Replicant on 15 November 2018
| KBG29 said: I think this is a good move. E3 is not important anymore. There are so many better ways to get information to consumers, and interact with consumers. Better to have a constant stream of big announcements throughout the year, than isolate the buzz around your platform to 1 or 2 events a year. Even the lack of PSX this year turned out fine. We got updates on all the announced future titles, PS Now Downloads, and Cross Play. We didn't need a show to do that. In all honesty, ever since the whole blow up against Microsoft, and the shift from E3 being a presentation, to an hour+ trailer reel, I couldn't care less about the show anyways. I loved E3 when it went over New Firmware, New Services, Hardware and Software sales, Non Gaming Content, and when Games where showed, you actually got developers on stage playing their games. Gamers killed E3 by taking the humanity out of it, and turing it into a bunch of people in a room watching YouTube. |
That's the thing though. Sony has for the past few years brought the "live experiences" (the reason why a love live E3 conferences) back into their shows. With things like live music performances, changing locations, developer panels on stage, audience reactions, etc. That's why I'm pretty bummed about this news.
E3 2015 (fan reactions)
E3 2016 (live music performances)
E3 2017 (live music performances)
PSX 2017 (developer panels on stage)
E3 2018 (live music performances + locations moving away from the "passive audience watching youtube trailer reel")
