Sony is reportedly set to ship its now-standard February PlayStation State of Play broadcast subsequent week.
Leaker NateTheHate, who precisely revealed the date of Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal forward of time, took to social media to tease a State of Play for Valentine’s Day week (February 10 to 14).
It’s hypothesis time! What might Sony have up its sleeve for this 12 months’s State of Play? It’s price going via the first-party video games it has introduced and popping out in 2025. Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Yotei at present has a 2025 launch window. Perhaps we’ll get a contemporary take a look at gameplay and a launch date.
Meanwhile, Bungie’s PvP extraction shooter Marathon could also be set for a displaying if it nonetheless plans to open playtesting up this 12 months. There’s additionally Fairgames, the debut sport from Haven Studios. Naughty Dog not too long ago introduced its model new IP, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and Insomniac is engaged on Marvel’s Wolverine. More possible, maybe, is a contemporary trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which is ready for a 2025 launch.
What we received’t see are the varied reside service video games Sony not too long ago canned. Last month, Sony canceled two unannounced live-service video games that had been in improvement at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. The Bluepoint sport was reportedly a live-service God of War sport. Bend Studio’s live-service sport stays unknown. Guerrilla Games’ reside service Horizon sport reportedly survived the cull. Is it lastly time for a reveal?
Moving on to potential third-party bulletins, Kojima has Physint, the upcoming stealth-action PlayStation unique within the works, but it surely feels somewhat early for that. Phantom Blade Zero, the flashy hack-and-slash motion RPG from Chinese studio S-Game, is a safer guess.
And let’s not overlook Microsoft, now a major writer of video games on PlayStation. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is ready to launch on PS5 quickly, so possibly we are going to see a launch date introduced. And might Microsoft use State of Play to lastly announce the arrival of Halo on PlayStation?
In predicting the long run, it’s useful to look to the previous. Last 12 months’s equal State of Play showcased the likes of Death Stranding 2, Physint, Rise of the Ronin, the Until Dawn remaster, Stellar Blade, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Sonic x Shadow Generations, varied Silent Hill tasks, Ken Levine’s Judas, Foamstars, and Helldivers 2.
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