Not worth it. Unlike 599 US dollars, Ridge Racer and Giant enemy crabs.
Nothing great came out of powers and wonderbook.
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Shuhei Yoshida: Powers part of Sony E3 conference was "a mistake"
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Not worth it. Unlike 599 US dollars, Ridge Racer and Giant enemy crabs.
Nothing great came out of powers and wonderbook.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Woah. Really dissapointed to hear that. I don't particularly care about him as a comic writter but I didn't imagine triying to sell his work with people that care so little about it.
dancrane212
Member
Yeah, having the conference stech into midnight territory for me is always disappointing. Sony really should have a time locked in and shot for that.
SwiftDeath
Member
Very true. Worst low point of any conference besides maybe maybe EA
Romars202129
Member
As primarily a sony gamer.... I got to say he's absolutely right. Hands down worst conference of the big 3.
Though, I don't mean to say I didn't find it worth watching, just want to make it clear Nintendo and Microsoft did it better.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Rich Johnston is going to have a field day with that if he catches it about it.
Alcoholikaust
Member
Kyle Bosman had a great segment on his last show about this
super-famicom
Member
Did anyone else think he's make a good Kingpin?
Acquiescence
Member
He thinks it's a fact so I just helped him out a bit.
That is unfortunate. He cost Sony quite a bit of momentum at that point in the conference.
The way he pinched his fingers together when he would point outwards...it was maddening.
Platinum_D
Member
I agree and they should of used that time for the Vita instead
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
He did have a run writting Daredevil.
Again?
Jawmuncher
Member
Yeah was surprised the powers think took so long. Was pretty annoying especially when they decided to cut some of the MGSV trailer to make up for time.
What could have been done with the 10-15 minutes used on powers.
-Could have made the order look more compelling
-Could have shown snippets of the behind closed doors preview of bloodborne
-Could have shown more indie games
-COULD HAVE SPENT SOME FUCKING TIME ON VITA
-Could have had a live match or 2 of MKX
-Could have made the order look more compelling
-Could have shown snippets of the behind closed doors preview of bloodborne
-Could have shown more indie games
-COULD HAVE SPENT SOME FUCKING TIME ON VITA
-Could have had a live match or 2 of MKX
All that fluff about fan letters and the reminiscing about Rib Vibbon and whatever else that CEO was blabbing about before Mortal Kombat could have got the cut too. I think 60 minutes would be better. Sony really need to improve their pacing with these conferences. They let their guys babble on a bit too long. I mean do we really need a story about how this guy localized Mortal Kombat over a decade ago is now going to introduce the new one?
PsihoPerihelion
Member
Gee, Powers is only a part of what they did wrong. Ignoring the Vita is a bigger offender tho.
Because Sony can't get an E3 conference right even if they wanted to.
Because Sony can't get an E3 conference right even if they wanted to.
Systemwarrior
Member
Ya think! We could have gotten more Bloodborne.
Charles Alan Ratliff
Member
People in my movie theater were really angry during the whole segment.
RedAssedApe
Banned
nice guy sony.
stop talking about it and give us os updates. all will be forgiven
stop talking about it and give us os updates. all will be forgiven
……forgetit
Member
I'd include bloodborne in that, we got no new game play and know jack shit about it still.
They always like to have a segment in the show the brings their conference down to the ground.
sublimit
Banned
How awesome would have been if they had Toyama Keiichiro on stage to present GR2 and talk about the game?Or Hidetaka Miyazaki presenting Bloodborne?
Instead we got Bentis and Shawn Layden.
They showed lots of gameplay afterwards.
Because he's not Iwata, who apologizes during his presentations.
Acquiescence
Member
Well they haven't really officially announced it yet. We've still only got a teaser trailer without even a title to go on.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
My recollection from the announcement:
Vib Ribbon was a thing!!!
Ages later, this guy appeared.
"And just for you today… we have some brand new CONCEPT ART to show you!!!"
*barely two images appear on 100-foot screens*
*cough*
Vib Ribbon was a thing!!!
Ages later, this guy appeared.
"And just for you today… we have some brand new CONCEPT ART to show you!!!"
*barely two images appear on 100-foot screens*
*cough*
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Aha, knew it!
But really, what could Sony do?
Don't know what you're referring to. It's more like "shades of every film producer ever". Give them a soapbox to sell their product and they will go hogwild.
My recollection from the announcement:
Vib Ribbon was a thing!!!
Ages later, this guy appeared.
"And just for you today we have some brand new CONCEPT ART to show you!!!"
*barely two images appear on 100-foot screens*
*cough*
*double highfive*
Schrade
Member
Wow. Thanks for that, EviLore.
Need more reporting of things like that!
What a downer that this guy took so much time and ruin the flow of the show. You could kind of tell that he was putting shit in there that didn't need to be in there. Like naming all those names of people he's working with and whatnot.
He talked about it on Giantbomb. Hes not involved with the directing or scheduling the conference so he has no idea what the other presentations look like, how long they are, he doesn't even know all the games that are being shown ect.
Shu must have got busted sleeping again and had to make an excuse for it.
I think the segment ran about twice as long as it should have, but it did look kind of interesting. And really... if they didn't put this up on stage at E3 to fully explain what it is, even less people would ever hear about it (or care about it) so I don't think it was a mistake really, just not the greatest use of their stage time.
I think the segment ran about twice as long as it should have, but it did look kind of interesting. And really... if they didn't put this up on stage at E3 to fully explain what it is, even less people would ever hear about it (or care about it) so I don't think it was a mistake really, just not the greatest use of their stage time.
How'd you sneak in?
I watched the conference in a Toronto theater and was dosing off during the Powers part and the latter portions of Layden's speech. Powers actually looked interesting, but then they had nothing to show except concept art -_- and also announced US only.
I love opinions.
Fallout-with-swords
Banned
I agree it was mostly boring, I had the slight advantage of remembering the guy BMB's name and realizing he wrote a lot of my favorite graphic novels, also a friend had mentioned Powers to me in the past and said it was awesome.
Anyway, I don't understand why this ruined people's experience with the conference. If you're watching a movie and it has a boring 5 minute stretching the movie isn't ruined it just needed better editing.
Anyway, I don't understand why this ruined people's experience with the conference. If you're watching a movie and it has a boring 5 minute stretching the movie isn't ruined it just needed better editing.
Sorcerer
Member
Powers if free for PS+ subscribers if I understood correctly.
Sony figured that "free" was going to make subscribers feel warm and fuzzy.
But at a games conference people want to hear about games.
Also that guy that had a story about Vib Ribbion, I thought he may be awkward, but shit, he is going to announce Vib Ribbion or some sequel to it for PSN. Nope!!! WTF!!!
Sony figured that "free" was going to make subscribers feel warm and fuzzy.
But at a games conference people want to hear about games.
Also that guy that had a story about Vib Ribbion, I thought he may be awkward, but shit, he is going to announce Vib Ribbion or some sequel to it for PSN. Nope!!! WTF!!!
OnionPowder
Member
Grim fandango was their biggest announcement to me.
I think these press conferences should have a director just like a movie would. Someone who keeps polishing the message, pacing and execution all the way up to the show date. From what the execs were saying about conferences, it seems like everyone shows up less than a week before the big day with a binder full of stuff they wanna show, and everyone gets to show their stuff no matter how out of place or bad it is.
RedAssedApe
Banned
should have played him off the stage like on award shows