Sony at E3: Death Stranding is every bit as bizarre as Kojima fans dreamed

Nathan Mattise

LOS ANGELES—After rival Microsoft showed 50 games from a wide range of genres in a very traditional E3 press conference yesterday, Sony promoted its PlayStation platform with a focused and unconventional presentation. There were only a handful of games, but they were nearly all heavy hitters.

The event started out in a small, church-like space with hanging lights—very unusual for this kind of press conference. It was here that Sony opened the show with an extended gameplay trailer of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II. It became immediately apparent why Sony constructed this unusual venue: it was plucked right out of the game.