"It was just good to talk about in 2013/2014."

By Hope Corrigan Sony Interactive Entertainment's global boss Jim Ryan has commented on the focal shift away from Indie titles at this year's E3 Sony conference.

In an interview with gamesindustry.biz, Ryan spoke about the ineffective nature of showing small clips from indie games during presentations. He explained that the method doesn't allow viewers to learn enough about the games and that "it is almost viewed as wasted time."

Ryan went on to discuss the importance of having such a reel during the early years of PS4 to solidify Sony's commitment to bringing indie titles to the console.

You know, right now, we have tonnes of indie content on the platform. And the fact that we elected, along with many other things such as Gran Turismo and PlayLink, not to give it its own spot on the stage this week, in no way means it is not important, or it is not there, or we don't worry about it.

Ryan explained that in 2017 the company has other things it wanted its conference to focus on, saying that, It was just good to talk about in 2013/2014. It is less relevant now. We have VR to talk about now, for example.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/21/e3-2017-indies-less-relevant-now-says-playstations-jim-ryan?abthid=5949d97c548c30150400002c

Was this dude being compared to Phil Spencer here?
The mask is coming off...

Well, they talked about them when they were kinda lacking in the AAA game department. We all know psn is full of indies by now and the conference was full if content, even games like nino kuni 2 were not showed.

Oh and it's normal that they focus on vr now on the conferences, personally I don't care about it but it's what they are pushing it

It would have been good to add it somewhere in the middle to have some sort of break from all these "heavy" games.

If they have the confidence to show that VR fishing game......... idk why they dont for indie games..... lmao xD

They were pretty important in their 2013 E3 show ;p
Would have liked to see independent games compared to playstation VR games.

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I'm buying less indies nowadays, yet why not make it a 90 minute show and highlight a few promising indies instead of a showreel. The only thing less relevant now is E3.