Grade the PS5 Conference

[Kai_Mao]

It’s a solid showing.
Ratchet and Clank’s new adventure looks awesome.
Horizon 2 looks cool, though I haven’t played the first one yet. Kinda interesting that it’s taking cues from Zelda BotW. Will it take the steps into the open world elements that elevated BotW?
Spider-Man Miles Morales looks like nice, kinda releasing as an “Uncharted Lost Legacy” type of game.
Never played a Souls game, but Demon Souls looks way different than its original form.
The rest were interesting. Though I feel that I saw more in-game footage rather than actual gameplay. What I mean is that, outside of R&C and Sackboy, I felt I saw games that were running on PS5, but not necessarily what I could imagine myself playing.

Still, great presentation. The console reveal was...interesting. I’m surprised Sony to a more unconventional approach to this new console. Looks weird, but eh.

The bigger questions are what are the launch (and launch window) titles and how much will the console cost? I can see it selling well, but I probably will wait a year or two once the price goes down. I’m personally not willing to pay $400-$500 for a console at this time. As for launch and launch window, it will be interesting. PS4 kinda sold on hype alone (and Xbox One screwing up) during its first year. It had the big third party titles (especially games like GTAV), but the first party titles appeared ok until Bloodborne over a year after the console released.

While we saw a lot of games, how many are going to be launch window/year one titles? Are we going to wait another year or two for some of them?