Why attend E3, when you've already dropped your bombshell PS5 logo?

And E3 continues grow more and more irrelevant.

Such a shame

I think Sony is being dumb and cocky again.  I mean it's one show where tons of gamers pay attention to what is coming out soon.  It seems pretty dumb to turn away from all of that easy marketing attention, especially during a year where they are releasing a new console.  I hope Nintendo and Microsoft put extra effort into their E3 to get even more attention.  This whole thing could very easily backfire on Sony.

Just glad Nintendo still have respect and attend E3.

I wonder what crap you and some others here said when Nintendo decided to stop having a conference a few years ago...

That sucks for E3, nothing can top E3 2015 tho. Sure Sony can have a show, but the other conferences will do the job for them.

Makes sense.  I mean Microsoft and Sony are both launching new systems this year.  And PS4 is actually not that far ahead of XB1 in North American sales.  This is kind of Microsoft's opportunity to win back the NA market from Sony.  There are definitely a lot of NA customers that could easily switch back to Microsoft.

As for Nintendo, I would double the length of their normal E3 presentation and show off more of their third party and indie games coming out.  Normally their E3 presentation is 40-45 minutes.  They could put another 40 or so minutes of third party games in that pretty easily.  Switch gets more third party games each year than the last and it got over 1000 games last year.

Basically the time for Nintendo and Microsoft to fight the hardest is this year, because Sony is giving them an opportunity to screw up Sony's launch.  They might as well take it.

There a huge difference between not having a conference and skipping E3 all together. I think pre recorded show like Nintendo E3 direct is much better then a press conference. Last year Gears 5 montage on Microsoft stage was just a distraction and really added nothing to their presentation. I'd rather Microsoft would go with lots of pre recorded footage with a few appearance from the head of Microsoft. 

Fine by me, Sony didn't attend last year and it didn't hurt them. During this generation they've shown that their own events get enough attention, with the unveiling of the PS4 and the PS4 Pro, there are many other events to attend too. When they reveal the PS5, no matter where it is, people are going to know. Just look at how people are getting hyped at the idea of a February event. The truth is that Microsoft don't need E3 either, it may still be a huge event but it isn't as necessary as it used to be.