Summer 2025 State of Play Breaks Viewing Record for Sony

The bumper State of Play June 2025 showcase acceptable a highest concurrent viewership grounds for Sony.

Sony kicked disconnected the summertime uncover play with a bang, presenting a smorgasbord of caller games to whet our appetites going into Summer Games Fest Week, including peeks astatine 007 First Light, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Romeo is simply a Dead Man, and Silent Hill f.

According to Streams Charts, this week's State of Play peaked astatine implicit 2.2 cardinal unrecorded viewers for the archetypal clip successful the series’ history. According to information compiled by the website, State of Play present ranks arsenic the 3rd most-popular gaming oregon tech showcase of 2025 by highest concurrent viewership. Only 2 Nintendo Direct presentations pulled successful bigger numbers (understandably, Nintendo's Switch 2 uncover is apical by a agelong way).

As spotted by Push Square, the State of Play wasn't Sony's most-watched livestream ever — that grant goes to the PS5 uncover event, which presently boasts 44 cardinal views. The Horizon Forbidden West and Horizon Forbidden Dawn presentations were besides astonishingly popular, clocking up 15 and 10 cardinal views, respectively. But Tuesday's livestream remains hands-down the astir fashionable State of Play showing ever.

The State of Play focused connected third-party — and peculiarly Japanese developers — with beardown announcements from the likes of Capcom, Grasshopper Manufacture, Konami, ArtPlay, Square Enix, and Team Ninja. There were amazingly fewer first-party titles successful the presentation.

It besides felt precise overmuch similar this year's summertime presumption was focused connected committed gamers, too. There seemed to beryllium a propensity of enactment games, galore of which volition apt travel with mature/18+ ratings.

Need to drawback up? We've got you covered — here's everything announced astatine PlayStation State of Play 2025 earlier this week.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.