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PlayStation 5 Showcase live report

Final Fantasy 16! Harry Potter! £449 - or £359 for the digital edition. Everything as it happened.

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.

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Jeez what are you lot doing here already?

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Haven't you got anywhere better to be on a Wednesday night? Because I certainly haven't.

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Kami: Oh good, I'm awake from my blackout in time for this. Evening all!

Hullo Kami. Grand to see you as always!

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And hello all of you. I'm quite excited for this one.

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Because we're at the business end of things right now - no more target gameplay nonsense. No more vagueness.

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A release date, a price, and some games running on next gen hardware. That's what it should be about tonight.

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(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)

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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.

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IanHigton: Oh hello!

don't remember inviting you here

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(hello Ian!)

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I'm almost embarrassed to say as it exposes me for the hipster that I am.

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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.

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(I'll move onto some Gadds porter - something more appropriate to someone my age - soon after)

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So, predictions.

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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.

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I do like the idea of getting an early glimpse of what Ueda-san's up to - credit to DrDollarPHD for that.

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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.

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Oh yeah, and then finish on that. Obv.

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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.

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A new Silent Hill is about to be unveiled.

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And there might be a different colour PS5 other than the white one we've seen already.

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I reckon we might just get two of those three, but let's see.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Preach!

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I'm about to head to the fridge and get another beer. Anyone want anything?

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[STARS]TyranT: Hopeful for WipEout anyone? Just me then :(

Well, Pacer is out tomorrow...

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slowdog1976: mini pork pies please martin

I ate them all last night *sadface*

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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.

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I'm back!

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And now I'm curious - do they do bigger bags of Scampi Fries?

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I adore them - the only downside is the bags are too small, and I'm too greedy.

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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.

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Actually that sounds like a banging night. Ordered.

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Are they even biscuits though? Clue's in the name (we are all still about Jaffa Cakes here).

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Just under five minutes to go.

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WHY AM I SO EXCITED.

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I should probably load up the stream somewhere.

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Ah here we go.

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Where do they find this music.

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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.

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Thank you for clearing that up.

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Sorry, got sidetracked there. Did it start?

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(Yes it bloody well did, with a quick montage of everything we saw last time out at the PS5 reveal).

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And straight away it's a PC build rather than a look at next gen hardware in action.

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Still, here we go.

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And they're opening with the biggie -Final Fantasy 16.

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It looks a lot like classic Final Fantasy/FF14.

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And I for one could not be any happier.

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And it's from Creative Business Unit 3 - so it's Naoki Yoshida's team, even if he's not helming it himself.

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What more could you want?

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Oh, that Amano artwork.

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And there it is - it's a console exclusive on PlayStation (that's also coming to PC).

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Well, what an opener.

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And everything we see from here on out will be captured from a PS5.

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Starting with Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

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I think after the slightly confusing debut of this Sony's going to be keen to show the PS5 difference with this demo.

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(Though again watching at 1080p in a window on my PC, it's not particularly easy to see that difference).

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I GOT THAT REFERENCE!

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INSOMANiAC: Tell us the price for gawds sake.

That'll be the closer, surely.

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Nemesis: FIRST NIPPLES

Good spot! Great nipples, too.

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I don't know much about Spider-Man so don't really know what I'm watching. It's nice and shiny though.

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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.

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Indeed - on a proper screen I'm sure it's quite the next gen showcase.

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Don't do this to me.

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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.

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There we go - Holiday 2020 is all it says, but of course the PS5 launch date is coming later.

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I hope.

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Next! It's Warner Bros./Avalanche with...

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That little wizard boy I guess?

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Tiel: So--which launch titles of the past have blown you away. I start with Mario 64

This and always this.

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This one has been awaiting reveal for quite some time, for reasons which are probably obvious.

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And while it's hard to see how the game will shake out, the bits that look like gameplay sure do look nice.

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Nemesis: Good luck on the character creation screen !

...

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It's coming in 2021, and I do think that's the most next-gen thing I've seen to date.

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Raven Software next - so it's Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War.

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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.

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Also this.

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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.

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Maybe that's just because it's raining, he's got a gravelly voice and there are binoculars tho.

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This looks like what the Fast & Furious game should have been.

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But obviously with real cars and not a remote control one.

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Actually would be well up for Fast 9 being all about them using nothing but tiny Tamiya remote control cars though.

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Anyway, that was CoD.

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There'll be a multiplayer alpha coming this weekend on PS4.

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Next!

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It's Resident Evil 8.

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Which I *don't* think we've got a really good look at yet, beyond its reveal trailer.

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It's a very gothic take on the series, complete with a beautiful animated fairytale.

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Yes!

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Sadly no real gameplay - at least not yet.

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Nor a release date beyond a vague 2021.

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Ah well, here's Arkane's Deathloop.

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And yes, this looks like a very, very good time - I'm much more convinced by this than I was the last showing.

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In fact, I'm positively pumped.

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Exactly!

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Oh man, The Club.

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I'm seeing so much more Arkane now in the ingenuity of the systems.

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I will play this game. A lot.

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Q2 2021 - it's a PlayStation console exclusive. And it honestly looks like it could be game of the year material.

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Yes please, basically.

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Now, what's this?

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Ah, it's Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition - a next gen glow up I'd imagine with some extra content.

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Nemesis: Nope

Yup.

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(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).

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And it's going to be there at launch on PS5.

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NEXT!

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Oddworld!

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(as you might be able to tell from my silence, I've never played an Oddworld game before).

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Looks fun though!

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Right, next - I think it's going to be GhostWire: Tokyo.

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No I'm an idiot, it's Five Nights at Freddys.

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Your kids will love it.

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Now then...

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Demon's Souls.

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This looks like the Demon's Souls I love.

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Oh yes it really does, but in the most beautiful way.

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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.

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Don't it just.

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It looks great and it plays... Well, we know how it plays, and it's sodding excellent.

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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.

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Hahaha *cries*

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Did they screw up the font of the 'You Died' screen though? LIVID!

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(I'm buying a PS5 to play that).

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Right then, one minute to go.

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And we're getting a sodding Fortnite trailer.

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And this - the PlayStation Plus Collection, perhaps Sony's answer to Game Pass.

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It looks that way.

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Indeed it is.

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Come on then.

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Release date.

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Price.

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Let's do it.

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It looks like someone's artexed the inside of that PS5.

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Nasty.

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Anyway, November 12th release date - or the 19th here in the UK (how could you betray us like that Jim).

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And a £449 price point.

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For the primo edition that is - £360 for the digital edition.

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And here's a God of War tease to see us out.

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God of War Ragnarok - a 2021 release, but we're not yet treated to gameplay.

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And that is a wrap.

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A good show, no?

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And that price point for the digital edition will have Microsoft worried.

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Well I'm getting them all because I bloody love video games, me.

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But there's enough in that to make the PS5 a tasty proposition for those on the fence.

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Also I really, really want to play Deathloop.

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That was the Silent Hill reboot. Sorry.

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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.

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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.

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