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Last night's Playstation showcase was perfect. Perfect. Such a great variety of games - indie games, big games, sports games, racing games, horror games, family games, their games, other companies' games. And every game looked amazing, tech-wise, and every game looked amazing gameplay-wise. Like, no matter how small it was, it looked like something you could immerse yourself in and enjoy. And a lot of stuff about their history, and a lot of stuff about the people in their company and who they're partnering with, and then they showed the box! Which no-one was sure they were going to do! And it looks like a spaceship. And then they showed the other version, which doesn't have a disc drive and will therefore be cheaper. It reminded me how ardently, irrationally devoted I am to Playstation, but because of the things they do. My big concern now - ridiculous and petty in terms of what's going on in the world - is that they're not going to be able to keep the price down for the tech they've put into the machine, and it's going to launch super-pricey in a world that's going through a recession. But there's not much else to be done. I just hope they're okay and can go on making amazing games for us for many years to come.

And then that makes me sad, in a real world sense, because the PS5 is out in 'holiday 2020', which is the end of the year, and so I'm thinking about the time - and thinking about how that's when it will be cold again, and no-one will want to spend much time outside, and it'll be flu season again, and if this virus isn't largely taken care of by then - and signs suggest it won't be - it'll probably come back again and we'll all be locked in our houses. I mean it's all we can do, no-one can control when a massive pandemic hits the world, but it's still bizarre and scary to think about. What will this Christmas look like? People won't be able to go to pantomimes, crammed into theatres together. The shops being chock-full of Christmas shoppers can't really be a thing. I mean, we'll manage, but. It's going to be weird. And you can kind of see it coming.

New Zealand is just fucking amazing.

Next week I have to go pick up a prescription again, and I'm probably going to swing by town and see if my local games shop has reopened again, along with all the other shops. For all I know it has closed forever, which one cafe in my town did weeks ago, but I'll have to see. I don't know if I'm going to want to risk going in, but I can talk to them, and see if I can figure out a way to buy from them with the lowest risk. I'm happy to mail them cheques if they'll accept that. I got paid today - still no word from work, except an automatic email telling me my payslip has gone through - so I've got more money than I really know what to do with at the moment. I'd love to support more charities and local businesses, but there's just so many I tend to give up just trying to decide. But it'd be nice to do something with it.

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I loved the Playstation showcase too: so many amazing games, and the system itself just looks amazing. :) I am worried about the pricing as well given everything going on, but I also hope that they will be okay and that they will continue to make such excellent games for many more years to come. :)

It is rather sad to think about where we might be come the holidays this year on account of the situation right now. But we'll get through it somehow.

New Zealand is quite amazing! :D

I hope that your local games shop will be able to reopen, and that you will be able to continue your patronage there in some way! :) And I can so understand what you mean about there being so many charities and local businesses to support that you tend to give up just trying to decide but it is very nice that you want to do something with your extra money currently and I hope you will find something that really inspires you to help out! ♥

My local games shop has reopened, they've updated their Facebook to say so, so I'll be able to go down and see what's what shortly. It's weird hearing all the details though - people on Facebook were asking if they had a certain new game in, and they said they hadn't had any stock deliveries since the lockdown began, so no. Someone else asked if they could come trade a game in, and they said yes, but maybe in the afternoon since the till was currently empty. So many little things about how you run a business, and how this pandemic has made it harder. But hopefully I'll be able to support them in some way. And get my PS5 ordered as soon as those are available!

They really did a great job with the showcase. A lot of variety. Pity the stream itself wasn't HQ, a lot of people have gone back and watched the individually uploaded clips and been far more impressed by the look of it.

Very sad Horizon didn't come with a date. I'd firmly expected a 2021 window. Oh well, fingers crossed. I'll still have TLoU2, Cyberpunk, and Ghost of Tsushima to keep me busy hehe.

Also they've said this isn't all they have to show :D

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Yeah, one of the things I really liked about the showcase is that that clearly isn't all they have to show. There are a lot of their big franchises they're obviously working on, but it wouldn't make sense to put them all out in the first year of the console, or to talk about them when they're years out. So you can just enjoy all this stuff - a lot of which were console exclusives, apparently - knowing that there's even more to come. I'm still waiting to hear about Wild again, hoping it hasn't been cancelled. And then there are all the third parties - you'll be able to play Assassin's Creed Valhalla on the PS5 in the autumn, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Bloodlines 2, alongside Miles Morales and everything else. There's so much to look forward to, and still games coming out on the PS4 very soon, and so much more to come. It's very exciting.