Sony PlayStation State of Play Reportedly Set for Next Week
Sony is reportedly set to deliver its now-standard February PlayStation State of Play broadcast next week.
Leaker NateTheHate, who accurately revealed the date of Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal ahead of time, took to social media to tease a State of Play for Valentine’s Day week (February 10 to 14).
It’s speculation time! What could Sony have up its sleeve for this year’s State of Play? It’s worth going through the first-party games it has announced and coming out in 2025. Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Yotei currently has a 2025 release window. Perhaps we’ll get a fresh look at gameplay and a release date.
Meanwhile, Bungie’s PvP extraction shooter Marathon may be set for a showing if it still plans to open playtesting up this year. There’s also Fairgames, the debut game from Haven Studios. Naughty Dog recently announced its brand new IP, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and Insomniac is working on Marvel’s Wolverine. More likely, perhaps, is a fresh trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which is set for a 2025 release.
What we won’t see are the various live service games Sony recently canned. Last month, Sony canceled two unannounced live-service games that were in development at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. The Bluepoint game was reportedly a live-service God of War game. Bend Studio’s live-service game remains unknown. Guerrilla Games' live service Horizon game reportedly survived the cull. Is it finally time for a reveal?
Moving on to potential third-party announcements, Kojima has Physint, the upcoming stealth-action PlayStation exclusive in the works, but it feels a little early for that. Phantom Blade Zero, the flashy hack-and-slash action RPG from Chinese studio S-Game, is a safer bet.
And let’s not forget Microsoft, now a significant publisher of games on PlayStation. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set to launch on PS5 soon, so maybe we will see a release date announced. And could Microsoft use State of Play to finally announce the
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