What will be in today’s PS5 State of Play?

Thursday’s letters page is desperate for a new Batman game, as a reader is shocked by how much money Star Citizen has raised so far.

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Prepare yourself
So here we are. Announced at the last possible moment and at 11pm, but finally we have confirmation that there will be a PlayStation showcase this month. Only it is not a showcase, but a state of affairs, and it only lasts half an hour. This is going to be such a nothingburger that the internet will be unbearable for weeks.

If there’s a bigger first party announcement than Astro Bot and Ghost Of Tsushima on PC, I’m going to start doing yoga (I’m using that as an example of something very unlikely). All we get are mid-level third-party reveals, games we already knew about, and a terrible feeling of disappointment.

I urge everyone to prepare for the worst and if, by some miracle, something interesting is announced, it will be a nice surprise. Personally, I don’t even know why Sony cares if they’re not going to do a good job with it, but who could possibly understand them lately.
Gary

Better than nothing?
So there will be a PlayStation event after all, but it will be a state of play event and not a showcase? That’s not a good sign, especially if it only lasts 30 minutes. I don’t see there’s anything major to say, especially since they haven’t confirmed any major first party games until next year.

I have to wonder why it’s even happening. Casual gamers wouldn’t notice if it was canceled, but now it’s inevitably overshadowed by the Xbox showcase, which will probably be good. It will definitely have a lot of games and last longer than 30 minutes – they spend that on Call Of Duty alone!

Sony keeps making strange decisions that seem to hurt it for no reason. Quietly admitting that you have no new games, in a statement that only hardcore gamers will know, is one thing, but publicly proving that you have nothing with a lukewarm preview event seems like an easily avoidable home goal.
Lamplighter

That Fledermaus returns
Glad to hear that the people in charge of Rocksteady apparently left early and set up their own studio. Although I thought Microsoft didn’t believe in exclusives? Or is that only when it suits them?

I know there’s been some uncertainty about whose idea exactly Suicide Squad was, but I think the fact that the first thing the studio is doing is a single-player game makes it pretty clear that even if Rocksteady made the first suggestion, this was not the case. happy with the direction it ultimately went.

It’s a shame they can’t make a Batman game because even if they make something like that, there are all these characters and gadgets that you just can’t make even with a similar concept. Maybe it’s just best to do something completely different, but still single-player. I’m looking forward to whatever it is, anyway.
Cantabile

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Xenu’s favorite game
Since Microsoft had bought Activision and spent a ton of money, for some bizarre reason I was thinking about what would have happened to Chris Robert’s and Cloud Imperium Games’ Star Citizen?

Lo and behold, a Eurogamer article came out claiming that the game/tech demo/alpha (take your pick!) has raked in $700 million, including $3 million in May alone!

All I can say is that I’m stunned. When Sony revealed that Spider-Man 2 cost £300 million, it makes you wonder what Cloud Imperium is planning. At this point, are there any GC readers invested in this and could they shed some light on what they think the outcome will be?

As it stands, this has to be the most expensive game ever made by a country mile. But the costs are entirely borne by the financiers, and not by a publisher. So what happens when everything breaks and they run out of money?
To be honest, it all sounds like Scientology to me…
ZiPPi

GC: It is an inexplicable amount for something that has yielded so little over such a long period of time.

Nothing but duty
I just saw that this year’s Call Of Duty will be on Game Pass day one, and Xbox is praying it helps them. I don’t see it working. A monthly subscription to Game Pass costs just under £9 per month. If you’re really a Call Of Duty-only player, you’ll play it for 12 months until the next Call Of Duty comes out.

Over the 12 months that’s around £120 for the year. You can buy the game for €70, which is a saving of €50. I don’t see it helping Xbox or Phil Spencer other than the money from sales alone. I really don’t see Game Pass subscriber numbers increasing, maybe a few, but not £69 billion more. But I’ll never know, I gave up the game years ago.
David

Open the door
I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of praise for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. I played the original but could barely remember it and the remake looks a lot better than I ever expected. I like how you can see that the characters are made from little pieces of kraft paper and everything is so weird and imaginative.

It’s also very funny. I love Luigi and Goombella (I like the idea of ​​her getting her own game, maybe some sort of collaboration with Toadette) and all the other characters. Everything feels so alive and surreal. It’s much more reminiscent of the original games, where things got really weird, but also with a great American script on top.

Nintendo would be crazy not to make the next Paper Mario game similar in style. I never play The Origami King, but from what I understand it was still not a roleplayer and that seems so pointless. Make a new game that’s a full-fledged role-player, with a fun script and lots of weird new characters – not just the ones that already exist.

I’m really hoping it’ll be an early Switch 2 game, but I think The Thousand-Year Door’s only release now means that probably won’t be the case. It does mean there’s a lot to look forward to in the future, once we get that first announcement.
Goobervis

Remote multiplayer
PlayStation Remote Play is missing an important feature, namely local multiplayer. I don’t want to lug around my PlayStation 5 to play multiplayer games. Sony would be wise to include multiplayer remote play.

I’ve always enjoyed local multiplayer games since the N64 and am not much of an online player anymore. Any other improvements to their remote play applications, such as higher resolution, are also welcome.
Shel

Batman forever
It’s great to hear that the founders of Rocksteady are back with their own company, but they’re clearly not going to be working on Batman anymore. I know Suicide Squad was bad, but the first three Batman: Arkham games were so good and it’s a crime we don’t have anymore. Origins and Gotham Knights were okay, but they’re just not the same. They are excellent copies of what came before, but they added nothing new.

James Gunn’s new cinematic universe is starting soon, and the first Batman game (not the Matt Reeves series) still seems a long way off and I’m not sure there’s a good chance we’ll get anything for that. We didn’t even do that seen the Wonder Woman game hasn’t yet and that was announced years ago.

Gunn said that the games would have the same continuity as the movies and other things, but that will likely only delay their development further. I doubt there’s even a real plan for anything else. Who would make the next game and what formats would it actually be for?

I just want another good Batman game, it’s been almost a decade now and I’m sure it will be many years before another one comes along – and there’s no guarantee this one will be any good.
AndyL

Inbox is also running
What happened to that reader who was away playing Sekiro a few weeks ago? Have we heard from them since, should we arrange a welfare check?
ANON

GC: Hehe, we don’t think so. Perhaps they gave up gaming out of disgust at its difficulty.

I’m glad to see that Stellar Blade has been a success, because it’s a great game. But this will only encourage them to do more perverted things. There are special websites for that kind of thing, just make a game that I can play for my girlfriend.
Loftus

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