PlayStation's hotly anticipated May State of Play dropped with as little warning as we've grown accustomed to with showcases of this ilk. Honestly, I'm not sure what I was expecting from it, beyond my own selfish wants to see more titles like Marvel's Wolverine and whatever any of Sony's other major studios are working on. While it featured some fantastic-looking games, some release dates, and a handful of fresh reveals, the showcase at large felt symptomatic of the unusual year the PS5 and PlayStation is having.
The showcase comes after PlayStation made some serious changes to its business, canceling several unannounced projects, making heavy layoffs, and closing the PlayStation London studio altogether. It followed that with making leadership changes, promoting two PlayStation veterans to the new SIE CEOs to replace the now long-departed Jim Ryan. With all of those changes, Sony vowed it would unveil its new "long-term vision" and the important role SIE will play in it, but so far, it feels like more of the same.
