 25 hours and one playthrough. It simply doesn't compare in regards to gameplay depth.

I would bet that Returnal will still be spoken about in 5 years whereas R&C will barely be remembered.

@RicebinBernacky you'll have to be patient like every one else and wait for them to be announced

@CapitanF
So you admit they have games in the next 6 months, and games for 2023. So you’re apparently concerned about the last half of 2022 and maybe the first 6 months of 2023? You know there will be lots of 3rd party games right. Also, if the Gods smile down on us, PSVR2 and the first party games being supported for that. This was always said to be in a separate announcement.
Your complaints seem incredibly petty but I didn’t read things carefully as I was in work, so I might be wrong. Could you say, precisely, what would have made the show a success for you?

Underwhelming on the whole for me but with the odd exception.

@thefourfoldroot well, first: 2023 is an entire year. It's quite different to release something in February than to release in October (and you bet a game as big as Spidey 2 is not going to be early). But let's take 2023 out of the equation for the sake of discussion.

The show would have been a success if they at least showed one or two games that we hadn't seen before. Something new, something that's not necessarily huge, maybe on the scale of Gravity Rush, but that showed promise. My big problem is that all the new stuff were just logos. It's a hype tactic and nothing else. Jim Ryan started this very showcase saying something like "let's look at new games" and 99% of the show was simply not that. They not only set expectations with their silence, but they started this very presentation saying new games were to be announced. The announcements were a couple of names with no gameplay.

And on the topic of third parties: of course a lot will come out, but tell me that anything other than Eve or Forspoken packed a punch. Ghostwire still has no release date. Most their parties shown are multiplatform (hell, ghostwire and probably deathloop are even coming to game pass), third parties were not the main event and again, few surprises there.

Honestly Sammy I think this piece is pretty rude. It's fair to criticize a company for their business decisions but you imply that the developers themselves should feel ashamed.

Other Sony studios should feel embarrassed because Insomniac announced some games? Do you honestly think the developers of Ghost of Tsushima should feel embarrassed about this? Do you honestly think Naughty Dog employees should feel ashamed that people have their eyes on Insomniacs latest trailers?

You have a narrative in your head and you can't seem to see things any other way. For example, you've repeatedly stated this week that Sony has been silent for a year - this is simply not true! They've had numerous press events and shown hours of gameplay from games in development.

I can't imagine that a single person who works for a first-party developer agrees with your assessment on the state of their business. Your website has grown over the past year but that doesn't mean you are right about things. Honestly, you often come across as emotionally labile, or, more likely, that you'll print anything for clicks.

It's a bad look.

@CapitanF
You see, for me, they showed games coming soon, such as GR7 which I am massively hyped for, they showed games in the mid term like forsaken, which I’m now really interested having not been before, and games further out, like Wolverine which intrigues me.

You say that the new game announcements where not gameplay footage and they are far out. But of course! They are NEW game announcements, so they are furthest out. It would have been a success if these new games were nearer release is what you are basically saying. But everyone has loads to play so whatever 🤷‍♂️

And I saw new things that I didn’t know about. Sure they may have been shown elsewhere, but as someone who frequents gaming news sites daily, even I hadn’t seen Project Eve, and now I want it! We should understand that these events are all some people see. They get a link from a friend telling them to check some video out.

We already know there are other games coming out, like Stray for example. This isn’t an exhaustive list.

From what you have written you seem to have bought into some hype from the press. Not sure what you mean by Sony not saying anything fanning hype, they just weren’t listening as usual I'm sure.

And I don’t care if what they have shown is multiplatform. What difference does that make?

I must admit to being very disappointed they didn’t announce PSVR2 games and info, but they warned us of that in advance, so it wasn’t a surprise. They are coming.

@twitchtvpat It was billed as an event "About the future of PS5" - while that obviously could mean games, there's no reason to think it was limited to game trailers.

@thefourfoldroot You're wasting your time replying to him. He created his account 10 days ago and part of his first comment was "I'm glad I turned off auto renew on psplus, back to gamepass for me". Everything posted since then has been negative. There's clearly an agenda there and these type of contributions have been appearing more frequently of late.

On topic, I enjoyed the event. I don't care how long it takes, finding out there's a remake in development for one of the greatest rpg's ever made was a highlight for me. I had no knowledge of Project Eve and I thought it looked fantastic. Jury is still out on Forspoken but I'm definitely intrigued. Insomiac as always coming with the heat, I have full faith in them to do justice to Wolverine's back story and create something special. And then there's GOW. I don't know what all the bitching and moaning is about but I can't wait to play the continuation of that story. Nice little bonus from Corey Barlog afterwards as well saying that he's already began work on his next project.

I was happy overall and I'm looking forward to Horizon in February now.

This certainly is a take.

Not a good one, but a take.

Which is becoming par for the course on this site.

@cherryghost41 Well in the next six months we have: Death Loop, Horizon FW, and Grand Turismo. In the next nine months we have Forspoken and Ghost Wire which are spring 2022.

Five exclusive games from first person stealth/shooter, driving, to third person action/story.

"And insomniac now just makes Disney licensed games"

Yeah I don't like the way things are going, Marvel has the film and shows market flooded with their properties and now the game industry is following suit. I would trade Wolverine for a new Resistance any day.

@stormyuk I don't know what you were expecting from Naughty Dog. They literally just released a game last year so it will take another year or two for them to announce a new game.

Potential bias in the comments in favour of Sony. It was an average conference. Half filled with already announced games. Some of which will come to competitor platforms. Let's be honest folks, we can all feel it. The magic of Sony is under threat. We have been through this before with PS3. They're trying but I think it's all a bit late. God of war and GT clearly have been impacted by a commercial decision to harness the PS4 market. That's great and all from a commercial stand point but I was not feeling excited about God of war this time and GT just didn't grab be like Forza. I've enjoyed ratchet and clank but my PS is underutilized when compared to how my PS4 was rocking. I would've loved an announcement on Infamous, a full astro boy sequel, Unchartered with a new spin, wipeout and a Twisted Metal. Now that's leveraging your IP. I'm still unsure being GOW GT and Horizon how the 12 months will be fulfilled. 3 games a year is good not great. A game takes at most a month to complete. 6 top tier titles a year and I'm ecstatic. I know, people will reference third party releases but for goodness sake Sony's pitch is exclusives from their stable. I have to wonder if the budgets are not under pressure. They're drop feeding information, silent on a Gamepass response and totally non chalant about giving us visibility that is adequate enough to make up for mis steps in the PS5 to date. We have a system trapped in the shadow of the PS4 here. On the positive side from next year I am hopeful the PS5 games from that point in after God of War will leverage the power of the system if it even exists since 60fps at 4k is supposed to be next gen but I was under a misconception. Cerny proposed new design methodology for game world's that would harness the SSD. I'm not seeing that to the extent I think we all thought we would. Ratchet is a good example but it didn't really feel like a generational leap. Let's hope Forespoken a third party game can take care of that. They need someone who can interact with the gamers better at Sony and invest in ramping up titles as soon as possible without crunch. We are victims of commercial decisions here. To satisfy gaming appetite I will have to go look on the big green side to get my monthly new game fix where exclusives bring the experiences we are looking for.

^Another person talking about Xbox and gamepass who just joined the site. 😂

I love how you're questioning whether Horizon, GOW and GT are enough exclusives to release in a year, and yet Xbox hasn't released an exclusive yet this generation, 10 MONTHS and counting. Is that the experience you were looking for?

it was predictable for the most part. this is the result of a static AAA industry that is complacent on its sequels. other than wolverine, which nobody in their right mind predicted, sony is going to contiue to exploit its former IPs because that is how the industry operates. perhaps we were hoping for a fresh new IP from sony and that we did not get. maybe next year we will learn what nd and santa monica's second game is... until then, enjoy more sequels everyone!

I agree! Without bloodborne 2 every PlayStation showcase is a letdown!!!

I rate it 9/10 because Deathloop and Tom Clancy’s Quarantine Whatever were extremely overpromoted.

@Bolt_Strike I would have to say what Nintendo showed at E3 is a bit better than what Sony showed.

Yes, Sony showed more games BUT some of these games aren’t even coming out for a good long while. Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine I believe are targeted for 2023 and 2024 releases.

Meanwhile Metroid Dread is targeting a fall 2021 release and is actually releasing next month. Sony just announced projects only for those projects to come like years later. Nintendo goes silent for a real long time and then announces a big game and only releases in a few months.

@Intr1n5ic they haven’t yet. Well if you count Microsoft Flight Simulator as an exclusive for Xbox Series X and S and PC.

Xbox has Halo and Forza this year so we will wait and see. PlayStation so far had about 3 PS5 exclusives

@anoyonmus
The fact that Flight Simulator is being touted as an Xbox release speaks volumes to the Xbox lineup. Flight Sim has been around for ages, and it's not a game. It's what it says it is...a flight sim. It's the same sim I played 30+ years ago, with better graphics.

Halo is a mess currently. Release it, and we're looking at another CyberPunk. Fitting, considering the Xbox relation.

The Series X/S released almost a year ago. Literally NOTHING that justifies a purchase.

@lacerz true, but I would still buy one knowing that I wouldn't likely have to pay $70 for exclusives unlike a certain company. I would buy one for backwards compatibility and game pass. But I would also have to say that out of all of Sony's $70 exclusives, most aren't even worth the price and is not exactly justifiable for a PS5 purchase at all. just around 3 1st party games that are ONLY on PS5. Literally not enough for me to buy a PS5.

I would buy one once Spider Man 2 comes out.

I thought the games that were announced were pretty great even though it was a bit of a sting to realise I'll still be waiting a couple of years to play them....
What I was hoping to hear, however, was that they has sorted the supply issue for getting a PS5 in the first place. At this point getting closer and closer to Christmas (Wow already!) I know that it will be even harder to get one and am seriously considering paying the ridiculous prices online that scalpers are asking.
My GFs son has one and I still have a PS4.........

@Dam0_Insan0 Don't pay those scalpers. Its not worth owning yet. Sony overpromised and underdelivered on this machine. Wait until it's a worthwhile investment.

@anoyonmus
You don't need a Series S/X. Xbox One is all you need.

@KundaliniRising333
@Dam0_Insan0

As an owner of a PS5, I concur with this. AstroBot is great, but there isn't enough to warrant an upgrade. The reduced load times, extra pixels, Dual Sense support...all cool, but not a next gen requirement.

@lacerz nope, Series S

Don’t really wanna use Xcloud

@Old-Red i really feel bad for people ( PS5 owners), that are holding that massive machine and they don't have any games that scream "I CAN ONLY BE PLAYED ON THIS!" I mean there are a few but after almost going into a year of its shelf birth, it's a pretty sad state of affairs. If i had a ps5 I would be super pissed.. I see gamers on my friends list playing ps4 titles on their ps5s!! This is REALLY REALLY SAD!!

@MakersMark I wouldn't feel too bad for us, ha ha. We've had Demon's Souls, Astrobot, Returnal and Ratchet and Clank which have all been excellent games. I was hoping for more innovative new titles though.

The Switch/PS5 combo is working for me pretty well with a bunch of great Nintendo games to tide me over until some of the future PS5 games drop a bit in price. But, if I'm honest I think Sony are making some arrogant and downright greedy decisions going forward and it's putting me off wanting to support them now.

I thought the £70 pricing was to cover the lower customer base, lack of PS4 versions and would eventually come back to earth after a while, but it appears not. Now they've backtracked on PS5 exclusive games it's obvious that they want to charge us a premium to use the features of a £500 console we've already paid for at £10 for every game we buy. I'm not OK with this at all.

Stop whining!!! Jeez. It was a great showcase. The God of War critique is ridiculous. they just rebooted the entire franchise. Of course it's going to look somewhat similar.

There were great reveals and some awesome games coming.

@auditor01 Yes, I dislike the whining. Just enjoy or move on. It was a tad underwhelming, but Sony's first party studios have put out awesome content in 2021 and they have awesome stuff lined up for early 2022.

@MakersMark I'm PS4 games on my PS5. Most look or play better than they did on my PS4, so no great hardship!

Man, people on the site give an opinion on playstation events that isn't 100% positive and the fanboys come in rabid attack mode. I think this article is spot on for the most part, and fanboys need to undo the blindfold they put onto themselves for once and look clearly at things.

@CWill97 Yeah, I think it dragged a little, certainly would have been better with Stray or saving the horizon debut for this showcase, but then Pushsquare would say Sony is silent for too long. It's YEAR ONE of the PS5. Stop being harsh on the devs an expect practically each one of WWS to give you a high quality virtual slice before they are ready. GT7/GOWR/Horizon were clearly supposed to be one year debuts for PS5, which is why they are cross gen. To expect the same level of graphical jump is kinda absurd. Disappointed in you guys take, a more level-headed score of the conference is it was "great" but we want E3 2016 amazing". Not every year is going to be that, and I'm sure you guys who have actual contact with devs knows that.