Sony PlayStation E3 2017 Conference: Hold our Beer

[nnodley]

I'm actually quite shocked we are getting horizon DLC so soon.  That is if it's not delayed

[Xevross]

Sigh where to start.

I am REALLY ambivalent about this conference for so many reasons. I feel Sony had the two best games of the show in God Of War and Spiderman which quite frankly to me both looked absolutely incredible. I was also impressed with Days Gone,Uncharted and Horizon. Like how efficient are Guerrilla to have a new DLC out by the end of the year? Blimey. I thought all their first party games showed extremely well and looked a tier above Xbox's. The Shadow of the Colossus remake is cool I have never played it so I am interested. I am also puzzled why Knack, Ni No Kuni, Dreams, Crash etc were not included in the show as it felt very short.Also the lack of release dates was disappointing.
 
I cannot blame Sony for showing the same games again as they are still in the pipeline and would it make sense to show some more exclusives when some big ones are not even out yet? No, but I also think they should know by now E3 is all about the big announcements and no tease from Sucker Punch or a another project in the works was a let down. There was an air of complacency as they did not even show stuff like Battlefront 2 single player which I thought was a guarantee tbh. Could they be trying to split their content for PSX? That is a possibility and Sony attend more than one conference every year which Xbox does not for the most part.
 
I was also stunned by no new VR games from Santa Monica, Manchester and London studio. The VR games shown were solid but Santa Monica confirmed they had a VR project in the works and Manchester studio have been working on their game for over 2 years now.In hindsight Sony could have saved Spiderman or Days Gone for this E3 to be announced and this conference would have had a bigger impact.They had 2 amazing conferences and I know they cannot have a megaton every year but with TLOU Part 2 being announced at PSX I was sure they had a big announcement for E3 but alas they did not, maybe that should have been saved for E3.
 
This E3 has been underwhelming for announcements but I understand some devs are just not ready and E3 2018 will be much better when a dozen devs will be ready show their games. Despite this I think most of the games especially at Sony's and Ubisoft's have shown incredibly well.
 

Onto TGS and PSX.

I completely agree with you. Knack, Ni No Kuni and Crash were all in the pre-show, as was GT Sport. They also announced quite a few new smaller games there. If you watched the pre-show before hand and took that into account as a whole 2 hour experience from Sony then it is actually a lot better.

Yep I think if they held off announcing God of War/ Days Gone, Spiderman and TLOU2 we would have still had great conferences last year and this one would have been great or even better too. Anyway, it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, the quality of the conferences don't count for anything, what matters is selling the games.

[darkknightkryta]

Yeah people are ignoring the pre-show where most of the interviews and stuff that they generally wasted time with during their conference was on.  They essentially took the montages out and spread them into the pre-show.  I mean, would you have rather had Knack, NI No Kuni and the rest in some montage trailer like they used to do in the past?  Each getting a few seconds each.  Instead most of those games got developer interviews and a larger look.  Even then their E3 conference was pretty fast paced considering they spent a decent amount of time on each title.

[DerNebel]

Had SSM's new IP not been canceled they would have probably shown that off at 2 E3s as well, possibly pushing some other announcements back. And had The Order not failed, we would have probably seen a sequel at this years E3. Similar thing with Driveclub and Evolution Studios.

Point is that if everything had turned out according to plan then these last few E3s could have looked pretty different.

[the-pi-guy]

I just went to the bethesda website and they have a physical copy of Skyrim VR.  And the Amazon link took me to a page searching Skyrim VR which only has a swimsuit, a t shirt and 2 computers.

[Xevross]

Had SSM's new IP not been canceled they would have probably shown that off at 2 E3s as well, possibly pushing some other announcements back. And had The Order not failed, we would have probably seen a sequel at this years E3. Similar thing with Driveclub and Evolution Studios.

Point is that if everything had turned out according to plan then these last few E3s could have looked pretty different.

Hmm this is true. They have been cancelling a lot of games/ closing studios recently. Not that it matters, we had an incredible first half of the year for PS exclusives and their upcoming lineup is still miles better than MS and Nintendo's offerings.

[the-pi-guy]

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  PlayStation VR Thread 2: Reloaded

Just want to point out, don't forget that whatever first/second party revealed just now was ALL new stuff and unexpected announcement.
 Those we were expecting didn't show up.
 - London studios new vr game
 - Manchester studios vr game(s)
 - Santa Monica's vr game
 - from softwares vr game
 There's still a second storm incoming
 

[Horizon]

Had SSM's new IP not been canceled they would have probably shown that off at 2 E3s as well, possibly pushing some other announcements back. And had The Order not failed, we would have probably seen a sequel at this years E3. Similar thing with Driveclub and Evolution Studios.

Point is that if everything had turned out according to plan then these last few E3s could have looked pretty different.

I think once God Of War has been completed Santa Monica will staff up again and look at doing a new I.P. From what i saw of their I.P from the concept art there was little to no coherence in style so I can see why it would have been cancelled as it lacked direction.

[Xevross]

Hmm this is true. They have been cancelling a lot of games/ closing studios recently. Not that it matters, we had an incredible first half of the year for PS exclusives and their upcoming lineup is still miles better than MS and Nintendo's offerings.

Quoting myself because nintendo just said baby please and proved me wrong

[the-pi-guy]

Quoting myself because nintendo just said baby please and proved me wrong

Lol.  
If only Nintendo did that for the Wii U....

[DerNebel]

Just watched the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer and realized that Wild is another Sony game that has been missing in action for I think well over a year now.

[the-pi-guy]

Just watched the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer and realized that Wild is another Sony game that has been missing in action for I think well over a year now.

The developer posted a picture of it, 5 months ago.  So it seems to be in fine shape.

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[nnodley]

With how good Uncharted TLL looks I really hope ND keeps doing these smaller games with side characters from the main games every once in a while just to keep uncharted alive.  It would work great with TLOU as well.  So much story to tell in the TLOU world outside of joel and ellie.

[Horizon]

I'm actually quite shocked we are getting horizon DLC so soon.  That is if it's not delayed

I think Guerrilla are arguably Sony's most efficiently talented developer alongside Japan Studio. They have released Killzone, Horizon and now have Horizon DLC out before the end of the year. No other Sony studio. You would not be surprised if the next Horizon is announced at E3 2019 too. And when you think about it they only worked full time on Horizon when Killzone was finished so they did Horizon in approximately 3 and a half years; it's unbelievable.

[Xevross]

I think Guerrilla are arguably Sony's most efficiently talented developer alongside Japan Studio. They have released Killzone, Horizon and now have Horizon DLC out before the end of the year. No other Sony studio. You would not be surprised if the next Horizon is announced at E3 2019 too. And when you think about it they only worked full time on Horizon when Killzone was finished so they did Horizon in approximately 3 and a half years; it's unbelievable.

Yep and then you have some of their other studios that haven't even released a game yet and will probably only get one out this gen. When all the other devs are slowing down, Guerrilla are keeping it up!