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I think it'll solely come down to GTA6. Stuff like whether the game still releases this year, if Sony does a discounted hardware bundle, how far away the PC port is and whether the game comes to Switch 2.

Smyths hasn't increased the price yet (£400 for digital, £450 for disc, £690 for Pro, £200 for Portal). Figured I'd bring it up for those who still want to get it at the cheaper cost.

I'd imagine just like with FFVII Remake Part 3, they get Switch 2 players caught up on past entries and then reveal the new game.

I hope they don't make the same tone deaf decision they made last year regarding having the "one more thing" announcement be yet another CoD game. If CoD is present it should be just a random trailer in the middle.

@twitchtvpat The official statement from NoA is digital getting cheaper in May rather than physical getting more expensive. Whether this is actually what's happening or just PR spin, we'll have to wait and see.

@Americansamurai1 I'm also skeptical of this rumour but primarily because Dealabs is absent. Whenever true news about PS5 console pricing (increase, decrease, measures to avoid an increase) is inbound there's always a Dealabs report that Push Square does an article about.

No sign of a Dealabs report so I'm leaning towards the rumour being fake.

@Americansamurai1 Were they referring to calendar year or fiscal year? The current fiscal year for Sony ends on March 31st 2026 so if they meant fiscal year then a price increase announcement in April would still be accurate.

I'm guessing they add Shadow as a playable character considering Chaos Island was in Shadow Generations.

I think it'll come down to how much the Xbox Partner Preview reveals about June - September. If it becomes a lot more packed then I could see Wolverine being a standalone State of Play in April.

If however it's still very much a mystery, I think Sony will wait until the next GTA6 info update before doing another State of Play.

I think it's true, Capcom has been releasing some form of new content alongside Switch 2 ports of games already released on PS5. Path of the Goddess came with a free content update, Street Fighter 6 came with DLC, RE7+8 came the same day as RE9.

While I don't see them porting over Exoprimal, the other PS5 games seem realistic:

• MH Wilds
• RE2-4 remake
• Dragon's Dogma 2
• DMC5

It'll be interesting to see if they're still transparent about what platforms games are coming to.

Maybe it's a change to Sony Store, Sony Network, etc.?

This is the 3rd consecutive year where Microsoft has crammed loads of PS5 ports into a small timeframe.

2024

• February 22nd - Pentiment
• March 19th - Hi-Fi Rush
• April 16th - Grounded
• April 30th - Sea of Thieves

2025

• March 4th - Age of Mythology
• April 17th - Indiana Jones
• April 22nd - Oblivion
• April 29th - Forza Horizon 5
• May 6th - Age of Empires 2
• May 15th - DOOM The Dark Ages

The quicker the AI bubble bursts, the better.

It would be interesting to see what percentage of the people who have a Portal and PS+ Premium don't have a PS5.

Capcom generally reveals release dates 4-6 months before launch so if it releases this year, I think either a March/April event (like a Partner Showcase or State of Play) gives a July/August release date or it appears at SGF with an October release date.

I think it's about mouse mode. The Switch 2 version had some content locked behind the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode and I doubt Xbox minds having content locked behind keyboard + mouse because that's where the Xbox platform is headed.

@AverageGamer Apple is a digital only ecosystem meanwhile Sony and Nintendo have the safety net of physical games. I think if anything, the regulators trying to force Apple to allow 3rd party stores indirectly confirms PS6 will have some form of physical media.

I don't think so. If PS6 is releasing in 2027, they'd be sharing news in Spring 2026 anyway to inform their investors about the next fiscal year like what they did about PS5 news in April 2019.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/04/sony_has_just_revealed_the_ps5_not_launching_this_year

If PS6 isn't releasing in 2027, I don't see Sony saying anything to be honest. Just keeping up the PS5 focus and taking advantage of that Wolverine + GTA6 combo.

The tease could be about a Switch 2 port and amiibo. Capcom's supporting the system extremely well so I'd be really surprised the game doesn't come to Switch 2.

I wasn't planning on buying another Xbox anyway considering I only use my Series X for 1 game nowadays but this really doesn't look interesting. If I wanted a gaming PC, I'd buy a gaming PC.

I kind of wonder if GTA6 is breaking trends and releasing day 1 on PC considering the supposed console refocus pivots from both Sony and Microsoft happened around the same time. If people can buy on Steam, that means if they want to they can completely skip the PS/Xbox ecosystems.

@Max_the_German I get the feeling they'll massively price hike software and/or subscriptions using GTA6 as cover. It'll be like that time in 2021 when Xbox tried increasing Gold from $60 a year to $120 a year.

I really don't see PC players moving over to PS5 because of this. Seems it's more about preventing PS4/PS5 players from upgrading to PC instead of PS5/PS6.

It came to mind that the Mega Man DLC for Sonic Racing CrossWorlds might be here.

I think GTA6 news inbound very soon is the reason why Insomniac revealed Wolverine's release date last week.

The slowdown was noticeable post-TLoU 2 in April and with no sign of Astro Bot, it did seem like Sony was changing strategy.

Sony’s comments in February does make me think the new strategy is something like $90 base games and $100 a year PS+ Essential.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/02/sony-will-offset-soaring-ram-prices-by-further-monetising-ps5-players

@StitchJones @PuppetMaster I was thinking that Sony might be the publisher of a potential Switch 2 port like what happened with the Helldivers 2 Xbox port.

Death Stranding for Switch 2 perhaps?

@Jacko11 It could be that GTA6 news is inbound imminently (trailer 3 + preorders?), Sony randomly dropped Ghost of Yotei’s release date last year shortly before GTA6 was delayed to 2026.

Absolutely idiotic move by Hermen Hulst to shut down Bluepoint. Playstation has a gold mine of legacy games trapped on old hardware that is ripe for remaster/remake opportunities. You could've had Bluepoint working on those.

I'm not sure whether they'd make the handheld digital only or use a different storage medium like carts/UMD but the home console I think will have a disc drive at the least for PS4/PS5 backwards compatibility.

For me it's about the handling of remasters/remakes and pricing.

PS5 and more recently Switch 2 has shown that when new hardware arrives, last gen remasters/remakes get prioritized over prior generations. For example instead of Infamous remasters, PS5 got a Ghost of Tsushima remaster. Instead of a New Super Mario Bros. collection (DS/Wii/3DS), Switch 2 got a Super Mario Bros. Wonder remaster.

That starts all over again when the PS6 releases like you'll likely see TLoU 2 Remastered remaster. That's boring, it's much more exciting when options are running out and you have to delve deeper like how the PS5 God of War Trilogy Remake means God of War 1+2 are finally on the platform.

As for pricing, people here have already talked about at length how the RAM crisis will make the console itself really expensive but I think PS6 will also normalize $80 base games (Nintendo will take all the flack because they started it with Mario Kart World).

I think consoles should aim for around a 10 year lifespan like the ideal time to release PS5 would've been November 2022 (9 years).

This discussion of "Will Sony port [insert game] to Xbox?" will continue endlessly simply because of Helldivers 2 being brought to Xbox last year.

A good comparison is how Banjo coming to Smash Ultimate and Ori being released on Switch in 2019 resulted in a lot of discussion about whether Halo was coming to Switch and Master Chief being a playable fighter in Smash Ultimate.

This was one of the best PS events of the PS5 era, they did an amazing job with both announcements and pacing. Most excited about MGS Master Collection Vol. 2.

It'll be interesting to see if they can follow it up with the already teased Spring PS event.

I wonder if they count remakes as new titles? If so Persona 4 Revival is for sure one of the 4.

@RoomWithaMoose There was a PC demo in June 2025 and a Switch demo in August 2025. PS5 didn't get that demo.

Couldn't it mean different things like for example:

• Massive announcement for beloved saga - Gears of War E-Day coming day 1 to PS5
• Shadow drop - Fairgame$ beta

I think the next news will be in the usual late May/early June Sony event. Gives Rockstar time to decide whether GTA6 needs to be delayed again (the delay announcements happened in May/November) and then once that's decided, it's safe to announce Wolverine's release date.

@somnambulance I got the impression it was a repeat of the Metroid Prime Federation Force situation. Co-op multiplayer game gets announced for franchise known for epic single player experiences at a time when the last single player game was around 5 years ago (4 in the case of Horizon) and the future of single player is completely unknown.

I'm predicting the 2026 Sonic game is announced here. Generations reveal (January 2024) and CrossWorlds gameplay debut (February 2025) were both early in the year State of Play announcements.

@Bez87 We already know what Bluepoint and Bend were doing, live service games that got cancelled in 2025.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/01/sony-cancels-bluepoint-bend-studio-ps5-games-one-being-a-live-service-god-of-war-title

Interesting about the length, either this means there's a lot of announcements or there's some lengthy segments like the 10 minute Marvel Tokon one in June 2025.

@Lysterao I think they'll prioritize CoD for October so that leaves Fable in September and Gears in July/August if they stay on track for 2026.

@LogicStrikesAgain I thought you were saying 3rd party only SoP was impossible because of the past and I was just pointing out that 3rd party only SoP has happened in the past.

@LogicStrikesAgain There's been some 3rd party only State of Plays like August 2020 and October 2021.

@LogicStrikesAgain They did say back in September that Wolverine was being shown off in Spring so it might be February is a 3rd party only State of Play followed by April/May having a big Playstation Showcase.

@Max_the_German Maybe Sony's expecting GTA6 to cause PS5 console shortages? A warning to buy now because you may not be able to this holiday.

Maybe the February State of Play reveals native PS3 games?