Nintendo will certainly be showing off Smash Bros though.

You left out a bunch of games for Sony's press conference:

- The Last of Us: Part 2 is already confirmed for E3 2018 (probably a gameplay demo).
- Death Stranding will probably have a gameplay reveal as well.
- Ghost of Tsushima will most likely be at the press conference. I think a lot of people are underestimating how far along this game is in development. Remember that Infamous: Second Son came out in march 2014.
- From Software's game they teased at the game awards with the "Shadows die twice" teaser trailer will possibly make an appearance at Sony's conference as well.

Sony seems to be more careful with announcing release dates nowadays so while it's possible that we'll get release dates for Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding at E3 I think it's more likely that they'll wait til PSX to announce release dates.

I also doubt we'll see a new multiplayer focused shooter IP from Sony that'll try to compete with PubG (certainly not first party). They might try to get a deal with some third party on a Battle Royale without too much of an investment. The problem in competing with games like Overwatch, PubG or Fortnite is there is only so much room for these types of games at one time.

- Nintendo will probably have something on Smash Bros.
- Metroid might also get some additional infos and a proper trailer.
- Really hope that they'll go for a proper Mario Maker 2 instead of a port because the first Mario Maker is missing a lot of important features.

I really don't expect much from Microsoft at this point. I think they'll play it save this gen and put most of the eggs in the next gen basket. Sure we'll see Crackdown, Forza and we might see a new Halo but if they're really investing in new first party studios and new IPs I doubt that they'll focus on this gen (And yes I do think that Microsoft will make a real next gen console and drop support for the Xbox One eventually despite them saying that forewards compatibility is a big focus for now).

Sony already said no GOW DLC.They won't give a Days Gone release date if it's not coming until next year. Unless it's made by a different studio, I doubt Insomniac has another game coming out so soon after Spiderman. It's highly likely we see whatever that "Shadows Die Twice" game was and that many be a Sony exclusive.

As for Microsoft you can relaly predict anything because outside of Forza Horizon 4 we really don't have a clue.

Nintendo already confirmed no press conference. Pokemon may get shown off, but typically if the game is at E3 it's announced ahead of time. If we don't hear about Pokemon before E3 then don't expect it there. Other than that they said they're focusing on 2018 titles, so we'll be seeing Yoshi and Fire Emblem.

They would be better breaking up what valued assets they still have and put them out to auction for the competition.
There is no more financial gain for them on any trajectory in the entertainment space.

FYI, it hasn't actually been confirmed. This is just a lot of assumptions. If this is the case i would expect Sony to come out and say so. Chat bot response doesn't count as official confirmation.

People are also saying this is also an inadvertent mistake. If this is the case Sony and its customers would be best served by coming out and saying so.

If this isn't a mistake I think they need to confirm it and Playstation gamers should complain.

This is beyond nuts, this was pretty much the exact thing that the playstation execs during the ps4 era mocked the xbox one over and xbox never recovered after it, this is why you need stiff competition folks, Sony high on their own supply just like the early ps3 days where we apparently needed 2 jobs to afford one, I was a massive Ps3 fanboy mainly due to the fact that the xbox 360 pushed sony into a corner resulting in them actually trying real hard to get market share back and as a result we got crazy good exclusives, just for old times sakes like I used to do back in 2012 right here on n4g ill relist some of the major exclusives of ps3 again

Demons souls
Metal gear solid 4
uncharted 1,2,3
infamous 1,2, festival of blood
little big planet 1,2 & little big planet karting
gran turismo 5 and 6 & ridge racer 7
killzone 2,3
twisted metal
journey
ratchet and clank tools of destruction, quest for booty, crack in time, all for one, into the nexus
resistance 1,2,3
last of us 1
god of war 3 and ascension
motorstorm collection
ico & shadow of the colossus collection
folklore
modnation racers
warhawk & starhawk
sly collection & jack and daxter collection
Puppeteer & comet crash & tokyo jungle & rain & gravity crash & Echochrome & the last guy
Heavenly Sword
3D Dot Game Heroes
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
Mag & Socom 4
Fat Princess
Ni no Kuni, Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3,4,5 (these all came to pc later )

But just think and compare this catalog of games to ps5 ?
Saros, astro bot, demons souls remake, ghost of yotei, I would have included gran turismo 7 but that came on ps4 as well so not really an absolute exclusive that one needs to buy a ps5 to play like the other 4.

We are almost in the 6th year of the ps5, the 6th year of the ps3 was around 2012 and almost all the games from the list above were already released on the ps3, now if they are really pulling this online crap every 30 days non sense its only because of a lack of competition from xbox and so they have console players by the ba**s, now I don't know whether this is confirmed or not but regardless if this is in general where their headspace is at it seems like we should be worried, its the real playstation gamers that will be affected if its true, Im not even a playstation gamer anymore but my recommendation is put your money where you mouth is and really abandon playstation if this ends up being true.

@darthv72 Yeah LIKE 14 years ago. Its like saying "Give sony flak for raising game prices, because it would have made you mad in 2012"

I find their communication to be very poor. If this is an error on their part why let people get worried about it? I understand they don't respond to rumor but sometimes they make it worse by not responding and this is an unforced error on top of and apparent unforced error.

There’s people that talked directly to people, not chat bots, that confirmed it’s real 🤷‍♂️
I expect those fans that were so against Xbox doing it to eat a whole lot of crow

It's also worth noting that the text stating a 30 day license seems to only be visible on PS4, PS5 users aren't seeing it at all.

@ VersusDMC The entire goal for us gamers is to want to avoid that lol, what if sony's servers are down or having some maintenance, many times ive just played my installed games without even signing into psn, from now one it means every 30 days I have to at the very least sign it to psn to even play my installed games, cannot even play single player games without singing in, so for example if sony just decides to ban me from psn, I cannot even play the games locally already installed on my drive that I purchased after march 2026, you don't think thats insane ? you just want to accept that ? abandon playstation right now if this story gets confirmed.
we officially have started renting games from march 2026, it was a good run we had 1994 to 2026.