{"id":7467,"date":"2025-05-15T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2025-05-15T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:23:22","slug":"games-inbox-is-there-going-to-be-a-ps5-state-of-play-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/games-inbox-is-there-going-to-be-a-ps5-state-of-play-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Is there going to be a PS5 State of Play this summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least Ghost Of Y\u014dtei is out this year (Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Thursday letters page worries what will happen if the new Marvel games are flops, as one reader laments the slow death of physical games.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Summer schedule<\/strong>
I really hope that Sony<\/a> is planning to make more first party games<\/a> but I have a feeling there\u2019s no going back to how things were. It\u2019s been too long and too much has changed, including Sony still selling tons of PlayStation 5s even without any proper exclusives and Xbox<\/a> going multiformat.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s reasonable to hope they will do more though. We can\u2019t stop them making any more live service games but they do seem to at least be slowing down a bit. The problem is that slowing up doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll speed up with single-player games instead. They could just end up making less overall, like they have over the last few years.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got Ghost Of Y\u014dtei this year, which I\u2019m not super excited about (I\u2019d had enough of the last one by halfway through) but I am very interested in seeing Returnal follow-up Saros<\/a> next year, so hopefully things are slowly turning around.<\/p>\n

I want to be optimistic, but the problem is there\u2019s no sign of Sony having a not-E3 State of Play showcase this summer. The past two years they\u2019ve had it at the end of May and I think we\u2019ve probably gone past the point they were going to announce it if it was happening. I hope I\u2019m wrong, or maybe it\u2019s later in June for some reason, but it doesn\u2019t look good.
RaeBonn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your story is another castle<\/strong>
I see the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel has had its name leaked as Super Mario World. I\u2019m not sure your average Joe is going to get that reference, but would they actually bother doing an adaptation of the game\u2019s story? Does the game even have a story? I\u2019ve beaten it twice and I honestly can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

Looking at Wikipedia, apparently it was all in the manual and basically Bowser kidnapped Peach and some dinosaur eggs. There\u2019s so little to work with I really have no idea what direction any of these films could do to justify themselves as anything other than a cash-in. The Paper Mario games are the only ones with an actual plot, but even then that\u2019s not what\u2019s good about them.
Austin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Risky business<\/strong>
I\u2019ve got a bad feeling about these upcoming Marvel games<\/a>. I imagine Wolverine will be fine, but that Iron Man game will be almost two decades too late by the time it comes out. And I can\u2019t believe many people are interested in a Captain America and Black Panther team-up set in World War 2.<\/p>\n

Normally I\u2019d just shrug my shoulders and write it off as an incoming flop but nowadays that means the whole studio could go down and how many hundreds of people are working on these two games?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exaggerating either. Consider what happened to Firaxis after the (excellent) Midnight Suns flopped. All the lead developers left, the studio was fractured (I don\u2019t think it was a coincidence that Civilization 7 was a rare dud), and now we\u2019ll never get an XCOM 3.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know these developers behind Iron Man and the other one as well, but I do know that lots of jobs are now in danger, just because EA was late jumping on a bandwagon.
Cerates<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reliable reputation<\/strong>
Glad to hear GC got Power Stone back<\/a><\/strong> and I like the sound of all the effort Capcom put into the collection and the reasonable price. I\u2019ve never really been into fighting games, so it\u2019s not really of interest to me. But it Does make me think better of Capcom, for when something else I am interested in comes up.<\/p>\n

I wish this was something other publishers thought of, especially as Capcom is doing so well, financially speaking, at the moment. But unfortunately EA and Activision, and even Ubisoft to a degree, just rely on their big franchises and don\u2019t really put out much else anyway.<\/p>\n

Sony is another example of doing this well, because their reputation for first party games really wasn\u2019t that great until the PlayStation 4. They just built it up and became someone to rely on. Them throwing that all away now is so strange.
Griefer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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