Save Room Plays: With Sony’s PlayStation 2021 Showcase, Comes Great Power

Welcome back to Save Room Plays! Did you miss us? This week we’re covering Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation 2021 Showcase. It has been nearly 365 days since the last showcase, and aside from State of Plays and sweet nothings from Herman Hurst, not much has been known about what lies ahead for the future of PS5. That was until September 8th. Sony showed up for their 50 minute showcase and pulled out all the stops—that is once they got past that weird opening commercial (What was that even about? Play?). They delivered a showstopper full of second party titles, AA titles, and an impressive reveal of all new Sony first party games including Spider-Man 2, Marvel’s Wolverine, and God of War: Ragnarok that fueled the fire of the console wars even more. While Sony brought the hype and basically asked Phil Spencer to hold their beer, it does leave a lot of questions still. Like will Sony ever grow to be more than a first party AAA machine? Will their ecosystem ever be consumer friendly? And does it even matter when you’ve got Wolverine and Spider-Man? Questions aside, we were thrilled by some of these reveals and remain excited for PS5’s future ahead.