Sony Talks VR and 2016 Games in Paris

While Microsoft has been driving home the potential hits it has for the holidays, Sony has sat silent. That changed this week at Paris Games Week, when Sony set the tone for the next year or so by touting 21 games, mostly exclusives, poised to redefine the PlayStation 4 experience.

It's what PlayStation fans have been waiting for -- a listing of completely new games. Sony had been focusing on minting indies and HD remasters.

At its first-ever appearance at Paris Games Week, the company put on a console-selling show that evidenced the potential of the latest PlayStation and the upcoming PlayStation VR headset.

Sony provided updates on previously announced games Street Fighter V(PS4/PC), Uncharted 4 (PS4), Wild (PS4), Star Wars: Battlefront (all consoles and PC) and others. There was even a commitment to release procedurally generated space explorer No Man's Sky (PS4/PC) -- that'd be June 2016.





The Highs

The company also announced several new games, two of which Mike Schramm, head of the qualitative analyst team at EEDAR, found especially compelling. That's the pair of Gran Turismo Sport games, the next entry in the hallmark series, and Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human.

Gran Turismo Sport will tie in several special events with real-world honors from the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. Detroit: Become Human is a sci-fi saga with androids from the studio that developed Beyond: Two Soulsand Heavy Rain.






"Sony also featured some impressive gameplay from Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn, two games that were previously announced. Both gameplay sessions featured some new and interesting details, from Wild's different shamanic powers in its vast, open world to Horizon: Zero Dawn's trapping gadgets and its item and crafting systems," Schramm told TechNewsWorld.






Some of the biggest news wasn't released in a singular announcement: PlayStation VR, previously code-named "Morpheus," is a serious contender in next year's virtual reality war, and Sony has the software to see the VR headset succeed, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.