PlayStation 5 Showcase live report Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. PlayStation 5 Showcase live report Final Fantasy 16! Harry Potter! £449 - or £359 for the digital edition. Everything as it happened. Blog by Martin Robinson Editor-in-chief Updated on 16 Sep 2020 653 comments It's finally starting to feel like the next generation is happening! With Microsoft having announced price and release details for its Series S and Series X consoles, here's hoping Sony follows suit tonight as part of its PlayStation 5 showcase. Join us live from 9pm BST for all the action. Our live coverage of this event has finished. Coverage 19:17 pm UTC Jeez what are you lot doing here already? – Martin Robinson 19:17 pm UTC Haven't you got anywhere better to be on a Wednesday night? Because I certainly haven't. – Martin Robinson 19:18 pm UTC Kami: Oh good, I'm awake from my blackout in time for this. Evening all! Hullo Kami. Grand to see you as always! – Martin Robinson 19:18 pm UTC And hello all of you. I'm quite excited for this one. – Martin Robinson 19:19 pm UTC Because we're at the business end of things right now - no more target gameplay nonsense. No more vagueness. – Martin Robinson 19:20 pm UTC A release date, a price, and some games running on next gen hardware. That's what it should be about tonight. – Martin Robinson 19:20 pm UTC (cut to me getting increasingly angry in my shed in about an hour's time as we see another pointless CG trailer cut to a forlorn cover of an 80s classic) – Martin Robinson 19:22 pm UTC Ah well, let's just enjoy each other's company if it ends up going that way. Ill-advisedly I have already cracked open a beer and am getting HYPED. – Martin Robinson 19:24 pm UTC IanHigton: Oh hello! don't remember inviting you here – Martin Robinson 19:24 pm UTC (hello Ian!) – Martin Robinson 19:26 pm UTC I'm almost embarrassed to say as it exposes me for the hipster that I am. – Martin Robinson 19:27 pm UTC But it's a Doozy from Villages, my local brewery in Deptford. It's one of those trendy IPAs that all the kids love these days. – Martin Robinson 19:28 pm UTC (I'll move onto some Gadds porter - something more appropriate to someone my age - soon after) – Martin Robinson 19:32 pm UTC So, predictions. – Martin Robinson 19:33 pm UTC Well, in an ideal world it'd kick off with a brand new Ridge Racer that came bundled with a raytracing enhanced, 120fps and 4K remake of the original. – Martin Robinson 19:33 pm UTC I do like the idea of getting an early glimpse of what Ueda-san's up to - credit to DrDollarPHD for that. – Martin Robinson 19:35 pm UTC Something that serene would segue nicely into the next section, a playthrough of the first level of Gradius 6 - with Gradius 5 designer Hiroshi Iuchi at the helm alongside his colleagues at M2. – Martin Robinson 19:36 pm UTC Oh yeah, and then finish on that. Obv. – Martin Robinson 19:36 pm UTC Rumour round-up, for what it's worth - Final Fantasy 16 will make an appearance with the shocking news that it's a PlayStation exclusive. – Martin Robinson 19:37 pm UTC A new Silent Hill is about to be unveiled. – Martin Robinson 19:37 pm UTC And there might be a different colour PS5 other than the white one we've seen already. – Martin Robinson 19:38 pm UTC I reckon we might just get two of those three, but let's see. – Martin Robinson 19:41 pm UTC XrodOne: Listening to cricket?? And I thought watching it was bad enough Oooh I nearly got the banhammer out then. No-one disses Test Match Special in these parts! – Martin Robinson 19:41 pm UTC peterfll: Martin, do you EVER get a break or do they leave it to you to write EVERYTHING on EG these days? Not that I'm complaining, but I'm concerned about your work/life balance? THIS IS HOW I RELAX. – Martin Robinson 19:42 pm UTC Also I'm having a beer and hanging out with some nice people here on the internet while we wait to see some lovely new video games - like I'd want to be doing anything else right now. – Martin Robinson 19:42 pm UTC Preach! – Martin Robinson 19:45 pm UTC I'm about to head to the fridge and get another beer. Anyone want anything? – Martin Robinson 19:45 pm UTC [STARS]TyranT: Hopeful for WipEout anyone? Just me then :( Well, Pacer is out tomorrow... – Martin Robinson 19:45 pm UTC slowdog1976: mini pork pies please martin I ate them all last night *sadface* – Martin Robinson 19:48 pm UTC theguy: If they start with GTA again I'm getting an Ouya I sort of hope they open with GTA6 now, condemning you to a life with an Ouya. – Martin Robinson 19:53 pm UTC I'm back! – Martin Robinson 19:53 pm UTC And now I'm curious - do they do bigger bags of Scampi Fries? – Martin Robinson 19:54 pm UTC I adore them - the only downside is the bags are too small, and I'm too greedy. – Martin Robinson 19:55 pm UTC Worried I'd just open all 24 packs, pour them into a big bowl and then binge on them one night while watching random YouTube videos in my shed. – Martin Robinson 19:55 pm UTC Actually that sounds like a banging night. Ordered. – Martin Robinson 19:57 pm UTC Are they even biscuits though? Clue's in the name (we are all still about Jaffa Cakes here). – Martin Robinson 19:57 pm UTC Just under five minutes to go. – Martin Robinson 19:57 pm UTC WHY AM I SO EXCITED. – Martin Robinson 19:59 pm UTC I should probably load up the stream somewhere. – Martin Robinson 19:59 pm UTC Ah here we go. – Martin Robinson 20:00 pm UTC Where do they find this music. – Martin Robinson 20:00 pm UTC Indeed. It's becoming increasingly strange to see games being sold on their high fidelity visuals making their very public debuts at such low quality. – Martin Robinson 20:01 pm UTC Thank you for clearing that up. – Martin Robinson 20:01 pm UTC Sorry, got sidetracked there. Did it start? – Martin Robinson 20:02 pm UTC (Yes it bloody well did, with a quick montage of everything we saw last time out at the PS5 reveal). – Martin Robinson 20:02 pm UTC And straight away it's a PC build rather than a look at next gen hardware in action. – Martin Robinson 20:02 pm UTC Still, here we go. – Martin Robinson 20:03 pm UTC And they're opening with the biggie -Final Fantasy 16. – Martin Robinson 20:03 pm UTC It looks a lot like classic Final Fantasy/FF14. – Martin Robinson 20:03 pm UTC And I for one could not be any happier. – Martin Robinson 20:04 pm UTC And it's from Creative Business Unit 3 - so it's Naoki Yoshida's team, even if he's not helming it himself. – Martin Robinson 20:05 pm UTC What more could you want? – Martin Robinson 20:05 pm UTC Oh, that Amano artwork. – Martin Robinson 20:06 pm UTC And there it is - it's a console exclusive on PlayStation (that's also coming to PC). – Martin Robinson 20:06 pm UTC Well, what an opener. – Martin Robinson 20:06 pm UTC And everything we see from here on out will be captured from a PS5. – Martin Robinson 20:07 pm UTC Starting with Spider-Man: Miles Morales. – Martin Robinson 20:07 pm UTC I think after the slightly confusing debut of this Sony's going to be keen to show the PS5 difference with this demo. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC (Though again watching at 1080p in a window on my PC, it's not particularly easy to see that difference). – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC I GOT THAT REFERENCE! – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC INSOMANiAC: Tell us the price for gawds sake. That'll be the closer, surely. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC Nemesis: FIRST NIPPLES Good spot! Great nipples, too. – Martin Robinson 20:10 pm UTC I don't know much about Spider-Man so don't really know what I'm watching. It's nice and shiny though. – Martin Robinson 20:11 pm UTC It still looks like Spider-Man to me, but I gave up on the first game after *that* thing happened in the story and it all got quite hard. – Martin Robinson 20:12 pm UTC Indeed - on a proper screen I'm sure it's quite the next gen showcase. – Martin Robinson 20:12 pm UTC Don't do this to me. – Martin Robinson 20:13 pm UTC MrSomeone: Do you think this is the gen where we'll finally see completely destructible scenery?* *We're not, are we? It might be more the design challenge than the technical one that's holding that back. – Martin Robinson 20:13 pm UTC There we go - Holiday 2020 is all it says, but of course the PS5 launch date is coming later. – Martin Robinson 20:13 pm UTC I hope. – Martin Robinson 20:14 pm UTC Next! It's Warner Bros./Avalanche with... – Martin Robinson 20:14 pm UTC That little wizard boy I guess? – Martin Robinson 20:14 pm UTC Tiel: So--which launch titles of the past have blown you away. I start with Mario 64 This and always this. – Martin Robinson 20:15 pm UTC This one has been awaiting reveal for quite some time, for reasons which are probably obvious. – Martin Robinson 20:16 pm UTC And while it's hard to see how the game will shake out, the bits that look like gameplay sure do look nice. – Martin Robinson 20:16 pm UTC Nemesis: Good luck on the character creation screen ! ... – Martin Robinson 20:16 pm UTC It's coming in 2021, and I do think that's the most next-gen thing I've seen to date. – Martin Robinson 20:17 pm UTC Raven Software next - so it's Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. – Martin Robinson 20:18 pm UTC And we'll get a playthrough of a single player level. I *might* turn my speakers down for this, because it's probably going to get loud. – Martin Robinson 20:18 pm UTC Also this. – Martin Robinson 20:19 pm UTC Yup, it's a Call of Duty campaign - though this one does offer more open-ended levels that seem almost Metal Gear Solid 5-esque in nature in this. – Martin Robinson 20:19 pm UTC Maybe that's just because it's raining, he's got a gravelly voice and there are binoculars tho. – Martin Robinson 20:21 pm UTC This looks like what the Fast & Furious game should have been. – Martin Robinson 20:21 pm UTC But obviously with real cars and not a remote control one. – Martin Robinson 20:21 pm UTC Actually would be well up for Fast 9 being all about them using nothing but tiny Tamiya remote control cars though. – Martin Robinson 20:21 pm UTC Anyway, that was CoD. – Martin Robinson 20:22 pm UTC There'll be a multiplayer alpha coming this weekend on PS4. – Martin Robinson 20:22 pm UTC Next! – Martin Robinson 20:23 pm UTC It's Resident Evil 8. – Martin Robinson 20:23 pm UTC Which I *don't* think we've got a really good look at yet, beyond its reveal trailer. – Martin Robinson 20:24 pm UTC It's a very gothic take on the series, complete with a beautiful animated fairytale. – Martin Robinson 20:25 pm UTC Yes! – Martin Robinson 20:25 pm UTC Sadly no real gameplay - at least not yet. – Martin Robinson 20:25 pm UTC Nor a release date beyond a vague 2021. – Martin Robinson 20:25 pm UTC Ah well, here's Arkane's Deathloop. – Martin Robinson 20:26 pm UTC And yes, this looks like a very, very good time - I'm much more convinced by this than I was the last showing. – Martin Robinson 20:26 pm UTC In fact, I'm positively pumped. – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC Exactly! – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC Oh man, The Club. – Martin Robinson 20:28 pm UTC I'm seeing so much more Arkane now in the ingenuity of the systems. – Martin Robinson 20:28 pm UTC I will play this game. A lot. – Martin Robinson 20:29 pm UTC Q2 2021 - it's a PlayStation console exclusive. And it honestly looks like it could be game of the year material. – Martin Robinson 20:29 pm UTC Yes please, basically. – Martin Robinson 20:30 pm UTC Now, what's this? – Martin Robinson 20:30 pm UTC Ah, it's Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition - a next gen glow up I'd imagine with some extra content. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC Nemesis: Nope Yup. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC (I loved Devil May Cry 5 - it felt like a classic PS2 game, which meant it was a bit hoary in places but also played like a dream). – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC And it's going to be there at launch on PS5. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC NEXT! – Martin Robinson 20:32 pm UTC Oddworld! – Martin Robinson 20:34 pm UTC (as you might be able to tell from my silence, I've never played an Oddworld game before). – Martin Robinson 20:34 pm UTC Looks fun though! – Martin Robinson 20:34 pm UTC Right, next - I think it's going to be GhostWire: Tokyo. – Martin Robinson 20:35 pm UTC No I'm an idiot, it's Five Nights at Freddys. – Martin Robinson 20:35 pm UTC Your kids will love it. – Martin Robinson 20:35 pm UTC Now then... – Martin Robinson 20:36 pm UTC Demon's Souls. – Martin Robinson 20:36 pm UTC This looks like the Demon's Souls I love. – Martin Robinson 20:36 pm UTC Oh yes it really does, but in the most beautiful way. – Martin Robinson 20:37 pm UTC I thought it all looked a bit too colourful last time around, but I'm more than reassured by this look of it in action. – Martin Robinson 20:37 pm UTC Don't it just. – Martin Robinson 20:37 pm UTC It looks great and it plays... Well, we know how it plays, and it's sodding excellent. – Martin Robinson 20:38 pm UTC Miyamotosan: Two minutes to give us a price and a release date... It'll be the boss we encounter at the end of this demo. – Martin Robinson 20:39 pm UTC Hahaha *cries* – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC Did they screw up the font of the 'You Died' screen though? LIVID! – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC (I'm buying a PS5 to play that). – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC Right then, one minute to go. – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC And we're getting a sodding Fortnite trailer. – Martin Robinson 20:41 pm UTC And this - the PlayStation Plus Collection, perhaps Sony's answer to Game Pass. – Martin Robinson 20:42 pm UTC It looks that way. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Indeed it is. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Come on then. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Release date. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Price. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Let's do it. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC It looks like someone's artexed the inside of that PS5. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC Nasty. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC Anyway, November 12th release date - or the 19th here in the UK (how could you betray us like that Jim). – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC And a £449 price point. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC For the primo edition that is - £360 for the digital edition. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC And here's a God of War tease to see us out. – Martin Robinson 20:46 pm UTC God of War Ragnarok - a 2021 release, but we're not yet treated to gameplay. – Martin Robinson 20:46 pm UTC And that is a wrap. – Martin Robinson 20:46 pm UTC A good show, no? – Martin Robinson 20:46 pm UTC And that price point for the digital edition will have Microsoft worried. – Martin Robinson 20:47 pm UTC Well I'm getting them all because I bloody love video games, me. – Martin Robinson 20:48 pm UTC But there's enough in that to make the PS5 a tasty proposition for those on the fence. – Martin Robinson 20:48 pm UTC Also I really, really want to play Deathloop. – Martin Robinson 20:49 pm UTC That was the Silent Hill reboot. Sorry. – Martin Robinson 20:50 pm UTC Now that all that is out the way, we can get to the fun stuff in the next few weeks (oh my god it is just weeks) until launch. I can't wait. – Martin Robinson 20:51 pm UTC Thanks as ever for joining me. I'm now going to sit by the front door and wait for that delivery of Scampi Fries to arrive. – Martin Robinson Comments Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Blogs Digital Foundry DF Direct Weekly: do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake? 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