PlayStation State of Play (Wednesday 12th February 2025 @ 22:00 GMT)

[Julius]

And there it is, Happy Vale–

–oh, what do you mean the "leakers" got the date wrong? 

Per the PS Blog entry, this one will be over 40 minutes long! 

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State of Play is back tomorrow, February 12! Tune in live for news and updates on great games coming to PS5. The show celebrates a creative and unique selection of exciting games from studios around the world.

The 40+ minute show begins February 12 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET | 11pm CET / February 13 at 7am JST on YouTube and Twitch, and will be broadcast in English and Japanese. See you tomorrow!

Excited for this one, feels like it's been a minute! 

I'll drop some perilously naïve thoughts/hopes/dreams/predictions later on 

Edited yesterday at 03:05 PM by Julius

[killthenet]

They said it would be the week of Valentine's didn't they? I don't think the leakers ever specified an exact date 

[Julius]

The Lost Soul Aside account has retweeted (re-X'd?) the State of Play announcement:

So I guess look forward to finally seeing more of that? 

UPDATE: well there you have it. 

1 hour ago, killthenet said:

They said it would be the week of Valentine's didn't they? I don't think the leakers ever specified an exact date 

Nate teased that it would be on/around Valentine's Day, but offered no specifics; Brazil said it would be on Valentine's Day. 

Edited yesterday at 05:24 PM by Julius

[Julius]

Alright then, to weigh in on this, my expectations are pretty low going into this.

To quickly revisit what I was thinking about back when this started to be rumoured to be coming around Valentine's Day back at the start of the month...

On 2/2/2025 at 10:55 AM, Julius said:

The big PlayStation game this year I'd want more news on is Ghost of Yōtei, but I don't see Yōtei releasing until September onwards (autumn vibes to that cover art) and I doubt we get a release date while GTA VI's remains in limbo, so that'll probably come at a later point? 

So, realistically, the main things I'd want to see in the next State of Play are release dates for Snake Eater, which has been totally MIA since TGS a few months, and the Xbox games officially confirmed to be coming to PlayStation in Spring but have yet to see release dates: Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5. These are all games I'm totally down to pick up Day 1, I just need dates for them! 

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Probably see one of the upcoming PlayStation GAAS titles? Really curious to see how the next one is presented in a post-Concord world. Got to imagine a Death Stranding 2 update is due at this point as well, maybe that could get a release window or even a date, what with it being billed for release this year too? 

So, yeah, my thoughts haven't changed too drastically since that post, but just to revisit these:

I'd love to see Ghost of Yōtei here and for it to get a release date, but seeing as I feel like it's being set up to come in Fall 2025, it'll be interesting to see how PlayStation position it if it is here just because we know so little about GTA VI's release plans in that same window. If it's here I feel like simply giving it the window of Fall 2025 will be enough, a specific date right now in Q3 seems like you're asking for trouble, but I think the smarter move would honestly be to wait until the potential May/June State of Play, by which time we've hopefully had GTA VI's release clarified (or delayed?), and just show us the game and a release date then. 

As for the three games I was waiting for release dates on, Snake Eater had its release date and its release date trailer leaked with the PS Store mishaps, so, uh, that's got a 99% chance of turning up here with that release date of 28th August. Whoops. I'd still love release dates for Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, some teases by supposed insiders are saying April will be a big month so maybe then? Honestly, Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones are in such different wheelhouses that I genuinely feel like you could launch them two weeks apart in April and see very little risk of them cannibalising each other, so if it's a quiet month -- why not? 

As for the PlayStation GAAS, I do think there's a strong chance we see one here so that it can launch over the summer, and I'll just say that I hope it's Marathon and not Fairgame$. I don't particularly care for either in all honesty, but Marathon doesn't seem to be doing weird stuff like Fairgame$ is, so yeah...

Death Stranding 2 was rated in South Korea last Thursday, and so I feel like it could pretty reasonably be PlayStation's summer game. I don't know, maybe I've got Yōtei and DS2 the wrong way around and the former is coming this summer and DS2 is their Q3 title, but Yōtei is just giving me undeniable autumn vibes with its brown and golden hues that I think it'd be a bit confusing for it to come out in the summer. Then again, Tsushima's 5th anniversary is in July, so what better way to mark it than with its sequel? And DS2 seems like perfect counter-programming to GTA VI in Q3. 

Outside of these, yeah, I'm not going to go too crazy with hype and expectations, in all honesty.

From Naughty Dog, I'd love the announcement of a co-op mode for The Last of Us Part II's No Return, seems a total no-brainer to me after Factions was canned and with the show's second season and the game's PC release lining up for April. I don't think we see Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (man I love that title!) here, that feels like a Q3 State of Play update to prop up a release next year. 

I'm not expecting anything from Insomniac, assuming Wolverine is 2026 then I feel like maybe we see it in the summer/a Q3 State of Play, and there was of course the existence of Venom leaked in their 2023 hack, which was scheduled for 2025. I could see Venom being a Holiday 2025 title, but if it's shorter like Miles was, then I imagine a shorter marketing schedule might work better, and thus a reveal in the summer makes more sense. 

Santa Monica Studio are in an odd place now where unless they announce and launch a game this year - which seems incredibly unlikely - I don't think we see a game from them until...2027? I can't see PlayStation putting ND and SMS against each other for GOTYs next year, unlike Xbox they care for their catalogue curation and accolades. Shots fired, maybe, but hey, Xbox release two GOTY candidates after the TGAs cut-off in the last 5 years, so I know I'm right 

Asobi might have a DLC update for Astro Bot, maybe? Bluepoint I honestly don't know, there was that whole bit of news about them working on a God of War GAAS which has been cancelled, and of course Bend supposedly had a title cancelled too, so...both MIA, I guess? Unless Bluepoint had that cancelled GoW GAAS in the works alongside a remake, but I want them remaking Ico (purely just so that it's available on modern systems) and that game's 25th anniversary is next year, so uh yeah, look forward to hoping for that at some point? It would mean all three of Ueda's titles would be playable on PS5, which would be awesome. Apparently an XDev member of staff seems to be teasing something so maybe we see that Ooze game? Or maybe they picked up that Rayspace after Japan Studio closed? There was also that Gravity Rush 2 remaster weirdness that came and went as a rumour, as well as the Days Gone remaster. 

Bloodborne – ha, no. Love that game to pieces but I'm firmly in the Bluepoint Remake for PS6 launch camp. Again, another shame, because Demon's Souls is still technically one of the greatest games of this current generation, and is now over 4 years old and Bluepoint's only release designed from the ground up for the system. 

Third parties...Lost Soul Aside have obviously strongly hinted at their presence during this thing with their tweet, so that seems like a lock-in, and seems well positioned - purely on paper, looks and vibes - to be this year's Lies of P/Black Myth: Wukong (I mean, so could Phantom Blade Zero if it turns out to be a 2025 release). Resident Evil IX or Code Veronica Remake, maybe? Capcom love to show off new RE titles at PlayStation events, and yeah, there'll probably be yet another trailer from them for Monster Hunter Wilds. Expecting nothing from Square Enix, as honestly, the Switch 2 event is just around the corner (well, a couple of corners) and their big hitters seem better suited for their Japanese audience, though in the West, rather than Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, maybe it's Kingdom Hearts IV's time to turn back up here, given its shared history with the PlayStation brand? Could see more Xbox announcements, would be a bit odd to me to announce new titles here rather than just give dates to Indy and Forza Horizon 5 but Xbox are right weirdos, so they could do anything! 

Seen the rumours about an original God of War remake/remaster and what people think could be Parasite Eve, not really biting for either of these. Both seem like they'd be better served with ports (of the original games or remasters) and remaking OG GoW in particular would be such a weird move to me having played it just a few years ago – it is so WILDLY different to GoW 2018 that I don't see how an audience who got into the series with that game would be chomping at the bit for this without some drastic changes to how it plays, the story, etc., and I just don't see it being that. Seems like a boneheaded decision to me if it really is in the works. 

I just want some surprise announcements for games releasing this year that look good enough that I want to pick them up Day 1, or in the case of potential remasters, have the cache to win me over.

A big ask, I know, but yeah, basically:

[Julius]

Hmm, a second XDEV member - this time their director, Jason Stewart - seems to have jumped on the hyping up bandwagon:

XDEV typically support third parties, I think it came out before that they were supporting with DS2, but this seems...different? I wonder if they're being allowed to work on a solo project, or if they have a collaboration with a currently unknown third-party?

Very curious to see what it is that they're anticipating. Is it Project Ooze time? 

[Julius]

1 hour ago, Julius said:

Hmm, a second XDEV member - this time their director, Jason Stewart - seems to have jumped on the hyping up bandwagon:

XDEV typically support third parties, I think it came out before that they were supporting with DS2, but this seems...different? I wonder if they're being allowed to work on a solo project, or if they have a collaboration with a currently unknown third-party?

Very curious to see what it is that they're anticipating. Is it Project Ooze time? 

We've been had!