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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
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I think they A) will have a State of Play soon, and B) it won't be PS5-related at all.
They have the better part of a year until the PS5 launches, including the release of a bunch of massive PS4 games. They're not going to move past that all so soon to spend all of 2020 hyping up something that will be on sale for six weeks this year at best.
Devil's Advocate here, but what if they're realising that they won't be able to make enough PS5's due to the virus hitting factory production in China?
The worst thing would be to hype up PS5, only to reveal a delay to 2021.
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Check some of Twitter discussion from some of the Xbox...ummm...devotees. Truly amazing.
Hear, Hear! The world health organization is a sham not worth listening to!
Jesus fuck era. Stop. STOP!
You're embarrassing yourself.
Holy shit what an awful thread. And y'all really wonder why so many people stick to EtcetEra ? Get your heads out of your asses, children.
And him out of all of the people in this thread should know better, considering he's a developer (?) for a company.
At this stage they'll have put a fair bit of prep work into this, which will now be wasted, will have to cancel associated contracts and expenses not all of which may be refundable. It'll cost them to do this. Not to mention the loss of a marketing opportunity. No company wants any of that.
Re. GDC, from twitter chatter some folks have been cancelling their attendance individually. Don't know about any major company withdrawals. But it's definitely possible.
Sony pulled from a mobile showcas as well few days ago... So what's their excuse then for doing that then if not the Corona Virus?
Also defensive? LOL
You came saying that we should question Sony decision to pull for PAX and some posters didn't agree with you and want to know what is this "excuse" thing you spoke.
Explain then for us uninformed what is Sony real reason to pull from PAX then since you seem to know the "truth"?
Because to me it looks like you came to do some trolling or console warrior bullshit and it didn't go well.
After what happened with the datamining of FF7, I doubt that happens lol
For real. I hope mods do a thorough cleansing, because this shit is disgusting.
I still remember way back on the igncube forums back during the 9/11 attacks, people were worried that it would affect the launch of the gamecube. Games are a priority, apparently.
They likely weren't going to reveal/hype the PS5 at Pax anyway so I don't see why that would have been a concern.
the issue I think is that people in insulated communities like this one tend to put far too great an importance on the views or perceptions shared here, when more often than not they have no actual basis in reality and/or are not shared by the masses, so they see a story like this one and think "well based on what I see on the message boards Sony is a company in disarray with no real direction for the PS5, so even though they say this is about the coronavirus, I bet they are really just using that as a cop out because they are shook"
Not even remotely a fair comparison. The concern with coronavirus is increasing spread. Without precautions we would be seeing substantial exponential growth.
That being said, yeah this is absolutely overly reactionary, if coronavirus is the only reason for cancellation.
It's clearly not the nutjobs in this thread that are the issue! It's the people calling them out!
Oh, there's about a 1% chance of them doing it, but hey it's still a chance I guess.
Wrong.There can be no scientific mortality rate yet because it's the middle of an outbreak.
Coronavirus is more fatal in men than women, major study suggests
Men have a higher risk of death than women from COVID-19, Chinese researchers concluded in the largest study on the outbreak.www.cnbc.com
The estimated "23 times more fatal" mortality rate exists because of a single province - where the virus originated. There, the mortality rate lies at 2.9%. In the rest of China, the mortality rate lies at 0.4%, which is a lot closer to the 0.1% of the regular flu.
Even including the irregular 2.9% mortality rate in Wuhan, the mortality rate only significantly rises above 1% with people aged 60 and above, not only affecting older people but largely affecting older people. Just like the flu.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It's a fucking media frenzy with numbers and phrases getting thrown around without context or explanation.
The spread speed of this coronavirus is as fast as flu, with severe infections of 18%. This rate is awful and medical resources will be consumed quickly. In Wuhan hospitals are full and all resources are exhausted so the death rate goes to 3%.
There's no reason to both sides this. One side is saying it's an understandable precaution, the other side is complaining about video games not being shown in the face of a worldwide virus
I have seen some bad threads on the Gaming side before, but damn...
Some people seemingly have no shame in using whatever reason they can to shit on a company they dislike. Just goes to show that as a community, this place really isn't any better than other places.
Is this a "both sides" statement?
Because it reads like a "both sides" statement.
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It sucks, but hey, safety should be more important than freaking video games.
Definitely interested in how much this virus will affect the next gen, to the point that maybe there will be some delays depending how the situation goes in the coming months.
Definitely interested in how much this virus will affect the next gen, to the point that maybe there will be some delays depending how the situation goes in the coming months.
Good point.
Mark Cerny needs to huff some COVID-19 on livestream to regain their street cred to make up for this pathetic display of reasonable caution.
I'd rather they reveal the PS5 and some next-gen games and announce the delay simultaneously. People will be pissed either way.
How would hyping it up for 2020, only to delay it a couple of months later be any good? Either way, the reveal is happening this year and hopefully soon.
It's well known and reported that masks don't stop you getting; they stop you spreading
Eh, weak is very harsh. Borderline inappropriate.
It seems like a big overreaction though for sure.
Like is there a fucking cure for this corona virus disease ?
Because public health issues are a matter of personal belief!
HOLY SHIT.
I think this is disappointing as other companies will be attending. Definitely seems to be an overreaction at this stage but any precautions are at least well intended I guess.
Also thanks for that above ^. Felt really intimidated about posting this for a while seeing how bad things got here.
Also thanks for that above ^. Felt really intimidated about posting this for a while seeing how bad things got here.
It was for the Patrol section that the press played back in September. You can read those previews to get a sense of what's in the demo.
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