The weekend was sweetened for us by Giantbomb editor and industry insider Jeff Grubb with fresh rumors about the still unofficially announced PS5 games showcase. According to Grubb, this will take place before the start of Summer Game Fest 2023.
Those responsible at Sony Interactive Entertainment are still reticent about their plans for the gaming summer of 2023.
In the past few weeks, however, Giant Bombs Jeff Grubb, who is considered a well-connected insider and who, citing his sources, has repeatedly reported that Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation are preparing a large PS5 games showcase, has provided plenty to talk about. In a recent statement, Grubb followed up and limited the period of the event, which is still not officially confirmed, a little.
According to Grubb, the PS5 Games Showcase will take place before the opening event of Summer Game Fest 2023 (June 8, 2023). However, Grubb could not or did not want to name a specific date. In addition, an official statement from Sony Interactive Entertainment is still a long time coming.
The next phase of the PS5 cycle?
As Grubb reported in late February, the upcoming PlayStation 5 Games Showcase will be an event with several exciting new announcements that will see Sony Interactive Entertainment and the company’s third-party partners “herald the next phase of the PS5 cycle.”
Statements that Grubb could have used to indicate that the days when the PlayStation 4 was still being considered by the various PlayStation studios are slowly but surely over. The fact that the internal studios are now only concentrating on the PS5 is shown, among other things, by the PS5-exclusive announcements of “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” or the “Burning Shores” expansion for Guerrilla Games’ action role-playing game “Horizon: Forbidden West”. .
Grubb also wanted to know that the PS5 Games Showcase will be used to announce Bluepoint Games’ next big project (“Demon’s Souls”), which has been rumored about for some time.
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The latest rumors surrounding the PS5 Games Showcase reached us shortly after E3 2023 was officially canceled this week. With the exit from the fair The organizers reacted to the fact that the leading names in the industry decided to cancel E3 2023 and to go for their own events or events like the Summer Game Fest 2023.
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