Which I kinda knew. Who's to say that they were going to follow the same way they did PS4's reveal and outline?
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Which I kinda knew. Who's to say that they were going to follow the same way they did PS4's reveal and outline?
Thats not funny, that would be so fucking lameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
They're under no obligation to follow what they did in 2013. The landscape is a lot different than it was in 2013, people have shorter attention spans. If you give them a huge info drop, they'll forget it the next month. Give them something little every month, and it'll stay fresh in their mind until launch.
And people don't want to watch a 2 hour conference anymore. They want a concise, succinct 5 minute video that's flashy and has a lot of quick cuts (with some catchy music playing in the background).
New consoles can't come soon enough. My disc drive in my Pro just stopped working. I've been digital since last year and now that I wanted to play Bloodborne it died 😐
I agree but only 'if' they hold their own events. There seems to be an assumption that Sony will for sure have a Feb event soon; based on the last launch cycle this is a safe bet. But Sony's last few years don't really support that assumption. If you told me 2 years ago they wouldn't be on stage at E3, gamescom, and would cancel PSX I wouldn't believe you. If you asked me a few months ago they were 100% going to be returning to E3 on a launch year. At this point the old launch news cycle doesn't look like a great way to predict anything.
At the same time, Klee said Sony is having something next month and a dev said he was going on radio silence about his game until February. That sounds like something is coming next month.
I don't really know what to expect anymore. Who says Microsoft will even be at E3 this year. If Sony isn't having a PS Meeting which seems like a good possibility, what is there to expect anymore?
Pretty much everyone that was expecting there to be a PS Meeting in February of all months in the first place just because there was one in February for the PS4.
Only companies with deep pockets and a huge waechest can afford it. Nintendo management are friends with the E3 guys, so they get free badges and some rusty equipment to boot..
I personally don't see a scenario where Sony is completely radio silent until, or after, E3.
This thread has gotten overly negative.
This thread has gotten overly negative.
Like i said, Microsoft has already 1 step out of the door. They can do their own thing.
The reasoning is simple: creating a strong hype cycle that shapes the conversation. Basic idea is that there's always something PlayStation in the news. That's important because it helps their message to reach way, way beyond the core demographics (i.e. enthusiasts and/or hardcore).
The biggest mistake a market leader can make is getting complacent. You should always be moving, you should always be not IN the conversation, but be THE conversation.
There's a very good reason that Coke still markets heavily, constantly and consistently their cola, even though they've been the market leader pretty much everywhere for a very long time now.
Optimistic yet reasonable and pragmatic. Good post. Next-gen console release years are the most exciting.
my pro has a weird problem, my disc drive works but only if use the pro vertically
It's not just this thread. The same tone from last year is happening all over again. "arrogant Sony, etc."
He blocked me years ago for calling him out on his BS, I guess I haven't missed that much all this time.
Classic PlayStation issue. Happened to both my PS1 and my PS2Slim.
PS will probably get an update to the PS4 interface with maybe a bunch of new features bolted onto it. MS has a new design language, so I'd bet the new Xbox interface will integrate it more thoroughly.
We'll almost certainly get entirely new interfaces, but I imagine they'll both be based on the same OS etc.
If it's right it'll hopefully mean his other info was on point too.
If they use the same interface it would be boring. I'm hoping for something fresh even though I got used to them both. I like them both but the Xbox one is pretty slow at times compared to PS4. You'd think they'd have perfected it by now.
I hope not. If Sony is still using orbis/freeBSD, we'll still have the "copying" issues everyone complains about.
Do you think they'll both be lacking features like they were at the beginning of this gen? Or this the jump to next gen supposed to be easier now then it was in 2013? It seemed they were both in a rush last launch when it came to basic features.
Plus Jim said last week at CES they'll be sharing more info as the months go on. If no meeting, hope something new soon anyway.
I don't think that should be a question really. They'll handle it differently, sure, but there will almost certainly be a big event at least once this year. We just don't know when and how. They even had a PS Meeting for PS4 Pro. With a hardware reveal, it will happen.
Just to clarify this point, the dev later tweeted that he made the comment because he's taking a month long break from Twitter at the beginning of the year.
I still believe that it's happening in February though.
Please Sony.
No they can't afford it. They spent all their money on booze over the weekend.
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If it pans out how I'm feeling, they'll be much more mature right out of the gate. Jump is definitely easier, architectures are very similar - barring either of them dumping the old OS and starting anew, they should have most things in place.
Of course, they'll still find some way to miss some stupid obvious feature somehow.
Some are positively trolling, some over reacting.
It's all good. I'll take this negativity vs. console wars any day.
And it's the lull before the storm. I think after tomorrow news will start coming out more. Especially if they aren't doing E3.
this is sony literally handing them e3 on a silver platter. But then again, they did that last year as well and MS squandered it.
Let's hope MS realizes that they will have zero competition at E3 this year and Sony is letting them have all the spotlight. I said this last year, they had the chance to set the bar, set the standard for next gen games and they showed us a current gen game instead. They have five months to prepare. Go talk to third parties and get as many next gen games as you can to show off the next gen vision.
It might not help them win next gen, but they will win E3 simply by showing up with some next gen games. And we know from last gen, a little goodwill at E3 goes a long way with gamers.
So a bunch of events that aren't in the USA have more attendees. So? Can the USA have a big event?
I for one dont get the gaming community's bizarre hate for E3 the last few years. Like, they really actively want to destroy it. That's why you get all this personalized venom over the data leak. Why?
On Podcast they talk about how much smarter it is to "control the message" and have your Nintendo direct style thing. Ok cool, but a bunch of random unveil events aren't going to replace the concentrated hype of e3 for me. They just arent. Here's another thing, the world is about ya know, people ya know, getting together. Noone would dream of directing a bunch of venom at comic con and talking about how Marvel should unveil their next thing in a taped video. Because we get that's not the damn point of comic con.
As proven by GOTY talks and sales numbers..
Oh wait! Man, your takes as a wounded PS fan are something else.
ESA did it all themselves when they leaked journos' contact information.
That and the marketing leak about their 2020 plans soured a lot of people
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Except you're not going to see any next gen Only games This year. And tbh, if you did, you'll probably see downgrades
We might? We saw HB already. Let's wait until we see the games to make that call, and define what a next gen game is. For all we know a second team could be working on the inferior versions on this gen.
Cross-gen or next-gen, I just want to see stuff that's not possible on current-gen
Surely backwards compatibility for games means much of the OS must also be built on top of the old one and share features. Not having features day one could break the games or cause issues. That's why I think we will have day one a continuation of what PS4 does already, not a mass culling of features and waiting month for the PS5 Netflix app or whatever, lol. That would be a disaster. So given all that I expect it will be much the same UI. I truly hope they try and spruce it up a little and improve the functionality. Just let me pin media apps I use on the main row of tiles. Give us the ability to massively customise the UI to our needs, and so on.
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