PlayStation promises us a look at the future of gaming, in their rescheduled PlayStation 5 event, which is set to take place later today. There's not much time left before the show kicks off, so settle in, get your memes and popcorn, and be sure to have your hype train boarding pass. The event will begin at 1pm PDT, 3pm CDT, 9pm BST, and if you don't know what any of those are in your local timezone, check out the countdown below this post.

We'll be covering the event live, so if you're unable to tune in, check this thread periodically to see all the latest announcements, with the biggest reveals to be highlighted at the end of the conference.

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Roundup Highlights

• Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart announced.
• Resident Evil VIII announced.
• Horizon Zero Dawn 2 confirmed.
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure revealed.
• Demon's Souls remake is finally real.
• There will be a PS5 Digital Edition.

Live Coverage

We get to see the history of previous PlayStation exclusives

Grand Theft Auto V will be enhanced on the PS5, coming 2021.
GTA Online will be free for PS5 owners.

The next reveal is Spider-Man: Miles Morales, launches holiday 2020.

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Grand Turismo is back in the 7th entry.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart announced. We get to see both cinematic and gameplay footage.

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Square Enix's Luminous Productions reveals Project Athia, will be exclusive to PS5.

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Annapurna's latest game shows a cat walking through a small city full of robots. It's called Stray. 2021.

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HouseMarque is developing a game about a woman who crashed her spaceship on a planet and died, only to wake up on a planet that changes each time she wakes up. Returnal.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a new title in the Little Big Planet series. It's a 3D platformer.

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This next game is about destruction derbies titled Destruction Allstars.

Play as a small girl who can control various creatures in a large foresty world in Kena: Bridge of Spirits.

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Goodbye Volcano High launches 2021 and is about highschool aged animals in a band.

A new Oddworld game was announced, subtitled Soulstorm.

Ghostwire Tokyo is back again, with some new gameplay footage. 2021.

Superbrothers is developing a game about space travel. Holiday 2020.

Gearbox is working on a game that focuses on melee combat. Called Godfall. Holiday 2020.

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The void is calling, in this 3D exploration game that looks very similar to Journey. It's called Solar Ash. 2021.

There's a new Hitman game coming in Hitman III, due out Jan 2021.

PlayStation has a new 3D platformer in the form of Astro's Playroom, looking to possibly be a demo game for new users.

Little Devil Inside seems to be a comedic game with 3D action.

Googly eyed living strawberries and sandwich snakes exist peacefully in this new game made by the Octodad devs. Bugsnax. Holiday 2020.

NBA 2k21. Fall 2020.

Demon's Souls finally gets its remake. Made by Bluepoint.

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Arkane is working on a very Dishonored-like game about time loops. Cool powers and guns will be how you get further each loop and kill all eight of your targets before midnight. Deathloop.

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Resident Evil VIIIage (village) is the next Resident Evil game. 2021.

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A man in a large mechanical suit talks to a small girl and her digital robot cat as a monster crashes through the sky in Pragmata coming 2020 from Capcom.

Horizon Zero Dawn 2 confirmed. Forbidden West.

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[Xzi]

Can someone give me a tl;dw summary? I know there's one with a disc drive and one without, and have a general idea of the games, but was a price announced, or is Sony going to pull its usual Last-Stand-Anime-Battle trick of waiting to undercut the other guy at launch?

No price announced yet. I'm sticking with a guess of about $500, and XBSX coming in closer to $600.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Since RE8 got announced, I'm curious as to what the best versions of the prior seven (eight?) games are, along with any important side games. The RE:makes count as the originals.

 

[Reploid]

Boring generic crap only? Oh well, that's sony for you

 

[KingVamp]

I missed Kena: Bridge of Spirits and well, it looks pretty good.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Removing the optical drive is -50 dollars, so yea its pretty dumb not to get the normal edition
a digital version worries me though, it's making me think we won't see a slim version down the line

My guess is $150-$200 difference.

 

[Centrix]

Well, color me impressed, love the design and the games look incredible, looks like Microsoft will have there work cut for them once again lol ;P

 

[Xzi]

My guess is $150-$200 difference.

For an internal blu-ray drive? They're $50 on the consumer market, so Sony can definitely churn them out for even less. Any additional discount for the digital edition beyond that would be solely out of the goodness of Sony's heart, so don't expect much.

 

[Deleted User]

Maybe the price is the same for both models but the Digital only has more ssd space. That would be smart... One System one price

 

[DarkSeele]

The PS5 design memes have started strong pic.twitter.com/C7nwEg4W17

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 11, 2020

That looks like a fan mock-up for the ps3 and the “collar” is a bit much.

 

[MikaDubbz]

With the Vita dead, Sony's continued interest in remote play, and the fact that Sony sent their players a survey a few months back asking if they'd be into the possibility of this, do you think it's possible that Sony might work with Nintendo to allow PS5 owners to remote play their system with a Switch? Like I'm sure it will still allow Vita owners to do so, but those lack some key buttons, and they aren't in nearly as many people's hands as Switchs are which only continue to get into more people's possessions by the day. It could definitely be mutually beneficial, encouraging the sales of both devices, as you would need both to make use of it, and Sony straight up asked recently about the possibility of remote playing the PS4 with a Switch, so this may not be as impossible as one might initially think.

I dunno why this is where my head has gone, but remote play and psvr were pretty big things for the PS4 that many would like to be implemented into the PS5. And while I suspect PSVR is going to be a part of the PS5 and continue to see support and maybe even a new model there, I'm not sure to what end remote play will continue. Like I'm sure they'll allow our smartphones and if we still own Vitas, to play that way. But they must recognize how perfect the Switch would be for that feature, and how many gamers already have one at that. It gets my conspiracy gears grinding. I'm sure there are some legit reasons not to have such cross-promotion, but it really does seem like it could be very synergistic in practice.

 

[_abysswalker_]

Everyone says it looks like a wifi router, can anyone make a comparison? I personally haven't seen wifi routers with that sandwich design. or with the two tone colours, etc.

You need a pinch of imagination to make it so

 

[Rahkeesh]

With the Vita dead, Sony's continued interest in remote play, and the fact that Sony sent their players a survey a few months back asking if they'd be into the possibility of this, do you think it's possible that Sony might work with Nintendo to allow PS5 owners to remote play their system with a Switch? Like I'm sure it will still allow Vita owners to do so, but those lack some key buttons, and they aren't in nearly as many people's hands as Switchs are which only continue to get into more people's possessions by the day. It could definitely be mutually beneficial, encouraging the sales of both devices, as you would need both to make use of it, and Sony straight up asked recently about the possibility of remote playing the PS4 with a Switch, so this may not be as impossible as one might initially think.

I dunno why this is where my head has gone, but remote play and psvr were pretty big things for the PS4 that many would like to be implemented into the PS5. And while I suspect PSVR is going to be a part of the PS5 and continue to see support and maybe even a new model there, I'm not sure to what end remote play will continue. Like I'm sure they'll allow our smartphones and if we still own Vitas, to play that way. But they must recognize how perfect the Switch would be for that feature, and how many gamers already have one at that. It gets my conspiracy gears grinding. I'm sure there are some legit reasons not to have such cross-promotion, but it really does seem like it could be very synergistic in practice.

Neither company really cares about selling consoles per say, those aren't high profit margins. They want to sell games and accessories for their own console.

Playing Sony games on your Switch is super convenient, so you buy more Sony games and fewer NIntendo ones. Not clear what Nintendo is getting out of this.

Rumor was that Sony is researching some kind of portable "companion device" for PS5. That might still surface at some point, even if not this year. In the meantime it would just be phones and android handhelds, since Google/Apple are still allowing that kind of app in their store.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Neither company really cares about selling consoles per say, those aren't high profit margins. They want to sell games and accessories for their own console.

Playing Sony games on your Switch is super convenient, so you buy more Sony games and fewer NIntendo ones. Not clear what Nintendo is getting out of this.

Rumor was that Sony is researching some kind of portable "companion device" for PS5. That might still surface at some point, even if not this year. In the meantime it would just be phones and android handhelds, since Google/Apple are still allowing that kind of app in their store.

Hmm,not sure that makes sense, especially since Sony already allows remote play with smartphones they don't even manufacture. I can't think of many owners of both the latest PlayStation and the latest Nintendo that stop buying exclusives for one system and only then buy exclusives for the other. Chances are, if you have both, you're getting exclusives for both. Now 3rd parties might get hurt (someone who might buy a game like Rocket League on the PS4 might then buy Rocket League on the Switch to play on the go, with remote play, that would hurt the demand from such a group of people in getting multiple copies of the same game). BUT, third parties would have no say if such a deal were made, and I'm sure Sony and Nintendo do see some money from third party titles sold, but that number will surely be considerably smaller than the exclusive 1st and 2nd party titles.

Frankly, if anything, it could increase the sales of games for both systems. Such a scenario could encourage owners of one device to now get the other, and suddenly they're exposed to a whole extra world of great exclusives, and now you're buying great games for both systems. Again, this could be a brilliant little space to find some great synergy for both companies if they handled it properly.

 

[Deleted User]

I like Sackboy, Ratchet and Returnal - can‘t wait to play them.

 

[TunaKetchup]

Deathloop has an interesting premise, but it seems a shoutout of how we gamers, tend to use save/load feature to restart our game. it can be a hit and miss because its premise - restarting a game for a trial and error is not a new feature.

Deathloop is cross-platform

 

[MikaDubbz]

Deathloop has an interesting premise, but it seems a shoutout of how we gamers, tend to use save/load feature to restart our game. it can be a hit and miss because its premise - restarting a game for a trial and error is not a new feature.

Really it's nothing all that new at all, its like that Blinx game for the Xbox and one of the Prince of Persia games, both allowed you to rewind time after you make a mistake so you can fix an error. Hell, in that very same PS5 presentation there appeared to be another game with a similar premise: Returnal.

 

[xs4all]

Mmmm, dunno, nothing wowed me, first gen games looks like PS4 Pro.

 

[Shadowghul91]

 

[TheSpiritofFF7]

Mmmm, dunno, nothing wowed me, first gen games looks like PS4 Pro.

Hmm, yeah, the promo pre-rendered movies for them maybe. But you have to remember the disclaimer that everything from the presentation was running on the hardware itself.

 

[TotalJustice]

The only thing that interested me was the game called Stray. Cyberpunk cat game? I didn’t see that coming.

Everything else blurred into one, nothing new there. The console design is alright, not bad but certainly not great either.