From what I can tell, nothing really happened this year. Not a surprise. I've liked the trailers that are getting posted, but there didn't seem to be any new announcements aside from Ni No Kuni II, which I never played.

I'm actually enjoying the reactions to the criticism imposed by the PS fans on PSE than anything else. xD

Well, wouldn't it be Sony's fault as well. Sony sets these events up to get people excited and thinking on potential announcements to be made. Isn't Sony the ones setting these ideas in motion? It would be understandable if people got excited, for some to be happy, but others to be disappointed.

Wouldn't it also be Sony's job to excite the consumers? They're trying to sell something to the consumer. If some people aren't impressed, or disappointed even, wouldn't that be Sony's fault, not the consumersl. I think so at least.

Yes, sony did announce a lot of games, but I didn't find many of them to be interesting. The announcements I did like were far apart from each other, which made the inbetween become more difficult to sit through. So it was a disappointment to me.

These conferences have all become quite boring to me. E3 used to show off new services, new hardware features, new PSN/Live features, and the biggest hitting games over the next 6 - 18 months. Ever since the whole Xbox One blow up, these shows have turned into boring updates of already announced games, maybe one or 2 AAA games, and dozens of copy and paste indie titles.

I had hoped we would hear more about the broader PlayStation business at this conference. Where was the Disney, ESPN, ABC on Vue launch date? How about rolling out Vue to some new cities? Price and Launch for PS VR which they keep saying will launch in the next 6 months? New firmware/network features? Or an update on season 2 of Powers?

This was the biggest dissapointmnet of the year for me. The only saving grace is I ended up not wasting my time going down there. Had I drove 20 hours to SF, and spent hunderds on gas, food, and hotels, plus wasted vacation, I would be very angry right now. Instead, I am just feeling like these press events have become a waste of my time. Perhapps next year, I will just skip out on these events, and spend my time doing something better.

I think the crash trolling/teasing backfired big time.

I'm not quite sure what they should change, but I would suggest shorterning it. I think it is too long. Perhaps cut things out, or present games in t different way. Perhaps that would make the show better.

Thank god the playstastion experience has more to offer than just this presentation for the people attending it or would you go right back home after it just started?

After reading some comments on the internet many people seem to think that the playstation experience is just this 2h long presentation and nothing more.

3/10

shit.

I don't watch these conferences much for what is announced, but for how it is done. It should be clear to everyone that, having four or five of such conferences a year, one cannot announce "boatloads of super games" at every instance, because there simply aren't that many.
What interest me more is the flow of the event, all the speakers and how they well prepared (and rehearsed) their stuff and interact with each other. Granted, the longer an event, the less likely the even would be rehearsed as a whole. From the start, a is more in danger of becoming a sequential number show the longer it is planned.

In that regard, I was amazed on how many presenters were amateurish, to put it mildly.
Some still think that it is "cool" to appear in an unwashed t-shirt and worn-out shoes. No, you are not talking to a bunch of kids, you are talking to a world-wide audience of mostly adults - because of streams, internet etc.

Then come the presenters who always have an urgent desire to self-applaud every sentence they utter and laugh into nothingness (I'm thinking of you, hopeless woman) when they realize basically no one starts to applaud.

Then come the presenters who have to constantly remind the audience how absolutely great the show is - despite realizing that the public isn't actually enthusiastic about what is just going on.

I was also amazed about the VR head-honcho guy who rightfully explains that it is almost impossible to demo VR on a stage - and then goes on to prove the very fact nonetheless, in probably the worst way possible. Granted I can't really see doing that, either. But immersing the audience in a lengthy circa 1974 cga graphics demo probably isn't too clever.

So on a presenter scale, I'd give that event a 3/10. The stuff shown as mostly good, though.