Although I agree with this, I don't think this rules out timed exclusives.

Right now Sony are simply not launching single player games on PC day and date. With the Launcher they could have that day & date experience and I think a fair number of PC gamers would use the Sony launcher to play Wolverine at Launch. It's an annoyance but not something that will deter most from an entire gameplay experience they're excited for. All the meanwhile Sony has lost nothing because they otherwise wouldn't be launching it on PC until 1 year+ later anyway. Come that point in the games life it will receive a wider Steam/Epic release as seen in their current PC strategy.

Personally not sure the value of a launcher on Sonys side if people only check in for a 2 games per year, but if the cross buy feature works across many more third party games that could be a potential trojan horse for Sony for people who game on both PC & Console.

State of Play Japan announced for tomorrow (30 hours from now), will be in japanese with english subtitles, focused on games developed in Japan and Asian countries.

Nioh 3 should be shown there, and hopefully we get some new games too.

Ace Combat 8... please?

Doubt we get Disgaea 8 there as NIS is closer to Nintendo these days, but would love to see it.

This sudden State of Play feels like a reactionary one after GTA6 has been officially delayed again. I could see many games unveiled here be slated sometime for the first half of next year. 

It looks like the Digital PS5 region locked for Japan will be officially announced here too. 

If the long rumoured Gravity Rush 2 remaster isn’t announced tomorrow I don’t believe it exists at all. I can’t hold off on my replay of that forever 😅 …

Trying to will a Dark Cloud 3 announcement into existence.

That's actually a legit thought that I never considered. It's a pretty easy conclusion to come to that a PC launcher is imminent as it's specifically cross-buy between PS5/PC.

And it would be an outright ridiculous idea to expect Valve and Epic Games to simply hand Steam and EGS keys away to PS5 users when they login to their corresponding accounts. Just makes 0 business or logical sense.

Biggest benefit of a PlayStation launcher on PC is Sony getting 100% of the revenue as there will no doubt be PC only gamers that would take advantage. But the biggest question would be, what other kind of incentives would PC users have in using a PS launcher? I was figuring maybe having PS+ on it on top of the benefits of trophies and cross-save, but day and date Sony first-party games with Steam/EGS getting ported a year or two later would be a MASSIVE incentive for PC users to use a PlayStation launcher.

Wonder if we'll finally get the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 2 FINALLY announced lol. It's been over 2 years now. And a tease at a Metal Gear Solid 1 remake would be awesome!

I lowkey just wanna see more Marvel Tokon lol

Tbf I never even heard it was rumored.

I doubt it has to do with GTA, it's focused on Japan and Asia, and even if GTA is big there it's really not even remotely close to be this impactful.

A cheaper digital PS5 for Japan should have come years ago, the thing is so expensive there it's shameful, Sony told them to fuck off so they fucked off and sales are abismal there.

Tokon really needs to have some chars announced to keep the hype high, it's strange it hasn't happened yet.