If the leak about Sony’s E3 press conference is real, they won’t surprise us that much… even though we’re a month away from the event.
The schedule showed up on SegmentNext, which looks neat in a bullet point list. We’ll detail it below that.
– Ghost of Tsushima gameplay
– Shadows Die Twice announcement
– Devil May Cry 5 announcement
– Shenmue III trailer
– Kingdom Hearts III trailer and release date announcement
– Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer – the first episode would launch in 2019, and its demo would be packed in with Kingdom Hearts III
– Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII trailer
– Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer, and an exclusive DLC deal announcement
– PlayStation VR games (possibly a montage)
– Concrete Genie trailer – August (!?) release date
– Medievil remake trailer – October (!!!) release date
– Death Stranding gameplay
– Spider-Man trailer
– Dreams trailer (just a trailer?)
– Days Gone trailer
– The announcement of the next Bluepoint remaster
– The Last of Us Part II gameplay
Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch) was announced at the Paris Games Week, and its likely to not receive a release date. Shadows Die Twice would be the sequel to Bloodborne (FromSoftware) – we already heard and wrote about it. Devil May Cry 5 was discussed a few times before, and an E3 announcement seems likely. We remember Kingdom Hearts III getting rumors about its release date confirmation at E3. Final Fantasy VII’s episodic nature was already confirmed – the 2019 release for the first episode isn’t unlikely, and if it gets a demo included with KHIII, that would be a clever idea from Square Enix.
If Red Dead Redemption 2 has a Sony-Rockstar/Take-Two deal, then Sony would get another major franchise/publisher on its side after Call of Duty (Activision Blizzard). Concrete Genie (PixelOpus – they previously made Entwined) was in silence since Paris Games Week, and it would be a major surprise if it launched in August. We’d be shocked if MediEvil’s remake does get released in October – we haven’t heard anything about it since the PlayStation Experience, but the first game did indeed launch in October 1998 on the PS1, twenty years ago.
The rest would be going as usual (yesterday, we wrote that four games would be the backbone of the conference: Ghost of Tsushima / Days Gone / Spider-Man / The Last of Us Part II), except Dreams seems to still not get a release date despite having been announced years ago. We also have heard about Bluepoint possibly working on the next remaster already. The list did not include Destiny 2’s third DLC – that will also get gameplay shown.
Sony’s E3 conference will start on June 11, at 6 PM Pacific.
Source: SegmentNext
Shawn Layden has already confirmed that the show will be based on showcasing Ghosts of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Spider-Man and TLOU2 as the main games of their conference. The fact that Spider-Man is listed here as just a trailer, directly after Death Stranding, indicates that this list is fake. A trailer isn’t exactly a showcase. They will definitely want to spread those 4 games out and give them their own space to shine. So showing a simple trailer for Spider-Man directly after long-awaited game-play from Death Stranding doesn’t exactly showcase Spider-Man at all.