So, this announcement got me thinking, in a similar way to the Titanfall-on-EA-Access announcement at Microsoft's conference: There's a certain dark humour in seeing these games which were pushed so heavily at their original conferences being referenced so very briefly in later followup conferences, with The Crew here getting roughly equal billing to a Trials expansion.
I'm not sure what to make of this phenomenon, really. It's certainly a relatively new thing; that'd be in part simply because there's more reason to refer back to older games in press conferences these days. It's sad, in a way; it's information that needs to be disseminated, but doesn't merit much focus. We'll see how it goes in Sony's conference, but I strongly expect that there will be a lot more pomp and hooplah about the Bloodbourne DLC plans, a lot more confidence in them.
I fear it's a slight testament to the hit-driven focus of the industry these days. And I can't help but feel that that's a little bit of a shame.
