Reaction: Sony Flubs First Proper PS5 Presentation in Over 18 Months | Push Square
The online response to the first PlayStation Showcase in well over 18 months is apoplectic, and while the enthusiast gamers are notoriously unhinged, it’s not entirely unexpected after a dreadfully disappointing livestream earlier today. It became clear about 30 minutes into the event that this was going to be light on first-party reveals, but few could have expected we’d get to the end with barely a whimper from PS Studios at all. Even the big closer, the spectacular Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, is lacking a release date.
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This felt like an extended State of Play, and if you’ve been following the platform holder’s oft-criticised BTEC Nintendo Directs, then you’ll know that’s not a compliment. There’s no doubt the manufacturer had splashed some cash on this: the foreboding techno music during the countdown and the letterboxed transitions, showing flashing strobe lights and PlayStation symbols projected onto curtains, were superb. It’s a shame they were, in fact, the highlights!
We’re of course being facetious, and no advertising event is ever that bad, but this was more of the same from a Sony that’s seemingly intent on telling more than it shows. Of the PS Studios content on display, we got two CGI cinematics from acquisitions Haven and Firewalk, neither of which looked particularly enticing – or gave us any inkling of what to expect. Jade Raymond, the founder of the former studio, had talked about innovation from her team’s title. The result? A co-op heist shooter, apparently.
It’d be unfair to utterly dismantle everything that Sony showed tonight, because there were exciting games. Once again, the platform holder leaned heavily on Capcom to carry the load, with its Dragon’s Dogma 2
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