Industry heads and Developers alike agree Sony did what they set out to do, reveal the PS4. Sony has gotten the hype swinging into motion as a staggering (estimated) 7.5 million viewers watched the PS4 event at any one time.
Sections of the gaming community were slightly disappointed as to why Sony did not show actual PS4 hardware, but we’ll get into more on that later...
Myself personally, I saw the PS4 Event Meeting as an indicator of what we can expect at E3 2013 more than anything else. All three consoles, not just PS4, but also Microsoft’s Next Box and the already available Nintendo Wii U will have a major presence at the highly anticipated E3 event this June.
Sony wisely did not want to totally share the E3 space revealing 'everything' PS4 for the first time. In fact, Sony were wise to reveal in the way they did, and held back the consoles final design for E3.
These are exciting times and you can be sure of one thing. This will be the biggest most competitive E3 in history, and you better believe it!
Industry experts and developers agree Sony had a well constructed reveal. They didn't show too much and have successfully created intrigue and excitement as to what more we can learn from E3.
EPIC/Blizzard/Bungie/Mark Cerny
The likes of Epic are seemingly more on-board than they were with PS3. I think most gamers will agree, Epic have been more synonymous with the Xbox 360 in this current gen, so something interesting is definitely developing between Sony and Epic. No doubt we’ll learn more in the coming months.
Blizzard appeared briefly, and although they didn’t show anything, Blizzard announced they have a 'Strategic Partnership" indicative of more than Diablo III coming to the console. I’m hoping Titan is planned at some stage for PS4.
Bungie, the creators of the hugely successful Halo series (again another developer synonymous with Xbox 360) made an appearance at the reveal. A newly revitalized Sony seem to be getting the 3rd party developers on board in a big way for PS4.
Sony Japan have commissioned an American (Mark Cerny) as the architect of the PS4. Cerny seemed genuinely excited and enthusiastic as he described in the most humble way, the system and networking capabilities of PS4. This shows a once arrogant Sony has learned from the PS3's launch.
One thing is clear and demonstrative that Sony want to win back the N.American market. I think it's safe to assume Sony have listened to the developers, and that PS4 is extremely important for Sony to take a bigger share of the American Pie.
Microsoft/Nintendo
Don’t think MS or Nintendo are just going to roll over and let Sony have it all their way...
Expect MS to counter Sony’s reveal with one of their own..an XboxEvent2013.com domain has recently been registered, and guessing sometime in april/may is when MS will reveal something Next Box related.
MS’s console is expected to have comparable specs, so the real deciding factor will fall on who has the better exclusives. This gen that was Sony, but we don’t yet know what MS has in stall, we just know they’re coming with something.
Nintendo Wii U will finally have amazing 1st party and 3rd party games that really take advantage of the Wii U console. Admittedly, the Wii U was rushed out of the door with a slim pick of games that (so far) have not really justified owning a Wii U over what is currently available.
However, It's still early days for Nintendo, and I fully expect Nintendo will wow it’s fan base with its own titles such as Mario 3D, Mariokart Wii U, Zelda Next and Metroid Prime. Possibly Nintendo may announce a sequel to Zombie U.
Nintendo certainly have the potential in IP’s.
So we’ve seen Killzone;Shadow Fall, Driveclub, Infamous;Second Son and Capcoms game Deep Down (working title, so not final), all of which at this early stage look phenomenal.
Yes, some games were pre-rendered, some appreared to be running on development kits/PC’s spec’d to PS4 power, but you can’t deny Sony did enough to wet the appetite.
Other than the DualShock 4 controller shown (still not 100% finalized), We still don’t know the PS4’s form factor, so we don’t yet know what the console will look like. Why should
Sony have shown it pre-E3? Not showing it means Sony haven’t overshot their load (Save for E3).
We still await announcements of next gen versions of Uncharted, GT, GOW, Battlefield 4 and at some point we’ll see a PS4 sequel to The Last of Us ...an inevitability if ever there was one.
So to summarize.. I'm totally more interested in what Sony haven't revealed (Hello E3!), than what they did reveal. I am confident Sony will include 90% of the features they are targeting in the PS4.
We now know the console does not have to be connected to the net to play games, we know it will play used games, and we know that Killzone footage was/is realtime, because it was played (very badly) by Jimmy Fallon on his TV talk show.
The Future is looking good for gamers this year on all next generation consoles (including you Wii U). We await Microsoft's response and even more so, cannot wait until E3 2013!
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
Just merge them all into a single studio, have it churn out a single Call of Duty every year and call it a day, lol.
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
A renowned industry insider has suggested the rumored PlayStation May 2024 showcase featuring Silent Hill 2 could happen this week.
Bogus!
Why would Sony do that and how would this benefit them?
1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event.
2) Risk of not having great coverage or proper coverage from the various source
3) It could give the impression that they are not confident in their own stuff.
4) They would miss the chance to hype the event losing viewers and losing free marketing time.
Again I'm calling it bogus unless it's a small showcase before the big one or because they want to announce that Hellbalde 2 is also coming on PS5.
As far as I can remember, they typically give a week heads up for these sorts of things.
Last year it was a weeks notice.
https://blog.playstation.co...
May 17th announcement for may 24th show.
Nintendo always tweets that a direct is happening tomorrow but no one cares.
Sony gives a week or days of notice and we get anti sony type fake outrage like this.
But good luck trying trying to get some Sony hate going...
You just mention it!
Sony gives a week in advance NOT just a couple of days.
So I fail to see what Sony's hate movement I'm trying to start when it's a basic business strategy to not piss off your partners (ask Sega).
And I doubt it's hate to ask how it would benefit Sony in doing so.
@Versus
Huh? What?
Bro you really should relax, if what you read was some kinda negative against Sony.... seriously, is that what you got from the comments?
Bro, he was debunking the rumor, and gave perfectly good reasons why it would be unlikely, and your Nintendo Direct comparison is different, as this is supposed to be a BIG Sony showcase, not a surprise 20 min direct, and Sony 's pattern has been one week.
Slow down warmonger.
@thesoftware730
"1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event."
That is implying Sony is preventing them from doing their job properly therefore negatively affecting their business...but i guess that's a reach in your mind?
And it's not like they need that many resources to cover the stream. They just need 3 people to react to the stream live and make some easy articles made up mostly of summaries of Sony provided press releases. They would have enough time to "prepare" if it was announced with one days notice.
@Versus
" That is implying Sony is preventing them from doing their job properly therefore negatively affecting their business...but i guess that's a reach in your mind"
No, it simply implies that some media all over the world might (keyword MIGHT) not properly cover the event like having proper articles for each game announced, or having a proper preshow. maybe some popular YouTubers won't have time to prepare or simply your local newspaper doing an article on tech and game.
So why would Sony take a chance?
What benefit would that give them?
Before I get tons of replies for Sony given a week in advance, my initial comments are related to the notion that the Show could happen this week as the title mentions.
Now to be fair the complete article mentions that Jeff said the Show could happen later in May giving time for Sony to give the normal 7-day notice.
Again not trying to start a negative thing here just thinking that it's bogus that Sony will have a show this week
Yeah as much as I’d like to hear what sony’s 1st parties have cooked, it’s not their style to shadow drop a showcase.
Still waiting for ghost of tsushima 2, I’m ready whenever man..
Going in with no expectations but likely will see something that resonates with me.
Here is a look at the new Joker Trailer. Warner Bros. Games today released a new MultiVersus trailer revealing the first look at gameplay for The Joker, who will join the roster as a playable character when the upcoming free-to-play platform fighter videogame launches on May 28th.
Wow! ...I submitted this 3 days ago...only got approved yesterday and other users who submitted later than me got their blog shown in the user blog section whilst my own is stuck at the bottom somewhere!!
last fking time I waste my energy on this site!!!