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@Lysterao The last showcase was May 2023. The live service focused one where they announced Fairgame$, Helldivers 2, Concord, Marathon and Destiny 2 Final Shape.

I think Nintendo or Sony will announce it in a February event.

I think it’s going to be in the next Direct like how Lost Crown was in the September 2023 one. With Switch 1 support seemingly rather limited in 2026, a reminder this game exists would be a way to help show that the platform is not yet being abandoned.

@lordzand I doubt it’s this but if Sony made a new rewards program where you got PSN credit for obtaining platinum trophies, people would be able to profit off buying these easy platinums.

@Oram77 I figure Starfield in March/April and then Fable in June.

@LogicStrikesAgain I think Sony should’ve gone the other direction. Instead of making a more expensive tier (Premium), have there be a cheap $20 a year tier whose added games are just the PS1/PS2/PSP classics.

It’s interesting the pacing of Ridge Racer releases. They added the N64 game to NSO in January 2025, the release of the original Arcade game in June 2025 and now the PS1 game is coming to PS+ in January 2026.

New game incoming perhaps?

I think a lot of how Sony approaches this year will depend on whether they do move PS6 away from 2027. PS5 did get announced in April 2019 so if PS6 is coming in 2027 it would probably be announced in Spring 2026.

But if it is coming later, I could see them do a big PS showcase in May/June rather than usual SoP to take advantage of the GTA6 hype to help push PS5 more.

The trend for Persona releases since the Xbox/SEGA deal in September 2021 has been announce at Xbox events and be day 1 on Game Pass. So I think Persona 6 will be announced once the Xbox/SEGA deal is over. Maybe the deal ends in September 2026 (5 years) and then Persona 6 gets announced at State of Play or TGA for a 2027 release?

@OldGamer999 An important thing to take into consideration is whether people trust the current GTA6 release date. The more Rockstar delays the game, the less believable their set release dates are and that would have an effect on PS5 sales as the people who want a PS5 for GTA6 can just skip the console.

PS5 sales will get a massive boost whenever GTA6 has a stable release date.

This surely must be where they’re announcing Avowed for PS5?

@Ken_Kaniff Every Developer Direct so far has had games not present in the announcement image. 2023 had the Hi-Fi Rush shadow drop, 2024 had more info about Visions of Mana and 2025 had the combo of Ninja Gaiden 2+4. So there’s likely 1-2 surprises.

I wonder if the list would change over time if Sony took some inspiration from Nintendo and created a PS+ tier that’s only like $20 a year, NSO is a lot cheaper than the current PS+ and Game Pass tiers.

I think this is about shifting from turn based to action. Even Pokemon seems to have a potential shifting point, Legends Z-A went for action and with Champions taking care of the esports side of things maybe future games like Gen 10 delves more into action?

I tended to vote for stuff releasing earlier in the year like 007 and Pragmata. It's hard to get too excited for anything releasing beyond early summer considering if GTA6 doesn't get delayed, the later in the year releases I'm interested in could get delayed to 2027. For example, Legacy of Atlantis is probably an October release because of Tomb Raider's 30th anniversary month but if Rockstar moved GTA6 forward to October, that probably means LoA gets delayed to 2027.

I think it's real, there seems to be a trend starting to form where new content happens around Switch 2 versions. For example:

• Cyberpunk got that big 2.3 update in July (Switch 2 version was in June)
• Elden Ring is getting new classes alongside the Switch 2 version
• Last year saw the release of new RDO content for the first time in years of which there's the RDR2 Switch 2 port rumour (I'd guess it got delayed to this year because of the GTA6 delays)

Witcher 3 feels like a likely choice for a Switch 2 version.

Interesting, so the comments about PS4 PS+ support beyond 2025 from Sony was about not offering PS4 games that didn't have also have a PS5 version then.

@LifeGirl @SeaDaVie While I definitely disagree about golden age, I do think people will see PS5 in a more positive light in 20 years but because of what Sony does with PS7/PS8. Kind of like how the lack of 1st party games in the PS5 era has made people think a lot more positively about the PS3 because of its very strong 1st party lineup.

I think the remaining 6 consists of Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, Expedition 33, Arc Raiders, Split Fiction, Dispatch/Silksong. Not sure on the order but I think Death Stranding 2 will win.

@Voltan @themightyant Both Ghost of Yotei and Saros had a 7 month gap between reveal and next trailer:

• Ghost of Yotei - Revealed September 2024, next trailer was in April 2025
• Saros - Revealed February 2025, next trailer was in September 2025

So if new fighter reveals happen around January 2026, it seems Sony are following their general 1st party strategy for reveals.

I wouldn't be surprised if EA Sports FC 28 (Fall 2027) releases on PS4, PS5 and PS6.

Please be Sonic Unleashed remaster.

I think Tokon is a Summer release. With the exception of Intergalactic, Sony's started to release around a year after reveal (Ghost of Yotei September 2024 reveal + October 2025 release, Saros February 2025 reveal + March 2026 release).

I'm excited to see what's next for the franchise but also intrigued to see whether it comes to Switch 2, a big test for what 3rd party support on the platform looks like.

This is a hope, not a prediction but I really hope Tomb Raider Legend/Anniversary/Underworld and Sonic Unleashed remasters get announced here.

Xbox currently has no Xbox console games with release dates so I think we'll see a repeat of 2024 where early on in the year is flooded with PS/Switch ports (this time being PS5 and Switch 2) and then the first Xbox console release is something like FH6 in May.

@GMaster7 If SEGA's going to do a Royal style release for Metaphor, they'd likely time with a Switch 2 port similar to how SMTV Vengeance was SMTV's debut on PC/PS/Xbox.

I'd imagine the physical boost is about Pokemon as the last mainline entry prior to Legends Z-A was 3 years ago (Scarlet/Violet).

@White_oyster Maybe it's to do with the PS6 handheld? You're not going to be able to fit a PS4/PS5 disc into the PS6 handheld so having a large disc library may make the handheld less appealing if the big selling point is the ability to play PS4/PS5 games anywhere.

I think it makes a lot of sense to have a 3rd party focused showcase around now as GTA6 being delayed to November 2026 opens up Spring 2026 as a realistic window to release games in.

I wonder if it's more a result of the current gap between PS5 and PC release they set. PS5 lineup was averaging 1 big 1st party single player game a year post-2022 (2023 was Spider-Man 2, 2024 was Astro Bot, 2025 was DS2 + Ghost of Yotei). So at the old porting rate of at least a year after PS release that would mean the PC porting would slow down significantly around 2025 unless they delved more into legacy games like Demon's Souls remake and GT7.

If it's about 1st party, I could see the comment be about live service. Sony acknowledged that Bungie was a bad acquisition so I think they've come to the conclusion that Factions 2 was going to be the live service hit they were looking for.

Taking that into account I could see them see something like Horizon Online as the biggest PS5 1st party game.

There were some cool reveals like more info about Sonic Racing CrossWorlds free characters and Pac-Man World 2 DLC shadow drop. The pacing was also very good but overall I'd say the SoP was ok.

I think this may be where we find out more news about the Spongebob DLC for Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and the Sonic DLC for Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac.

The number 1 complaint from 3rd parties about PS5 is that it's too expensive so maybe Sony does what Nintendo did with Switch 2 and announce a cheaper Japan region locked console?

If this is about crossbuy between PS5 and PC, I wonder if it's being announced alongside day 1 on PC for everything 1st party going forward.

With Xbox, day 1 on PC and Play Anywhere for all future 1st party games both got announced at the same time (E3 2016). However previous Xbox exclusives kind of got shafted regarding the program like when MCC was ported to PC in 2019/2020 it was not part of the Play Anywhere program.

I think Sony's biggest competition is themselves. Like imagine how much stronger the PS5 game lineup would be if Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst didn't chase live service.

@Questionable_Duck FTP games tend to still release on PS4 even as recently as Marvel Rivals last month so it seems like a realistic strategy to make a last gen version of FTP multiplayer meanwhile single player stuff is current gen only.

Sony generally seems to be aiming for 1 game a month nowadays for Premium so this is probably December considering the November store listing for Tomb Raider Anniversary.

Is this perhaps about cloud streaming? While energy saving costs are small for 1 PS5 running for a few hours a day, if you change that to a big data centre with lots of PS5 consoles running 24/7 the savings add up fast.

Considering Sony cut costs by doing things like reducing the internal storage in the newest PS5 model, I could see Sony having cloud streaming run in Power Saver mode in the future.

The timing of Sony killing off all their 1st party FPS/TPS franchises all seemed to lineup with them obtaining the CoD marketing and timed exclusivity deal in 2015. Nowadays it seems Sony only sees FPS/TPS as an excuse for live service chasing which is sad.

Whenever Xbox says the concept of exclusives is outdated, it's when they're about to announce a big exclusive go multiplatform. In this case it's likely Halo because Halo Studios are revealing future projects tomorrow at the Halo World Championships.

@DennisReynolds Deus Ex gives hope that a remaster trilogy could still happen considering that game had its PS2 version added to the classics line in July and then the remaster is coming in February.

@VeldinX Tomb Raider's 29th anniversary is next week (October 25th) and in recent years there's been annual anniversary celebrations so it might be the Tomb Raider social media accounts and blog that announce the timing of TR Anniversary added to PS+ Premium rather than Sony.

It feels like Sony's timing PS6 with the release of most of their big active franchises being launch window games. For example the last mainline Horizon, GT and GoW was in 2022 so next entry in 2027/2028 feels possible.

I really wish Sony had focused on remastering pre-PS4 games in the PS5 era and skipped games like TLoU that already had a PS4 remaster. Not only are loads of classics trapped on older PS hardware but also Nintendo's started copying Sony with the existence of Switch 2 Editions (BotW, TotK, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, SMB Wonder) when there are still plenty of classics trapped on older Nintendo hardware.

@ReignMan_27 I think they're using "few" to be vague ("couple" is specific meanwhile "few" is vague) because effectively confirming PS6 in 2027 now would hurt PS5 hardware sales somewhat.

The past 2 generations had the Naughty Dog game launch in June of the next gen year (TLoU in June 2013, TLoU 2 in June 2020) so if PS6 launches in 2027 then Intergalactic could be June 2027.

As Joker is coming to Sonic Racing CrossWorlds later this month, maybe a Persona 5 crossover DLC for Metaphor?

I think the timed exclusivity window could be because of GTA6. Announcing the game today gives the impression of 1st half of 2026 release but the next news is in 2026 which makes me think it'll be January Developer Direct announcing release date for May/June 2026. Then release on PS5 in Fall/Holiday 2026 to avoid GTA6.