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Late summer was a bit of a dud last year when all the major publishers stepped away from hosting conferences, but Sony has said it is considering plans to host a live presentation of upcoming PlayStation 4 software at either Gamescom or Paris Games Week. 

“We’re just in the process of looking at that very carefully. We didn’t do a European show last year,”said Sony’s global sales chief Jim Ryan, in an interview with GameReactor. “We made a really conscious decision to pile the content into E3 last year. So that’s something we’re looking at very carefully.”

The intimation here, of course, is that Sony has plenty more in its locker than it was prepared to reveal at E3. Its conference was surprisingly light on reveals, with many games on show just being further looks at titles present during last year’s conference. 

Sony Worldwide Studios head honcho Shuhei Yoshida also said that Sony planned to stash announcements from the offset, preferring to spread out its reveals between E3, December’s PlayStation Experience, and any other events that may take place. This sort of thinking also led to the almost total lack of concrete release dates, Yoshida admitting that Sony didn’t want to find itself in a position where it was delaying games as it was forced to do with Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Last Guardian and, well, just about every first-party title so far for the PlayStation 4.

Gamescom will be running from August 22nd through to the 26th this week, while Paris Games Week will take place from November 1st through to the 5th. Both fall awkwardly near Sony’s other primary conferences (PSX 2017 takes place December 9-10), so it remains to be seen how they handle this.

 

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Can't wait to see what they have up their sleeve. Please don't so one showcase montage ever again though Sony. I know we moan about to much talking but last year was talking to showing games ratio was perfect.



Yeah in March I saw that 70% of the conferences floor was taken and while MS was their Sony was one of the (surprisingly) missing ones.






Just do E3 and PSX and make both shows intresting instead of trying to fill four conferences a year.



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They will obviously doing a conference in Gamescom or PGW because of GT sports. They need to do a solid marketing to boost the sales of GT sports.



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PGW makes little sense this year, it's just 3 weeks prior to PSX

I hope they do a conference at Gamescom, they can promote their Fifa Soccer deal and GT Sport aswell as maybe show off Dreams' campaign mode. Aside from that there surely are several indies/PSVR games/ smaller scale projects (like Everybody's Golf, which will release days after) they can give some stage time.

Europe is Sony's main region, they need to show us some love.



Europe loves Playstation more than any other continent, Sony really should do at least one major conference in here.



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