Sony announced a new PlayStation State of Play yesterday for about 30 hours later. Now, it’s arriving tonight and we’ll see what they have planned.
The State of Play will be on at 3 PM PDT, 6 PM EDT and 11 PM BST, tonight, Tuesday, September 24.
What’s coming? What we officially know is that there are “more than 20” upcoming PS5 and PS VR 2 games from studios around the world. That is of course not purely exclusives on the PS5 side, most likely, but we will no doubt see many of those.
The running joke is that all the games will simply be remasters of old titles, or remasters of remasters, as we’re doing at this point. But jokes aside we will…probably see some remasters, as rumors say at least one well-known game will get one.
What are fans hoping to see from the show, given that no one is terribly interested in another batch of remasters? The sky-high expectation list would be:
- Insomniac’s Venom (not official)
- Insomniac’s Wolverine
- Ghost of Tsushima 2
- Naughty Dog’s next project – Sci-fi game and/or The Last of Us Part 3
- God of War’s next setting
- Horizon Multiplayer Game
- Info on Bungie’s Marathon
- Bungie’s codename Gummy Bears game
- Preview of Destiny 2: Frontiers content
- Some sort of major Helldivers 2 expansion
- New Batman Arkham game (there’s a recent rumor this exists and Sony may be interested in grabbing it)
- The return of an IP like Resistance, Killzone or SOCOM
- Concord 2 (jokes)
It is possible literally zero of these show up in a hastily announced State of Play, though I’d settle for even one of them at this point. Sony has so many projects in the works we know nothing or next to nothing about at this point, and if Xbox has done anything they have at least shown off most of their large announced or formerly leaked projects at this point, while Sony has kept things much more under wraps. The expectation is yes, more remasters and third party games they have marketing deals with. Though hopefully more than that.
It’s not as if Sony is exactly in a down period however with the recent release of Astro Bot, an easy frontrunner for GOTY and a celebration of the history of the brand without it feeling cheesy. No, it won’t be one of the biggest-sellers of the year or anything, but continues Sony’s narrative of great exclusive offerings and GOTY contenders, if not winners.
We’ll find out more in a few hours.
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