Time to address the predictions I made in the hype thread prior to E3...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=203889685&postcount=675
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- God of War 4 is there. The norse is real. Will begin the conference and the footage featured will be used to showcase the PS4K or whatever it's called now.
Right on the money for everything apart from the PS4K part.
- PS4K details announced. Specs, price, release date (fall this year). I won't care though 'cos I don't like this iterative console horseshit one bit.
They didn't even mention 4K once.
- VR gets a little attention, but nothing on the scale of PSX last year. No live demos, but expect montages.
Bang on.
- A new Dreams demonstration, designed squarely to better explain to a wide audience what the hell it's all about.
Nope. Dreams was nowhere to be seen.
- A very extravagant, showboaty FFXV trailer appears. No mention of FFVIIR at all during the entire conference. I wanted to see Aeris.
There was a trailer, but it wasn't exactly showboaty. Was right about VIIR.
- Bend's new game Dead Don't Ride is unveiled. Follows your typical open-world AAA model to a tee. I'm not impressed.
Bang on the money for everything apart from the name.
- Some Ubisoft dev presents some footage for the just-announced-at-Ubisoft's-presser Watch Dogs 2, coupled with timed-exclusive content and all that bullshit. Game looks hot though because it's one of the very few interesting things Ubi is working on.
Sort of right, except this didn't happen at Sony's conference!
- More Horizon footage, this time deviating away from the familiar shoot-dinosaurs-in-a-field action into more unexpected territory. 2017 release window.
More footage, but it was wholly similar to what we've seen before.
- Boyes strides on stage, whips out a big fat announcement in the form of Shenmue HD Collection. No sight of Shenmue III.
Boyes was a no show! Wrong on all counts.
- Persona 5 gets a short trailer paired with a release date for US territories. Not even going to guess when it's coming out.
You can tell I made this list a fair while ago.
- Indies.
Nope! Unbelievable!
- The Capcom love affair continues despite SFV's tepid performance in the charts. Resident Evil 7 is unleashed upon the world. The die-hards complain that it looks too bombastic and isn't in the spirit of the earlier titles. They have every right to complain.
Right about Resi7. Wrong about everything else.
- Surprisingly, there's no Destiny fart-huffing to be had this time around. Destiny's non-appearance makes Boyes look like a broken man as a result. (Expect a blow-out for the sequel next year though).
Correct about everything not involving Boyes.
- Activision zzzz. Call of Duty zzzz. Timed-exclusive content zzzz. DLC announcement zzzz. A million tiny voices plead Sony to wrap it up.
Yep. Not exactly a bold prediction though.
- The Last Guardian gets a new trailer that is very much on the lean side, with a specific release date tagged on at the end. Game remains shrouded in mystery.
Correct.
- Japan Studio's big-budget JRPG is shown off. Looks glorious. Is a surprise highlight of the event.
Eugh.
- Conference ends on Layden or House mentioning the 20th anniversary of a certain shorts-wearing marsupial. Segue into a trailer that mixes humorous cutscene footage and gameplay. Naughty Dog's logo appears at the end. Sony suit boasts that they now own the rights to Crash Bandicoot. BAM!
Waaaaaay off the mark for so many reasons.
No sight nor sound of Gravity Rush 2
it appeared in a montage at the end, GT Sport
same I think?, Detroit
Wrong! Detroit was there in full force or Ni no Kuni 2
correct. No Sucker Punch
correct, no Spiderman
wrong. No Knack 2 (thank God)
thank God is right. Ape Escape 4 is saved for TGS
we can only hope.
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