Cliff Notes – No PlayStation showcase this summer suggest insiders as Sony waits till autumn
- Insiders indicate that Sony is unlikely to hold a summer showcase, potentially delaying announcements until September.
- Despite the upcoming release of Death Stranding 2, Sony may opt to reveal major titles during Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest instead.
- Anticipation builds around potential reveals of Japanese games, including Kingdom Hearts 4 and Resident Evil 9, at the Summer Game Fest.
No PlayStation showcase this summer suggest insiders as Sony waits till autumn
Sony is not thought to be planning any showcase or State of Play event this summer, as insiders tease big Japanese game reveals for Geoff Keighley’s show.
Over the past five years, Sony has held either a State Of Play presentation or a PlayStation Showcase during the months of May or June. This in turn is the continuation of a decades long tradition of preview events originally timed to coincide with the now defunct E3 expo.
Along with Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony has always kept to the same basic schedule (although recently they’ve preferred late May to early June), while third party publishers have relied on Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest.
The Xbox showcase is already scheduled for June 8 but given the Switch 2 launch in the same week it’s unclear what Nintendo will do. Sony has said nothing so far about an event but multiple insiders suggest that they may not have any presentation until September.
Earlier this week, reliable insider NateTheHate, aka NateDrake, (who, amongst other things, accurately predicted the Switch 2 reveal date) has said he still hasn’t ‘heard anything about a May event from Sony for this year’.
This was supported by fellow insider John Harker, who responded to a post in the same ResetEra thread, which speculated Sony was targeting September for its next event. ‘Indeed,’ he wrote in response.
While there’s a chance Sony could announce a show over the next two weeks, and blindside everybody, there are usually whispers from insiders in the weeks prior – so the lack of any information suggests Sony might not hold any presentation this summer.
If true, this would be somewhat surprising, considering Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is just around the corner, on June 26, and there are rumours of a new God Of War game, but it’s possible Sony could showcase these during the main Summer Game Fest show.
In fact, in a separate post, NateTheHate has said he knows ‘of a few Japanese games being shown and/or revealed at Summer Game Fest’, which could include Sony.
This post was in response to a ResetEra user who asked if Japanese games will have a big presence at the show, with Kingdom Hearts 4, Resident Evil 9, Persona 6, and the successor to Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth named as their dream reveals.
While it’s unclear if he was being sarcastic, NateTheHate replied: ‘Your expectations don’t seem too high, so you should be ‘thrilled’ per your own words.’
Square Enix recently provided an update on Kingdom Hearts 4 for the first time in years, so it’s possible a new trailer is on the horizon. Similarly, Capcom appeared to tease Resident Evil 9 in a video last month, while rumours of a Persona 4 remake have also accelerated recently – so there’s a chance they will all pop up in some capacity.
Although there’s normally always a Nintendo Direct in early or mid June the timing of the Switch 2 launch makes it very hard to predict what they might do. But if they do miss their usual spot there’s likely to be another Direct in the late summer.
