Perhaps unsurprisingly, PlayStation’s social media is already being peppered by disgruntled followers, determined for the format holder to step up its livestream recreation. “I hope you watched the showcase,” one fan wrote. “This is what we want.” Another added: “Bring us a showcase this good.” One extra merely settled for: “Learn from [the] Xbox Showcase, Sony.”
Of course, that is the form of overly reactive silliness that we’ve come to anticipate from social media, however it does current questions for PlayStation because it pushes ahead deeper into the technology. Sony has, in current years, modified its technique to give attention to imminent releases: its large video games from the current State of Play, the likes of Concord and Astro Bot, are due out inside three months. LEGO Horizon Adventures and Until Dawn don’t at the moment have dates, however aren’t anticipated to be too far behind.
Microsoft, on the different hand, spent a lot of time re-treading outdated floor right now: Avowed, Fable, Perfect Dark, and extra had been all first revealed a number of years in the past; Gears of War: E-Day, the large closing reveal, will possible present up at a number of extra reveals.
Sony, in the previous, was criticised closely for revealing video games too early into growth; now it finds itself underfire for not following that very same philosophy. It’s a case of damned in case you do, damned in case you don’t, then – however in the end, as we famous, the reception doesn’t lie. PlayStation hasn’t put collectively a universally praised presentation for fairly a whereas, and sooner or later, that might want to change.