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Forums - Sony Discussion - PS3 offerings at GDC - Wasn't a complete bust

DMeisterJ on 23 February 2008

No way to spin, this year sucked... But hopefully Gamer's day, and E3 are better.



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DragonLord on 23 February 2008

Part of it is Sony and most developers seem to prefer to make announcements on a normal boring week. They get more hype as a result.

To announce a new game or show your trailer, etc. in the midst of 100 pieces of new information is a lost cause. You get drowned out--or at least have a dampened effect. Why compete for attention? Gain attention when nobody else is clammoring for it.

It's better to save your announcements for a dull week so you're the talk for a long while.



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windbane on 23 February 2008
Devilstation said:
I was a little dissapointed not to have seen LBP and a bit more on Home

There was an announcement about home that they are nearing public beta and making a lot of fixes and improvements. Not much new was said by any of the first party guys, but GDC was never the stage for that. Last year was big because of Home and LBP and people have been wanting those ever since, but there are a lot of announcements happening all the time. This should be a good year despite GDC not blowing anyone away.



Mars on 23 February 2008

Games

Developer

Conference


so yahh.



Bodhesatva on 24 February 2008
ssj12 said:
forgot to put the PhyreEngine on the list, added.

IF I missed anything else let me know.

This was their biggest announcement, in my opinion.

I'm personally interested in PixelJunk Eden, though.  



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iron_megalith on 24 February 2008

Has any1 seen the CryEngine2 doing the bravia commercial realtime. I have a question. Where was it running?



kber81 on 24 February 2008

Nice summary. Thanks.



jake_the_fake1 on 24 February 2008

allot of people here that say Sony didn't have a good showing tend to forget that this was a conference for developers and while certain things were shown that catch our attention the rest was just for the developers.

E3 or Sony's gamers day is what we as consumers should looking forward to as these 2 shows are what are dedicated to us, it'll be here that Sony makes the big announcements and shows all it has to show.



kingofwale on 24 February 2008

why do people expect Sony to do anything in GDC? Sony had NO conference at all. Just like Nintendo. Get over it. Geez!



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CAL4M1TY on 24 February 2008
jake_the_fake1 said:
allot of people here that say Sony didn't have a good showing tend to forget that this was a conference for developers and while certain things were shown that catch our attention the rest was just for the developers.
 

Even though I was disappointed by Sony's GDC showing, I was just about to say the same thing. It's not an Expo like E for all, it's a... wait for it.. Game Developers CONFERENCE.

I recall a thread in I think the MS board that said MS must blow people away at GDC to beat Sony, I think it was pretty useless them revealing Gears 2 when their competitors Sony and Nintendo didn't show much on the products front.

EDIT: Though I must say that I'm pretty excited about how Pixel Junk is expanding, because I didn't like the RTS nature of Monsters.