PS Showcase Demonstrated Sony's Efforts to Offer 'Best and Most Varied Catalog of Games', Jim Ryan Claims

It had lots of games it just felt like a Geoff Keighley showcase and not a PlayStation one 😔

Jim miseading the temperature in the room there methinks.

Obviously he isnt going to come out and acknowledge the sense of disapointment in the room. But he should close the quote by saying we have lots more to show you later this year - rather than keeping us guessing about when they will talk to us again like they did for the past 600 days

They really need him to stay quiet. Every time he speaks up he only makes things worse.

Under Ryan's leadership, PlayStation's finger has been way off the pulse, and lack of competition is breeding overconfidence. Xbox have never had a better chance to gain some momentum now. Bring back the PS4 head honchos.

tbh something feels off about this showcase.

like things where cut at the last minute,or it was originaly planned to be a state of play but they knew they could not go 2 years without a showcase,resulting in this rather rushed showcase.

also the way they revealed those live service games felt like an obligation because they spend money on buying those studios and they needed to show something for it. i mean concord was just a logo reveal!
we had to find out it was a pvp MP shooter in a blog post...

The ego is strong in this one.

I feel they holding back alot stuff for the summer show that Geoff is going to do I'm just happy that at least we got a date for granblue relink.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk that is the most accurate thing about it. It was above all quite boring (like all Geoff's shows)

Says fans deserve "amazing content"

I agree. Which is why the Showcase was so frustrating.

Lots of live service games, and lots of shooters. It certainly didn't feel very varied.

Sorry, but there is no legit positive way to spin this Jim. We're in the 3rd year of the PS5 and we still have no idea what the majority of the 1st party studios are making. It was varied in a way, but with only a handful of 1st party titles were shown in what should have been a major E3-like show for PlayStation, and that's the major reason why this was so disappointing. Sure, Spider-Man 2 looked great, but we already knew it existed and was going to look great (it's Insomniac).

There is no excuse as to why PlayStation Studios was almost entirely absent from a PlayStation Showcase. Games that shouldn't even be that far off were absent, like Stellar Blade and Factions 2 (even though I have no interest in the latter).

It's a shame, as there were some great looking 3rd party titles, but they shouldn't be carrying a PlayStation branded showcase. Also, while I don't care about VR, it's funny how he mentions the PSVR2 in that way even though they only had a few trailers.

Jim, don't listen to them. People who disagree with you are not PS fans. Project Q is the pinnacle of your reign and it would be only fair that it costs more than the console itself.

Also, kudos for all those Games as a Service. This is what gaming is all about!

Jimbo smoked that good stuff huh

Only two kids games I found from PlayStation showcase that I have interest about.
The Plucky Squire
Cat Quest: Pirates of Purribean
I only play kids games.

Oh Jim.... Just stay quiet for once. The showcase wasn't bad and yes it was varied. But the lack of first party was frustrating, especially since they were building that hype themselves the last weeks. I'm sure more news will come soon, but I can understand there was disappointment.

I'm much more hyped for Dragon's Dogma 2 (one of my most anticipated games ever) than I am for Naughty Dog's next interactive movie shooting gallery - yet I think it is still a bad look to have so much dependency on third party stuff that's going to be everywhere else apart from the Switch.

I'm still disappointed with the catalogue of PSVR games that were shown. Did we really need a trailer for crossfire, beat saber and arizona sunshine 2 when they could have been shown at any point after the showcase?

Also, out of the 5 psvr games, only one wasn't a shooter game. So much for variety I guess.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk That's actually on point. It was varied. Just not the kind of variety we were expecting from Sony themselves. Especially due to how scarce the first party content was. No PSVR first party game, no news on Sony bend's new project, no update on TLoU2 nor Horizon multiplayer, nothing from Bluepoint, etc.

Jim Ryan: I am out of touch?
No. It's the customers who are wrong.

Jim Ryan basically saying: ‘don’t you guys have phones and loads of spare time for all our upcoming games as a service?’

When you go two years with no show and then give us two live service MP games and nothing else first party, it just sucks. Sure they showed a varied display of their party games but that’s not why people watch a PlayStation showcase. Beyond disappointing.

I don't trust anyone who uses the word "content"

I went in watching that direct with no expectations, and still thought it was a letdown.
but what I found that was the most insulting was, near the very end of the direct they had the nerve to show a movie trailer for Gran turismo.

I mean... are you serious Sony ? ??

@SeanOhOgain

Same here. That word should be banned from being said by multimedia executives.

It was varied, a mix of indie to AAA games, a mix of genres/styles, a mix of different Studio games and a mix of different 3rd Party Publishers too.

It felt more like a 'generic' show - like Summer Game Fest - not a 'Sony' Showcase. We all know that Sony will get a wide variety of games over the next year or so from 3rd Party Publishers - even if they are 'playable' elsewhere too or not. It just highlighted how 'weak' this year maybe from a Sony output.

No-one cared that MS had a LOT of 'great' games in 2022 - even if 'most' were on PS5, some 'first', all that mattered was AAA First Party exclusives and MS 'disappointed'. Now in 2023, it looks like Sony will have a 'lean' year bulked out by 3rd Party 'exclusives' (like Final Fantasy) and even Spider-Man 2 may 'slip' its Fall release..

I expected Factions to be shown - rumoured for 2022, then 2023 and now not even mentioned...

It just seemed like a waste of time - a 3rd Party Showcase when I was looking forward to seeing a 'Sony' showcase' but I guess if you have 'little' to release, you have little to show. I didn't expect much because their Studio's all released 'something' in the past 2-3yrs and with games taking 5yrs+ to develop (even Sequels), I didn't expect much, but still felt I got 'less'...

Everything that comes out of this man's mouth is pure corporate BS. What an unlikable being.

I was bitterly BITTERLY dissapointed. Yes I saw some great games but these are third party games. I'm a fan of playstation and I'm a fan of the great work their studios have done many of who were absent and I couldn't understand how after 2 years they didn't even had a cgi trailer to say what they were working on or gameplay. As others point out insomniac has done miles morales, ratchet rift apart, spiderman 2 almost done and also wolverine and yet we've seen nothing from others who haven't done anything in a while!!

So basically they wanted to prove sony aren't just one and done third party blockbusters. Well they proved that last night but didn't go down too well with the majority of its fans.

"We offer our users the most varied content, here are 30 muliplat games."

I imagine Sony has been hit with the same major delays to their games like Xbox and others, they just prefer to keep players in the dark rather than announce a game with an uncertain release window.

I can forgive not showing a lot of maybe they are not ready , I can forgive the gass games they got to make money but didn't expect so many

One thing I won't forgive is blaming the fans ,they have built the whole we have exclusives blah blah for years and now there is 1 ( ex vr but chances are they will be on quest as well after a while )

It's them who should take the blame ,this what they wanted after hyping up look at our exclusives and now they have hardly any it's everyone else's fault that expect them exclusives

@KilloWertz and the psvr2 trailers were all 3rd party if I'm not wrong. Resident evil 4, arizona sunshine 2....

Really hoping some games like DS2 and TLoU MP were saved for Geoffs Summer Game Fest, because only 3 or 4 games out of 30 appealed to me last night. Rolled my eyes when they showed even more of FF16 and SF6

I get the variety of games, but saying that it was showing that PlayStation had the “Best and most variety of games” is the usual misleading statement since most of the games they showed were multiplatform. I would have taken his statement with a lot more credibility if he had just proceeded over a Showcase where they had shown 15 first party AAA games…

@KaijuKaiser If Sony is indeed revealing games that are coming out in a few months, then why show CGI teasers for Heaven's game and Marathon, games that are not coming out until 2025/2026? . Seems extremely tonedeaf to me.

People are rightly criticising Sony, this is what happens when there is little to no competition in the console industry. The backlash would have been a lot lesser if there were more single player games announced from PS Studios. ( which is what the majority of people were expecting).

The lineup for 2024 has not yet been revealed, this showcase was supposed to do exactly that. What's coming after Spiderman 2 ? No one really knows.

Jim gotta get his teeth fixed asap cuz this showcase had no bite.

Alan Wake 2, Spiderman 2 and Metal gear solid 3 remake is all that got my attention......... The rest is trash and will not be buying any of it lol

Like every public statement from every company, it reads like it was composed months in advance, completely ignoring the public's reaction.

@PlayStationGamer3919 What is there not to love when it comes to Games as a Service? It is an ever evolving organism for which you pay and pay and pay. True fans buy the games at full price.

(before you bring out the pitchforks, read my username out loud )

When Phil Spencer calls the showcase "nice" you know its bad!

Sorry Jim, can't hear you over the sound of the umpteenth coop shooter trailer with rap music.

As frustrating as it was 1st party-wise (cg teasers of live service games, really?) the Dragon's Dogma 2 reveal saved the day all on it's own for me. Alan Wake 2 was great as well (Max Payne? Is that you?!).

I thought Marathon was sp before checking the website for a massive dissapointment, but I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt because, a) it's bungie, and b) the set up sound like a pvp extration system shock (infiltrate a ghost space ship, rogue AI, mutations (?), runners).

Haven seems to be ANOTHER extraction shooter but it has a "heist" gimmick apparently. Not what I expected from Haven after all the hype around the studio about their "innovation and creativity". But Jade Raymond has proven more than capable so this is another wait and see.

I got nothing from Concord's teaser. Just that it's a space pvp shooter by Firewalk, run by a former Bungie boss. So, Destiny + No Man's Land? That's not a bad elevator pitch now that I think about it but, as with most of these teasers, I need more information and actual footage.

Spiderman 2 looks ridiculously impressive even if its more a "maybe" than a "day one" for me.

FFXVI looked equally unbelievable but please, Square, we don't need to see ALL the game before we can actually play it.

I did not care for Immortals of Aveum before but the trailer made me very curious. Noy a "day one" but I'll have to keep my eye on it.

Sony really needs to step it up for the next showcase because this was a tad dissapointing tbh.

And a special mention goes out to Square and their dreadful-looking Splatoon ripoff. How is this the same company that gave us Xenogears and Vagrant Story?

I know from my perspective I was wanting to know what has Sony got lined up after SM2 and that showcase last night didn't answer the question. We didnt need to know everything each studio is working on we just needed a couple a teasers of what is in the pipeline.

@Rob_230 why do they have to reassure you if you're confident in your selection? Sony knows better than any of you guys crying about not getting your way.

@BNAG_Gamer you talk like you'd be willing to buy everything if it "impressed" you. Get over yourself, you're the player not the creator of the content. You have to pay to interact while the devs get paid for their expertise. Which holds more value? Sony is not just centered around your tastes so as long as they're profitable what does you being impressed or not matter?

If this was what Jim Ryan and co. consider the 'best,' I'm officially concerned about the future of PS5 (not sales wise, most people lap up whatever Sony feeds them) from the standpoint of somebody who enjoys single player games.

We don't deserve live services, though, Jim.

We were good. We're buying the new console. We've taken the £/$10 increase in base price.

What did we do wrong to deserve live services? How can we make you stop?

It lacks punch. The lack of devs talking about any context to the game or what they are is terrible. Imagine if Sony had kept original show format, Capcom hadn’t announced Dragon’s Dogma 2, then it was announced here with the trailer with gameplay. That would have been exciting and felt line to worth coming to the show for.
Just one example of how these events are mishandled ever since E3 died.
I keep hearing about how companies need E3, but I don’t think they understand what to do without E3 now. They don’t need E3 to get everyone’s attention, but they do need or in order have enough guidelines have basic competence with showcases.

At least Sony concentrated on games coming out in a certain time frame everything else feels like 2025/2026

The showcase would had been a lot better with a lot of trimming and some reordering.

I would had opened with Phantom Blade Zero, an actual third party exclusive that looks quite impressive.

I would had not shown any of the service game pre-rendered trailers. Sony needs to remember, the Warzone aside, the biggest service games out there (Fortnite, Apex, Fall Guys, etc) they didn’t come with marketing hype, they nearly shadow dropped and exploded like an unexpected grande.

Movie trailer in this showcase was tone deaf.

Remove the hardware stuff, both things were terrible duds, and would not be shocked if that Wii Q pad gets canned.

The indie stuff should had been a rapid-fire montage instead of individual trailers.

The Immortal trailer was already out there, re-showing it here was dead weight.

Cadbury Heroes have a lot of variety but I don't like them.

Read the room Jimbo.

I can confirm this only when they decide to appeal also to the ones that grow up loving the PS1 catalogue. I would love to see PlayStation offering games for the ones that started playing with the PS3 or PS4 and also the ones that were there since the beginning, but they are focused with the ones that started with the ps3 and ps4 era.

Playstation future is clearly live service Games now. They are focusing on this and I think single playe games Will now be an after thought.

This was a very boring showcase IMO. Live service games that are just copy cats and shooters galore. Both genres I could care less about. Granblue Fantasy Relink, Towers of Aghasba, Spiderman 2 and Sword of the Sea all look great though. But 2 of those 4 we already knew about. Come on Sony, pick up the pace. I figured new gen games are taking more time to cook but we are two years in already

Over 40+ mins of indies and multiplats in an hour long Showcase. Let that sink it. Another 10+ min of VR2. This showcase was an complete and utter FAILURE.

The sad part is that Sony's varied catalog used to be something like Spider-Man, Ratchet, Medievil Remake, Last Guardian. Now its Spider-Man and live services, with Square Enix bailing them out with FF16 exclusive.
The industry just unfortunately caught up to them and they're chasing the trends. I still believe their service push is not going to end well, don't fix what ain't broke.

Jim Ryan clearly is a bit tone deaf.

At the end of the day people need to stop reading every rumor and making up rumors in their head. People keep saying well where’s Wolverine , obviously they aren’t going to show off both. And obviously they aren’t going to dump every game they are working on in one conference

We still have exclusive / timed exclusive games like rise of ronin , final fantasy 7 rebirth , just to name a few off the top of my head

@JSnow2 I’m not going to judge those games before I see more , hopefully they’ll end up good , but they are still working on other games.

@themightyant there is variety in the entire catalogue. Not just the games they're making. As a gamer, I don't care who makes a game, as long as I end up enjoying it. So, if they make partnerships with other developers, so be it.

@jimbouk "this is what happens when there is little to no competition in the console industry"

I find this hilarious. What exactly do you think would happen if xbox were doing better (because Switch surely is) ?

Do you honestly think they're just not making any games because they're ahead of the competition? Many first party games are clearly in development. They just need more time to show something. Nothing would have changed with more competition other than more pointless timed exclusives/dlc.

@MayaMousavi I’m hoping they were holding back as Summer Games Fest will hopefully have the majority of their 1st party reveals

Can we stop with this lie about variety??
I wasn't satisfied, I'm a old school PlayStation player and last night they showed me I'm not their main audience, they focus more on low standard players the ones without PlayStation knowledge the ones who eat up everything they throw up and call it games, the ones who are confused that call games movies and movies movies, I'm not their target audience.

So yeah let's stop the lie of variety.

I hate this guy so much. Every time he speaks it makes my skin crawl. I can see where he is leading PS and all I hope is the fans unite and push back against this forced live service movement. Then maybe my wish of Ryan being replaced by the end of this generation will come true.

@KaijuKaiser @naruball In the high end console market , only PlayStation and Xbox are direct competitors. Xbox have a had a really poor start to the gen , this has led PS into a state of complacency so far. They have stopped communicating with the fanbase this gen, done some stupid price increases which has not sat well with some folks, the only difference was the games continue to be as good as ever .

But that changed with this showcase, Sony are not dumb , they know the majority of the fanbase wants AAA singleplayer games. But that was a no show at this event. Extremely generic live service reveals are not what anyone wants, and that too showcased only via CGI teasers. The Live service games that people actually want like Factions and Horizon Online were once again not present.

Only Insomniac have showed up properly this gen so far, also a tad worrying that the 2024 and beyond game lineup is looking barebones. I know that a lot of games are in development, single player games among them, but it's high time they actually start to properly reveal them .

Jimbo does not like and neither know anything about games. The guy may be a great businessman, but should just stay quiet when the subject is what videogame fans want.

“ How is Insomniac Games planning to release its third PS5 game since the console launched in 2020 — with a fourth in Marvel's Wolverine — while so many other teams haven't said a thing?”

Have wondered that myself many times and is apparent they are Sony’s biggest development asset.

Almost nothing they announced is exclusive. Almost all of it is going to be on PC and/or XBox as well.

Nonsense, GAAS are not what most PS owners want

Well, at least he’s trying to look at the bright side.

The multiplayer games looked awful, especially the Pay Day & Splatoon ripoff's

Absolutely disappointed with Sony. Thankfully i have a Switch and Xbox series x to fall back on until MGS Snake Eater and Spider-Man 2 get released

@Mitsui When was the last time one of those had anyone come away very excited and pleased? You can’t please everyone, but you should be pleasing a large portion of your audience. Certainly not less than a fraction of it. It’s clear these aren’t getting even half of the good reception the well done old E3 events got. And considering PS is doing fantastic financially, too expensive doesn’t hold.

The man doesn’t sound like an actual life form. Is he still alive or do they keep him in a cryo chamber and wheel him out for these dog showcases. Much like the Conservative Party secretly do to a generation of voters long since presumed dead?

@Texan_Survivor for first party studios it was two Spiderman and hell divers

This dude and Sony are beginning to sound outright delusional.

@Mitsui Core gamers are the people that watch these. Spider Man fans will of course like the Spider-Man trailer afterwards, but for anyone watching it and everyone else, who is the audience for these events, they come away disappointed.
The show lacked an ounce of charisma. The MGS announcement alone should have made people happier, but it didn’t because while you figured it was a remake, you you weren’t sure. You figured Resi 4 was the full campaign, but weren’t positive. These are basic communication errors that the show is riddled with. Whoever put it together it not very good at his job.
We come to get excited, so basic charisma and communication to push us along helps a lot in that. They had a few announcements that should stuck more but didn’t due to poor presentation skills.

@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr Sony didn't even do a showcase last year and Xbox killed themselves with that E3 2022 thing. Why even have it if the 2 biggest games were Starfield and Redfall???
And they, and many others, didn't even release "in the next 12 months" which is the go to quote that Xbox fans screamed why it was a 10/10 showcase.

PlayStation can do nothing and Xbox will shoot themselves in the foot regardless.

I don't believe for a second that another showcase will be soon but I DO think that Square Enix is going to do their own thing and there will be a 20 minute deep dive in Final Fantasy Remake Part 2, much like the one from E3 2019, the greatest deep dive of details and gameplay into a game during E3 ever.

Jism u wrong, very very wrong. Nor quality nor quantity. Ure just badman and lie to your users.

@SurgicalMenace he may not but I do buy every gane that interest me. So do most of my friends and family. If playstation keeps going this way, he will loose our business. Instead of buying everything that interest us we will just buy the for sure games that have a high review and gamer score and interest us.