| ethomaz said:
I disagree with the Sony part. Let's check the Sony announces and release of the games. You are using the exception like Uncharted, DriveClub, etc but all others first-party were announced and releases in less than a year. The games announced at E3 this year (first-party) will be released in 2016. |
And? MS & Nintendo have announced and released games within the same year too. Which doesn't change the fact that they've also announced a tonne of stuff that was years away from launch, just like Sony.
And we'll see about those 2016 games, I though Ueda was iffy on The Last Guardian making the cut anyway.
| twintail said:
Using FF15 and KH3 to say Sony is annoucing things too early is just incredibly weird. SE would have played just as much of a role, if not more, in that. SE wanted to get the announcements out and Sony just happened to be the partner that it worked out best to reveal with. Sometimes games just get delayed. i dont think there is any issue at all at announcing early. Its how they manage showings of teh game after the fact that is important, like you said. Lets take UC4... honestly amazing stuff in how its reveals have just gotten better and better. I think MS has some trouble in this department. i take a look at QB from gamescom and cant help but feel underwhelmed. it felt like the same footage they showed off last year fo the game but with a different main character and during the day instead of night. |
They could've announced it anywhere, sure. They could've held their own E3 conference like this year too :P
But given that Sony pretty much did it again this year with Shenmue, it certainly shows a pattern that they're not averse to riding the hypetrain-that's-years-from-release.
And regarding UC4, I'm glad you feel that way, but I know for me and certainly a number of my friends, hype can erode fairly quickly over a number of years. In 2009 I cared about The Last Guardian. I don't any more.
