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EricHiggin on 29 September 2018
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celador said:
EricHiggin said:

Wonder if X018 has anything to do with it? If PS doesn't feel like they can compete with MS on these late events held by themselves, they don't want more comparisons about how their platform is worse than XB. They have made sure recently to address negative feedback and give the gaming community what it wants. Retro hardware and games, cross accounts, cross play, and apparently gamer tag changes soon enough. The last thing they want is people pointing out how much better the X018 event was compared to PSX, if PS feels that's very well a possibility. Just look at the E3 'who won' controversy.

PS doesn't have to compete because they have so much on the table already. MS have to build excitement for the xbox brand before their next console because they have been so soundly beaten this time and their first party has been rancid. Saying PS can't compete with MS is absolutely laughable, all MS have left is the mediocre looking Crackdown 3 and another Gears game.  It's amzing to me how little MS have to do to get so much credit. Two of the studios they bought had their last game not even reach 70 metacritic for gods sake

PS finally added external HDD support, just allowed cross play, added PS Now downloads, and are working on gamer tag changes, all which stem from their competition with XB, so they do need to compete. The fact that they took as long as they did to make these things happen, does show they don't need to compete in the same time frame, but they do need to on the same level of gaming related features.

I made it clear in the bolded point that it was based on the late events their having, which PS has now cancelled. That particular statement went no further than that. PS got bashed by many for their 'weak' E3 showing vs MS, which really had nothing to do with exclusives or quality, it had to do with lot's of games. PS holding off game previews and announcements, makes way too much sense because they will be able to blow roofs and drop jaws. Imagine the PS E3 2018 show, but instead of 4 big first party games and some other stuff here and there, they show you like 10 or more big first party titles all coming immediately or shortly, and a host of third party and indy stuff, plus the hardware. Maybe even PSVR2. Not to mention if they wrap it all in a 25th anniversary celebration. Gamers would go cross eyed after a next gen showing like that.