Sony E3 Conference 2015

What do you want from Sony's E3?


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As someone with no real nostalgia for Sony franchises, this seemed like a hype grab. TLG looks the same from 7 years ago. 7. Years. Explain how this is exciting. Sony isn't even funding Shenmue III, but they'll sure as hell take the hype for it and plug a friggin Kickstarter campaign. I mean why doesn't Nintendo Kickstart F-zero? And Ice Climbers, and Pikmin, and Zelda? The fans will pay for it, must be a good idea hurr durr. No. This is a multimillion dollar international corporation at the biggest conference in the world for arguably their most valuable division and they're plugging a Kickstarter. Am I dreaming? My brain hurts.

Are you that delusional ?
Do you really think that they would be able to fund the game with just 2m $ ?

Of course Sony will fund it, it's just REALLY hard to tell how big the hype is exactly.
Twitter messages and lists are one thing, but this is a game that had a budget that was unmatched back in the day and arrived on a platform that was already on the way to the ER.
And let's not forget that it's a sequel, so it's not really friendly towards people unfamilar with the series.

They're not just gonna sink money into a project they can hardly pull off your usual estimates.

So that's a method to see, IF the buzz is real and if people are willed to invest into the game.
 
It seems like NeoGAF has a strong love of the old PlayStation, whereas Reddit doesn't. It's like watching mirrors. One loves the confefence, the other hates it.

/r/Gaming is such a weird place, with a very narrow taste in games. Pretty much only covers high profile PC games, a small slice of retro gaming and a sprinkling of Nintendo. I went there after the Sony presentation to see what the wider Reddit reaction to it and E3 in general was. It was as though E3 wasn't even happening. There was one E3 released topic on the fist page (TLG). A handful more now, but you have to got back 5 pages to see any mention of Shenmue.

Like with everything Reddit, escape from the default subreddits, and things get far better.
 
Their twitter says very soon. so PGW it is. Smart decision anyway, this conference couldn't have handled another reveal lol

yeah. after FF7 and U4, and horizon... everything else was kinda like 'huh' to me. Information overload. I can't handle all these awesomeness at once.
 
i can understand why folks would be down on this conference but at the same time this conference is legendary. It may not have been the best Sony conference but it is one of the best fanboy's dream conference. Truth be told if you look at the Sony conference without the hype you get a ff7 remake trailer for a game that won't come out until 2018 or 2019 cause ff15 in 2016 then kh3 in 2017. We have the last guardian a game that was suppose to come out a decade ago have a release date of some time next year and an announcement of a kickstarter of a game. If you look at these as well as the rest of the Sony conference all we really have left is hopeful gameplay of horizon and that mm game. There was no mgs5, no persona, no gt, driveclub plps, no wild arms, no level 5, no god of war, nothing from the infamous studio, rime, the witness, tearaway, ratchet and clank( was already shown), indie reel, tommorrow children, and the majority of the games were not playstation exclusive. It honestly felt like we were missing half of the show when i calmed down and thought about it.
 
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What a time to be alive.

Together, the Holy Trinity.

God damn, what a conference, it saved my E3, definitely. All previous conferences were good, but not like this. Wow, damn.
 
I love how the theme of Sony was give fans what they fucking want. How hard is it? For a whole generation they wanted The Last Guardian. For a decade they have a wanted FFVII remake. For 14 years they have wanted Shenmue 3.

Too bad GabeN is sitting on a mountain of cash and can't be bothered to follow suit.
 
Are you that delusional ?
Do you really think that they would be able to fund the game with just 2m $ ?

Of course Sony will fund it, it's just REALLY hard to tell how big the hype is exactly.
Twitter messages and lists are one thing, but this is a game that had a budget that was unmatched back in the day and arrived on a platform that was already on the way to the ER.
And let's not forget that it's a sequel, so it's not really friendly towards people unfamilar with the series.

They're not just gonna sink money into a project they can hardly pull off your usual estimates.

So that's a method to see, IF the buzz is real and if people are willed to invest into the game.

Game needs to have an audience beyond those funding it to make financial sense. This is the hardest part to figure out. There is a rabid fanbase but it can't make you money unless you can sell a ton of copies
 
I love how the theme of Sony was give fans what they fucking want. How hard is it? For a whole generation they wanted The Last Guardian. For a decade they have a wanted FFVII remake. For 14 years they have wanted Shenmue 3.

Too bad GabeN is sitting on a mountain of cash and can't be bothered to follow suit.

I wish we had a thread to rant about this. Only TLG & FF7 came close to Half Life 3, and it now stands alone as the only giant game that's dying to be declared officially real & in production.
 
Game needs to have an audience beyond those funding it to make financial sense. This is the hardest part to figure out. There is a rabid fanbase but it can't make you money unless you can sell a ton of copies

And if the game reviews well, it will sell a ton of copies.

I wish we had a thread to rant about this. Only TLG & FF7 came close to Half Life 3, and it now stands alone as the only giant game that's dying to be declared officially real & in production.

Careful what you wish for. We'd have nothing left to... wish for.
 
I'm still confused about the exclusivity for a number of the games revealed.

Can someone clear them or give a definite answer?

Which titles are coming to Xbox and/or PC? Which remain exclusive? Will games that are PS4/PC eventually come to Xbox or not?

Anyone going to do a breakdown of both conferences too? Time spent on games, media, demos, etc? I love those stats, if just for fun
 
GameTrailer's reactions from 09:46:00 are incredible: http://www.twitch.tv/gametrailers/v/6205951?t=586m0s

"Is this FF7? It can't be... Nope, it's 14. Phew. 7 is dead guys. It's never happening."

Followed almost immediately by the team losing their shit.

Followed almost immediately by the Shenmue 3 announcement where they lose their shit again.

Is there a way to watch this? The link brings me to a page with a video that is X'd out on Twitch
 
People are getting too excited for name brands and thinking these shows are legendary. Shit is all smokes and mirrors. When you peel the announcements away, we are still a long ways from seeing a lot of these games in playable form.

Marketing at its best.

Until today, these games didn't exist. Now we know they are coming.

Yes, they are a long way off (well FF and Shenmue at least), yes they could end up being bad games... but the fans are just happy these games are definitely coming. I gave up on Shenmue 3 years ago, but here we are.

These announcements are literally the stuff dreams are made of for some people. The very definition of "legendary".
 
People are getting too excited for name brands and thinking these shows are legendary. Shit is all smokes and mirrors. When you peel the announcements away, we are still a long ways from seeing lot of these games in playable form.

Marketing at its best.

Um you do realize the point of these shows is marketing?

I really don't get the "nothing this year" cries, followed immediately by "we have already seen this before". Game development takes a long time. I think some people's perceptions may be altered by apple doing "available now" style surprise app releases, we actually got a few of those with fallout phone game and media player for PS4 but you can't just drop huge budget multi year "AAA" games like that.
 
GAF wasn't working after the conference so I'll post my impressions now.

Wow. That was an impressive conference. They blew MS out of the water and I doubt Nintendo will top it. Last year I felt bad for whoever went to a movie theatre to watch Sonys boring conference but this year Sony delivered. TLG finally reemerges, I lost hope years ago but it's finally back. FF VII remake is finally a reality. Shenmue III Kickstarter announced. MM's Dreams, while not really a game is awesome. That robot dino hunting game was a cool idea. And so much more! That Disney Infinity guy was hilarious.

NMS was pretty much what I expected. I was not impressed but it's a pretty big blunder to debut the first gameplay in a rushed conference setting. Though I do appreciate them caving into the pressure to show it. I hope Hello Games has a longer more interesting demonstration planned. And was the whole world really fully destructible? I wanted to see him tunnel into the ground. I suspect it will only be rocks and tress.
 
Is there a way to watch this? The link brings me to a page with a video that is X'd out on Twitch

I had to do it on the twitch app (I'm on an iPhone, wouldn't work right in browser) but it's the top video on the right side of their page that's like 11+ hours long
 
People are getting too excited for name brands and thinking these shows are legendary. Shit is all smokes and mirrors. When you peel the announcements away, we are still a long ways from seeing a lot of these games in playable form.

Marketing at its best.

Unless this is your first E3, I'm not sure why you're under the impression you are the sole person capable of comparing a presentation to a game's final release. What's your secret?
 
that was a reveal trailer. pretty positive that her speaking that much was to set the tone and context of the world we were introduced to.

personally, horizon was game of the show.
I hope so, cause it seems they wanted to mimic uncharted and with an open world RPG that would be a tragic mistake.
 
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