Ghost of Yotei's State of Play Has Been Watched More Than Sony's Summer Showcase

Just goes to show how immensely popular Sony's single player games are. Looks highly likely the game is going to sell very very well.

Sony had a summer showcase?

As @UltimateOtaku91 above, but I also wonder if people are getting more disenchanted with their main SoP's, knowing that they are unlikely to include much content from Sony 1st party - and any Sony SP games included will likely be covered more in depth by these game dedicated SoP's (or you can just watch the trailer on it's own in a separate Youtube video).

Can’t freakin wait!

@Rich33 I think that hits the nail on the head. I’ve stopped watching any kind of showcase. I keep my expectations in check but still usually end up kinda disappointed. But that’s the name of the game these days. Games take longer than ever now. I just watch the separate trailers after. Time is limited so watching a livestream that you can’t fast forward makes no sense. My friends are the same.

@CrispyMango92
On occasion I watch them, other times I just read the summary here, then any specific individual videos I am interested in, but I certainly do not feel like Im missing out doing it like this - in fact sometimes the opposite as I can at least read here whether its SP first rather than get part of the way into a trailer before thinking 'oh it's Live Service / MP - not interested'.

This stat is a bit misleading as people tend not to watch the full showcase after the fact, they watch the individual videos for each game.

I'm still amazed they haven't done this single-game SoP format for most of their published games.

I never played iki island so I decided to boot it up and give it a try. I hadn't played Tsushima since a 100% play through during launch.

I'm actually blown away at how much worse it feels to play now. It's nothing like I remember it. It's insane how clunky the combat feels just 5 years later. The repetitive bird chasing acting as a crutch to completely negate their advertised exploration innovations, and man the mundane repetitive side actitivities and quests are even more a slog 2 hrs into iki than they were dozens into the base game. The systems and traversal in this game are so basic and undercooked.

At the time I considered Tsushima about a 7 or 8 with. An artistically exceptional work built upon a very generic open world Foundation. However, by today's standards if they double down with a very iterative sequel on their hands only implementing a few refinements, it is not going to be up to modern day standards in my opinion. Despite all the glazing that will occur from Sony stans. I'm actually genuinely skeptical on this being worth picking up during release based on this preview.

Was Iki Island considered worse than the base game?

I'll have to watch that interview they did recently just to see what else it is they're improving because man there is a lot of room for improvement when you set aside nostalgia

Would be nice if we got a great showcase before the end of this generation

@KundaliniRising333 That’s a nice story and all, but it doesn’t really mesh with reality, as perceived by other people. You see, it got released on PC only last year, and received a Metacritic score of 89 from 35 reviews(this is actually 5 higher than it’s original PS4 score) and it currently has a 93% positive Steam review score. So either all those people are wrong and it doesn’t hold up well at all, or you’re wrong and you just personally don’t get on with the game. That’s ok, some people just don’t like certain kinds of games, not every game will connect with everyone.

The combat is still excellent in 2025. It’s somewhat narrow in regards to mechanical complexity, but its execution is exquisite. The heft of the blows, the range of animations.

Not a fan of state of plays never have been since they introduced them

The sad thing was that the Summer State of Play is one of the better ones, but sadly the damage had already been done. I enjoyed the Summer State of Play, but I wasn’t excited for it when it was announced.

@SeaDaVie Doesn't mesh with reality? His opinion is just as real as any arbitrary score on a review aggregate site. Arguably even more so.

He brought up some actual, legitimate criticisms and questioned if the sequel will iterate enough to be worthwhile apropos said criticisms. And your response is: "well, those criticisms didn't seem to bother reviewers, so your opinion must be wrong." NO OPINIONS ARE WRONG. F***. If you want to defend the game, actually engage with his criticisms. Or just, like, accept that he doesn't like those things and move on with your day. Nobody cares about its metascore, and even its mild applicability to his claim that the game feels dated (even though I think you can argue it's been long enough since the PC release that the game could still have become dated since — but whatever) doesn't matter because it still feels dated to him and a stupid 2-digit number isn't going to make the game feel any less dated to him.

And heck, if you're only retort is his claim about combat, and all you can say is the gamefeel of it and animations are good, then yeah, you should be able to understand why someone might not have liked it. Because, to a lot of gamers, good combat doesn't just mean it feels satisfying and looks expensive. And you can disagree with that, but it shouldn't be difficult to empathize with such a position.

It's nice to see a lot of people are still interested with Ghost of Yotei considering some disgusting grifters spread their negative narrative for almost a year after Yotei got announced for the 1st time.

Anyway. I'm okay for dedicated SoP but i prefer the usual that showed multiple games.

@RoomWithaMoose he literally claimed the game is dated, which is veering strongly into objective territory. The majority of people who reviewed and played the game within the last 12 months do not appear to agree, by the publicly available metrics.

He's entitled to not like the game if he wants.

I would also point out that he went out of his way to preemptively criticise the opinions of others that don't agree with him using pretty poor language

Despite all the glazing that will occur from Sony stans

@SeaDaVie He literally said "in my opinion" between both those claims. He never said anything derogatory towards people that still like the game, just that Sony stans will praise the game regardless. Which they will.

And, besides that, I don't think one needs to specify they're talking about their opinion whenever expressing an opinion for it to be clear they're speaking for themselves. If he said something unambiguously imposing, then sure. But he didn't.

Honestly though, my biggest problem with your comment is that your first response was pulling out aggregate scores. Even if you're trying to objectively show that the game isn't considered dated, those scores don't even accomplish that. Maybe the reviews liked the dated mechanics, or thought other elements compensated for them (OP even said the game has exceptional art direction — maybe that just didn't matter as much to him as it would others). It's just never the way to prove anyone wrong, unless he flat out said: 'nobody even liked the game when it was released.' Otherwise, those scores are irrelevant.

@SeaDaVie the point of my post was to share my opinions on Iki, revisiting the game 5 years later. It's of course my personal take, and as I suggested I had a decent opinion of the game overall when it released and completed it to platinum.

However I do find it odd that I brought up specific points that I now find underbaked, repetitive, and clunky. Yet your response was merely that most liked it so my opinions are null. However, in reality I'm not sharing my thoughts to be reviewed for your personal validity. As all opinions are just that, and often differ. The comment I made about glazing is in reference to opinions I had then, and still hold now: that this game got a pass in terms of criticisms around it's very generic open world side missions/activities even for that time. Where as a Ubisoft game, that I'd argue does some of it better or at least with more polish or traversal ability, yet those game get hard criticisms for the very same things Tsushima does.

Either way I stand by how it feels playing right now, which is in all honesty surprising even to me, based on how I remembered it. I remembered the side activities being repetitive and a slog in the end, however I'm surprised how clunky the stealth, combat and traversal feel, alongside the bird chasing feeling far worse and hand holding than I remember.

That State of Play was really strong too. I think a lot of people ended up going to the trailers separately after though-- like the the Tokon one. As a result, some don't even know how much Sony played a part in stuff like that.

But no real bad news here. Promotion for everything. Hope the sales for Yotei get even crazier in Japan than Tsushima.

Bored of the people hinting that Playstation fans are praising this game just because it's a Sony made game. Explain how the PC player base also highly rate this game? 93 positive rating from non Sony fans debunks their ludicrous claims.

Im not pre ordering the second one bought the first was disssapointed thought it was just a generic open world game with boring side quest and repetitive the only unique thing it had was the wind blowing

@UltimateOtaku91 I mean, I'm not here to say only PlayStation fanboys are praising this game. However, I do think that anecdote as evidence of the game's universal praise is a little foolhardy.

For instance, there is DEFINITELY overlap between big PlayStation fans and PC gamers. And if stands to reason that PC gamers playing and praising the game are predominantly of that demographic. Whereas less PlayStation-ey PC gamers might mostly have ignored Ghosts, and hence didn't bother to play or rate it.

Which I'm not saying entirely dismantles your claim. I just don't think that's the irrefutable proof to the contrary or might sound like at first impression.

State of play, ghost deep dive and xbox direct stole the whole summer SGF was awful and my hopes for gamescom are really low so those 3 saved summer in terms of games showcase

Well sony players love sony 1st party games unless it's live service rubbish that is so what do you expect I bought my ps5 for games like ghost of yotei and other exclusives I think exclusives are really important in general still

I freaking love Sucker Punch. They wowed me with Second Son on my launch PS4 and it's been fun checking out their earlier inFAMOUS PS3 games too.

All power to them, honestly. Still making kickass single player action games and trying to move the genre forward. Nothing but praise and I can't say that about most publishers and developers.

I hope Yotei smashes it like inFAMOUS 2 did, and I'm almost certain it will.