Sony cancelling PAX East 2020 attendance due to coronavirus concerns

[sales2099]

CrazyGamer2017 said:

sales2099 said:
I’m not the only one here saying Sony is milking the virus situation a little much. MS is attending GDC, they confirmed Turn 10 will be discussing next gen ray tracing. So that tells me something.I’m just seeing MS being very active lately, with VGA, GDC, E3....and I seeing Sony making a lot of excuses to not be at these events. You know where I stand but cmon...you honestly telling me you ok with Sony being shy all of a sudden? 

Milking? How are they milking the situation? Milking implies that they are gaining from not going to those events? If you see them gaining something, let me know cause I don't see it.

My understanding is that going to events helps towards building your brand, ergo everybody goes to events left and right. So again, explain how Sony is milking this virus, how are they like: Yeah, thank you virus cause without you we would have been forced to attend all those events and that would have been negative for us because...?

Saving money is the first reason lol. Second is dodging gaming journalists who are hungry....and I mean hungry for anything PS5 related. I don’t think they want gaming sites with headlines that just say Sony is dodging questions. 

End of day MS is going to GDC. Turn 10 is discussing next gen ray tracing. Sony isn’t. MS been public about next gen since the VGA and Sony only showed a logo. I dunno, I guess I am allowed to speculate that Sony doesn’t want to be near Ms when they clearly aren’t ready to show anything and look weak next to the much more transparent MS.