If you were to ask me about PlayStation’s strengths, relative to its competition, I would 100% point to the video games themselves. God…
If you were to ask me about PlayStation’s strengths, relative to its competition, I would 100% point to the video games themselves.
God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man and third party exclusives like Bloodborne put a blistering pace that Microsoft and its in-house studios simply couldn’t match.
Last generation Microsoft and the Xbox brand weren’t even in the race.
So when it came time for Sony to finally reveal its next-generation console at its Future of Gaming event, Sony didn’t rely on specs or cumbersome pipe dreams of making consoles the entertainment center of your living room. Sony just showed video games.
Lots and lots of video games.
Sony’s PlayStation 5 showcase opened with Spider-Man Miles Morales and closed with Horizon Forbidden West, sequels to absolute corkers with established fan bases and critical acclaim. But sandwiched between those two heavyweights was a massive line-up of games revealed in a shotgun blast fashion so intense it was almost impossible to evaluate what we’re actually in for.
On Thursday, at the Future of Gaming event, Sony’s real strength was variety. AAA games like Spider-Man were sat alongside nostalgia-bait like Demon’s Souls and Ratchet and Clank.
