2 months left day for day until that time of the year that is E3. It sure feels insane to see time pass by so fast, but pretty soon the period of leaks and speculations from all around the corner will come to happen once again as of every year, leaving a lot of people disappointed for having hopped to see Half-Life 3 getting announced there ( One can dream though ).
But this year will be quite unusual for E3 as Sony will not be attending in any form the event for the first time since the first edition of E3 held in 1995, leaving the other big two companies Microsoft and Nintendo left on the field, alongside all the other « small « attendants such as Ubisoft and Bethesda. This is something that will definitely be seen as an advantage for Microsoft and Nintendo, and that’s what is gonna make this edition perhaps more exciting this year. Now that Sony seems to have taken a different direction, it will all be about Microsoft and Nintendo, and maybe for once they will start to go on full mode and show us what they really got up their joysticks.
Here are my personal expectations for the major conferences of this year’s E3 :
Microsoft : Last year’s conference was definitely a good one, and I really hope this one won’t stop the trend. I’m hoping to see more of Microsoft and Nintendo’s partnership and what it could possibly mean to us gamers. Meanwhile, here’s hoping to see new Xbox hardware announcements and more studio acquirements ( good studios though ), to end up with another huge bunch of game reveals. Dino Crisis and Splinter Cell are heavily rumored to finally see the light of day, so this year could really turn out to be another win from Microsoft. But we’re not there just yet !
Nintendo : Like every year, the conference that I await for the most, as a huge Nintendo fanboy I admit. Since 2019 is surely shaping up to be a bigger and better year than 2018, a lot of games, existent and unannounced, will be presented in the dare I say « conference « and hopefully this time, we will get to see Pikmin 4, F-Zero, or maybe even Retro Studios’s secret game, because when it comes to Nintendo, there’s just something in them that makes you feel excited all over again every year even after you’ve been left countless of times disappointed by them because there has been no new F-Zero game announced.
Ubisoft : Now that Vivendi is out of here, Ubisoft can finally spare the risk of having to see their creative process being harmed over by the likes of investors who has no soft spot for videogames. This year would be the right time to show their true strength by focusing on their line-up, such as games like Beyond Good & Evil 2, Skulls and Bones, and hopefully a new Splinter Cell game at last, with Watch Dogs 3 as a perfect complement.
Bethesda : After the whole Fallout 76 fiasco, it is a necessity for Bethesda to forgive themselves alongside their fans by first off perhaps giving them a Fallout 3/New Vegas remaster as last year was supposed to be the 10th anniversary of Fallout 3. Aside from the Fallout stuff they’re definitely going to mention, we hope to see what Arkane Studios and Tango Gameworks eventually have up their sleeves. I hope to see Starfield there even though they said they won’t talk about Starfield nor The Elder Scrolls 6 this year. For ES6 I mean I get it since it still must be in pre-production, but didn’t they say that key parts of Starfield were pretty much « playable « to quote the sayings of Todd Howard. I’ll keep my expectations as low as I can given how stocked I am for this game, but it’s never totally out of reach that Starfield might after all has his little word to say during the conference...
Devolver Digital : I don’t know if you would really love to describe it as a « conference « but they’ve pulled out a lot of decent games over the past. So yeah, prepare yourself for another round of bloody skits on all the bad shit coming from the gaming industry of nowadays, hopefully more focused on game announcements.
Limited Run Games : Gamers love physical boxes, there’s your reason why Limited Run Games’ conference will be looked forward to by a lot of people. What will be there ? Well, games that deserve to have a physical release, because you’re someone who must love to contemplate the box art or the game disc more than playing the game itself.
Which conference are you the most excited for this year, GAF ? Doesn’t Sony’s absence really bother you or not ? What games do you hope to see the most from the attendants this E3 ? Make sure to leave your thoughts down the comment section ‘cause in just a few weeks, it’s about to get real. And you should definitely expect to see more threads like this because if you better want the hype train to not run out of steam, you better start getting hyped.
( This thread and poll will be updated every time there will ( hopefully ) be a new conference announced for E3. So stay tuned ! )
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