In part of a ResetEra thread, insider John Harker suggests that Sony and PlayStation won’t hold an event this summer, and that instead players should look to September for when the next big event, whether a showcase or State Of Play, should happen.
Responding to a different user who was speculating that there would be a September event, Harker, in agreement, responded, “Indeed.” PlayStation has commonly hosted events between late August and September, so it wouldn’t be the biggest surprise if there was an event in that part of the year.
Harker has previously been a reliable source, though even still, it’s worth taking what is a small suggestion towards an event in September with a grain of salt. Right now, after Death Stranding 2, there’s really nothing that we know about in the summer coming from PlayStation.
Of course, it could be that PlayStation doesn’t have anything loaded for the summer and is holding out until it can have a big blowout presentation in September. But it’s not out of the question that PlayStation will hold an event focused on its third-party partners, with currently unannounced games to show or games that don’t yet have release dates getting a summer date set, to hold players off until we get some insight into what PlayStation first-party has been up to sometime in September.
The last State of Play event we had (that wasn’t a game-specific event, like the Borderlands 4 one), was this past February. A third-party showcase for the summer, followed by a first-party State of Play or Showcase event in September, sounds about right as far as the kind of cadence these events usually happen with.
At the time of writing in the latter half of May, we’re all looking towards Summer Game Fest for the next batch of big announcements. We could see PlayStation sneak in before SGF 2025 kicks off, as it has done before, or after, with some kind of smaller event ahead of their bigger showcase in September, if Harker is right about that.
