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In a statement issued to German publication Games Wirtschaft, a spokesperson for the PlayStation firm confirmed it would not attend this year's event, which is due to take place in August and will be its first in-person show since the pandemic.

Other companies including Nintendo, Activision Blizzard and Take-Two Interactive have said they will not attend Gamescom's return.

Gamescom's organisers claim that over 250 companies will attend this year's event, but at the time of writing, only a handful of major publishers including Bandai Namco, THQ Nordic and Koch Media have publicly confirmed.

VGC understands that one issue is that many publishers have simply stopped planning pre-release game demos since the pandemic, such as those made available at events like Gamescom, and thus would have little to show at a big public show.

PlayStation is the latest company to confirm it won’t attend Gamescom | VGC

So far only a handful of publishers have publicly confirmed they’ll attend the German expo…

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[SkylineRKR]

Those shows are kind of useless to me. Mostly its for press, and for the end users nothing changes. We'll see videos. I think State of Plays and PSX events are pretty good.

 

[lh032]

Sorry Gamescom, the king will not be attending...as usual, better luck next time.

 

[FunkMiller]

The industry is obviously deciding it can promote their games just as well online as in person. Much cheaper.

 

[Heisenberg007]

To add more context, Sony hasn't been attending Gamescom for some time now. They still participated in Geoff's Gamescom ONL and showed stuff.

• In 2020, PS showed an extended gameplay demo for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
• In 2021, PS announced Horizon Forbidden West release date with more footage and a trailer.

So there may still be something from PlayStation Studios games.

 

[Calverz]

Sorry Gamescom, the king will not be attending...as usual, better luck next time.

The king? They haven't confirmed attendance yet???

 

[Three]

To add more context, Sony hasn't been attending Gamescom for some time now. They still participated in Geoff's Gamescom ONL and showed stuff.

• In 2020, PS showed an extended gameplay demo for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
• In 2021, PS announced Horizon Forbidden West release date with more footage and a trailer.

So there may still be something from PlayStation Studios games.

The arcticle makes it seem like gamescom was on hiatus for those years though and now that it's back Sony, Nintendo, Acti-Blizz etc are not attending anymore.

 

[Boss Mog]

Let's face it the traditional gaming conventions are dead (except maybe for TGS) and they're probably not resurrecting anytime soon. Gaming companies have found it much more cost effective to do their own small events or just release video presentations on Youtube.

 

[rofif]

I miss the confs with real goofy people. 2013 e3 was amazing with the driveclub guy loving cars, infamous guy anti gov talk... some gems there.
I miss these. State of plays are so raw and bad

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

These shows are dead.
Why spend all that in multiple live shows when you can just do your own show once or twice a year?

 

[rofif]

These shows are dead.
Why spend all that in multiple live shows when you can just do your own show once or twice a year?

Yeah it makes no sense but I dont get the hype from these raw state of plays

 

[Barlow]

Sorry Gamescom, the king will not be attending...as usual, better luck next time.

Devolver isn't part of GC?

 

[Bo_Hazem]

More money to devs and projects, nice.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Yeah it makes no sense but I dont get the hype from these raw state of plays

The latest State of Play announced us Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 remake and multiple VR2 games while it also reintroduced us Final Fantasy XVI. I'd say it depends.

 

[K2D]

These shows are dead.
Why spend all that in multiple live shows when you can just do your own show once or twice a year?

People get more hyped when there's a special time of year dropping megatons.

I suspect main stream gamers are more susceptible to games news as well when there is one time of year they associate with new info on games.

The public events I couldn't care less about. I actually like the peek behind the curtains more (gametrailers and especially Kyle Bosman back in their hayday)..!

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

People get more hyped when there's a special time of year dropping megatons.

The only people that get excited are hardcore fans. Most people just run to youtube to watch trailers later.
And about megatons...we got multiple shows this month so far and still waiting for the megatons. Those days are over.

 

[Kokoloko85]

Another few months of Sony Starving us of a big show….

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Kokoloko85]

The latest State of Play announced us Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 remake and multiple VR2 games while it also reintroduced us Final Fantasy XVI. I'd say it depends.

I want some actual new Playstation 3rd party exclusives and 1st party stuff. Thats why I miss the E3, TGS days of PS4/PS3

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

I want some actual new Playstation 3rd party exclusives and 1st party stuff. Thats why I miss the E3, TGS days of PS4/PS3

You just got TLOU Remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth this month as well.
They are still giving us everything...just not together.

If you think about everything we got this month...it's quite a lot considering we never even got a proper 1st party show yet.

 

[Jennings]

No point in having public showings anymore when public reactions turn into memes (Artifact, Diablo Immortal). Easier to just share teasers and footage with shills/influencers and have them promote your games and deal with the backlash for you.

 

[CosmicComet]

Sony is always quick to de-confirm things.

Never quick to give us good news in replacement.

I hate this drip feed bullshit.

 

[nominedomine]

Sony is always quick to de-confirm things.

Never quick to give us good news in replacement.

I hate this drip feed bullshit.

Jim Ryan is a sworn enemy of Gamescom since this happened there:

Plus, he didn't stop just at Gamescom, he vowed to end E3 and all similar shows and will only do the bare minimum to disguise his true intentions.

 

[Kuranghi]

Look at this dick:

edit - Okay maybe dick is too strong a word, but this is at least fanny behaviour.

 

[Kokoloko85]

You just got TLOU Remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth this month as well.
They are still giving us everything...just not together.

If you think about everything we got this month...it's quite a lot considering we never even got a proper 1st party show yet.

I know, its been great I just want all my delicious news at once lol.
If they did TLOU Remake and FF7 RR and whatever else they have planned on one e3 like show it would make my year.

I hate when stuff gets repeated like Deathloop, Kena and Ghostwire. I dont need to see a game more than twice

 

[prinz_valium]

Look at this dick:

edit - Okay maybe dick is too strong a word, but this is at least fanny behaviour.

???

 

[ParaSeoul]

Playstation is bigger than these events. Times are changing.

 

[rofif]

The latest State of Play announced us Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 remake and multiple VR2 games while it also reintroduced us Final Fantasy XVI. I'd say it depends.

It was the first good sop ever

 

[Goalus]

Will anyone notice?

 

[TGO]

More money to devs and projects, nice.

You'd think.
Sadly since they stopped attending theirs and others output have been lacking.
There's no deadline so things just get sprinkled throughout the year and are less impactful.

 

[Shmunter]

Sony should just do a PlayStation event and invite everyone to it

 

[K' Dash]

Playstation is bigger than these events. Times are changing.

People writing stuff like this are serious and I can't stop laughing at how pathetic it is.

 

[ParaSeoul]

People writing stuff like this are serious

 

[Kuranghi]

I do miss the big shows and back to back banger announcments, Sony's E3 2016 is easy to point to as the best overall, but I really liked the 2017 nearly as much even though people slag it off for the weird format, it was a really good show for me personally.

 

[RoadHazard]

The age of big gaming blowout events is over. It's sad (the dripfeed we get now just isn't as fun), but was inevitable I suppose.

 

[CuNi]

GamesCom was fun attending and I won't lie, I'll be a bit sad once it's fully dead but at the same time I felt less and less reason to go there as it kinda lost the feeling it had back in the day. Its been feeling more and more like a indie fest the recent years.

 

[Warnen]

Rather have MS/Sony and the other big guys do there own thing but really sucks for them smaller groups that could use the exposure. Now they will turn to money hats to keep shit off other platform (looking at you epic).

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

The industry is obviously deciding it can promote their games just as well online as in person. Much cheaper.

Much cheaper considering Xbox would spend somewhere around 30 million on the old E3s

 

[jaysius]

More money to devs and projects, nice.

Nope, don't assume that, that's just unspent money that's actual profits. Sony has changed.

As everyone says, these shows are dead. Keep your money for either burning or for investors.