| Dodece said: Many in the media had low expectations, and Sony seemingly felt obliged to live down to them. This might come as somewhat of a revelation to you, but the unveiling of the console wasn't any kind of unveiling at all. Sony basically ran a bait and switch on the media in attendance, and frankly I can see why they might not be all that amused about having their time wasted. Showing the console, announcing the release date, and listing the retail price. Simply aren't optional. They are mandatory when you have asked a lot of people to give you some of their time. These are the most pertinent facts for these people to have left the event with. If Sony expected to get some cheap free press. That was what they got for being cheap themselves. To add insult to injury Sony didn't do any of the following. They didn't showcase any technology that could be considered revolutionary. The software features they unveiled have already been done before by others. The games they unveiled weren't revolutionary either. In other words it was pretty much a complete bust. Sony just delivered a swag bag full of hot air, and even some of the presentations were derivative of things that had been previously done. Sony pulled a rush job, and thought the media wouldn't call them out for it. Well a lot of people in the media did, and guess what they ought to have done that. What Sony did was unprofessional. From ripping off the Forza presentation with that Drive Club presentation. I think both those presentations sucked by the way. To having Square on stage when they didn't have a single thing to announce. People ripped on Square for that, but Sony were the ones that let them on stage. I was tired of the tantrums about this a week ago. Sony had a bad unveil. That kind of stuff happens. It wasn't the first time, and it probably wont be the last. That a company is going to whiff the unveil of a new device. It just wasn't very good. The upside is that Sony has enough time to take a couple more cracks at really doing the whole thing right. |
I don't see how anyone could expect price or release date. Normally those are reserved for the E3 before a console is released and they shouldn't have expected any different here. Hell Nintendo didn't reveal those things until September for WiiU. This was a reveal that included a LOT of software when compared to other console reveals. They also gave more specifics on features and UI than any media that I saw predicted they would. Like I said I don't mind criticism of what was shown, but acting like you expected more when I know those same media members predicted far LESS be shown is very unprofessional in my opinion. They acted like they knew all this stuff was shown and tried to play it down when they should have at least mentioned "Sony showed a lot more than we expected in the weeks and days leading up to this thing" or something to that effect. Then they could go ahead and criticize the games or features but they acted like their pre-conference predictions were way more than they really were.
