As a new State of Play is rumoured for next week, there’s talk of two new Sony remasters – one of which is currently a mystery.
Sony hasn’t been doing too well with its State of Play events, and other online presentations, this year. The initial reveal of Concord was so unpopular the game was shut down within a fortnight and the PS5 Pro’s unveiling was greeted with more anger and resentment than almost any other console before it.
Rumours of when exactly the PS5 Pro would be announced proved to be correct but they also suggested a State of Play event before the end of the month, which regular rumourmonger Jeff Grubb has suggested will happen on Tuesday, September 24.
He doesn’t claim to know what will be in it, but he has heard that another remaster is on its way, one which is apparently even ‘less exciting’ than the already leaked one for Horizon Zero Dawn.
A remaster of 2017 PlayStation 4 game Horizon Zero Dawn hasn’t been announced yet, but it has turned up on the website of the American age rating board, the ESRB, which all but confirms that it will be released imminently – perhaps alongside the PS5 Pro.
The fact that the remaster is considered unexciting doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the game itself but that the original PlayStation 4 game still looks good and doesn’t really need much of an upgrade, especially when you’d like to think Sony has more important things to do.
With Sony announcing so few new games lately, there’s been a spate of unexciting remakes and remasters, such as the largely pointless The Last Of Us Part 1 and the upcoming redo of Until Dawn.
Under normal circumstances people wouldn’t necessarily have complained but since Sony isn’t releasing anything else at the moment the trend is beginning to cause friction, especially as Sony continues to ignore the classic Bloodborne.
Current speculation is that the unknown remaster could be God Of War (2018) or Days Gone, both of which have had PC ports but not PlayStation 5 remasters. A PC port of The Last Of Us Part 2 is also a possibility, and certainly seems inevitable at some point.
Grubb doesn’t claim that the mystery remaster will be featured in the State of Play next week, only that he knows it exists. Instead, he suggests that there will be little or no first party Sony games featured during the presentation.
What might be included instead is unclear, but presumably major third party games for this autumn, such as Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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