Social media does your head in sometimes, doesn't it? One innocent post can be enough to make people lose their minds and immediately spiral off into extreme speculation. And unfortunately, that's just starting to happen with PlayStation Japan's latest tweet, which features a teaser for something on the 23rd November.
The ten-second video shows the four PlayStation symbols, followed by a roughly-drawn crown. It's happening!
Sadly, nothing's happening. Or at least, nothing that will concern most of the people reading this article. The crown is a reference to respected Japanese band King Gnu, who posted the same teaser on their own account. Mystery solved!
It's assumed, then, that this will be some kind of Japanese-facing collaboration between PlayStation and King Gnu. It'll probably be cool — like one of those montage ads PlayStation Japan's so fond of doing — but it definitely ain't the surprise PlayStation showcase we've somehow seen people suggesting on social media.
We suppose that this is, once again, an example of Sony's much-criticised silence pushing people to completely jump the gun. Let's just hope that PlayStation has something to show on the first-party games front in the relatively near future.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com]
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Sony not announcing anything meaningful huh? Shocker
are you sure it's not for those awful LeBron James controllers?
Just give us f--king Knack 3.
'We suppose that this is, once again, an example of Sony's much-criticised silence pushing people to completely jump the gun. '
Are you really blaming Sony for people jumping to conclusions? The thing is very few people would be jumping to conclusions if the media didn't pick up on these tweets and disseminate them, so even if you haven't done it in this instance, which is commendable, it's the media in general who use Twitter and Reddit like some kind of news generator to create click based articles that are easily as much to blame as you say Sony are.
They teasing GTA6
@HotGoomba The Ps5 couldn't run Knack 3 even a 4090 would melt under its magnificence.
@KundaliniRising333 KundaliniRising taking pot shots at Sony again? Shocker
This article and everyone else jumping into conclusions, are all stupid as hell. 😂
@riceNpea Isn't this the old "wifebeater's defence"? Look what you made me do! All the bad things I say and do are because of you!
(PushSquare are obviously not wifebeaters, but I have to invoke Poe's Law here)
@BeerIsAwesome ha! Essentially, yes.
I don't need any announcement about AAA games.
I only care about the upcoming kids games on PS4 / PS5 that I can consider them to play.
I assumed King Gnu was going to be a clothing line, it’s a band of musicians so back to not knowing what king newt was I guess.
@riceNpea spot on mate. Sadly VG news is a 24/7 job nowadays with not enough actual news to support it most of the time, especially on a platform specific site.
Though I’d add a little in their defence that WE, the collective readers, are also part of the problem too. Would we really be happy with one or two articles a day, and none on slow news days/weeks?
And how does that then work as a profession? I don’t like it but also feel it’s rock and a hard place. They’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
@Tr3mm0r Why would Japan do that?
@themightyant true, sites are under pressure for rolling content to fill the day, I can appreciate that. However, what they mostly do is sensationalise the story to maximise its impact and attention exasperating the situation intentionally. To PushSquare's credit they didn't do it here, they did the opposite and ended the speculation. Probably the only example I can think of when a site has done that about a rumour, so kudos PS.
People really need to stop ripping off Basquiat.
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