Ignore the social media complainers, the PlayStation Showcase 2023 was fantastic

Rory writes "After an 18-month absence, PlayStation Showcase returned yesterday (May 24), and I spent the entire hour-long presentation in a giddy haze of PS5 gaming goodness."

[Terry_B]

Won't call it fantastic..but the single player games look superb. Still sucks MK 1 was not shown here and Tekken 8 did not get a new trailer and a releasedate.

[SullysCigar]

There are so many games (that we know are coming) that were not shown, but that makes me happier with the showcase, to be honest. It was a solid showing, if not quite great. That said, I'd have liked to see Factions 2 and Silent Hill 2. I also fully expected Half Life Alyx - I still do, but I thought this was where they'd show it.

If they showed EVERY game we know is coming AND all these new announcements, the show would probably still be on lol - they have to leave some for next time...

As someone who is currently smitten with PSVR2, I was very pleased with what was shown in that regard. We got Beat Saber (free upgrade) and Cosmodread shadow drops, for starters! Lots of folk missed that Five Nights at Freddy's is a PSVR2 game. Arizona Sunshine 2 is a sequel to one of the biggest ever VR games (from a veteran VR developer, too), so that was big news. Same goes for Synapse, although that's more a spiritual sequel for Fracked.

As for Resident Evil 4 Remake... somehow it just upped it's chances in the GOTY race with the PSVR2 gameplay reveal.

[gold_drake]

also, people forget that we still have summergames, gamescom, tokyo game show and the game awards for new trailers haha

[VenomUK]

The showcase did not make me feel 'fantastic'.

[D4RC]

HL:Alyx is a pipe dream.

[Obscure_Observer]

"If they showed EVERY game we know is coming AND all these new announcements, the show would probably still be on lol - they have to leave some for next time..."

What a delusional bs! Just take you L and move on.

[SullysCigar]

^ Some of us didn't see it as a loss, @Obscure, but then we don't all have your vast experience in that field...

[TripleAAARating]

I get that after 18 months we were hoping for more from Sony and it's first party with this showcase, yes it was a bit disappointing, but the manufactured "outrage" online is stupid. Some of the projects in the pipeline:

Naughty Dog: Factions 2/New project
Bend Studio: New IP
BluePoint: New Project
Insomniac Second team: Wolverine
Quantic Dream: Star Wars Eclipse
Sony Santa Monica: New Project
Sucker Punch: (likely GOT 2)
Kojima Pro: DS2
Housemarque: New Project
Guerrilla: Horizon Multiplayer
FireWalk Studios: Multiplayer Project

(help me if I'm missing some) Just off the top of my head...All likely AAA blockbuster exclusives coming. Can we say the same for the competition?.... Yes the showcase was a little disappointing BECAUSE we know what Sony has in store, maybe they could have showed at least one more exclusive from this list, but the showcase wasn't disaster like some of us are pointing it out to be. There are many shows at a later date within the year for Sony to showcase more.

[porkChop]

Quantic Dreams doesn't work with PlayStation anymore, and Firewalk announced their game yesterday. Concord. It's a live service game.

[I_am_Batman]

You shouldn't have to remind people of upcoming games with lists like the one you posted one day after a Playstation showcase. Nobody knows what's going on behind the curtain. We count on those games coming along, but a showcase like this doesn't exactly inspire confidence that everything is going according to plan.

[DarXyde]

"Fantastic" is definitely too strong of a word. It was pretty frustrating that, after an hour, we hardly saw anything from the house of PlayStation, yet it was called the PlayStation Showcase. Just seemed inappropriate. This was better suited to be an extended State of Play. The inclusion of a movie trailer and hardly any gameplay was pretty frustrating. At the very least, Spiderman 2 gameplay looks phenomenal.

That said, it did show some cool looking games (hopefully not too many are GaaS—I suspect we saw a decent number that were) . Yes, I liked the indies. No, I don't care about their exclusivity status. Looks to me like there's a pretty decent selection for my PS5, so I'm not complaining. I live in moments anyway, so even this much might be a bit of a tall order if I commit to playing every game I'm interested in.

I reckon the disappointment is from people who set their expectations pretty high. Considering Sony's got some pretty good first party studios that didn't show anything, they've likely got a lot in the oven. I'm guessing they're not in a state to show anything right now (or held them back for a bigger showing). Or.... They're getting very comfortable. Hoping the Xbox show outclasses the PlayStation showcase. Inspire a little fear, y'know.

[Sonic1881]

Insomniac is carrying Playstation. Without them Sony would be in trouble

[neutralgamer1992]

Honestly, speaking, this generation has been such a disappointment first, it was the pandemic and the shortages, and now we have yet to get steady stream of excellent AAA blockbusters from any publisher

Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge PlayStation fan. But there is no way the word fantastic and that show yesterday go together.

Positives were the fact Sony still showed they care about single player story driven games

Negatives

Too many trailers without any gameplay
Simply showing logos of projects without any info

And maybe it’s just me, but the portion of gameplay they showed for Spider-Man two looked just good not great

This just isn’t for Sony IMO anyone who is doing a gaming show should reveal more information. I would have been happy to wait till November if that meant more gameplay

Jim Ryan got a steady train and kept it going but I feel in the long run he is damaging the brand and next generation we may see gamers switch to Xbox because Microsoft may buy more publishers and their games would come to GP day one

I bought PlayStation five and Xbox series X yet I sold back my PlayStation five and kept the series X. I love RPG’s, and Microsoft have made some great acquisitions studios with great pedigree for RPG’s and that’s one thing that’s lacking in Sony’s catalog.

But so far Microsoft has not delivered anything in my decision to keep Xbox or PlayStation has been very bad and the only reason I’m not buying a PlayStation five is because rumor has it. There will be a PlayStation five pro next year. And for those of you who will say there may not be a PlayStation five pro just keep in mind that the same rumor also said Sony were working on air buds, and a Nintendo switch lite portable portion so if those things are true, I am to believe that we will see a pro version next year

[sparky77]

The fact this article exists says otherwise. It was a great showcase if you don't care for Playstation 1st party games.

[onisama]

Honestly i disliked the forumla so much and i expected copying E3 engagement, i hope xbox showcase will have humans communicating and good formula so i dont miss E3

[EvertonFC]

You don't like the formula of game after game with ONLY 60 seconds of talking WoW, each to there own.

[Crows90]

That's true if you don't care about the first party and you don't care about those things then this was a perfectly fine show. However most people tune into the showcases to see what PlayStation studios have in store for you. In that regard it's been very lacking. Spider-Man 2 looks fine and I did enjoy the helldivers 2 announcement. It was a horrible showcase in PlayStation studio standards. Xbox has a great opportunity to really wow gamers this year. I hope they don't drop the ball

[EvertonFC]

The problem was gamers expecting 10 AAA 1st party games and that was never gonna happen.
I said to my m8 before the showcase, I can guarantee gamers are not gonna be happy after this.
It was exactly what I expected apart from it was missing "silent Hill" and "tlou factions"
Solid 7.5 imo.

[SullysCigar]

I can agree with that. Just makes the next showcase even more exciting though, right?! All those Sony studios yet to show their hand, on top of all those awesome games they just showed in the showcase.

We gamers are eating GOOD right now!

[EvertonFC]

I think gamers today just moan for the sake of moaning fella.
I don't even know WHY half the gamers on here are even gamers tbh.

[EvertonFC]

The 1st party games which were not shown doesn't magically make the game disappear, there still coming.
As someone above said, you have to leave some games for next showcase, or summer gamefest etc.
The gamers who are moaning points one thing out to me and thats they need to get a life outside of gaming.
More to life than just gaming and waiting for 10/10 showcases cause at the end of the day since the beginning of showcases most are 90% 3rd party, indie games.
So not sure WHY gamers thought this showcase was gonna have 10 AAA 1st party games as that was never gonna happen pmsl.

[JackBNimble]

You are the ultimate Sony defender

[jambola]

No the fact that this article exists means that people had complaints
And your comment about only liking it if you don't care is unbelievably stupid
That's like saying if you liked this you don't care about call of duty

[Flawlessmic]

More like 3rd party's games that can be played anywhere goodness.

After a yr and half of waiting to get glimpse of what's coming from Sony, I'm still non the wiser, there should've been atleast 1 other 1st party big reveal in that show.

Insomniac are wizards though, best devs in the game atm and they are absolutely carrying Sony on there backs right now.

Atleast spiderman looked great and ff16 is an instant buy and has been for the longest time

[__SteakDeck__]

MS also had an event like this last year. The only big first party games that they showed were Redfall, Forza and Starfield. Everything else was 3rd party. The “everything you see at this show, will be played in the next 12 months” was a lie.

[Flawlessmic]

And I heavily destroyed Ms for for last yr.

And I mean heavily, all yr I stated my xsx was $750 dust collector and was probs one of the worst yrs by major platform holder I have ever seen or experienced.

But this is about Sony, who have always been my main platform since ps1 and who I hold in the highest regard. This was a slip up no doubt about it, it won't effect much obvs but that doesn't change my disappointment in the show.

People's criticism around the show are more than valid and Sony needs to cop this one on the chin

[__SteakDeck__]

@Flawlessmic I also gave Sony a pass for not having a showcase last year. Better to not show anything than to waste our time. They could of honestly just called this a State of Play to quell expectations.

[potatoseal]

"After a yr and half of waiting to get glimpse"

Well yes, but these games still exist. They just won't show them to use yet lol aaahhhhh !!!

Oh well. I'm still damned excited for the 3rd party ones that are coming this year. Helldivers 2.. hell yeah. Alan Wake 2. Lots of others

[Flawlessmic]

Had no issues with Sony skipping last yr and would've had no issues if they skipped the showcase this year if they didn't have anything worth showing which let's face it they didn't.

But they chose to hold hold a playstation showcase rather than state of plays, god fordbid I expect them to deliver on that promise like they normally do.

I have no doubts about what's coming or the high quality bar Sony will set yet again.

[dumahim]

Agreed. Just one new announcement would have satisfied me. Hell, even a trailer for Wolverine, Factions, FF7, DS2 would have moved the needle a bit.

[jambola]

It's still coming to Sony
So you are the wiser
You might not act like it at all though

[potatoseal]

I agree. The games shown were absolutely amazing. The only place Sony messed up is keeping their cards close to their chest still and not showing their hand.

The 1st party games still exist, they haven't gone anywhere. It's just Sony won't show us grrrrr. Their hand is strong. They are dominating for a reason. But notice how everything shown is actually releasing this year or next.? That actually surprised me. More great games are coming THIS YEAR.

For example, YongYea rated the showcase after he saw it a 9.5/10. When you judge the showcase just on games alone, it was exptremely highly rated. But if you were to judge on "exclusives" then it was lacking a bit.

I assume going forward Sony will never show games that are multiple years out anymore.

[__SteakDeck__]

I’m surprised YongYea gave it that high of a score, he’s usually a tough grader. Yoshida said a couple of years ago, that Sony learned from showing games too early.

[potatoseal]

Yeah I remember him saying that. At least every showcase or big event we'll probably be getting something new everytime.

[Northpoint]

Most likely because he's a huge fan of MGS. Without it, he probably would have lowered the score to 7.5.

[ken2813]

Dear Sony, Nobody waited 2 yrs to see Kitty Quest!

[EvertonFC]

Was this you're 1st showcase ?

[ken2813]

No! They didn’t have a showcase in 2 yrs and they gave me Cat Quest 2.

[blackblades]

Cat quest pretty good, you people forgot what games are. A lot of people find smaller gamers funner then big games. Also there was people excited for cat quest, looks good I'll be picking it up and going back to the last 2 games.

[jambola]

Ok so here's the thing
It was an hour long and more than one game was shown
I guess you watched one trailer and thought that was all

[jznrpg]

You didn’t see other games?

[ken2813]

I seen the whole showcase. Where are the first party games? Idk for showcase filler games like cat quest or the GT trailer. They could have released that trailer on a Tuesday.

[ravens52]

Concord, Phantom Blade, Ff16, Spider-Man 2, Hell Divers 2, Fairgame$, Towers of aghasba.

7 (5 New*) Exclusives from Sony. How many will Xbox show?

[anast]

Exclusives don't count. Innovation doesn't count. The only thing that counts is a rushed trailer for a game that will release in the next decade...I wouldn't worry too much about it, people are seriously stupid.

[Othegamer5]

concord and fairgame are literally rushed trailers are you dumb.

[meanmallard]

Why does everyone keep leaving out Gran Blue Fantasy: Relink?

It's a huge budget JRPG, they are super rare, and it's also PlayStation exclusive and coming out later this year.

Tower of Fantasy is also big-budget.

Sony showed 33 games and 21 are not going to xbox. It weird how people are acting like these are the only games coming to playstation too, we contantly see games announced on this site that are on PlayStation and/or Swoitch that aren't coming to xbox.

[SullysCigar]

Wowsers, 21 of them not on Xbox - that puts all this outrage into perspective. And this before we see Silent Hill 2, Factions 2, Wolverine and any of the announcements coming from the first party studios that have kept their heads down for so long.

It really feels like the feast after the fast on PlayStation right now!

[shinoff2183]

Blazblue was my favorite one shown. Can't wait for that.

[GoodGuy09]

Thing is, it was announced so long ago and in development for so friggin long with still no real release date and just a window...yea, my hype for it has gone way down. I am still interested, it's just that the wait has been way too long.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I'm looking forward to ReLink, I'm surprised no one has mentioned it either, but then again, I keep forgetting it exists, feels like it's been in development forever at this point.

[meanmallard]

GoodGuy09, I get that to some degree, but keep in mind they added a full PS5 version of the game since the original release.

The game is going to be super high quality and effort, I am quite positive that in this case, the delay will have lead to a much larger project.

And keep in mind the game also has 4 player co-op and is made by Ctygames so you know the combat and gameplay is going to be top-notch..

Watch the 4k trailer it looks great!
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[blackblades]

Tower of fantasy isnt a big budget, well its a big budge mobile game. I played it on phone but it turn my phone to a radiation heater so I had to drop it.

[jznrpg]

Yeah I’m hyped for that ! I have been waiting for years to see it and finally it’s coming. Hopefully new anime is coming too.

[mocaak]

Who cares what and how many Xbox will show. This was Son'ys first showcase in 18 months, and all they showed is 3rd parties and filler garbage. FF16 and Spiderman 2 are not new announcements. Fairgame looks like complete trash. Concord we know nothing of yet. Towers didn't look great and is just a 3rd party Indie. Helldivers 2 was cool. And Phantom Blade was the highlight of the show, but we don't even know if it's an exclusive or not.

[crazyCoconuts]

This is a good list - a good reminder that there's good stuff coming...
SM2, FF16, HellDivers2 happening this year - it's a good short term look

[shinoff2183]

While I have my issue with ff16 I have no doubt people will love it, Spiderman 2 looks dope but the rest are either whack imo or online games.

[Christopher]

Why make this about Xbox? Why not praise what you like about the show and that's the end of it?

[ravens52]

Xbox and Playstation will always be mentioned in the same breath no matter what. Theyre competitors. I didn't say anything bad about Xbox, just curious how many exclusives they'll show. They may show more, they may show less. Was more of a rhetorical question.

[ravens52]

Gran Blue Fantasy: Relink* as well. My bad

[darkrider]

It was cool. If you compare this show to the first show of the year of Microsoft, that some say it was amazing, great, where not even forza 46 got a launch date and the high point was rise and it floped hard, then this one amazing.

The major failure of this show is metal gear. I can't believe Sony didn't buy the ip. It's a huge mistake, because of the monopoly strategy of Microsoft. That was the biggest mistake.

Games from first Sony are coming they always come. That a reality in more then 10 years. The competition should be afraid of what Sony still got to show.

[__SteakDeck__]

@darkrider If Sony would have bought the Metal Gear IP who would make it? Kojima doesn’t want to do Metal Gear again and I don’t want to see a new Metal Gear without him. When MS bought the Gears IP they had The Coalition and Rod Fergusson, who had experience with Gears at Epic.

[darkrider]

There are many talent on Sony studios. Again, exclusive content is very important. Microsoft is taking ip after ip buy buying publishers. If Sony doesn't do the same.... For me that was the huge problem of this show, not games, like some morons keep talking.

Sony didn't show force. We got this. Because games they always deliver. They needed to maKe somekind of big move and they didn't.

Buying mgs, silent Hill and castlevania would be a huge move.

[jambola]

We don't
We judge it by its own merits, not based on other shows from other companies

[ken2813]

This is not what a Sony Fan expected. We expect greatness. This show was the equivalent of watching an episode of the Power Rangers and the Megazords don’t make an appearance. We went to a Wu-tang Clan concert and Method Man was missing. It’s like going to Disney world and Space Mountain being closed. Waste of my time.

[kickerz]

Or watching Seasame Street without big bird or Elmo....lol

[jambola]

It's like watching power rangers, expecting something that rarely shows up, and then bitching when it doesn't show up

[Elda]

Far as multiplat releases & Indies the showcase was ok but far as a showcase for PS AAA exclusives, it was totally lackluster with the exception of seeing gameplay of Spiderman 2. No one has anything to look forward to when it comes to PS AAA exclusives after seeing that showcase.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Fantastic for Xbox maybe… this was “good”, not “great” for Sony.

Loved Spider-Man 2 and Phantom Blade…. Would’ve preferred ANY Factions update over a full AC trailer.

[poppatron]

It’s an opinion isn’t it. For me, it wasn’t all that, but it’d be silly to say it was bad. But I think again, in my opinion it’d be silly to say it was fantastic also

[RaiderNation]

This was a very good videogames showcase. However, it wasn't a very good PlayStation showcase. Way too much focus on indies and 3rd party multiplatform games. I get it that you have to have that stuff in there too. But after nearly 2 years of going without a showcase, I would've expected a larger 1st party presence. And the problem is even with some of the 1st party stuff they DID show, they were just pointless cinematic trailers that told us absolutely nothing about those games. What the hell is Concord?? What is Fairgame$? What will Marathon be? That was so uncharacteristic of what Sony had been doing over the last several years.

[Black-Helghast]

no bloodborne again... thr struggle is real for us hunters...

[potatoseal]

That was one I was really hoping for :-(

[poppatron]

I’ve not really seen many people commenting on the 2 new pieces of hardware shown and I think we should, I’m really interested to see what people are thinking. For me personally…

I absolutely don’t care for some ps5 branded ear buds, im sure they work well but they look a little ugly and will probs not be the best in the price range they retail in.

And who is this streaming device for? Your phone/tablet and a controller do the exact same job already. Obviously the price is a big factor here, but even at its cheapest conceivable price point… why?

I’m calling dead on arrival for the streaming thing.

[__SteakDeck__]

Yeah, This is Sony experimenting with this streaming device. There are companies that take a risk and try to release some new consumer device and see how the public likes it. I agree it’s dead on arrival.

[shinoff2183]

It's not really all that new it's a wii u tablet.

[anast]

People have bad taste. They wanted a 2 second CGI commercial for a game that is 10 years out. Sony is showing the future of gaming in VR tech. and people are complaining. It would be hard to recognize the gaming culture at this point.

[shinoff2183]

Cause it's in a weird place right now. Some like online gaming and being fk with micro transactions, others prefer single player games. Some want old school jrpgs, and some want all games to be bam bam in your face over the top action all the time. Strange days for sure

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Yeah, it sure is weird times, People complain after every streaming show (Nintendo/Sony/Xbox), I'm surprised more people don't complain about publisher streams. Marvelous just had theirs and I haven't seen any hate for that yet, but they dropped quite a few gems in that stream.

[derek]

It was a very meh showcase and it's entirely playstation fault. Waiting for almost 2 years since your last showcase built expectations that were not met at least for me. Showing trailers for SF6 was a giant waste of time we already had the chance to play the game, and it's been thoroughly advertised. FF16 I'm getting day 1 but we have seen enough and there was no demo announcement. MGS3 was a cgi trailer for a multiplatform game, who cares its probably years out. What really knocked this showcase down to maybe a 4-5/10 was that stupid movie trailer, a purely selfish act by playstation and is the type of brain dead corporate thinking that gets companies in trouble. Fans came to watch upcoming games not your stupid movie advertisements. If you have nothing to show dont, or make it a 25 minute state of play. Big L for playstation here.

[shinoff2183]

The demo for ff16 is ready theycshouldve dropped it last night. No excuses.

[bRuud83]

This. I was hoping for that as well.

[senorfartcushion]

Spider-Man looked cool Alan Wake did too

[GamingSinceForever]

Now we have articles that are to the opposite extreme. The reality is the show was
somewhere in the middle. Nothing fantastic and nothing terrible.

[jambola]

"the reality it my opinion"

[GamingSinceForever]

That’s grand considering the article talks about ignoring others’ opinions.

[execution17]

Makes you wonder if they're saving some stuff for the summer games fest since MS is probably gonna put all their eggs into one basket and that being their own showcase and Nintendo doing its own thing

[repsahj]

They should made the showcase in 2 parts, first half are the multi-platforms and second half are exclusives. The excitement level of the show became more intense. So that Microsoft didn't tweet that the multi-plat games would also be released on XSX/S hahaha.

[shinoff2183]

Which is crazy cause I don't think Sony ever did that. With the way xbox is selling ms should leave the jabs alone

[SullysCigar]

We should all leave the jabs alone.

[shinoff2183]

Sully

As a ps fan that has some 600 700 games from ps1 to ps5 , when they let me down ill say what I feel. I've invested alot of time and money into sonys Playstations. It was extremely disappointing to me and no I wasn't one of those guys expecting 10 aaa first party reveals but for real 3 to 4 games interested me. So I feel it was lackluster at best. To many fps, and bam bam in your face games. Sonys completly giving up on the rpg genre. Even though games like fallout and skyrim sell extremely well, starfield would've to if not for gamepass. Sony needs to fill that hole on there system asap

[SullysCigar]

^ I agree with all that. Not what I meant..

[goldwyncq]

The amount of "Not actual gameplay" trailers in the show was far too high

[ModsDoBetter]

This article sounds like cope.

Not that Sony are in a bad position, but to say it was “fantastic” after over 18 months to get a bunch of multi-plats, some cg trailers and the only real showstoppers being Spider-Man & MGS confirmation is just a bit of a reach.

If you enjoyed it, more power to you but the viewpoint that the showcase was disappointing seems to be a consensus echoed far and wide, and rightly so.

It really needed another exclusive or two. We have little more information regarding Sony first party games than we did 18 months ago. Whilst it’s definitely good to not announce games too soon (a mistake Sony learned from and one Microsoft seem to still be making), it cannot be denied that there needed to be more for this to be labelled as a “fantastic” showcase.

[AbdullaMTR]

Yupe much love to 3rd party developers / Games , PlayStation valued their 3rd party partnership and this showcase proved it , next showcase will be all about 1st party games 🔥💙

[MADGameR]

It was terrible if you ask me. I was expecting more.

[Futureshark]

Its fashionable to whinge and moan about everything online these days.

[shinoff2183]

There's nothing wrong with whining and moaning if it's something u as a consumer are expected to buy. I don't think it's fashion related at all I think it's more then that

[Binarycode]

It was ok, if the games shown were something you were interested in.

For me, Assassins creed looked like it's more gone back to it's roots. Could be good.

Spiderman looked decent, although I'm more interested in the wolverine game.

I was expecting some naughty dog stuff, I'm not interested in factions mp thing. I want new games. The last of us has been done to death as much as I love the games.

I think other studios will do their own thing when it's time.

I want a reboot of motorstorm and resistance tbh.

[shinoff2183]

I had a whole long thing written up but this site blows anymore with sh popping up my page reloaded and it's all gone.

Anyway showcase was lackluster to me , mgs 3 and the collection, Alan wake 2, Spiderman 2 even though I've never finished the first, and my personal favorite blazblue looked dope as fk.

The rest a bunch of samey bam bam bam in your face action bs. I'm not talking about the vr that was shown cause at this point I don't have a horse in the race.

I really wish Sony would get on board with some type of jrpg. Hell we need a fallout knockoff , call the sh fallin idc. Game sales show us on ps enjoy those games. Say what you want about bethsada but I enjoy their wrpgs. Even though Horizon is one of my fav series from ps it is not an rpg sure it has elements but so does cod and no ones calling that trash an rpg.

I know yall see my post I hardly ever have issue with sony, but this was just whack. I also in no way mean this as yo fk Sony I'm out I'm just simply pointing out it was pretty eh imo

[GoodGuy09]

Nah. Considering it's been this long and they showed mostly 3rd party, CGs, and indies lol. Typical showcase, why I'm not a huge fan of these digital events as many of them are just so underwhelming. I miss the good ol E3 days.

[artgamer]

Such a sorry generation of moaners. Complaining about games being shown.

[shinoff2183]

I'm 40 years old I I'm expected to pay for this I will complain on top of Mt everest. Aside from literally a handful of what they had shown the rest was pretty eh.

I think xbox show will wipe this one. The only thing is ms probably won't come through with any of it for some time

[H9]

Listen you can say you liked it without the aggressive tone!

Honestly this is show felt exactly like how I used to feel when watching a Xbox Press Conference the last two years before Covid, a good gaming show that doesn't convince you of the console in any way!

if you wanted it to be a gaming show, it was nice, we had good announcements and nice trailers, however this isn't just a gaming show this is a playstation gaming show, that was marketed to show us what Playstation is cooking behind the curtains, especially after not doing such a show for a long time!

The biggest low points of the show was the new IPs by Sony, not only because they are multiplayer games that people weren't hyped for but also because after all the wait we didn't really see gameplay, and we didn't see any of the games that is being made by the beloved studios at Sony, with the exception of spiderman

[neomahi]

My dissapointment is that Sony had a chance to say: "Microsoft is about to acquire Activision-Blizzard, this is what PlayStation is all about" because shortly after the Showcase, Xbox quickly took to the net to announce all the games PlayStation just hyped up for them. Sony needs to tell the gaming world why they need a PlayStation, just like they did with the PS4, following the PlayStation Network outage that caused PS3 gamers to jump ship to Xbox 360 FOR CALL OF DUTY. PlayStation did the marketing job for Microsoft, who can't do it themselves, and that's a problem. The PlayStation Showcase should've been experiences only on PlayStation instead of "You can have your Xbox and play all of these too. While they had good games, it wasn't a sucker punch to the mouth of why only the cool kids have a PlayStation 5. Microsoft swiftly came out and said: "Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater will be on Xbox Series S/X." Metal Gear has ALWAYS been synonymous with PlayStation until Don Mattrick got to Kojima. Street Fighter 5 was exclusive to PS4 and Sony bought EVO, so why is Street Fighter 6 on Xbox? Once Microsoft has fully acquired Activision-Blizzard they're gonna go after Take Two putting GTA and Call of Duty only on Xbox hardware. Take Two and Capcom should be on SONYs radar. If Microsoft is gonna take Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard, Sony needs to counter with Take Two and Capcom. That's where this industry is going, acquisition of third-party companies to bulster your gaming lineup exclusives AND Microsoft knabbed a Sony developer for MLB The Show. The games getting dirty and you gotta be willing to play dirty. PlayStation had a solid first-party team, but, all is fair in love and war

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Eh? It was okay, all the Metal Gear Solids, Spider-man 2, Alan Wake 2, Dragon's Dogma 2, a release window for ReLink. It wasn't too bad of a showcase, people had crazy expectations though, it's like when Nintendo has a reasonable good direct and everyone is upset there was no Breath of the Wild or new Pokemon game.

This was just fine.

[DnBSkillZ]

Sony are really starting to piss me off with everything being third person, instead of rebooting killzone,resistance and motorstorm. what are they even doing?

[ModsDoBetter]

With Evolution studios long since gone, I doubt we’d ever see another Motorstorm.

Guerilla have been shifted to ride the Horizon hype train with multiple projects in the works though I’m sure I read that have another project not related to Horizon, but I doubt it would be Killzone.

Same with Resistance, Insomniac have been moved to the money maker that is Spider-Man & the family friendly Ratchet & Clank. They tend to be far more profitable so again, I doubt we’d ever see Resistance, at least not for a while, as much as I want to.

[DnBSkillZ]

They need to acquire ttk studios (ex bf devs) and whitelight studios (ex raven/infinity ward devs) and hand these 2 ip’s to them or expand insomniac and guerilla.

[ChasterMies]

Agree 100%. We get a constant feed of game news and trailers. I don’t know why we Somy needs these showcases except to show off their new hardware.

[JokerBoy129]

It was okay at best

[bleedsoe9mm]

cope

[Babadook7]

Yeah it was pretty good. I just wanted to see those big hyped up games also. Like Rebirth.

[hotnickles]

Wasn’t terrible. Wasn’t even close to fantastic tho

[MrNinosan]

The show was good, great even, IF the expectations would be set.
Last Playstation Showcases has been great, amazing even.
Because of that, I was having high expectations on this one.
Dragons Dogma 2 and Phantom Blade 0 was the only announcements I didn't expect.

MGS3 remake would've bern HUGE if it wasn't "leaked" and Spider-Man 2 we already expected to be there.

What dissapointed me was all the thing we DIDN'T see.

Last of Us Factions, Team Asobi, Bend Studio, Sucker Punch, Final Fantasy Rebirth, Stellar Blade etc.

If this wasn'y names a Playstation Showcase, I'd be more than pleased, but I took my day off from work, bought snacks and drinks and was ready in my sofa with 8 other Playstation fanboys, and we were all dissapointed.

Looking back at the games that was shown, it was still a good show, but among us, we had way higher expectations.

[dnawesum]

It wasn't fantastic. It was good, borderline great, but not great. But after 18months it should've been at least great. Especially with the amount of flak XBOX get for their showcases.

[Lexreborn2]

I ignore complaints on all these conferences because they can never live up to the expectations of people with their hearts set on a particular experience. No longer do people take shows for what they are, they look to use them to load their internet guns up to just attack strangers with.

Gaming new and consumers are a weird lot these days

[isarai]

Everyone in my friend circle had at least one announcement that got them hyped, so I say it was pretty good.

[Flenter]

Definitely ! Project Q looking good also! Fuck the whiners!

[darkrider]

What I don't understand is why marathon is on Xbox? After what Microsoft is doing they accept a deal where Sony games will be on Microsoft machines? Destiny I agree because it was always there, but this is a new game. Doesn't make sense after Microsoft moves...

[purple101]

I'm sure some bungle games will be cross platform but maybe 1 exclusive might be in early development one would guess..

[GhostScholar]

It had a couple fantastic elements but it was very average overall.

[-Foxtrot]

Jesus I hate this mindset

People complain and the majority not in a fanboy way but as fans to say “hey this wasn’t as good, I’m worried about the GaaS shit they are doing and they haven’t even fully got into it” yet we’re complainers?

Can’t wait for the articles in 10 years time

“Sony’s GaaS games are out of control”

“GaaS games on the PS5. How did we get to this point?”

[jambola]

You're literally the first person I saw even mention that complaint so...

[z2g]

It was a great showcase for multiplatform games. It was not a great showcase for PS5 specifically.

[Harkins1721]

It was okay for me. Lots of cinematic trailers

[ocelot07]

It wasn't fantastic at all imo. A fair few of the games announced looked fantastic yes. A few of them looks interesting. A few looked naff. My issue with last night was the presentation. 30 second trailers for each game with what felt like most games didn't show any gameplay. That's my issue.

It was a Okey show. I prefer the way Sony do these shows now to what they use to do at E3. Cut out the Devs talking about the games and simply just show them. But last night they showed a lot of titles but very little gameplay.

[Gameseeker_Frampt]

I'm tired of hearing the excuse that the reason Sony doesn't reveal first-party games is because they learned their lesson about revealing games too soon. When exactly was the last time Sony failed and announced a first-party game too soon - the PS3 era? I cannot remember it happening during the PS4 era yet each conference was filled with first-party reveals. E3 2016 showed why gamers wanted a PS4 both now and in the next 3 years. They announced both God of War and Days Gone with extensive gameplay demos as well as revealing Death Stranding and Spider-Man. On top of that they showed more of Horizon: Zero Dawn and Detroit: Become Human as well as showcasing all the games coming with PSVR.

What we got yesterday was a State of Play for Spider-Man 2 and a bunch of CGI trailers. Both of these events happened at the same point of time for their respective consoles.

[MetroidFREAK21]

It was okay

[Kosic]

It wasn't amazing, it was a large list of third party titles, then some Sony first party and VR videos.

I wasn't wowed, I was left feeling a tad confused..were all these games exclusive?

Then I saw the Microsoft article saying "these games are also on Xbox"

Sony tried pulling the wool over our eyes, doing an Apple sort of marketing, acting like no one else exists, showing off all content that'll also be on the Xbox and pc.

Oh, and the remote play display...just why?

[Nacho_Z]

Definitely wasn't fantastic. Wasn't awful either but it was on the bad side of average.

[PhillyDillyDee]

It wasnt bad. It also didnt blow anyone away. And honestly, it’s totally fine.

[Nuvem]

lol no. It was horrible.

[Chocoburger]

People get mad when games are announced too soon, but then they also get mad when games aren't announced at all. We know that Sony 1st party teams are hard at work, and we also know games are taking longer than ever to develop and polish, yet still we see ignorant complaints. Simple fact is, Sony will be hated on no matter what.

The showcase featured a fair number of games I wanted to play, and while I wanted to see more 1st party games, as an actual grown adult, I can patiently wait until they're ready to be shown off.

[HICK]

I disagree. It was average on average hah

[REDDURT]

It was mid.

[Pyrofire95]

It wasn't bad. Pretty good, I'd say. People are sounding entitled. What were they really expecting? It was a random May showcase.

[Tedakin]

No. I was in a chat room with dozens of people I talk with regularly, many of who are huge Sony fans and Xbox haters, and everyone thought it was laughably bad. Objectively so. Not even a Spider-Man 2 release date? They had 10 minutes left and showed a Gran Turismo movie trailer....

[MrSec84]

If it's an opinion then it's subjective, there's nothing objective in that.

[jambola]

"no, my friends agree with me so I'm right"

[MrSec84]

After sitting on it for a few days, I've changed my mind a bit.
People want to see game after game and show had that, people wanted to see gameplay from Spider-Man 2 and that was shown, looking better than anything we've seen before from the franchise, Insomniac Games also proved that the urban setting can look great too.

It was a packed show, with great looking games.

I get the impression that when Factions gets revealed it's going to come out really soon after, so that must be getting it's own event because it's Naughty Dog and it's a multiplayer game, with more scale than anything the studio has made before, but it will still have their level of polish, so maybe it will release later this year.

Overall Sony stance on major reveals is they aren't happening until the games are close to release ready and also they must fit in the release schedule.

[jambola]

People are whiny, I'm used to it
I thought it was great, with phantom blade 0, tower of fantasy, mgs remake etc
And spiderman 2 looking amazing
I thought it was really amazing

[boing1]

OMG!!! They didn't show the games I was fantasising about. Quickly!! Let me cry on internet about how it is the worst showcase ever because it's about me, I deserve only the best and I'm the centre of the universe. F*** the people who are making those games I don't like.

[kindi_boy]

I'm not media it was terrible.

[antikbaka]

ehhh... no it wasnt

[CRASHBASHUK]

going to say it too many indies

[Profchaos]

How about we ignore this article instead.

[Abracadabra]

No it wasn't.

[Silver_ShadoWolf]

I agree. It was something else. I would’ve love to see more Metal Gear Solid to get a feel for what direction they took after Kojima’s departure. That spider-man drop was crazy. Definitely one of those games I won’t buy, but will watch someone else play.

[Neonridr]

if you ignore the people who were upset at the show it was a fantastic show.

strange way to put it. You can't please everyone, people have the right to be disappointed.

[Rdeal]

Sony could have got someone to stand there and take a turd and you lot would have thought it was great. it was a really bad showcase, If it was a state of play it would have been ok