Rumour: Could We See a Release Date for God of War Ragnarok at Summer Game Fest?

If it is I wonder why Sony just didn't take the State of Play, the GoW:R trailer + maybe some other stuff like the rumored TLoU Remake (if it exists) and made a Playstation Showcase instead

@mariomaster96 i certainly hope theres a release date confirmed at summer game fest. also i hope they also reveal the tlou remaster.

If it's actually coming this year, we should hear about it soon.

It could.we will see.word up son

It's definitely a possibility now that Playstation exclusives are eventually reaching a wider audience with PC releases. Putting such a huge triple A game like Ragnaroks release date for PS5 on a more wider audience show makes a lot of sense rather than just a more Playstation fans focused SoP

I don't know what to think in truth. A release date seems more like something Sony themselves would want to announce. A State of Play type situation to me seems the 'most' likely so that Sony can benefit from control of the announcement - after al, if people watch their show on Social Media sites, Sony will earn money.

With talk about vocal work only being finished relatively recently too, I don't know if we are 'close' enough to being able to give a date this 'year' and guarantee it. I don't know how far along the majority is, but they must still need to animate and install the scenes they recently recorded vocal work for.

Mixed messages - some seem to be indicating a Holiday 22 release is on schedule, whilst others seem to lead me to believe there is still quite a bit to do and then of course put those pieces together in a cohesive and polished end product.

Therefore I am not expecting to hear a release date for GoW:R at Summer Game Fest and even though I think its unlikely, its not unfeasible or completely unrealistic either

Spring 2023. I refuse to allow myself to be disappointed by believing it’s coming this year 😫

If is coming this year it’s gotta be soon

I am 99.9% sure either God of War or Overdose will end the show. But I am 100% sure God of War will be there in some capacity, maybe gameplay, maybe a story trailer

@mariomaster96 Sony wants E3 to be gone forever (you can tell that from how Sony have spoke about E3 since the infamous E3 2018 conference) and giving Geoff Keighley big announcements for the main Summer Game Fest show increases the chance of that becoming reality.

If it does happen, I think we won't see a showcase from Playstation until September.

Announcing a release date tomorrow, and do that for it's biggest franchise in a 3rd party show, would be a weird illogical action on Sony's part. They just had a State of Play of their own last week, if the date was ready to be revealed, it would have been there. Why wait one more week for a 3rd party show to do it? Their own State of Play is watched by millions, it's not like Game Fest would have by far a much bigger audience.
As for the date itself, imo, even in the highly unlikely case they announce a date tomorrow at Game Fest, or next month in another State of Play, it's still gonna be delayed and gonna release next year, in February-April period.

I'd be shocked at this point if it's not at Summer Game Fest. It makes sense why they wouldn't put this in the SoP since God of War is a series Playstation wants to show off to as many people as possible. Game Fest will have players of all platforms tuning in so Sony is going to want market it to those folks.

The impression I have is, like HFW last year, they're not 100% sure they're releasing this year, they might, they might not, and want to wait to say anything until they're sure. Signs port to it like the Korean rating board etc, and yet, if they aren't playing some kind of game by giving it to Keighley they'd have announced it if they were sure. I think it's TBD.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah, like I was talking about in responses to Sammy in the E3 thread, there's a very palpable sense of politics involving E3 from Layden and Sony itself, beyond the usual dev dislike of the cost/crunch of E3. There's something between Sony and ESA that is purely political going on for a long time. Which is weird because Sony practically owned the ESA. It's an industry group made up of the major industry players, and, like RIAA and MPAA, Sony more or less controlled it (Remember the RIAA's crusade against digital music in the late 90's/early 00's? That was mostly Sony's crusade with RIAA as a front.) Maybe that's what went wrong, they lost control and had to share it, and like Sauron, Sony does not share power. Different publishers seem to have different positions on E3, but only Sony seems to have been at war with ESA since back when E3 was still full speed.

TBH I'm not fussed, we get it when we get it and will be worth the wait no matter what.

Well Sony is on the list of developers/publishers in the show so why not this. A quick teaser with a date and saying more to follow soon. Get everyone talking about a Sony game at a mixed event then put out a SoP in a month or two for the full blow out.
The precedent has been set with Horizon doing the date at one of these.

When Sony were announced for the show, my expectation was that we'd get the release date confirmation, possibly with an announcement of a deep dive state of play in the next couple of weeks. Find out tomorrow i guess? I can see Sony wanting to do something to make a splash before or after the Xbox presser

LOL no we will not.

I read, elsewhere, that the placeholder date of sept 30, was changed to dec 31. Make of that, what you wish. It's just information I came across.

It is pretty possible because last year they showed Horizon in their state of play and a couple weeks later they showed it again in the Game Awards. They just gifted GOW "for everyone" on PS+ so it has to be to hype the game otherwise they could just give another awful game as many other months before lol, their last state of play was very good because they set expectations low but if they mentioned something about first party or "surprises" maybe the show would be ruined by hype so it was a good decision not to include anything first party (outside horizon experience) and they know there was the possibility of more people watching the summer show that the last state of play so more people could watch the release date.

Just let them finish it. It's already going to be a letdown since they're rushing the story. At least let them make it as polished as possible.