SONY planning more Game Heaven Events! acknowledged negative feedback aims to make next one better

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theprof00 on 12 March 2012

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What was so bad about it? Have I missed something?

People expected a mini E3 and got a 4-5min long showreel showing off about 5 games that people already knew about or were just more rehashed upscaled ports.

Yeah, Sony never really billed it up, but the internet got a little too excited

Exactly what Xxain said. Sony themselves called it Game Heaven. They have only themselves to blame for people getting excited.

The problem is by calling it that and the way they announced it was that made it seem like there was going to be something big.... and there really wasn't. The two big new things we learned were that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming.... in 2013 and that a super robot wars game is in the planning stage so ermmmm maybe late 2013 too. Considering the event was meant to combat the bad sales in Japan the two biggest announcements being things that are at bare minimum 9 months away is pretty damning.

Although the gundam game could also possibly be big. The Z.A.F.T games were ridiculously popular, then GvG, Next and Extreme were immensely popular. However looking at the footage it seems like there is a very strong possibility that it is a mild remake of Z.A.F.T. II (or I and II) which would be pretty popular but at the same time it went Zaft, Zaft 2, GvG, Next, Extreme, Extreme plus. So it would be pretty out of date.

Honestly it seems like they are taking the events even further in the wrong direction. It seems they want this to be like a series, I'm guessing so that literally as soon as there is something to announce they can have an event and try and show people there are games coming. However by doing constant little events it's just going to sap away hype. Doing lots of little events has far less impact that doing one HUGE event.

However what they could do is rebrand it. No Game Tengoku nonsense. Give it a more down to earth title. Then use it to draw attention to the smaller Vita games coming out (like Dokuro and Legend of Heroes) since those are the type of titles that probably won't get mentioned at big events. Then save up the big titles for a proper event.

super robo is more popular

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Panama on 12 March 2012

SRW sold me, much like FE Europe launch sold me from Nintendo Direct. Some people have some insanely high expectations, I imagine most good announcements are usually saved for E3 and TGS. Though Sony has a habit of revealing all their E3 announcements a few weeks prior to the event so we might hear some news sooner than that.

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VicViper on 12 March 2012

Panama said:
SRW sold me, much like FE Europe launch sold me from Nintendo Direct. Some people have some insanely high expectations, I imagine most good announcements are usually saved for E3 and TGS. Though Sony has a habit of revealing all their E3 announcements a few weeks prior to the event so we might hear some news sooner than that.

It was the best game of the bunch to me too, but not a single screenshot, just a promise it's being made, made this announcement disappointing.

I like Phantasy Star a lot too (since the Master System!), but MMO with monthly fees... I don't know, hope the best for the game though.

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VicViper said:

Panama said:
SRW sold me, much like FE Europe launch sold me from Nintendo Direct. Some people have some insanely high expectations, I imagine most good announcements are usually saved for E3 and TGS. Though Sony has a habit of revealing all their E3 announcements a few weeks prior to the event so we might hear some news sooner than that.

It was the best game of the bunch to me too, but not a single screenshot, just a promise it's being made, made this announcement disappointing.

I like Phantasy Star a lot too (since the Master System!), but MMO with monthly fees... I don't know, hope the best for the game though.

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BasilZero said:
I've never even heard of this Game Heaven event o.o

Any chance this might be up in YouTube?

This is it???

http://youtu.be/IKQlDQq9z-o

Atleast I think it is since VicViper mentioned a pimp.

Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

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Zim on 13 March 2012

theprof00 said:

super robo is more popular

More popular than what? No where in my entire post did I make any comparison of series popularity.

Turkish says and I'm allowed to quote that: Uncharted 3 and God Of War 3 look better than Unreal Engine 4 games will or the tech demo does. Also the Naughty Dog PS3 ENGINE PLAYS better than the UE4 ENGINE.