Playstation Showcase OT: NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY

[peter42O]

@GamepadX

To use a poker analogy, PlayStation showed their hand, and they were bluffing.

I really don’t see PlayStation holding a “showcase” for the rest of the PS5 generation. How is that not a big deal? They simply don’t have the content or studios. Games take longer to make with bigger budgets and Sony hasn’t planned properly. They coasted because console sales were high and now that negligence is showing. They need to get bigger to make up for longer development times. Sure they can have 3 small directs a year but that panics PlayStation fans when they realize the era of PlayStation showcases are now dead. Tell me I’m wrong

Would you like to make a friendly wager/bet on Sony not having another showcase this generation? I don’t believe that they will have another this year but I do believe that they will have a PlayStation Showcase in 2024.

As for their showcase this year, it was disappointing and underwhelming but is it truly a big deal in the grand scheme of things? Nope. It’s like saying Redfall releasing at a subpar 60 rated game is a big deal and will affect Microsoft and Xbox when in reality, it’s like a scratch on a car that no one will remember or care about a few months later.

As for not having the games or studios, if that was true, I wouldn’t have at least 10 games future wise -

• Marvel’s Spider Man 2
• Stellar Blade
• Rise of the Ronin
• Lost Soul Aside
• Bend Studio new IP (has multi-player but as long as it’s separate, im good)
• Ghost of Tsushima 2 (has legends multi-player mode but if the campaign is as excellent as the first game was for me, no issues whatsoever)
• Marvel’s Wolverine
• The Last of Us Part III
• Cory Barlog’s new IP
• Horizon 3 (Guerrilla)

And the above is just for me personally that I know of or has already been announced. I’m sorry but you’re wrong bud. You saying the stuff you said is like all those other people saying stuff about Xbox despite the fact that they’re wrong too. lol

@Sparda3g

I’ll say this. I believe what really added up more to their doom and gloom is the announced titles are GaaS titles, which the fans were trained to despise. Now fans can expect more update on titles they don’t care and when the one they want arrives, it begins with CGI. In other words, the actual waiting for the single player titles they adore is on hold.

I can agree with this in general but for me personally, I already knew that shit was coming. Didn’t think that it would all be shown on the same showcase (lol) but I knew that eventually that they would be showed.

For me personally, im happy that Factions is having issues because I don’t want Naughty Dog (or the other 5 studios I care about) wasting time on these live service multi-player games but for say Deviation Games that Sony doesn’t own, then im disappointed that their game was cancelled because the better the external studios do with live service games, the better it will be for me because the main core studios I care about have a far greater chance of staying away from live service multi-player games.

@Staffy

Biggest complaints I’ve seen about the showcase were the lack of truly interesting first party games, except Spidey 2. They did have several announcements from first party but it was GaaS and CG. And while there were several AAA multiplatform titles too, a lot of indies as well.

Assuming that Xbox doesn’t have a lot of marketing deals for AAA multiplats and that they are going for a (mostly) Game Pass show there probably are gonna be even more indie titles here and not many AAA multiplats, that is my expectation. But the big difference with Sony probably is first party presence will be more and better here.

But I am hoping Xbox actually does have some AAA multiplats announced, it’s good for the variety. Last year we did have Diablo 4, and I think we can see Wo Long as AAA too.

Agreed. I am hoping for some third party reveals. Maybe Ubisoft’s Star Wars game. If they plan on showing it at Ubisoft Forward the next day, maybe a teaser at the Xbox Showcase.