Lol, they have no need to make a showcase, nor aren't forced to do it. They'll do one once they consider it's the time and think they have enough stuff to do it. If not, they'll simply do SoPs from time to time. They mentioned that expect to start to improve the supply later this year, and I think they may have enough material to do showcase this fall leaving enough stuff to be announced/shown later.
Will Spider-Man 2 make 2023, when else would they debut gameplay?
Insomniac has a long history of releasing at least a game per year since forever with a few exceptions. I assume one of them was 2022 due to covid. I'm super confident they'll release it in 2023 and that originally it was planned for 2022. I assume they'll debut gameplay this summer/fall in a SoP/Showcase/Game Awards.
- Will there be any other major AAA games for 2023, nothing else is really announced or rumored
They already announced many 2023 exclusives like Spider-Man 2, TLOU online, Horizon CoM, RE Village VR, RE4R VR, Tchia, Final Fantasy XVI, Granblue Fantasy Relink, etc. Obviously more will continue to be announced in the next events during the rest of this year and early 2023.
- Will we get any more games for 2022? Helldivers 2 was rumored but no update or official announcement
Sony doesn't plan to release more games for PC, and doesn't plan to release day one games on PC for this FY or for the FY2025. Whoever made the Nvidia list GoW was the only one correct, all the other almost a dozen unannounced Sony games of that according to that list were going to be released in PC during 2022 won't be released on PC, at least not during the current fiscal year.
This means that if Helldivers 2 exist won't be released this year at least for PC.
Accoding to Sony they'll publish during this FY 4 games only in PS5 and 4 games in PS4+PS5. If you remove from there GoW and the already announced ones you'll see the amount of PS Studios games to be released during the rest of the fiscal year (not 2022), which means will include some PSVR2 launch games.
- What exactly is the other GAAS title that Jim Ryan hinted at for this FY? It can’t be Factions as we now know
I have no idea. Knack 3?
- When is PSVR2 releasing, this year or early next? There are full complete sets in the wild already
- What is the rest of the PSVR2 line up? We only got 4 titles out of 20 so far
As I remember due to rumors and a legit Chinese insider they were targeting Q1 2023 but the date will depend on availability of games developed for launch. So pretty likely they are waiting to announce the date and launch lineup until they sure about it.
Regarding to these 4 games announced for PSVR2, they didn't mention if they will be launch games or not.
- Where is the Dualsense Pro controller?
Ask the "leaker" who mentioned it. Officially it doesn't exist.
- When is the next big firmware updates, its been months
I have no idea
- Will Bungie or Haven be part of the showcase?
We don't know if they will ever make another showcase. Their games will be announced when they consider they are ready to be announced and that it's the proper time to announce them. I bet both games will be announced next year. In fact, I think Bungie will announce 2 new IPs next year: one to be released late 2023/early 2024 and the other one late 2024/early 2025.
Do you think it would be insane if Sony really go the rest of the year without a major 1st party showcase?
No. This year they will have released Horizon 2, GT7, TLOU Part I, GoWR plus many 3rd party exclusives, the new PS+ and many big multis, some with a marketing deal signed with them (Avatar, Howgarts Legacy, etc). They will sell a shit ton of games for PS, will make a ton of money with PS+ and will continue selling out very fast all the consoles they can ship. And well, MS won't have any big exclusive this second half of the year.
With all their releases they have the demand and engagement metrics at gaming history record levels, so no need to rise hype levels now, specially when there are no consoles in the shops. I assume they'll wait until supply gets back to almost normality.
Could they get away with it?
For sure, for the reasons I just mentioned. I think the announcements or trailers for the H2 2022 and Q1 2023 stuff including exclusives or games with marketing deals can be shown at places like SoP, Gamescom, Game Awards or random Tuesday PS Blog posts. No need a showcase for it.
