Sony show skates by on snakes and spiders | Kaser Focus

I’m back from GamesBeat Summit 2023, and I somehow managed to catch the PlayStation event on crummy airport wifi a few moments after my plane landed. They thought they could bamboozle me by broadcasting it while I was still in the throes of post-event tiredness, but I persevered! Now I’m not sure what the point was, because seriously, what was that show? Most of the PlayStation’s first-party studios missed it, and very little of what they showed piqued my interest. Also, what is that handheld and why does it look like bad photoshop job?

Out of the games they did show, the only one that made me feel anything was the extended Spider-Man 2 gameplay trailer. I enjoy the notion of Peter trying to cope with Venom, the black suit and Kraven all at the same time — it’s definitely better served in a game than it is in a movie, for example — with Miles playing the beleaguered straight man whose friend starts acting weird. Though it did make me wonder why they hyped up having Tony Todd as Venom’s voice only for him to say three words in the teaser trailer and sit the gameplay trailer out entirely.