One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2016 Promises?

Kotaku: To what lengths do you go to introduce the return of one of your biggest franchises? If it’s for God of War, you bust out a full orchestra. Sony’s E3 2016 press conference began with a spectacle—but impressive showpieces aside, did the company meet its E3 2016 promises? Let’s find out.

[AspiringProGenji]

The games they announce for this year and TLG got released and weren't cancelled, so yeah... They kept the promise

[JayPi3]

The promise was that it would be out by a certain date, and it didn't meet that date, so the promise was broken.

If you say you'll be somewhere at 5pm and you show up at 7pm then you didn't stick to your word, even though you showed up there period. I know being fans of certain companies it's tempting to defend them, but we don't really need to defend them.

Personally i'm just glad the game came out sooner than later.

[AspiringProGenji]

Psss and so what? It still came out in the same year and very close to the initial release date, and TLG came out in 2016.

They didn't promise a game theb cancelled it. They didn't announce a game then pushed it to the next year. They announce horizon was gonna be a 2017 title and it was.

Moreover your analogy is flawed. Game development is unpredictable and not the same as a damn date. I would check weather, traffic, and all of that to meet at 5pm. It is easier to not miss a date, unlike avoiding a delay if something happens in development

[ILostMyMind]

What was the date for GoW released?

[trooper_]

BUT THE GAMES STILL COME OUT.

Keep ignoring that fact to suit your agenda.

[OB1Biker]

A few weeks is not really a broken promise.
Just think about it for a minute.
And we r talking about game development, not your appointments.

[JayPi3]

This is a solid article. Honestly all they did was list off what Sony has and has not kept up with since last year, I can see how people can get salty over them singling out Sony, hopefully they ask the same of the other 2 big companies.

I already made up my mind that most of the games shown at E3 are subject to delays or won't be out for a while, but I honestly do enjoy the show for what it is and the showcase of games i'm excited for being shown or series I like having new entries.

The best thing about Sony is that there's a good amount of titles that they have under their belt so they can easily surprise fans, I'd love to see a Next Gen Sly Cooper.

[BlakHavoc]

What a silly article, since when did they promise to provide more info between E3 2016 and E3 2017 on any of the new games announced last E3? In fact what they did say was that they would stray away from dropping release dates if they're not confident they can hit them, if u expected release dates that your own fault.

[Ceaser9857361]

People needs to calm down.. E3 is the place to show whats in future for the console and a release date comes along later when the devs feels its time.. Its funny how people are complaining.Its not that the games are being canceled ffs.. PlayStation already has enough games in Q1 and more to come in the following months.. Cant expect Sony to load exclusives one after another every month.. As of now Sony is covered till 2019. Thats a good sign for PlayStation..

[rainslacker]

Thank you. If people constantly accuse Sony of delaying games and not meeting release dates, why are people now upset that they are holding back on giving release dates?

Sony isn't holding back on announcing games "early", but that's probably because they aren't announcing games any earlier than we have historically seen a lot of games of this caliber be announced, which is generally 2-3 years before release, because they want to build hype, and trickle out the information to keep hype building.

[1060FX8300]

This article is ridiculous.

If Sony announced a game at E3 2016 with a release date that was successfully met (Resident Evil 7, Horizon), then Sony kept their promise, according to the writer.
If Sony announced a game at E3 2016 with no release date (God of War, Spiderman, Days Gone), have Sony kept their promise? "Not yet" according to the writer.

So the writer's logic here is that if a game releases on the originally promised date, Sony have delivered on their promise.

Except, if there's no release date or even a release window, there is no promise made. So how can Sony have failed to meet a promise they never made in God of War, Spiderman and Days Gone, as examples? They don't even have release windows, still TBA.

Horizon for one was given an original release window of 2016 initially, but then was pushed to February of this year, yet according to the writer, Horizon delivered. This goes against the writer's own rule that if a game doesn't release when originally promised then Sony have failed to deliver, as they said for The Last Guardian.

What this article does is criticise Sony for doing what they have been doing brilliantly for the past couple E3s, announce awesome games at E3 to generate hype and entertain us during the presentation, keep the hype train going through slowly releasing more information, and then releasing the games when they're ready. Releasing games when they're ready is something that that some third party companies have struggled with this generation but Sony are handling it excellently, Uncharted 4 and Horizon are examples.
The games announced at E3 2016 will release, when they are ready, and Sony are doing nothing wrong by using the E3 presentation format in exactly the way it should be used: to get us excited for the near and far future of PS4, because the result is a constant stream of fantastic games PS4 players have to look forward to in the near and far future.
This article is ridiculous, because Sony have done nothing wrong in utilising the E3 presentation format to its fullest potential. They may not always deliver on timing, but they almost always deliver on quality and in a varied, consistent stream so that there's always something new and great to play, all year.

[DigitalRaptor]

It was a slow news day for Kotaku.

[1060FX8300]

Gotta get those clicks haha

[joab777]

Regardless of what they choose to show at E3 each year, as it's always about pomp and circumstance, which I enjoy very much, they HAVE delivered on games. We may not have seen Horizon, Nioh, Nier, P5, GR2, Tekken, etc. in 2015, but we did get them this year to play.

[Blu3_Berry]

They certainly kept a better promise than Microsoft.

[XanderZane]

Now sure why everyone is arguing over this. All three companies announce games years in advance before they are finally released. All three companies cancel games. I don't really think any of these companies promise anything. They give release dates for games, but never promise or guarantee that they will be released on that said date. Anyone who has been gaming for 20+ years knows this. All the trolling and bad mouthing each company isn't going to change a thing.

[Bruh]

I expect some pitchforks and death threats, I know the snowflakes on N4G can't handle anything that doesn't show Sony in perfection

[DigitalRaptor]

Did you find what you were looking for? 'Cause I can't see it.