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[@GIBiz] Confirmed: PlayStation will not be attending E3 2020
- Thread starter IDontBeatGames
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Right? I would take a few days off just to watch it and soak up stuff.
Damn shame.
I am not getting the point of Sony just announcing they are not attending E3 without announcing their own press event.
Yeah, it really does.
I suppose it makes sense. They probably don't really have many major first-party titles prepared for launch. They have some PS4 titles to still talk about, but they've already been shown for years and it would be idiotic to do an E3 where it's largely PS4 games we've already seen before.
My guess is PS5 detailed in an event coming up soon and PS4 titles get detailed as they get closer to release, either through State of Play events or just releasing videos like they were doing for Days Gone.
PS5 probably won't have much in the way of major launch exclusives and I'm gonna guess a lot of the stuff they talk about will be backwards compatibility, cross-play (cross-platform and cross-generation), how the new tech will cut down on loadtimes, and how backwards compatibility will run games better than they ran previously. I can see it including a 4K upscaler for backwards compatibility and the OS featuring things like an in-game overlay like you can do with NVIDIA software. There will be a few exclusives, for sure, but I think a lot of the big ones, like Horizon 2 for instance, will simply get teased for later if they get a mention at all.
Oh mad, I forgot they moved their shit to the Microsoft Theater
E3 really startin' to hit different
I am glad I won't have to stay up until daft o' clock for whatever their E3 2018 was.
*Until the events they announce they're at are then at daft o' clock
*Until the events they announce they're at are then at daft o' clock
E3 generally gave me something to look forward to every year with how much news came out of it, so I'll miss it when it dies (at least in the form it's currently in), but it's clear that the writing is on the wall for the expo if Sony's skipping it outright for the second year in a row now. I imagine that more publishers will follow suit in the next year or two since they can just time their announcements/exhibitions in ways where they'll get the most attention, rather than stuff being lost in all of the noise of a single event.
I don't understand skipping it. Isn't it just more exposer. They can do an individual event and still turn up to show case games etc.
Well that sucks. When these companies entirely host their own shows it comes off as self felating bollocks usually. At least with E3 the competition aspect drove them to actually try sometimes. Now I expect a 2 hour show with a CEO droning on about crap nobody but the shareholders could care about.
That's too bad. Always fun going to the Sony side of E3 and looking at and trying out their new games.
Yes. They're at E3. In the MS theater. Just not inside the convention center. Still apart of E3. As is all the events that take place outside of the convention center.
i'm ok with that since next e3 is gonna be a e-celebs galore, but i hope sony is gonna do a event by their own
Sony and nintendo realized that, with twitter and social media, they can do whatever event they want at whatever point in time and it will reach just as big a public as e3 would, and they won't have to compete for attention. It's the right way.
And i don't feel bad for e3 dying. It's just a bunch of trailers and guys on suits talking.
And i don't feel bad for e3 dying. It's just a bunch of trailers and guys on suits talking.
Okay I'll be honest and say I'm sad about this, E3 for all its faults was always like a few days of Christmas for me where I would watch all streams I could, if it dies then I feel there's nothing like that left. Individual Presentations don't generate 5-6 days of continued stream coverage.
As 2019 e3 showed - nobody generally cares about a company attending e3. It's sad that gaming Christmas is cancelled but most of big companies don't need e3 anymore
Sony not attending E3 last year kinda made sense, all things considered. Sony not attending E3 this year is the almightiest of middle fingers. That's one gigantic "fuck you" to the ESA.
Anyone remember the "cube clubs" Nintendo put on during the Gamecube buildup? Getting those kind of vibes from Sony. Interesting
So this has nothing to do with what is good for fans, they just had an argument with each other...
this confirmed ESA is still going all in with influencers and good will thing, right?
anyway, I doubt they already find another venue in LA area during E3 weeks, but we'll see
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Sony clearly aren't interested in dealing with that.
Setting expectations early and on your own terms is super important in PR.
They'll announce their own PS5 events when the time is right.
leaking thousands of journalists personal info and doing nothing about it will do that sometimes
It does reek of arrogant Sony like Sony doesn't give a shit about any dev making games for their platforms and just takes their support for granted. Sony not being at E3 takes away an avenue for developers to present or showcase their games.
Really weird as well. Sony has a next gen console coming out this year and won't be at E3 where a lot of those Ps5 launch window titles should be getting announced normally.
Really weird as well. Sony has a next gen console coming out this year and won't be at E3 where a lot of those Ps5 launch window titles should be getting announced normally.
I get it, but I don't think the shift towards companies demanding tighter control over their PR pipeline is good for anyone but sycophants. When it comes down to it I'm a fan of the medium, not Sony exclusively. They don't want the unpredictability of a trade show environment and critical coverage getting in the way of a rollout, and they seem to not like working with the ESA as presently constructed. Both are understandable from an internal perspective, but I still believe a mainstream event like E3 lifts all comers when handled right, particularly smaller devs, and to see it die would be a loss.
If you were a marketing manager would you love E3? With the speed of news these days you can effectively announce things at any time and have full press coverage and be sure consumers see it. Why share the stage at one event when you can get the same coverage exclusive to yourself? Trade shows in general are losing their purpose.
well sony can still do a press event right before E3...Nintendo never attends TGS but sometimes steals Sony's thunder by doing a press conference right around TGS: that 3DS year when they announced MH3G and MH4