Sony's lack of first-party focus meant PlayStation Showcase felt like a letdown - and left PS5 without a clear roadmap
We're still a month away from the period formerly known as E3, but last night's PlayStation Showcase was designed to kick off the summer announcement season in style. More importantly for PlayStation 5 owners, it felt like the moment for Sony to detail its next wave of big PS5 exclusives - the ones PlayStation boss Jim Ryan seemed to tease early on in the proceedings, when discussing how developers were only just scratching the surface of what PS5 could produce.
These were the faintest of outlines for Sony's 2024 schedule, with Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 still positioned as this year's remaining big launch .Sony's thin spread of first-party peeks were interspersed among a far more impressive third-party line-up, spearheaded by the show's most popular moment here at Eurogamer: the announcement of Konami's long-rumoured Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, now with fancier visuals and a Greek letter in its title.
No wonder Microsoft took the oppurtunity for a chuckle. After a bruising first half of 2023 - with Redfall and Minecraft Legends failing to make an impact, and the company's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition floundering after being blocked by the UK - tonight should have been Sony's knock-out blow. Instead, it was the opposite - it highlighted a bunch of reasons you could own an Xbox instead.
But this wasn't what fans wanted from a PlayStation show, and by the time Sony's spotlight on Marvel's Spider-Man 2 rolled around - at this point, a relatively known quantity - the grumbles in the audience were audible.
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