I'd give it a 7-7.5. Definitely wasn't their greatest show, since there weren't any huge announcements. However, they did stick with the little talk, mostly show from last year, which I like. And the games they showed were actual quality AAA games, most of which were exclusive. GOW looks great. Spider-Man looks promising. And SOTC is a 1st day buy. I swear, whenever people need a remake/remaster, Bluepoint is your man. It looks freaking awesome.

6/10 for me.

Agreed.

minimum amount of talking, and a whole bunch of games, games, games. True exclusives

7/10, same score as MS

Or.....two more reasons....?.......











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Ooh I forgot Crash. Didn't know GT was releasing this year, either. But it doesn't look like a good lineup for the rest of the year, compared to previous years, or heck Q1 and Q2 were better. Maybe I was expecting too much for God of War to be this year, I don't know.

This is two years in a row Ive gone 'Hold on wait its not over right? It can't be over yet it. Holy shit its over'

1/10 because they might as well just skipped E3 all together and say GT sport is releasing this fall.

I haven't watched it but looking at the forum and at the lack of "OMG SONY JUST WON ALL E3 EVAAAAH!" threads I'm assuming it was quite underwhelming.

Sony only has two major shows: E3 and PSX. Since they started doing PSX, they don't do much at Gamescom anymore. It makes sense since Gamescom is so soon after E3 that it's unlikely that two months is going to make the difference in whether or not a big new game is ready to announce.

TGS is for Japan. Outside of Japan, we may still tune in, but it's a show made for and directed at the Japanese gaming population. Announcements there are almost entirely from Japanese studios, and Sony doesn't tend to show too much truly new. Much like E3 is to Japan, TGS is something we can look at with interest, but with no guarantee we will be interested in anything shown or that it will find its way to us at all.

PSX is Sony's replacement for other conferences. It's a good midway between E3 events and makes it so Sony doesn't have to blow mid to big releases at any other time of the year on a generic press release. This is still more west-centric, but may have a bit more of interest to even Japan. They would only hold back an announcement for PSX if it truly just was not in a ready enough state to replace anything in the E3 reel.

The problem is that since everyone knows PSX is coming, we get this notion, even if impossible to justify, that things ready for E3 this year were held back for six months until PSX. E3 was smartly organized to cover what to expect going into 2018, and PSX will help establish the base for what we can expect in the latter half of 2018 and forward.