I'm gonna tell you what's happening, what is going to happen and what I'm gonna do.
Sony Corporation has pursued since 2006 to transform the concept of video game to Interactive Entertainment. A new way of understanding games and consoles, one without prejudices, previous opinions or perceptions, and aimed at all audiences, in the same way that there is a manga for each type of person, occupation and personal way of life, unlike the way the West makes and understands comics books. What they want is to remove all past conceptions of what playing on a console is. The great antecedents of this, which I remember and know are Heavy Rain, Detroit Become Human and Dreams. But it's not enough. You need a blockbuster, or a product so big that it becomes a "system seller". Where do you get something like that?
Suddenly, in 2015, a well-known and renowned video game director has suffered a major setback in his career, the company for which he has worked since 1987 has disassociated him in the noisiest and most incompetent way possible. After his last product was an unfinished failure, his pride, bigger than Mt. Fuji, is on the floor, however, everyone knows that he is creative enough to make something new, or in the worst case possible, to trick the public into believing that he has indeed created something unique and novel.
With this in front, the corporation has two options. They can let it go because they don't really trust it, deep down it's a pretentious fraud incapable of making a movie, or they can take a leap, the most risky ever given since the IBM making the 360 and give it full creative power over whatever the fuck he wants.
Just the premise of a motherfucking AAA walking simulator is so extravagant that I can't take my eyes off what it can, or explodes in everyone's face or be one of the best titles ever created. There's really no middle ground with this one. It's either total victory or absolute defeat.