- PlayStation 5 lead architect Mark Cerny is hosting a deep dive event tomorrow.
- Industry insiders and developers are already lauding the PS5 ahead of Sony’s reveal .
- It’s unclear what will be covered after Sony explained that the event would incorporate a planned GDC technical talk.
Today’s announcement that Sony will stage a deep dive into the PlayStation 5 tomorrow has caused quite a stir already.
This single tweet from PlayStation has already amassed four times as many likes and likes as Microsoft’s slew of Xbox Series X reveals yesterday .
(An announcement for an announcement has outmatched Microsoft’s candid and transparent info dump.
The PlayStation brand’s global notoriety clearly has a part to play. But there’s a sense that Sony’s radio silence has had no impact on the appetite for the PlayStation 5.
More interesting than trying to gauge public interest in the two competing next-gen consoles are the murmurs from industry insiders and developers.
Early signs suggest tomorrow’s deep dive will be nothing short of impressive:
(Source: Twitter Billy Khan, lead engine programmer at Doom Eternal developer id Software, says: “It’s awesome.” An important opinion coming from someone who undoubtedly had access to the PS5 dev kit.
Similarly, Kotaku’s Jason Schrier says that (one “technically-minded” person is touting the PS5 as “the most exciting hardware in 300 years. ”
Similarly, Kotaku’s Jason Schrier says that (one “technically-minded” person is touting the PS5 as “the most exciting hardware in 300 years. ”
We may need to manage our expectations, though. The PlayStation Japan Twitter accompanied the announcement about tomorrow’s PS5 event with a tweet reading:
This video contains a scheduled session from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in the United States and is available in English only (no subtitles). Please note.
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