Updated OP! What are your thoughts on the SoP? I'd personally give it an 7 out of 10. Honestly, it really should've been broken up into a Partner Showcase and a first-party presentation. There was enough for each presentation to exist independently.

- As a video game presentation, it featured new info on a lot of great games coming in the near future. Only complaint is that there weren't many new reveals. Rayman was a major highlight, though literally every detail down to in-game screenshots were leaked well before the presentation. Bancho and Stuntman were also neat inclusions.

- As a first-party presentation, however, it's about what you would expect from Sony. Wolverine — while a bit too gore for me — looks like it'll be fantastic; the Tōken character reveal seems to have been a crowd pleaser (though I'm not too invested in this game), Until Dawn 2 is a cool reveal, and... well... I will say that Sony did a masterful job revealing God of War Fae: Simply running 20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay is EXACTLY how any big game should be revealed. No need for nonsense cinematics that merely serve to drum up hype and decieve consumers. Granted, there was a lot of cinematics and very little in the actual playing of the game. But I guess that's kinda what you should come to expect with modern day GoW games.

Meh for me. Only two exclusives that I care about, everything else is available elsewhere. I think the problem, for me, via consoles is simply the lack of exclusives. Back in the day there were so many ps2 games that weren't on PC. not anymore. Plus, there are so many games I want to play but haven't found the time, missing out on two exclusives means nothing to me anymore. Of course, those without a PC, I would think, would rate their showing quite a bit higher.

Laufey should be early 2027 according to the leaks but I'd be surprised if Intergalactic isn't cross-gen at this point.

If that's the case bizarre they didn't give a "2027" like Until Dawn 2.

OT: Severe lack of new first party announcements. Bend, Media Molecule and Naughty Dog have still gone the whole gen without releasing anything lol. Sony just aren't releasing enough games.

I enjoyed Stuntdriver, Ace Combat 8 and Rayman reveals, but I don't give PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo any credit for showing someone else's trailer in their show.

Wolverine looks good, I'm amazed there were people saying it's not violent enough because it lacks dismemberment lmao. Personally I'll probably turn the gore off.

It's the most viewed state of play and the one with the most likes on YouTube so... While I found it very disappointing it was big.

I agree with this sentiment, though specifically as it pertains to PlayStation (and especially Xbox). This presentation didn't really have me thinking "man I wish hadn't sold my PS5 and XBSX a few months ago." Not a lot of games that I can't already play on my PC or NS2.

That said, the Wolverine and GoWFae portion of the presentation was enough for me to walk away quite pleased with what was shown. In addition to reveals such as Rayman and new info on a lot of third-party, I'd say that it was a pleasent presentation overall. Definitely nothing to send people out in droves to purchase a PlayStation, but if you already own a system, then you've got some exciting games to look forward to.

I thought it was good. It didnt really do much for me personally, but thats mostly because of the new announcements I found a bit underwhelming. Still interested in Wolverine, Onimusha, ILL and a few others.

Very good. 8/10.

Even the games that weren't my cup of tea were actually very impressive or solid enough. Aside from the big hitters I really liked the look of The Lost Wild.
Kemuri looked great and inspired, in spite of me not caring much for online stuff. Ill looked amazing graphically and like a very ambitious horror title. Phantom Blade and Omnishua, both brilliant...

Main complaint was lack of diversity, no JRPGs, 3D platformer or experimental games with great execution behind it. Honestly it made me very thankful to have a Switch 2 because I know that Nintendo will do a lot more gameplay first titles that experiment with concepts (Yoshi for example). Although having said that I haven't been interested in any Nintendo's first party line up so far this year.

It would be a 9/10 if Rayman was an original 3D adventure and if we had something big from a JRPG studio. 10 if we had some more inventive gameplay titles.

"Not for Me" best reflects my feelings but its placing on the poll at 4/10 is definitely too low.

First off, pretty much every single heavy-hitter was shown running on the PS5 Pro. I understand that Sony wants to represent these games at the highest possible level for maximum effect but it's a shame that there's not enough faith in the base PS5's performance to simply show the games running the way the majority of people will experience them.

Secondly, most of these titles were games that I might get around to buying on sale eventually if I already had a PS5 (such as Wolverine) but there was nothing there that makes me want one any more than before; particularly when it comes to exclusives/1st party fare, Tomb Raider did look surprisingly good and Rayman looked ok too but both are coming to Switch 2, for example.

Basically, if you like what the PS5 has largely been about all of this time then I could understand how more of this would fit the bill nicely. Laufey is the perfect example of this: Nice graphics, incredible presentation and high production values wrapped up in a game that, so far, simply doesn't interest me - much like the other recent God of War games.

Although I would give this SOP a 6/10 I had to vote "Meh" in the end.

It was as good as it could be with the current state of Sony exclusives. Slow cooking, because their time and effort has been spent elsewhere recently. At least Wolverine is going to be out soon.
The third party games were meh to me personally.