168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation has just announced 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its next State of Play 🦋will drop tomorrow, including 20 minutes of new footage for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16.✃ One of the biggest reactions to this has been people asking just how much more we need to see of Final Fantasy 16, but most of these are superfans who have drunk up every drop of information that has spilled through the cracks in the clay. Fiඣnal Fantasy 16 is one of the biggest games of the year, aiming at a lot of casual players, and 20 minutes of fresh footage focused on continuous gameplay rather than interviews or discussion of niche features seems like exactly what the game needs. But another loud portion of fans have been speculating over what else we might see, and I think those fans will be disappointed.
Sony is billing this event as specifically being for Final Fantasy 16. It's hard to keep up with what Sony names its various video adverts, but the big ones are called Showcases. They're the ones that tend to contain lots of games and big reveals - the last one notoriously revealed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's gameplay, solidified the release date, and spent copious time explaining every inch of it, 🍨only to then delay the game after everyone thought it looked extremౠely rubbish. Alongside Kill the Justice League, there were plenty of other reveals too, mostly focussing on VR. It was not a Showcase for the ages💃, but it ticked all oꦫf the boxes.
A State of Play is different. They're much smaller, and usually focussed on just one game, possibly with some smaller updates scattered alongside. There's an outside chance we see something like Little Devil Inside or Stellar Blade, but even then, the chances are slim. The Showcase wasn't that long ago and it found time for non-VR games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Goodbye Volcano High, so it would make sense to have thrown these in there too. Stellar Blade is quietly one of the more interesting games on the horizon, so I want to see more of it, but I don't expect to here.
Just as it would have made sense to include these smaller games at the Showcase, it makes sense for Final Fantasy 16 to get its own State of Play. Suicide Squad didn't go as hoped, but it was supposed to be the big splash, and it and Final Fantasy 16 being separated lets both breathe. Swaddling Suicide Squad in other games was also insurance if it bombed with fans (as it did), while Final Fantasy 16 has since had a press preview and is generating momentum. Keeping them apart, giving Suicide Squad protection, and letting Final Fantasy 16 fly solo are all the perfect play.
We're being told it is 20 minutes long, and while the announcement makes no reference to other games, there might well be a small appetiser or palette cleanser. If you've got a captive audience, it makes some sense to leverage that. However, in similar fashion to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Forbidden West State of Play, I think we're more likely to get a highly polished vertical slice of gameplay followed by some chatter from the devs. Leveraging your audience can help, but sticking to Final Fantasy 16 means it's the only game anyone is talking about when it's all over.
Those of you hoping for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man 2 news, I hope you enjoyed your trip to Saturn but you need to come down to planet Earth. I wrote after the Showcase that there was nothing to worry about with Spider-Man not showing up, and I feel the same way now. Insomniac has a great track record, Tony Todd already kinda 🌠sorta leaked the release date, and there's plenty of time for the multiple summer showcases replacing E3 to dedicate substantial time to Spider-Man anyway. It's probably going to arrive a month after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield, and that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:already has a summer showcase booked. Spidey will be fine. This is Clive's time to shine.