Sony's 30-minute-plus State of Play event was missing first-party heavyweights God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West. While some fans may have been disappointed, the show attempted to make up for the lack of those titles with a number of other updates and reveals.
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This digital event follows the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 5 console last fall. While many of us are still struggling to get our hands on the coveted console, the preview event at least showed off some promising games that we can look forward to when we finally get our hands on a system. Many other events have gone virtual recently due to the ongoing pandemic.
Veteran journalist Jason Fanelli thought Sony did a good job for its fans, even with the big game no-shows. “By showing off 10 upcoming PS5 games,” he said in an email interview, “both brand new titles and upgrades to existing titles, they gave fans something to look forward to.”
Fanelli cited the current, volatile state of the world as a reason for Sony's potential reluctance to keep fans updated on these larger projects. "As the effects of the pandemic start to play out across the industry," he said, "I felt like Sony played a pretty good hand with the cards they had. Sony themselves probably don't know what's going to be available to them in 2021, so they felt it was best to keep things like [anticipated hit games] Horizon and God of War close to the chest, and I understand that."
