Rumor: E3 about to be cancelled, official announcement coming soon (Update: Officially Confirmed)
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People will already be losing money by it being cancelled now. Cancellling it later just makes it worse for people
i don't mind really. Other than the 'framerate and pixel counters', regular people that play games are still okay with the current gen games visual fidelity and performance.
Neither one of those things would stop the hardcore audience from purchasing the consoles on Day 1. The only thing that would delay the consoles is a complete collapse of the supply chain in China. I highly doubt that happens. I fully expect both consoles to launch this Fall. That said, they will be even more supply-constrained than usual.
You mean microsoft?
If anything Sony comes out the least affected by the cancellation.
Sony and MS are massive companies they will be fine.
Spare a thought for the smaller devs and indies that would have used E3 to market their wares.
yup, i started to doubt after some other events got cancelled earlier and now the chances for delay until Q1 2021 are bigger.
I don't understand the logic being exercised by many people in this thread. Large gathering of people at a conference canceled in the Spring...yup, product launches in the Fall will be delayed now too. They are completely different entities. E3 is cancelled to protect publishers, journalists, and fans from getting sick when coming together at a huge conference. A product launch in the Fall has none of those risks. The supply chain would be the only thing to derail the launches.
Lol, no I mean Sony. They already knew they weren't going to E3 and knew their competition would be there so I have to imagine they were preparing a strategy to time info around E3 for maximum effect, either before, during or after. Now we will have to see if MS will stick to their plan and or do something else.
I think they meant Sony knew the time and date of E3 so could plan a drop around then to suck up as much attention as possible. Now they don't know when MS is going to drop their stuff.
COVID-19 is probably affecting Sony conference/expo plans as well
I don't really think they care that much and there was a good chance they have had pre e3 plans anyway.
It's a shame for everyone who was excited to go or watch, but public health is a lot more important. I'm sure the companies will rig up some cool trailers or montages to promote their new stuff in the summer, so it's not like we won't get anything cool to hype over.
They can't be affected because they weren't going at all.
The final nail in the E3 coffin? Would be a shame for it to go out like that, but what can you do?
I imagine Microsoft and Song will just do a digital E3 like press conference. I guess it just depends on what date they choose.
I imagine Microsoft and Song will just do a digital E3 like press conference. I guess it just depends on what date they choose.
I'm sure many will strike deals with the platform holders to get some exposure at their respective reveal events.
I think they meant all of the other things playstation was going to instead of e3
Ah gotcha. If they were trying to time it for Microsoft's info drop, things definitely got more ambiguous now.
Depending on how things continue even gamescom could be cancelled because that one draws a larger public crowd.
With so many games being delayed already, I wouldn't doubt a console delay as well. I just cant think if a good release date. I know Switch released after the holidays.
Only reason I wanted E3 to still happen was to see the new direction it took that was enough to make Sony and Keighley nope out of it.
This is the right thing to do regardless.
This is the right thing to do regardless.
the one thing any virus fears. gamers............................
What do you mean with so many delays? Which games that were due for console launch in the Fall have been delayed? Presumably, the launch games are going to be announced later this Spring when the console events occur.
This epidemic already affect many manufacturing plants in China. It may actually delay certain products.
At this point it's probably the right decision and better to be safe than sorry. I do wonder though how this will affect the show's long-term future; if everyone goes the way of announcing everything online I'd expect either future shows to massively downsized and essentially fan conventions, or the end of E3 itself.
Being in the hospital for the last several days with my grandmom actually put this virus in preceptive for me.
We were talking to a nurse who was caring for my grandmom and the news started to talk about the virus. The nurse mentioned that everyone is worried about the virus, yet the US just had a very nasty flu season that killed at least thousand people, yet it was hardly mentioned on the news. I do remember this since near the beginning of the year, I got articles on my phone about how terrible the flu season was this year with a stain that was resistance to the flue shot and how teenagers were actually dying. Yet, this never really made the big headline news.
This isn't to discount the virus, but more of an insight how this virus got all this news, yet the flu season we just had never reached this point despite it killing more people.
We were talking to a nurse who was caring for my grandmom and the news started to talk about the virus. The nurse mentioned that everyone is worried about the virus, yet the US just had a very nasty flu season that killed at least thousand people, yet it was hardly mentioned on the news. I do remember this since near the beginning of the year, I got articles on my phone about how terrible the flu season was this year with a stain that was resistance to the flue shot and how teenagers were actually dying. Yet, this never really made the big headline news.
This isn't to discount the virus, but more of an insight how this virus got all this news, yet the flu season we just had never reached this point despite it killing more people.
Anything COULD happen. There is no evidence that it is likely to happen. Not to mention that conditions are apparently improving a bit in China.
Here's an article btw:
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They can announce whatever they wanted to announce there whenever and wherever they please.
Yep. Nintendo has proven over the last few years that you don't need E3 to make huge announcements that positively reverberate across the Internet and general populace
There are more important things to worry about right now than some video games event.
Of course. But they're such addict to that E3 hype. They are the loudest group out of E3 after Sony dropped out.
You literally wrote that you read articles about how severe the flu season was then you go on to say how it was hardly mentioned in the news. Think about it.
Regardless, the flu was covered extensively by the US media.
The way I see it, if they can launch consoles this fall at all, then they will. They would take a limited, supply constrained launch over no launch at all. I wouldn't rule out a delay, but at this point in time things are looking better and I would anticipate a soft launch rather than a delayed launch.
Umm all of that stuff was announced on Twitch and YouTube anyway
It's also a VERY known quantity. With a partially effective vaccine. And a death rate well below 1.0%
Covid19 is deadlier, spreads just as easily/rapidly, and has no vaccine in sight. It is just MORE newsworthy than the seasonal flu.
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