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YarHar707 said:
Just announce a good, long Bloodborne DLC and that'll add 200 more hours spent in that game.


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RolStoppable said:
E3 disappoints more often than not. It's normal that it disappoints regardless of which conferences you decide to watch.

Take 2012. Lots of excitement and the usual fights regarding who will win between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Then it was one dud after another and Ubisoft was declared the winner on the basis of Watch Dogs. Yes, Watch Dogs. I am not joking.

2013 was such a flop that the company who put online multiplayer behind a paywall was declared the winner. That shows how messed up it is. You get to win E3 by virtue of not having an outright disastrous showing.

2014... that was last year. Only one year ago. I don't recall anything worth of note.

E3 is nothing more than a ritual that gets hyped up because it used to mean something at some point. But almost everything gets leaked beforehand, so there's hardly anything new at all. Let it go, people. E3 is garbage.

I dont like MP requiring 50$ but if that helps Sony to make money and save the entire company i am fine with that, which is actually happening the numbers show.

I bet most Sega fans would have paid a subscription too if that would kept Sega in the console bussiness and i bet you would pay that too if it would keep Nintendo in making their hardware.



Just wait... This Playstation E3 press conference will be as awesome as every other press conference!



Agreed, first time I'm not hyped for their E3. It's been an utter disappointment the last few years. Don't like where they're going with making mere indie games timed exclusive and making 3rd parties so prominent in their stages and marketing campaigns, thats not a reason I bought a PS4 for.



I am concerned that most of the time will be spend on third party stuff. I am realistic enough to know there wont be exclusives left and right but I'll be happy if they show 1 or 2 surprises. something we dont know about.



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I'm just going to put this here:



Listen at 96 minutes in, 55 seconds in here:
http://8-4.jp/blog/?p=2303&lang=en



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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.

Milky has been the man since his EGM days.


I didn't know about the guy until I read Thuway link the 8-4 Play thing.

8-4 Play are legit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-4

 

Same goes for Milky (James Mielke):

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmielke



JustBeingReal said:

I'm just going to put this here:



Listen at 96 minutes in, 55 seconds in here:
http://8-4.jp/blog/?p=2303&lang=en


In Shinobi we trust!



Sony is the king of the home console market right now, this pretty much guarantees they'll have a disappointing E3 showing. They'll be smug and I expect do exactly what the article suggests.

It's happened with both Nintendo and Sony in the past.



Bets:

1. If the Wii U sells closer to 10 million LTD by 1/3/2015 I win. If it sells closer to 9.5 million LTD by 1/3/2015 OfficerRaichu15 wins (winner gets 2 weeks of avatar control)--Lost.

I do believe that Sonys E3 is going to be good and that they are going to show a couple new exclusives, the question is when those exclusives are going to come out. I can overlook third party stuff and media talk, if they announce cool new exclusive that aren't ages away from release.