Cliff Notes – When is the next State of Play for PS5
- There is growing anticipation for a new State of Play presentation from Sony, with speculation suggesting it may occur around September or October, given the current lack of major announcements this year.
- The previous June presentation was deemed underwhelming, leading to concerns about the frequency and content quality of Sony’s updates, particularly as the year nears its end.
- The gaming community is eager for fresh announcements, especially regarding the PlayStation 6, as reliance on events like The Game Awards for news is seen as insufficient.
Games Inbox: When is the next State of Play for PS5?
It wasn’t long since the last one, even if it doesn’t seem that way (Sony)
The Wednesday letters page is shocked at how old Football Manager is, as one reader is very impressed with the money he saved on PS Plus.
PlayStation Direct
There’s so much chatter about a new Nintendo Direct that I can only assume it will happen this week but since I haven’t got a Switch 2 I’m only casually interested. What I am interested in though is when are we going to get a new State of Play? I know no-one knows but it feels like we haven’t any proper ones this whole year, given none have had any really big announcements.
The June not-E3 one was especially bad, to the point where I really don’t know why they even bothered. It seems to be about four months between each one, so I guess we’re looking at around September or October for the next?
The yea will be almost over by then, especially in terms of video game releases, and then we’ll just be relying on The Game Awards to announce new stuff… which Sony doesn’t tend to use. At some point they’re going to have to announce the PlayStation 6 too, so are they going to try and turn on the charm then or just make the reveal another boring blog?
Korbie
New name
I think the big mistake for Call Of Duty this year is making it another Black Ops. I assume this is because all their studios are out of alignment still, because they’re still not taking turns in the same order they used to, but I really think that the same thing twice in a row is just going to emphasise that these are the same games again and again.
I guess the logic was that Black Ops is set in lots of different time periods and it’ll seem different that way but then why not give it a different name? Make it seem more different even if it isn’t really. I’m not even sure what the last original one was. The WW2 game I guess but that barely counts, after that it’s… Infinite Warfare? That was a long time ago.
Expert, exclusive gaming analysis
If Battlefield 6 puts up more competition than usual, then I think that will be for the best for both series. EA needed to make a real effort with Battlefield and Activision needs a wake-up call to stop letting everything stagnate.
Wooshi
Battlefield magic
RE: Lotto’s email on 28th July. I fully agree that I am looking forward to Battlefield 6. I really enjoyed the series up to Battlefield 4 but didn’t gel with any of the settings or ideas after that.
Call Of Duty can be fun but it’s just a bit too arcadey for me. I find Battlefield has a deeper, strategic side which rewards tactics over just reflexes. I also enjoy it being less gimmicky than Call Of Duty, which has ridiculous skins and weapon effects.
Not to mention I am looking forward to a game which won’t be out of favour 12 months after launching. When you spend so much on a game, knowing that it will be ‘old’ in a year or less really puts me off.
Fingers crossed Battlefield 6 recaptures some of the old magic!
Brando
Too obvious
HD Rumble was an incredible addition to the Switch. The marble-counting minigame in 1-2-Switch was incredible, but unfortunately, barely any games truly took advantage of this function, not even Nintendo themselves.
I get the feeling the same is going to happen with the mouse controls for Switch 2. But maybe (hard to predict Nintendo, of course) they’re going to release a new Super Mario Maker and possibly Zelda Dungeon Maker (expand the one in Link’s Awakening?) to showcase the benefits of mouse controls. Mario Paint just dropped on the Switch Online catalogue, so there is hope!
ttfp saylow (gamertag)
Now playing: Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
GC: We agree that a Super Mario Maker seems a no-brainer, but then again Nintendo rarely does the obvious thing.
80s management
I’m going to be honest, I had no idea that Football Manager went back so far. 1982 is crazy for any franchise to still be going today. I can think of a couple of arcade games (including Mario/Donkey Kong) and that’s about it.
I got curious about it all though, after reading your story, and after a quick search on YouTube came up with this video of Kevin Toms playing the game in the modern day. Fascinating stuff to me as a 32-year-old, as the original game both looks impossibly prehistoric and also strangely similar to the current version. It is still football at the end of the day, I suppose, but still crazy that the concept is that old.
DrEd
Only in America
I actually would’ve liked to have seen a Horizon spin-off set in China, which seems to have been original idea of this Tencent clone game. I really am sick of playing games set in the US and there are a whole bunch of franchises, like Fallout and GTA that are always set there, for no reason other than that’s where the most customers are.
Except that probably wouldn’t be the case if publishers were more willing to reach out and feature other countries. We’ve seen how things like Black Myth: Wukong have done on Steam, purely because of China, but do you think GTA 6 is going to do that well over there? Or whatever Fallout game finally comes out next.
Europe may be used to putting up with games set in America, because they won’t set ones here, but China and India and other emerging markets won’t. They’ll either make their own games or just ignore the whole concept.
It’s a shame because everyone would benefit from more variety in settings. I’d much rather the next Fallout was set somewhere else than the US, because it being in the US really isn’t important, even though you could make that argument for GTA. But even then a change would be far better than a rest, especially as there already is a GTA game set in London.
Mork
Retro immersion
I really like that Nintendo has released Mario Paint for Switch 2 but I really wish they’d get rid of those ugly borders for their emulated stuff, it is so unnecessary and completely ruins the retro immersion as far as I’m concerned.
I’m sure people have been complaining about that for years but Nintendo never listens, which is for good and bad. Mostly good though, so I won’t whine too much. I really hope they accelerate their GameCube plans though, because at this rate – and based on how they’ve been previous generations – the Switch 3 will be knocking on the door an they’ll only have got round to the very basics.
Scolom
Cheap thrills
So, I got a PlayStation 5 not long after launch, not owning a PlayStation since the PlayStation 2 I knew there were a few games I’d missed out on but honestly, after I played the excellent God Of War reboot it gathered dust really, as I had an Xbox Series X and was mainly using that until God Of War Ragnarök came out and my dad passed away, which left me a little time off to enjoy that amazing game.
Then I sold the PlayStation 5 and my Xbox Series X, as I found out I had a funeral to pay for. I picked up a cheap second-hand Xbox Series S for around £150 and that kept me busy. Then last month my TV broke. So I decided to upgrade to a lovey 65” 120Hz TV which almost looked sad when I plugged the Xbox Series S in. Then I walked past Cash Converters and they had a PlayStation 5 slim disk version for £280, so I put a deposit down and got it about 10 days ago.
I have to say, with a £10 subscription to PS Plus, I have blitzed thorough God Of War again, The Last Of Us Part 1, Astro Bot, and started off on Ragnarök, Cyberpunk 2077, and Ghost Of Tsushima. All I can say is how impressed I have been. Had I had a PlayStation 4, maybe I wouldn’t be so impressed but with all those under my belt, plus anything I can get through in the next 20 days, I have to admit for £290 I’ve been absolutely spoilt rotten.
And I still have a huge list of games to get through. So thank you Xbox, for making such a mess of this generation and convincing me to jump ship. I have more than enough to keep me busy until the next generation, which I will not be joining early. And people say gaming is expensive!
Phil
Inbox also-rans
Lewis Hamilton was a skin in Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare?! That was nine years ago! People complaining about unrealistic skins need to realise this stuff has been going on for a lot longer than they realise.
Kepler
Who says Nintendo games never get good sales? Look at this bargain and it was only released a week ago.
Mark Matthews
That’s as cheap as it’s ever likely to get (Mark Matthews)
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