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Forums - Sales Discussion - Sony Press Event To Span 5 Hours, Biggest Ever

UPDATED: The conference itself is 90 minutes and the rest of time is for others apresentations and play games.
 
05/24/2011 Written by Sebastian Moss

Over the past few years, E3 press conferences have evolved, increasingly ditching dry sales talks that only an investor would enjoy and embracing the flashy, sometimes star studded, show that a game reveal truly deserves. Each year, Sony has managed to wow fans with huge surprises and breathtaking trailers, all packed into a couple of hours. This year, Sony will be doing something different, due to the huge number of games that are sure to be covered, and a major focus on the NGP, their E3 conference will last a record breaking five hours. Oh, and there’ll be a special event afterwards. 

Starting at 5PM (PST) on June 6th, the show will continue all the way until 10PM. In comparison, the jam packed 2010 conference ‘only’ lasted 2 hours, and still managed to fit in several huge announcements.

We’ll be there live at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, covering the entire conference (we’ll be sure to drink a lot of coffee) as well as the “special event” that will kick off immediately after the show.

For our thoughts on what will be in the show, be sure to check out our in-depth E3 predictions.

 

Can this be true? It's time for a event.



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4 and a half hours of montages 



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Time for hype

But seriously- there's no way they have enough content to fill five hours. 



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leatherhat said:

4 and a half hours of montages

No. Sony just delayed the Fical Year Reports to E3 .



Cant wait for Sony's event. But 5 hours seems a lot



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I hope not.

But I guess it is to be expected with the large line-up of the PS3, the reveal of the NGP, PSN hack (explanation, apologies, future, bla bla bla), sales, etc.

Then again conferences are usually 2 hours long so 5 hours seems very excessive.



Boutros said:

I hope not.

But I guess it is to be expected with the large line-up of the PS3, the reveal of the NGP, PSN hack (explanation, apologies, future, bla bla bla), sales, etc.

Then again conferences are usually 2 hours long so 5 hours seems very excessive.


If they have an awesome conference with tons of announcements then you will not be saying that.



This seems like major overkill to me but I'll still likely check out the entire thing.



if available ill watch streaming for 20ish minutes if i catch it, if not i can read about it later, 5 hours is too long lol, i have things to be doing



Gotta stack soda and chips. Hope they don't bore us.