Sony has never been shy about announcing games that aren’t out for years, with only pre-rendered trailers, so why have they suddenly stopped now, when there’s an open goal in front of them? They could have a dozen announced games right now, for people to look forward to, and I have no idea why they haven’t. Microsoft isn’t talking about anything because they’ve got nothing close to being ready but surely Sony must have? Their output doesn’t rely on a bunch of newly acquired studios so where are the new games from Bend, Sucker Punch, Team Asobi, and the rest? I don’t know what they’re waiting for or what the delay is, and clearly they don’t want to tell us, but it seems to me a serious marketing mistake. The obvious thing missing from Sony though was any new first party games, or indeed anything other than God Of War. Tekken 8 looked good and so did Rise Of The Ronin and the Yakuza remake.

In terms of Sony, I also thought that was the best God Of War Ragnarök trailer by far, the first to get me excited for the game for any reason other than I liked the first one. I’m not a fan of Octopath Traveler, and the sequel isn’t an exclusive, but there were some interesting games amongst the third party stuff, especially the new one from the Danganronpa team.

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