After another disappointing State of Play it’s been suggested that Sony is holding out for a more significant event this summer.
No one was expecting very much from Thursday night’s State of Play and yet still it managed to disappoint, with no first party games at all and lacklustre showings for both new PlayStation VR2 titles and Warner’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.
It’s hardly the first time that a State of Play has not lived up to expectations but insider Jeff Grubb claims there is a reason for this and that it’s because Sony is saving up its big announcements for a much bigger event, that was originally supposed to take place last autumn.
According to him ‘their developers weren’t ready’ and so now the plan is to have a major new showcase ‘before E3’, which is scheduled to start on June 13.
‘Sony itself is saving its own actual good stuff for something else, which is what’s happening here, they’re saving their good stuff for the PlayStation Showcase that’s gonna happen before E3,’ said Grubb in his most recent YouTube video.
‘It was supposed to happen last fall but they kept pushing it back ‘cause their developers weren’t ready, but now that those developers are ready, they’re going to have this massive show that really sets up the second phase of the PlayStation 5.’
He doesn’t offer any more detail than that but given how long it is since Sony announced a major new first party game, and how empty their release schedules are at the moment, they must have several unannounced titles waiting to be revealed.
The other explanation for the increasingly dull State of Play events is Microsoft and their attempts to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Both companies have become very uncommunicative over the last year, in terms of new game announcements, and this is in part because they don’t want to do anything that might contradict the stories they’ve told monopoly investigators.
Microsoft making Starfield and Redfall Xbox console exclusives played into Sony’s arguments about what they’d do with the Call Of Duty franchise, while Sony doesn’t want to do anything that reinforces Microsoft’s description of PlayStation as an unassailable market leader.
The success of The Last Of Us TV show has already been used as ammunition by Microsoft and if Sony were to announce half a dozen big name games out of the blue that would certainly become part of the argument too.
And yet, there’s no guarantee that the Activision Blizzard acquisition will be resolved by the summer, so the question is whether Sony will go ahead anyway or just continue to bide their time…
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