BlackBuzzard
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Im done Sony. It started with no games and now no press conferences. Arrogant Sony is back full force.
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Sony won't be holding a press conference at Gamescom 2015
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I hate you.
the more you post about TLG, the more you destroy all my TLG Expections at E3..
At that time of the year, October 27th to December 6th is like an eternity
I expect most of the Holiday - impacting announcmeents to be made during E3, TGS being generally reserved for the Asia - centric announcements.
Now this being said, with Paris Expo being just 4 weeks before Black Firday ...
Dunno. Can't really imaigne them doing major NA market impacting annoucements in a Paris Show. Maybe they'd wait until then for a major price cut (global) for maximum Holiday effect?
Nightengale
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Crimson_Gold
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TheStruggler
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AmuroChan
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It's possible. Quantic Dream and Wild Sheep Studio are both based in France, which is why it makes sense logistically for them to show their games at PGW, especially with Sony not having a conference at Gamescom. Ubisoft has studios all over the world and Thrustmaster is based in Oregon I believe. They are also not making exclusives on the PS4 so they can show their games at Gamescom at one of the other conferences.
So with Sony's only European conference at PGW, it makes sense that both Wild and Quantic's new IP would appear there, as they are exclusives and wouldn't appear at somebody else's conference.
I guffawed.
anexanhume
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Poor timing, unfortunately.
It's too soon after E3 this year.
Perhaps next year they'll be back.
Cereal Enthusiast
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E3: mostly American Developers.
Paris: Europpean Dev'
TGS: Japanese Dev'
PSX: American Dev' (6 months between E3 and this, they should have new things to show).
6 weeks margin between E3 and Gamescon.. even if they held a presser at Gamescon, it will just be a repeat of E3 announcements.. I see no point in that..
Lionel Richie
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Portugeezer
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You are thinking too much about them being behind Sony in sales, but in the end they will look to make money; bundling Halo for free would be a waste IMO as it's a system seller in its own right.
I don't think PS4 price will be as low as $300 officially, it will be $350 at the lowest, and yeah a Star Wars bundle might happen, Star Wars fever will be high for those months which might help, but it's not exclusive to PS4.
The Mad Draklor
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E3 and Gamescom this year are extremely close. No point in repeating the same announcements.
Graphics Horse
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People are missing the fact that the promise of a gamescom conference would be a perfect antidote to Shenmue and Team Ico fan's post E3 depression.
Orochi, it's Halo, Halo is MS's cash cow. They will not make a halo bundle $299. They put up the Limited Edition Halo 5 game for $250, halo fans bought it and they didn't even know what's in it or even the cover art. They will try to get as much money from the Halo crowd come Christmas. Last Christmas, even with the massive price drops, they charged between $450-$499 for Call of Duty:AW edition consoles.
DagnastyEp
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If Sony ends up not having many big AAA exclusive games for this fall (compared to MS), then a show in October will be a good way to keep that PS4 momentum going into the winter.
That's a good point.
I just don't see any sort of price drop on PS4 in 2015, and if there is, I doubt it will be $100. Sony is outselling XB1 everywhere, while being equal to or more expensive. I would think to Sony (as a company) the profit margin of a PS4 at $399 outweighs the higher sales (revenue) from a price drop, at least until next year. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see a 2TB PS4 in the same form factor announced this year, at E3 or perhaps this Paris show.
At that time of the year, October 27th to December 6th is like an eternity
I expect most of the Holiday - impacting announcmeents to be made during E3, TGS being generally reserved for the Asia - centric announcements.
Now this being said, with Paris Expo being just 4 weeks before Black Firday ...
Dunno. Can't really imaigne them doing major NA market impacting annoucements in a Paris Show. Maybe they'd wait until then for a major price cut (global) for maximum Holiday effect?
That's a good point.
I just don't see any sort of price drop on PS4 in 2015, and if there is, I doubt it will be $100. Sony is outselling XB1 everywhere, while being equal to or more expensive. I would think to Sony (as a company) the profit margin of a PS4 at $399 outweighs the higher sales (revenue) from a price drop, at least until next year. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see a 2TB PS4 in the same form factor announced this year, at E3 or perhaps this Paris show.
Not if both are announced at E3. Who would need Gamescom then?
It's time to end this joke since it's clearly gone too far, and officially bring back Gamescom. People's hearts are being hurt, and it's getting out of control already.
Also, going to print out this picture, and hang it in the office. If only someone could do one of Phil Spencer so I can hang it right next to it.
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It's not you, it's me.
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Soultaker0220
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I rather liked last year's TGS. Between Dragon Quest Heroes, Persona 5's PS4 announcement, God Eater 2: Rage Burst, the next Ys, a couple of new Compile Heart games, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Senran Kagura, etc. I thought there were a lot of cool announcements.
But to each their own, of course! I'm big on Japanese games, as some might know.
Reckless Onion
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This just makes me more hyped for e3.
Yea, these are pretty fair points.
I suppose I just don't know how receptive gamers will be of Halo 5 following H4 and MCC.
But as you said, it's MS's number 1 cash cow and they will go all out to squeeze as much money as possible from the Halo fan-base during the holiday season.
Steverulez
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I can understand why Sony would skip Gamescom conference really. Its good they've got something planned for October (Paris Games week?) and then PSX is in December again I think?
Not a problem for them, I suspect E3 and Gamescom won't be so close again next year. I think reflects more on the poor planning of the two events being two weeks closer this year than it does anything about Sony, might be a bit too much to have so much fresh content.
Not a problem for them, I suspect E3 and Gamescom won't be so close again next year. I think reflects more on the poor planning of the two events being two weeks closer this year than it does anything about Sony, might be a bit too much to have so much fresh content.
To be honest I thought they were pretty close to each other last year too. Not that I complained, of course.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Stinks for those going that were probably looking forward to it, but they will still be there on the floor.
Makes sense why they wouldn't want to focus on it though as it is so close to E3.
Makes sense why they wouldn't want to focus on it though as it is so close to E3.
Rndm
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Upset about this.
And what about the "gamescom is a place to focus on European devs"? Gamer week or whatever that event in Paris is called is.. irrelevant to the industry. gamescom is at least a huge event with a lot of attention and I did always appreciate that it gave quite a few (smaller) European devs to present their games at a big stage during a big week. That's gone then, at least the press event part.
And what about the "gamescom is a place to focus on European devs"? Gamer week or whatever that event in Paris is called is.. irrelevant to the industry. gamescom is at least a huge event with a lot of attention and I did always appreciate that it gave quite a few (smaller) European devs to present their games at a big stage during a big week. That's gone then, at least the press event part.
Cereal Enthusiast
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It was irrelevant, it's not anymore. And PGW has 275.000 visitors every year, it's a huge event in Paris.
Imo you can bank on a price drop, $50 minimum and likely to be $100.
Not only did Sony miss their forecast on PS4 sales last FY (14.8m instead of 15m), but they are predicting an increase in sales for current FY (16m) and a general income down by 8.1bY for the division afaik, and the $399 market is likely going to be tapped out by summer '15 (we are already down YoY on PS4 sales for the past quarter).
This all points to a price drop, with on top of that a $299 XB1 bundle being all but guaranteed during the Holidays (imo it's going to be a Tomb Raider one, including both Rise and the first game).
Steverulez
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Well they're usually pretty close, only so much time apart when one is in June and the other August but anyway, as I said I don't think its a big deal. They'll have a good E3 (I assume) and I'm sure they will have some stuff at Gamescom then wait for Paris.
I actually never heard of the PSX show (and Paris), how is it compared to e3 and gamescom?
That's essentially what they're doing in PGW genuis.
You think Gamescon was always a thing ? lmao...
Sony first party is under delivering this generation, and I've seen nothing to indicate it's fixing the problems. This doesn't help matters, nor give any confidence things are changing being the scenes.
Hopefully the professed focus on first party development that MS is touting comes to fruition. At this point I think they're the only ones who can save this generation from #NOGAMES.
no, he said only that it is not dead
I mean it's not like they are not going to be at GC at all. They haven't said any plans about not being at the showfloor have they? That would be bad. GC has been more enjoyable than their last 2 E3'ss imo but maybe this also means a bigger focus on E3 this year with more space between the next conferences?
We will see given last year was screamride being the only new announcement iirc apart from Tomb raider deal.
In the other hand
We will see given last year was screamride being the only new announcement iirc apart from Tomb raider deal.
pixelation
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They better beef-up their E3 press conference then (with first party content).
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