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Free positive publicity.What does a company get if they 'win' E3?
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Free positive publicity.What does a company get if they 'win' E3?
Sony basically said "f you guys we skipping this year"...and this is a good thing....for gamers? As a community we now love zero effort?
a multibillion dollar corporation can't have a development system where theres at least 1 game ready to show every year?. pathetic,
thats not the Sony I lived with
Wait, they are still releasing games to play are they not? Jesus christ people, you'd think Sony literally told gamers to fuck off judging from some of the takes we're seeing in here. Oh no....they didn't put together a shoddy showcase of CGI trash and PR speak for us to fight over online! How could they?
I think, you are completely misunderstanding my point. I own both systems. I play both systems. I enjoy both systems. I would rather have a mediocre showing at E3 compared to no showing at all. Either they both present or no one presents and they agree to get E3 conferences changed as a whole (refer back to earlier post about E3 happening every 2-3 years). I don't get how hard this is to understand.
I think, you are completely misunderstanding my point. I own both systems. I play both systems. I enjoy both systems. I would rather have a mediocre showing at E3 compared to no showing at all. Either they both present or no one presents and they agree to get E3 conferences changed as a whole (refer back to earlier post about E3 happening every 2-3 years). I don't get how hard this is to understand.
I think E3 just needs to go away. It’s an arbitrary set date for developers to have things ready to show and leads to crunch to get demos and trailers ready which then leads to crunch to make release date due to time wasted making that material.
Conferences are just relics of the past in the age of streaming, YouTube and easily downloadable demos. Nintendo has it right with their Direct approach. When developers/publishers have things ready to show, announce a direct, put out the video at an advertised time, make demos downloadable for all etc. It also gets rid of the terrible, cringe inducing stage shows.
Free positive publicity.
I would be completely ok with direct conferences for the big 3. Apple does it, and Microsoft does it in some of their other departments. My main bone that I'm picking at is Sony getting applauded by some fanboys for not showing up and turning around and saying MS sucked for at least throwing out an attempt. Could you imagine all the disappointed fans who went to E3 and one of the big game giants just didn't show? Now imagine Microsoft also not popping up. Its like going to an NBA game and all u get is the D-League players. I just don't like the pick and choose when to show up aspect of this current E3 thing.
Agree with that of course. I just stopped engaging with fanboys or caring what they say ages ago and making heavy use of ignore user for them on all sites I frequent.
Can people honestly say they'd rather have no news and no video game trailers/footage than having E3 every year?
Now since Sony didn't do E3, I expect their next direct conference to be amazing with all the new system tech tidbits I could dream of and some solid gameplay reveals for all their upcoming exclusives. I'm already drooling over the thought.
According to quite a few comments I've seen....yes this is exactly the case. No news > Mediocre News. Apparently.
Yeah, it's pretty weird haha. People want to twist it like it's a good thing.
I think what we are saying is that PSX, XO, Treehouse, etc, is all we really need.According to quite a few comments I've seen....yes this is exactly the case. No news > Mediocre News. Apparently.
Guess they didn't "win" then, aye?Where's all Microsoft's positive publicity for "winning" this E3?
Oh, people are talking shit because it was boring and they didn't show anything exciting.
Free positive publicity.
You get my point.How is it 'free' when they spend a ton of money?
Other than Nintendo and Square Enix, other E3 just had barely anything to show us. If Sony really didn't have anything to show then I'm glad they skip E3 instead of wasting our time like MS, EA, Bethesda and Ubisoft did.
Does anyone know an actual figure of how much it costs for these big companies to go to E3? Ive heard random values spit out but I cant realistically see Microsoft or Sony spending millions on one conference. But then again they got money money money so who knows.
But that's the thing, I don't really think what MS had was mediocre. It just comes down to what your game preferences are. I was disappointed in a lack of Halo Infinite game footage and other people were upset about a lack of Gears game-play footage, but on the flip side i think both games will be good, and at least we got to see something. So, while disappointed, I'm not saying the conference was shit.According to quite a few comments I've seen....yes this is exactly the case. No news > Mediocre News. Apparently.
yes but their E3 show for sure gets more viewers then something lie PSXDoesnt Sony have their own event?
Seems reasonable to show their stuff there instead of e3 where they have to share the spotlight.
I disagree that MS didn't have a great showing. MS had the best showing at this E3. I know it's not saying much given that its 2 main competitors weren't there but their conference had everything that can be reasonably expected of an E3 showing. And i don't think anybody can come away from it not excited about the start of next gen for MS.so, just because Microsoft didn't have a great showing. it was a good decision to not show fans some exciting new things? lmao. is this the level of fanboyism we've reached that even the media says stuff like that?
In what world is it a good decision for Sony to skip the biggest gaming event, but also show us all more new games, well. it would be if they had nothing to show, Just like E3 2017, or, E3 2018. no I kid you not you can go and watch those 2 E3s. no new exclusives announced. we've had E3s from 1994-2018 from Sony. the only two E3s that lacked new games, are the last two, and 2019 is basically the third E3 Sony does not announce a new game in. why?. well thats what happens when you don't make that many games anymore
tldr: Sony skipping E3 was not a good decision for any of us, its a good shitty corporate decision that people shit talked microsoft about for years last gen. but we're praising Sony for what whatever microsoft was criticized for. but am sure ya'll fanboys Enjoy waiting 4+ years for a game instead of having more people work on more exclusives for a system. I just loved seeing days gone like 3-4 years in a row before it came out.
do yall all of the sudden have a stock in Sony Corp?. lol. we're all fans, why do you encourage and praise anti-fanatic decisions?.
But that's the thing, I don't really think what MS had was mediocre. It just comes down to what your game preferences are.
I’m sure they have a ton of unshown stuff (including things like sequels to Horizon and God of War). They just don’t need to show it now as Death Stranding, Dreams, TLOU2 and Ghosts of Tshushima are the big remaining PS4 games and they’ve shown a ton of those. All the other stuff they’ll save for their big PS5 reveal next year. They need to make a splash there, not for the last year of PS4.
Same with MS who showed pretty much nothing new. It’s just the way it is at the end of generations. The current consoles are near market saturation and any new heavy hitters are being held for the next gen blow outs. You don’t show games 2+ years out late gen like you do early gen when trying to hype people into buying while the library is still thin.
Nintendo showed way more as they’re off cycle and just early in year 3 of Switch and 2+ years away from their next gen console (not counting mini or pro mid gen refreshes).
Late gen E3s always disappoint and early gen are exciting, but are mostly teases full of hype reels of games years away. Like how we still aren’t playing things like FF7 Remake, Beyond Good and Evil 2, Shenmue 3 that were revealed years ago.
Then again, according to some, Sony apparently "won" without going to E3, so...
is that why only 1 exclusive is coming out in 2019? days gone
Already out:Fear not, overly concerned Sony fan! At least two more exclusives are coming out this year still!
It's SlashBringingHasher. Guy just hates Sony and has no idea what games they actually make or what studios they own.don't understand the OP's reasoning
What are you talking about?But that's my point. What are you 'winning' if you shell out millions of dollars only for people to grade it with a 'meh'?
What are you talking about?
/ThreadDoesnt Sony have their own event?
Seems reasonable to show their stuff there instead of e3 where they have to share the spotlight.
Well, yeah.It's not that difficult to comprehend. Why would Sony spend millions of dollars only to be rewarded with mediocre responses? Every year people are underwhelmed or disappointed at E3 because expectations are so high. So why do it? Nobody wins or loses anything.