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PlayStation Festival Draws Osaka Crowds For PS5 Trial Play
Sony Interactive Entertainment held the PlayStation Festival at Grand Front Osaka in Umeda on October 24, a real-world event where visitors could try PS5 titles shown at Tokyo Game Show 2026 in September.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Why it matters
A Tokyo-centric game event calendar gets a Kansai counterpart, and the turnout in Umeda suggests Sony has an audience in western Japan worth staging for directly.
Key Facts
- Sony Interactive Entertainment held the PlayStation Festival at Grand Front Osaka in Umeda, Osaka, on October 24.
- The event let visitors try PS5 games exhibited at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held in September.
- Gran Turismo 7 and Astro Bot were among the titles available to play.
- Trial-play waits ran 20 to 30 minutes, with Astro Bot reaching about 45 minutes at its peak.
- A Gran Turismo 7 time attack final on stage was decided by a few hundredths of a second.
Gran Turismo 7 and Astro Bot were among the games on display. The merchandise corner drew a long line, and a stage time attack event for Gran Turismo 7 followed preliminary rounds played on the trial stations that morning.
The venue was an open space inside a mixed-use complex next to JR Osaka Station, and the crowd skewed wider in age than a typical game show. Queues ran 20 to 30 minutes even for less crowded titles, with Astro Bot reaching about 45 minutes at its peak. A Lego-brick replica of a PS1 console sat beside the play area. At the stage, the top three finishers from the morning's Gran Turismo 7 time attack on the trial stations ran again, and the final margin came down to a few hundredths of a second.
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