Conferences were always organized by publishers and outside convention center as far as I know. They were during E3 and that is connection. Being on showfloor is something else.
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[@GIBiz] Confirmed: PlayStation will not be attending E3 2020
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Conferences were always organized by publishers and outside convention center as far as I know. They were during E3 and that is connection. Being on showfloor is something else.
Wasn't going to E3 insane expensive for big publishers too, and didn't produce any measurable benefit?
I've been kind of wondering why any of them do it anymore. I agree with others that streaming an event makes more sense. Hell, just having a real on-stage presentation at an (affordable/controlled) location of their choosing and having the press there, and just streaming to the rest of us could be a bit of the best of both worlds.
I've been kind of wondering why any of them do it anymore. I agree with others that streaming an event makes more sense. Hell, just having a real on-stage presentation at an (affordable/controlled) location of their choosing and having the press there, and just streaming to the rest of us could be a bit of the best of both worlds.
Outside the whole doxxing thing, what is E3 doing wrong that Sony doesn't like?
Anyone actually know? Because they mention the vision of E3 was not right for Sony.
What is Sony's ideal "vision" then.
Anyone actually know? Because they mention the vision of E3 was not right for Sony.
What is Sony's ideal "vision" then.
They may just do their own events. I agree that State of Plays are fucking lame.
Not related to the thread but thank you for using the full gif, I hate the one that just never delivers.
Is that the main reason why people are hating on the ESA? You are right to point out the double standard here. It was a simple mistake. Not intentional from what I know.
Kind of strange that people are acting like E3 isn't happening this year because of this announcement.
They will have an event to announce one number in the teraflops specs and then make us wait another event to see a screenshot from an untitled PS5 game. Another event to show off the color of the console and so on and so forth. PS5 full reveal 2021. Release date: Holiday 2020.
...you realize devs will still have to crunch to create demos and videos and verticle slices for whenever Sony decides to hold their PS5 events anyway, right? This doesn't actually change that at all lmao, instead of crunching to hit an event in June it'll just be May or something instead.
I'm ride for my Sony, I lie to my E3.
PS5 release date is going to be dropped on Easter Sunday on a Twitch channel with 11 subscribers, and it will still be the biggest watched stream of 2020.
PS5 release date is going to be dropped on Easter Sunday on a Twitch channel with 11 subscribers, and it will still be the biggest watched stream of 2020.
Sure but E3 is another convention to get more word of mouth from the public circulating. Getting hands on time with new consoles and people making videos on all the various social media platforms helps drive that.
Influencers are a massive part of marketing these days and skipping an event that is essentially a giant influencer hub dedicated to just gaming is interesting to say the least.
I don't see how it's maddening. We know what they're doing. Ghosts, Last of Us, PS5. It's not an if, it's a when. A maddening silence is when you don't know what they're doing and you fear it might be nothing.
Luckily ESA let's us call some of the journalists to find out.
What about when they have to create it for Sony's private conference. Won't they need to do the same thing?
ultimately that will be up to the publishers but it's possible it will allow them more freedom to show the games when they are ready instead of everybody and everything revolving around June/July every year.
And, while we're ragging on the ESA, don't forget when they rented tractor trailers just to block the view of Devolver Digital's rented parking lot across the street.
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I understand. It's a bad look for them. And likely a result of insufficient security audits for years. An area that most companies probably lack. It's a total fuck up. But I only bring up intent because of the way people talk about it here. Like they did it on purpose. And Sony skipping is their payment.
They have not being silene at all we usually dont have any info at all about a system this far from release.
Sony skipping E3's show floor makes some sense, given that EA and Microsoft had already largely abandoned the show floor, press attendance has been in decline and the ESA's attempts to convert the expo to a consumer expo hasn't been going well. There are plenty of bigger shows if you want to attract gamers.
Sony skipping E3's associated publicity events does strike me as a potential strategic error, since it'll effectively hand Microsoft the one gaming news cycle per year that is guaranteed to get mainstream news attention. Despite the wording of the press release, I would assume that Sony would have something for that week, even if it's just an attempt to play spoiler to the Xbox show.
Sony skipping E3's associated publicity events does strike me as a potential strategic error, since it'll effectively hand Microsoft the one gaming news cycle per year that is guaranteed to get mainstream news attention. Despite the wording of the press release, I would assume that Sony would have something for that week, even if it's just an attempt to play spoiler to the Xbox show.
E3 should've stayed an industry event. There are plenty of consumer events out there. Besides the big ones like PGW and GamesCom, there are tons of smaller events around the world. You just don't get hype threads about them because there are no big announcements, but devs/pubs still go to places like Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Australia, etc for game events aimed at consumers.
It's not even a blasting of info at this point, they are not even hinting at it outside of the obvious ("Hey, kids.... look at our new logo."). So I still have to question what the play is with this.... because this feels. Odd.
It honestly feels as if PS5 isn't new, and given the info that we have on the device and what the platform is, it just might not be... New in the sense of revolution, anyway.
Granted, the leaks have made this feeling worse but still... we know alot about the tech and we have yet to see the device, or the games they want on the thing.
Their not? Look I not entirely sure if timid is the word but it's the only think that I feel fits with this.
I am honestly surprised the servers hold. I was almost expecting Resetera to be down lol
Posted a few pages back, but mostly is:
Sony wants the E3 to be a consumer event, kinda like Gamescom.
The ESA wants to be remain as industry-only as possible.
Yeah now they will probably need to be done even earlier. These systems are coming out like months after e3. It's right there.
Yeah. Some have stated they want no part of E3 because Sony is not there. Do they mean they won't watch anything out of spite or is it the only games they are interested in are Sony exclusives. hard to tell.
Yep great post regardless of whatever event they hold developers will STILL have to crunch in order to create demos or slices
I admittedly haven't watched any in probably a year or two cause I found the format a waste of time, but I have a recollection of them being front loaded with a 90% focus on whatever game they were trying to market the heaviest at the time, then they would have a few minutes of new trailers or teasers, sometimes of unannounced titles. The point I was making is I'm not interested in watching a 20 minute Luigi's Mansion advertisement to maybe see a 20 second teaser of a surprise unannounced title.
I don't think anybody is concerned if Nintendo is going to release video games this year.
I hear Sony is getting out of the entertainment business and diverting into making Baby Wipes.
Everyone? No. But I'm sure a good majority would be. The ESA sucks and E3 is a bloated nightmare.
Don't make this a platform war issue, because it's not for a grand majority of people.
I never said anything about Nintendo, I was commenting on the "maddening silence".
I would still think this formula is still pretty dated and probably not worth the costs to the host companies yeah.