Sony’s “State of Play” Flops — Only 300K Concurrent Viewers, Panned Abroad Too

Background and key points

“State of Play” is Sony’s irregularly-scheduled showcase for new titles and DLC — essentially Sony’s answer to Nintendo Direct. What made this round notable was the reaction to the concurrent viewer count cited in the thread (roughly 300,000): a widespread sense that there wasn’t even enough energy left to properly tear it apart. Normally a show like this draws a storm of criticism, but this time the dominant reaction was that even the haters lacked momentum — producing two competing takes: one holding that “the truly alarming thing is the dead silence,” and another countering that “getting review-bombed at all is proof people still care.” There was also frustration that the back half of the broadcast was given over to DLC reveals and voice-actor interviews, echoing complaints about similar pacing in past editions of the show. The fact that overseas outlet Eurogamer wrote about the chaos in the stream’s chat suggests the lukewarm-to-hostile mood wasn’t confined to Japanese 5ch reactions — it extended to overseas communities as well.