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There will be a SCE press conference at Paris Games Week this year.

Chobel said:
The 6 weeks excuse doesn't make any sense to me, SCEE has little or none to do with E3 conference planning.
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They announce very similar games at both shows. So spacing them out will give them additional time to plan stuff and to get developers in place. TGS is the unique one because they can announce Japan specific games.

GhostTrick said:
Wait, they are dropping Gamescom but Square Enix plans a big reveal for FFXV ?
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That will likely come from a live Active Time Report.
 
Chobel said:
The 6 weeks excuse doesn't make any sense to me, SCEE has little or none to do with E3 conference planning.
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SCEE doesn't, but WWS does.

I mean, by and large, WWS doesn't care about whether or not the studios are American, European or Japanese when announcing the first-party titles at the conferences.
 
SolidSnakex said:
They announce very similar games at both shows. So spacing them out will give them additional time to plan stuff and to get developers in place. TGS is the unique one because they can announce Japan specific games.
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The only similar game shared between conferences last year was Destiny.

Nightengale said:
SCEE doesn't, but WWS does.

I mean, by and large, WWS doesn't care about whether or not the studios are American, European or Japanese when announcing the first-party titles at the conferences.
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Do they really need to space out the announcements though? MS put almost everything in E3 and they're doing very fine.
 
foxbeldin said:
Holy sh.. PGW is awful. :(
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Both are awful imo

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We're not animals -_- (and on this picture there's plenty of room)
 
As long as we're still getting that additional conference with announcements and previews, I personally don't mind whether it's in August or October. I can see why they'd want to wait a little longer since Gamescom is a bit earlier this year.
 
well that's weird, but i guess you can't announce a price cut several months before it will be effective
so in that case, a pre holiday conference makes sense
 
Chobel said:
The only similar game shared between conferences last year was Destiny.
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They announced Resistance 3 and Ratchet at a previous show. My point is in general you can swap announcements for each show and it wouldn't make a difference. There isn't necessarily anything unique about each conference, which is why it becomes a problem to have them so close this year.

If anything it kinda highlights a problem with stacking all of the major conferences of the year into a very tight window. They need to be spread out more just like game releases.
 
Chobel said:
The only similar game shared between conferences last year was Destiny.



Do they really need to space out the announcements though? MS put almost everything in E3 and they're doing very fine.
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I prefer spaced out announcements because it gives me something to look forward to at different points of the year.

And Sony manages to do E3 on top of all the other shows and still matches MS, so I have no qualms regarding the schedule.
 
So if the concern is that GC is too close to E3, does that mean they basically don't give a fuck that SCEE's conference is practically right on top of TGS?

Nightengale said:
That depends on what MS has in store, anyway.

Last year's Gamescom for them, announcement-wise, was meh. Only Screamride & Tomb Raider Timed Exclusive.
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"Meh" is being overly generous don't you think? When your entire conference boils down to a single new game few people showed any interest in and announcing that you have paid to keep a previously announced game off of a competing platform then you've pretty much put on one of the shittest press conferences possible imo.

If that's what they pull together when they're up against stiff competition, it doesn't bear thinking about what they'll do when they're basically the only show in town that day.
 
Chobel said:
Do they really need to space out the announcements though? MS put almost everything in E3 and they're doing very fine.
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Well, unlike MS, Sony likes announcing a lot of new stuff at every conference. Also, because SCEA, SCEE, and SCEJA are all different business units, unless Andrew House gave a mandate to prioritise any division over the other, realistically all 3 divisions want to have their fair share of announcements.

Let's not forget that all 3 Sony units are all managed independently of each other.
 
Nightengale said:
And Far Cry. And MGSV. (and new footage for LBP3, Bloodborne, inFamous, etc)

Most games announced last year at Gamescom were 1st-party games, so it actually makes sense.
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I stand corrected then. I still argue that it's small number of similar games, and it wouldn't matter whether they're re-announced 6 weeks later or 6 months later, as long as they show something a bit different.
 
So they hope to have ready to show in October what they can't show yet in August. So Uncharted or Morpheus, who's the guilty one?
 
Percy said:
So if the concern is that GC is too close to E3, does that mean they basically don't give a fuck that SCEE's conference is practically right on top of TGS?
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Like I said above, TGS is unique because of how many Japan specific announcements they can make. Last year their major announcement was Dragon Quest Heroes, which didn't get a western announcement until a day before the game was released in Japan. There really isn't anything like that for Europe. The announcements made at E3 and gamescom are generally pretty similar.
 
Hopefully this means that some of the Europe based devs at WWS will be at E3. Really hopeful for GG to show Horizon and whatever MM is up to. Though I bet MM is going to coincide with Morpheus.
 
Chobel said:
Do they really need to space out the announcements though? MS put almost everything in E3 and they're doing very fine.
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Define "very fine".

Not only is Microsoft's pool of content considerably smaller but they also only treat two regions (NA and UK) with any degree of importance. Do you really want Sony to do the same?
 
Percy said:
So if the concern is that GC is too close to E3, does that mean they basically don't give a fuck that SCEE's conference is practically right on top of TGS?
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Different target base. TGS is so heavily skewed towards Japanese titles where as Gamescom and E3 have always been more related. What you could announced at Gamescom, you could announce at E3. The timing and spacing was really what set it apart.

TGS, not so much.
 
koshunter said:
I prefer spaced out announcements because it gives me something to look forward to at different points of the year.

And Sony manages to do E3 on top of all the other shows and still matches MS, so I have no qualms regarding the schedule.
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Nightengale said:
Well, unlike MS, Sony likes announcing a lot of new stuff at every conference. Also, because SCEA, SCEE, and SCEJA are all different business units, unless Andrew House gave a mandate to prioritise any division over the other, realistically all 3 divisions want to have their fair share of announcements.

Let's not forget that all 3 Sony units are all managed independently of each other.
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Kyoufu said:
Define "very fine".

Not only is Microsoft's pool of content considerably smaller but they also only treat two regions (NA and UK) with any degree of importance. Do you really want Sony to do the same?
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My point was why there should be an arbitrary fixed period before doing another conference. MS announcements are mostly in E3 and they're OK, so Sony doing E3 first, then doing Gamescom 6 weeks wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
 
SolidSnakex said:
Like I said above, TGS is unique because of how many Japan specific announcements they can make. Last year their major announcement was Dragon Quest Heroes, which didn't get a western announcement until a day before the game was released in Japan. There really isn't anything like that for Europe. The announcements made at E3 and gamescom are generally pretty similar.
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This.

Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, pre-TGS press conference is by no means international. It's a regional event focused strictly for the Japanese market. The western audience can watch it, and sometimes they're gracious enough to give us a terrible translator, but they're not meant for us.

Which is why they basically show the same things they show at E3/Gamescom (Driveclub, Order, Bloodborne, Far Cry, Witcher, etc), etc.
 
Sony haz no gaemz

Joking aside, maybe the Paris will be the time to announce David Cage PS4 game!
I'm excited!
 
A pricedrop right before Battlefront's release would make sense. Although I only expect it to be a $50 cut. I can't see them slashing it by $100 right away.
 
darkwing said:
is it possible they really have nothing to show for Gamescom ?
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With 6 weeks between it and E3 it means they have very few things to justify 2 events. PGW is in October though so they can show new things for the holidays in addition to TGS in September and PSX in December.
 
Good. Alwasys struck me as odd to have two conference in such a short timeframe. E3 is gonna be more packed, and devs will have the chance to showcase more playable stuff for the E3 reveals with more time to prepare themselves.
 
Wait who is that twitter account? Cause the Sony announcement is not talking about cancelling Gamescom AT ALL. This is what it says:

Since E3 is happening later than usual and Gamescom sooner than usual we think Paris Games Week is a great opportunity to show the PS gaming news in October.

So can anyon tell me what that twitter account is?
 
Americanmushroom said:
Wait who is that twitter account? Cause the Sony announcement is not talking about cancelling Gamescom AT ALL. This is what it says:

Since E3 is happening later than usual and Gamescom sooner than usual we think Paris Games Week is a great opportunity to show the PS gaming news in October.

So can anyon tell me what that twitter account is?
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The Gameblog post says that they contacted Sony France and they said that the PGW conference will be SCE's only European conference this year.
 
Americanmushroom said:
Wait who is that twitter account? Cause the Sony announcement is not talking about cancelling Gamescom AT ALL. This is what it says:

Since E3 is happening later than usual and Gamescom sooner than usual we think Paris Games Week is a great opportunity to show the PS gaming news in October.

So can anyon tell me what that twitter account is?
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Twitter account is a marketing exec for PlayStation Saudi Arabia: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/essam-alghamdi/94/70b/786
 
Nightengale said:
With Avengers 2 (domestically) doing less than Avengers 1, this is a sign of the end times, punishment to those who seek to defy tradition! /s
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Well, didnt the Mayweather v Pac fight actually impact the domestic performance.

Anyway, I doubt Disney's losing sleep with it's $Billion+ franchise.
 
In terms of timing, I guess it makes sense. Sony usually have plenty of new titles to announce each year, not spreading them around would actually be pretty weird, and some would be buried under the bigger ones.

Anyway, I guess we have pretty good chances to see Quantic Dream's new game in action there ^^
 
So, we have:

E3 - june
TGS - september
PGS - october
PSX - december


Sony will be on Gamescom but the press conference will be on PGS, right?!

If so, this could work well for Sony.
 
Kuldar said:
Gameblog is not really a reliable source, we should wait for other confirmation.
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You should stop spreading bullshit like this. We (Gameblog) got Sony on the phone and they directly told us that. Call them, they'll tell you the exact same thing.

And if you had taken the time to search, you'd see that other sites got the exact same confirmation.
 
Shabad said:
In terms of timing, I guess it makes sense. Sony usually have plenty of new titles to announce each year, not spreading them around would actually be pretty weird, and some would be buried under the bigger ones.

Anyway, I guess we have pretty good chances to see Quantic Dream's new game in action there ^^
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I'm guessing that it's when we'll see Wild again as well.
 
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