Sony reportedly hasn’t determined whether or not to carry its annual PS5 showcase this summer season, or a smaller scale State of Play.
In response to Big Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, Sony Interactive Leisure is at present debating internally between the 2 fashions, the latter of which generally focuses extra on third-party video games and smaller bulletins.
“They might nonetheless have some enjoyable bulletins and so they might nonetheless begin bolstering expectations for 2026,” Grubb stated, of Sony’s advertising and marketing plans for the remainder of the 12 months.
“Internally it appears like they’re debating, and flopping between, perhaps making one thing this summer season a full showcase versus one other State of Play. However they’re contemplating a showcase.
“And if they’ve a showcase, which means they’ll have a number of stuff to speak about. And at that time, you’ll undoubtedly anticipate to see Wolverine and a number of different video games that would come out subsequent 12 months.”
PlayStation’s final ‘showcase’ occasion was in 2023, when it introduced a number of video games for PS5 and PSVR2, together with Steel Gear Strong Delta, and intensive appears to be like at Spider-Man 2, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and extra.
Earlier this week, Sony premiered its newest State of Play dwell stream, which centered totally on third-party video games reminiscent of Borderlands 4 and Cut up Fiction, however did finish with the shock reveal of Housemarque’s new IP, Saros.
It’s been a major week for Sony, as the corporate additionally revealed its newest monetary outcomes, which included information that PS5 loved its best-ever vacation interval in 2024 and has now cleared 75 million models shipped.
Launch-aligned, PlayStation 5 is now simply 1.5 million models behind PlayStation 4 throughout the identical interval of its lifecycle (76.5 million models).
