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The DeanBeat: Sony shows off its immersive worlds coming … someday

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Sony showed off an impressive lineup of games with immersive worlds at the PlayStation Showcase, but it also used familiar sleight of hand that console makers use to puff themselves up. Many are a long way off, and some weren’t even exclusives.

The showcase served its purpose of hyping the games coming for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. But, as always, the best things that Sony announced either don’t have launch dates or are coming a long time from now. And two of the games that it touted, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, actually arrived with some bad news. Those games won’t come out on the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S until March, about four months behind schedule.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.