Sony’s State of Play for June 2022 has come and gone and what word sums it up? Capcom. Capcom showed three games during the half hour show: Resident Evil 4 Remake, Resident Evil Village for PSVR 2, and Street Fighter 6. I don’t know about the rest of you, but a VR 9 foot tall vampire lady sounds pretty good to me.
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Resident Evil 4 Remake does not come as a surprise after over a year of rumors and the 2 and 3 remakes. The game visually looks amazing and with updated controls, it will surely be a hit. I played every Resident Evil game in 2021 and Resident Evil 4’s controls were it’s biggest downfall for me. Well those and Ashley (who I killed numerous times). With new controls and hopefully a less annoying Ashley and Resident Evil 4 Remake could be even better than the original. One does have to wonder if this is the end of the line for the Resident Evil Remakes. It would make sense to go back and remake the remake of Resident Evil 1 in the same style as the others. I’d really love a remake of Code Veronica though, as great as that game is, a remake could make it even better. Resident Evil 4 Remake launches on March 24, 2023
Resident Evil Village – PSVR 2
Lady Dimitrescu is going to make all the horny fans drool while watching her in VR and I am here for it. With Resident Evil 7 being on the original PSVR, Village coming to PSVR2 just makes sense. I doubt much visual improvements can/will be made, but with how the game looked already, that shouldn’t be an issue. Resident Evil Village for PSVR doesn’t have a release date yet.
Street Fighter 6
After being announced earlier this year, Street Fighter 6 has officially made it’s debut. It looks incredible with a new visual design. This appears to be a new era for Street Fighter with things that haven’t been seen in any previous version, including exploring the world that they’ve created. Street Fighter 6 is set to launch on PS4 and PS5 in 2023.
Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners: Chapter 2, Retribution – PSVR 2
PSVR 2 was the star of the show, even if Capcom did deliver 3 highly anticipated games. So what is coming to the headset? Well more zombies of course. If Resident Evil 4 and Village didn’t give you enough of the undead, then you will be happy to know that Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners: Chapter 2, Retribution will be coming to it. It looks like they are expanding on the previous games crafting and group system as well as adding new enemies.
No Man’s Sky – PSVR 2
No Man’s Sky has had a lot of issues since launch. It didn’t deliver on day 1 what it promised. It eventually got everything that was announced, but that was at least a year after launch. PSVR and Oculus No Man’s Sky wasn’t that great, so will the PSVR 2 help with that? Hopefully. The good thing about the game though, even if they don’t deliver right away, they do deliver. It may take a while, but they do deliver what they promise.
Horizon: Call of Mountain – PSVR 2
This is the game that is going to make or break the PSVR 2. Let’s be real, Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are system sellers, that whole world is amazing. If they can deliver in VR what is so great about playing the others, then this will make PSVR 2 sell out. It’s already hard enough to get a PS5, so with this game coming, it will probably be just as hard to get the headset.
It was also announced that Horizon Forbidden West got a new update. With it comes New Game+ as well as an Ultra Hard mode. It also lets you respect Alloy at any time. The game also got some performance updates for the PS4 Pro and PS5.
Stray
Do you want to play as a ginger tabby cat? Stray is the game for you then. You will be able to access your inner cat on July 19 on PS4 and PS5. This is also the first game that is going to be free for Premium and Extra tier PS Plus Subscribers. Could this be a preview of them doing it more? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
The Callisto Protocol
Do you want a space horror game from the original creators of Dead Space? Well then say hello to The Callisto Protocol. I thought this was either Dead Space 4 or the Dead Space Remake, but it’s a new IP entirely.
Other Games
I’m not really sure what to say about these other games. They look cool, they look like they could be fun. I just don’t have much to say about them, so I will just post the trailers.
Rollerdome
Eternights
Tunic
Season: A Letter to the Future.
Spiderman Remastered
Spiderman Remastered? Yes! For PC! Sony has promised to deliver $300 million for PC in the next year, but this was the only PC announcement at the show. Their acquisition of Bungie might be a big part of their prediction, but Spiderman coming to PC could be huge. It will be interesting to see if they release Spiderman 2 on PC at the same time as the PS5 version.
Final Fantasy XVI
Sony opened the show with 2 Resident Evil games and it ended it with Final Fantasy. A lot of people were guessing that we’d get news about Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2, but that was absent from the show. We might get some news on that soon, seeing as how it is the game’s 25th anniversary. There were rumors of news this month actually, but we’re only three days in so it could be coming down the line. Until we get news on that, we have a new trailer and release time frame for Final Fantasy 16. It should be launching in summer 2023.
I was hoping for news on Final Fantasy 7 remake, but there’s rumors it could be announced for Xbox at their conference. Adding fuel to these rumors is the removal of the exclusive on the Playstation Store. We’ll have to wait and see. This was a strong showing regardless, although it was short. Was there anything you were hoping to see and didn’t? Are you hoping for anything to be announced for Sony at one of the other conferences? Let me know!
