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Captain_Yuri said:
1 reason for me, no TLG :(

But if it shows up, then I just might declare Sony's the winner (unless its only to say that its cancelled)

 

TLG would mean a tonne to a lot of gamers, me included.

Personally if Guerrilla's New Ip is really announced, shown off with gameplay and it's visually close to the concept art like the pic in my sig then I'll be extatic.



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JustBeingReal said:

James Mielke apparently disagrees!

In case people wonder who that is, he worked at Q-Games as a Producer, plus he's held a bunch of different roles within the inustry, he's basically said Sony are going big on new exclusives at E3. Shinobi602 has said the same (very reliable insider), same goes for Verrendus on Neogaf.

Looking at the facts Sony has a lot of 1st party studios, many of which have been incubating projects for many years, particularly the likes of Guerrilla Games, who's new IP has been in development since 2010, SCE Bend's project will be nearly 4 years in the making soon, Media Molecule as well, plus a bunch of others have new IP and then there are the existing franchises that will likely make their return soon.

With Sony selling 3rd party without much effort I very much doubt their attention will be put into this, simply because they don't need to do that.
Even having marketing deals that doesn't mean Sony has to push those games with a lot of stage time at their conference, that's what you pay 3rd parties for. All that's really needed on that front is some short trailers or a montage of those games, maybe with some confirmation from the publisher involved on what's coming to PS4 first.

Shinobi602 has even stated that this talk about Sony's E3 being 3rd party padded has come from nowhere, just fear.
Sony's developers have a lot of games in the works, it's time to show them off!

This fits with Fergal Gara's recent comment on Sony not being concerned about their Fall line-up of exclusives, because they have new titles to announce that are coming out this year, plus they can show footage of games already announced and confirm specific release dates for those games at E3.

What would make the most logical sense as far as 3rd party is concerned is Sony perhaps having some new IPs as exclusives from major publishers.
Kaz Hirai has said about investing in exclusives for PS4 and he wants to solidify PS4's position in the market, which such things would definitely help with.
I only see that happening with some unique stuff that Sony can't necessarily make internally, because their studios are tied up with their own projects.


Overall I think that this E3 should be good for new games from all parties.
The best E3's are the ones where Platform Holders focus on their own, new titles and 3rd party deals with their own stuff.
Some multiplats will always blend into Sony, Microsoft or even Nintendo's event, but with the time being pretty precious at each conference and a lot of new stuff to deal with I doubt any of those events would be 3rd party heavy.


Not only that but they have the last conference of the day meaning it'd be very easy to go past the given time slot and have another extended showing of what gamers can look forward to. 



yea, I'll be doing the same as every year and every press conference - keeping my expectations very very low and welcome any news that interests me



Would a Sony fan really admit it if the conference were boring? I guess the same can be said for all fanbases...but as a Nintendo fan I've certainly seen some terrible Nintendo shows. WiiMusic year was so very bad. I honestly haven't been entertained by a Sony conference in quite a while, except the PS3 reveal...that year was great, but for all the wrong reasons. If the show is laid out like this article suggests, and for the reason it suggests (contractual obligations) then I do expect it to be a yawnfest. How could it not be? But I'm pretty sure Sony will mix it up with some flash and bang and studious like Media Molecule will give the thing some needed zest.



aLkaLiNE said:
JustBeingReal said: Snipped for size. ;)


Not only that but they have the last conference of the day meaning it'd be very easy to go past the given time slot and have another extended showing of what gamers can look forward to. 

Yep, being at the end of the day they can have one layout of what they're planning on showing and another if there are any major surprises.

I think they largely play to what's ready within their studios though. Maybe they've kept some stuff on the back burner in case Microsoft has any major surprises, like the whole stuff about Guerrilla's IP having an early trailer prepared last E3.

Any games that were contingencies for previous events would have extra polish by now.

 

Sony's stable of developers being quiet, still being a part of Worldwide studios and the fact that they've been busy for years shouldn't be ignored, which is what this article seems to be doing.

It's a lot of wishful thinking from people that don't seem to want Sony to be doing well. Surely everyone wants every platform holder to push exclusives, along with having a great stable of other titles?



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I dont think it will be disappointing,but i can see it being lackluster this year. I think it depends how much time they give to Project Morpheus as well



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I don't think it can be worse than last year.



Im a bit concerned about the Nintendo one as well tbh...



true_fan said:
I don't think it can be worse than last year.

This post literally gave me a headache



poklane said:
true_fan said:
I don't think it can be worse than last year.

This post literally gave me a headache


Wasnt last year pretty bad?