Famously, I don't own a Playstation - at least not a working one. My PS4 Pro is so angry at me that it won't turn on. My Xbox One X is also goof troop. So I don't really have a dog in any kind of State of Play fight, except to say that as this website's resident PC stalwart it doesn't look like I'm gonna need a Playstation.
And not because I don't like what they got; their roster of internal, exclusive developers is stacked. Helldivers awaked something in Sony - a dark heat. Some aspect of that flame was reflected in Square Enix's announcement that even if you're making some of the most beautiful games of all time, shit, maybe because you are, you can't afford to arbitrarily deny sales. There might have been a point on the graph where games cost this much and the platform holder was gonna pay you this much to make it there and this conflux all occurs north of the x axis. I'm not sure we live in that world anymore.
The only thing that surprised and, like, honestly sorta tickled me was Infinity Nikki. Before that announcement, I wasn't aware of Nikki in the singular let alone an endless panoply. If you want to know more than what's going on in the trailer, IGN got an hours long preview on PC - apparently Papergames has been making Nikki stuff for just over a decade? As an interesting data point, take a look over at Playstation's YouTube page where all the trailers live. Monster Hunter Wilds is clocking in with a respectable million views - and Nikki has almost double that. Even if a hundred thousand of those views are just Mr. Gribbz, it's clearly the trailer that popped out of the whole set. It apparently found its people. But it also seemed like real joy was present at any point during its manufacture.
Mork had something like an allergic reaction to Concord, along with all the people in the comment thread below the trailer, who have sharpened their teeth with files and dug in. It looks like a hero shooter version of Destiny's Crucible created by Bungie ex-pats, which it is. I don't really know what to do with that. I don't like being down about a local developer at all; I'm not too proud to say they get extra points. If it's more than it looks, I'm prepared to feel bad in the future. I want to. I hope and pray for the opportunity.
(CW)TB out.
