because why not. sony's been more like nintendo than microsoft for announcements in the last couple of years now. they seem to want to focus their full marking on just the next title or two in their release schedule expect for just a couple of their biggest IP which get announced a bit earlier.Nintendo works because they have consistency. Every year at E3 you can expect their big E3 direct, and then they have various types of directs for different things.
outside a few of us forum trolls it makes more sense than what MS did by announcing fable/everwild/hellblade II over a year ago and having literally nothing to say about it since. starfield will probably be MIA for over a year now too. quite frankly,.. even as a forum troll i'm tried of announcements to games that have no gameplay whatsoever when announced, no follow-up details for over a year, and over two years before it actually releases.
compare E3 2020 between MS and sony. by my count sony has release 50% of the games they talked about 90% will be out by the end of this year. MS only released 15% already and by the end of the year maybe 40% if things i count on things like crossfireX to actually ship based on the current "2021" release date even though we haven't heard anything about it since it was delayed last year.
With PlayStation over the past few years, it's literally just wait and see. It's a huge downgrade over old Sony where E3 would be huge, Gamescom and PSX would be ok, and TGS would maybe have a surprise or two.
If games are taking too long to make, Sony should switch to a biennial D23 style show. Every other year go all out with a pre scheduled summer show and have these smaller States of Play to fill in the gaps.
