State of Play - June 2nd (30 mins, 3rd party, VR + Horizon)

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shikamaru317 said:

Only 30 minutes, and only focused on 3rd party games and PSVR2? That is kind of a lame Summer Showcase for Sony compared to the rumored 90 minute one from Microsoft. I miss the old days of E3 where Xbox and Sony went all out against one another.

3rd party and PSVR 2 focus is making me think God of War Ragnarok is delayed, was previously leaked for a September release, but that is just 3 months after this June state of play and Ragnarok seemingly won't be there. Maybe it can still make a November release or something, but I suspect it may be delayed into Q1 2023, as Sony tends to avoid releasing their games on the Holiday period to instead focus on 3rd party marketing deals, like CoD MW2, CoD Warzone 2, and Hogwarts Legacy this year.

Sony prefer spreading their announcement out, if I'm not mistaken they gave their largest SOP of last year in October. So yeah, the times of everything being concentrated in the summer is over. Microsoft is the only hardware maker still doing traditional E3 scale events but the rest of of their year is pretty void. Last year they the aquisition news kind of made up for it but I don't think its the way to go, going forward