Playstation Experience News Roundup: Day 1
Sony is holding a massive event over the next two days called the Playstation Experience to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Playstation.
Here’s a quick roundup of all the important news, announcements and premiers that happened on day one. There was a ton of content and panels all day long. For those not able to watch the event all day here is a highlight of the good stuff.
Goodies and Promos
- EA is offering three free games for PlayStation 4 owners starting 12pm Sat until 6pm Sunday. Vita owners will get Need for Speed: Most Wanted, PS3 owners get Mirrors Edge and finally PS4 owners get Planets vs Zombies Garden Warfare.
- Sony is offering a current Playstation sale on PSN featuring games like Tomb Raider and Wolfenstein.
- Sony will be releasing faceplates for the PS4. You can buy a limited run of a Little Big Planet faceplates and an Order 1866 faceplates. Sony will launch more faceplates later on. [Details here]
- There is a PS4 20th Anniversary Edition being released. Its extremely limited. The console will launch at $499. There will only be 12,300 made. You can order through the Sony Store, beginning Saturday, December 6. At 10 a.m. Pacific time, it will announce details about the preorder program via the live-stream of the keynote address at PlayStation Experience.
New Trailers and Stuff
- Bastion– The game was originally released on 360 and PC but will make its way to PS4 and Vita with crossbuy in 2015. [Trailer]
- Bloodborne– Just watch the trailer. Cant explain how great this looks. Monsters and flamethrowers what else do you need?
- Broken Age– Tim Schafer’s new game will be released on PS4 and Vita in 2015. Part 2 of the game of the game for PC will be released same day. [Trailer]
- Final Fantasy 7– Coming to PS4. Its just a port. Nothing changed. Up-scaled graphics. Why is Sony doing this? I couldn’t tell you. [Trailer]
- Gang Beasts– The PC early access game will launch finalized on PS4 and Vita next year. The game is a really odd fighter with hands on grappling mechanics.
- Grim Fandango Remastered– A release date was finally set for January 27th, 2015. It will be on PS4, Vita and PC. [Trailer]
- No Man’s Sky- New details and new gameplay footage on the insanely procedural game. I still dont know whether this will be a technical achievement or is just one big April fools joke. Either way it looks insane.
- Shovel Knight– The 2d platformer originally released on PC, Wii U and 3DS will be ported to PS3, PS4 and Vita. The game will include Kratos from GoW as a playable character. [Trailer]
- Street Fighter IV-Coming to PS4 spring 2015. [Trailer]
- Tearaway: Unfolded– The hit Vita game is coming to the PS4 completely upgraded with new features, graphics and more.
- The Forest– The horror opern world survivor game that originally launched on Steam Early Access will be making its way to PS4.
- The Order 1886- A new trailer was shown off of this very cinematic game.
- Uncharted 4 – Coming 2015. A brand-spanking new gameplay trailer was released showing some really stunning gameplay. Naughty Dog is unstoppable.
- Until Dawn– The game that wants to put you in the shoes of a horror movie. Make dumb choices and get killed! [Trailer]
- Yakuza– And wow! A huge announcement was made today. Yakuza 5 will head to western markets in 2015 on PSN for PS3. In addition Yakuza 4 and Dead Souls will be available to download on PS3 starting tomorrow. [Trailer]
New Game Announcements
- God of War 4– A new GoW was announced. It is confirmed to be in early development right now.
- Drawn to Death– A new 3rd person arena shooter that takes place in a paper-art stylized world from David Jaffe.
- Darkest Dungeon– A dark and artsy 2d RPG will head to PS4 soon. [Trailer]
- Fat Princess Adventures– A new top down action sword figting game with Fat Princess. It will feature 4 player co-op and will be on PS4 later next year. [Trailer]
- Enter the Gungeon– ex-EA Mythic developers, is working on a “gunfight dungeon crawler” called Enter the Gungeon and it’s coming to PlayStation 4 next year. [Trailer]
- MLB 15-Coming March 31, 2015 to PS4, Vita and PS3 [Trailer]
- Skytorn– A procedurally generated action adventure game, set in the ruins of a fallen world. Coming to PS4. [Trailer]
- Street Fighter V– New installment exclusive to PlayStation from Capcom with cross play between PS4 and PC!
- Killing Floor 2– The sequel to the super gory Killing Floor from 2009 comes a new sequel.
- Killstrain– A free-to-play top down shooter coming in 2015. It’s a competitive online arena shooter from Sony San Diego.
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes– Two new VR games for the PS4.
- Orcs Must Die! Unchained– A fortress defense/siege game.
- Wattam– A game about a Mayor and his trusted deputies. Coming to PS4. [Trailer]
- What Remains of Edith Finch– A collection of short stories about a cursed family.
8 New Vita Games
The Vita actually got a little love today with some new games:
- Suikoden I and II
- Towerfall Ascension [Trailer]
- Super Time Force Ultra [Trailer]
- The Banner Saga [Trailer]
- Resident Evil Revelations 2
- Severed [Trailer]
Sadly, PSVita isn’t getting enough love from Sony 🙁 I really enjoy my Vita, but I stopped playing it since I completed all the games and it’s boring to finish a game more than twice (the 2nd time is to enhance your technique ;D )
Also, I would really enjoy something like “PS4 owners will get backwards support for PSOne CDs” or something like that, the PS4 is fully capable and I don’t like the idea on spending money on virtual ownerships. Who knows, maybe one day Sony will go bankrupt and we won’t be able to retrieve our once purchased digital copies on time 🙁
Sony should buy/make PSone Emulators for the PC and add advertisements & gain extra cash from that, to be honest.
I feel like they won’t add CD emulation for the PS4 though, it will be the same ol’ PSone Classics, (with Cross Buy to make it seem special).
Once the PS4 gets hacked, PSone Emulation will (hopefully) definitely get some love.
The Ps4 is getting some really good games. The best thing about it is…FIRST.
And Dungeon Defenders 2 for all 3 PS consoles as well. 🙂
2nd
Also, I think “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” is one title. That’s its whole name.
Thanks guys, I had no idea about the free EA games. I nabbed nfs:mw for the vita 8^)
“Final Fantasy 7- Coming to PS4. Its just a port. Nothing changed. Up-scaled graphics. Why is Sony doing this? I couldn’t tell you.”
Blame Square-Enix, not Sony. They have pretty much said they would never actually remake FF7 because they don’t want to disappoint the fans.
I’m pretty pumped about some of the other announcements, though.
I think people would ultimately be okay with a FF7 remake, it’s just basically guaranteed that it couldn’t live up to expectations. There is also an enormous chance that they will add in references to more recent games set in the FF7 universe, and a lot of people don’t like those games nearly as much and don’t want FF7 cluttered with stuff like Genesis or Deepground. (it wouldn’t bother me too much, but I’m sure some people would be upset by it since they view FF7 through rose-tinted glasses and would see any unnecessary additions as harming the cohesiveness of the final game)
if you want to grab the three free EA games but aren’t around your system (or don’t own the system yet) you can still get them by logging into the playstation store through a web browser
just thought someone might find that useful
Omg did I read correctly? Suikoden II for the Vita? If you’re a fan at all of the series you should definitely give this one a play. Widely considered to be the best game of the series and I agree. I’ve been trying to import this game for longer than I can remember lol.
i´m relieved that they will bring just a port to the ps4 of ff vii… as long as it will look better than the psone classic on the big screen (and the price will be ok) i think it´s a good decision. knowing se they would just screw the remake up.. and i like ff VII the way it is ^^
you forgot one game at least: DAY OF THE TENTACLE ! for vita (and ps4?) 😀
Resident evil revelations 2 vita confirmed!!!!!!!!
Meh, thats not a list of games for the Vita, thats a list of remakes that are nice but are only minimally entertaining. I wish they had listed off something actually NEW, not more remakes and ports.
Well…
There are enough VITA game in Japan,but they aren’t going to be localized.
(Sorry for my poor English.)
i need news about Persona 5… 🙁