Lol dude. The show is done. 

Sony never shows too much of their soon releasing franchises at PSX. No need to, the hype is already there. PSX always was more of a community event. A few years ago they showed mostly indies. Last year was an exception, this year they had a huge Paris show instead.

There was a new, 8 minute Death Stranding trailer, right?! They also addressed the release date issue during the show. 

There will be many hours of content for other, more interesting and less covered games and VR starting in 4.5 hours.

I am happy with the show overall because I kept my expectations in check but it's still open for criticisms. 
I criticize them for not giving us more info. as you have mentioned a community event  for me as a part of a community any new updates will help but they didn't. . 

Release date are vital information. For me as a consumer with a tight budget would love to know the release date so I can budget my money. 2018 is just less than a month away and we still don't have a concrete release dates for GOW, Detroit, Dreams. With Spider man that's understandable because it could be release in fall IMO and E3 is the perfect place for that but for GOW and Detroit that is not acceptable because they will be released in early 2018. 

As for Death Stranding it's kinda redundant they showed the same footage they showed in VGA. 

Im sorry, but no

Going to the event is not just to 'play and experience the games': going to the event is also being able to be part of the showcase presentation, if possible. And the reality is that even though Sony did downplay it, it wasn't even that good. You cant cover up the lackluster showing with the fact that they get to attend this convention. That doesnt cut it. PSX has always been 2 parts, and this year the first part was not good.

That said there is nothing wrong with the format: getting devs up on stage and talking and mingling is good. Its relaxing and seems more personal. But the pacing sucks. How some games were handled just sucked: the first VR exclusive comes to mind. That game should have gotten a proper reveal trailer and everything but it was just 'oh we have this new game, you can see some footage' and that was it.

Most fans realise that Sony cant be dropping bombs all the time but that doesnt mean you cant make for an exciting showcase event. Dropping trailers inbetween the devs coming out to talk would have built up the pace better, and contributed to a more exciting showing. Actually announcing these games would have create some brevity to proceedings. Its not that hard: pretty easy planning would have turned this from what it was to something acceptable.

lets take a look at other things. Hermun was up for what? To talk about how long it took for Horizon to make? ok... Cory came on for what? To joke that he only has used up 4-5 years, and to do a quick talk over of the GoW trailer from PGW? Like seriously? He mentions the are doing final playtesting, and that the game is coming in at about 25 hours, and you are telling me that his team couldnt just record some non-story section of gameplay to show off? That would have gone a long way to bettering that section. Likewise for Dreams... I mean this game is about creation and they just showed some footage that PS Access already showed off. Like talk about the game showing off creations ppl in their office made, and at least give us something new. Detroit was just the first demo again... ok at least that was exciting, it was gripping enough but still it was stuff we had seen before.  And then you have Firewall having a fumbled announcement. Patapon 2 not even being mentioned. Lost Soul Aside not even having its gameplay shown off???

I mean look... I enjoyed it for what it was worth but that doesnt make it good. And fixes to this would have been incredibly easy to do:

- show off new footage for games (GoW and Dreams would have been pretty easy to do)

- Take all the trailers and divide them evenly between dev introductions. 

-Actually have all the trailers in the showcase if game announcements were going to be on the thin side .

And done. Showcase unquestionably better, even without the need for big showings.

Also can i just say how weird it was they had 2 seats empty.... did Shu and Gio just drop out last minute?