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 accordance with Big Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, Sony Interactive Leisure is at the moment debating internally between the 2 fashions, the latter of which usually focuses extra on third-party video games and smaller bulletins.
“They may nonetheless have some enjoyable bulletins and so they may nonetheless begin bolstering expectations for 2026,” Grubb stated, of Sony’s advertising plans for the remainder of the 12 months.
“Internally it feels like they’re debating, and flopping between, possibly 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, meaning they’ll have a whole lot of stuff to speak about. And at that time, you’d positively anticipate to see Wolverine and a whole lot 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 Metallic Gear Strong Delta, and in depth seems to be at Spider-Man 2, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and extra.
Earlier this week, Sony premiered its newest State of Play dwell stream, which targeted totally on third-party video games equivalent to Borderlands 4 and Break 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).
