Do you think they will become more communicative next year?
Why?
Some of you are obsessed with this shit and more evidence points to that being more negative then positive.
So trying to stack years and years worth of development into 1 showcase, forcing developers to literally halt development to make preview and event builds, showing shit waaaaay too early before other systems have been put in causing folks to just bitch about downgrades or worse, exaggerate what they felt the game was "suppose" be based on years of over analyzing a trailer...
We saw that with Witcher 3, CP2077 and granted a lot of that was CDPR's own fault, but do some of you not see how theses early ass announcements can have a more negative effect then positive on development?
Even how the system was revealed. Sony didn't need to try to rush and have some PS5 reveal on top of several hundred games also being revealed at some E3 event.
They showed a controller online, put out an article on WIRED and they were they only things folks where talking about for weeks, they were trending on google as the top search and owned the media cycle....
That might make you upset that you didn't get some MASSIVE HUGE event or some shit with hundreds of games announced, but the goal of how they are marketing now is to be heard, to own the media cycle, to show shit when its ready and relevant. There is more dangers to this fucking dog pile reveal during a few days then many realize and this desperation of wanting to know years and years in advance is silly.
Until then...no one is fucking avoiding Spiderman 2 cause you didn't get a trailer this year bud, no one is NOT BUYING some big AAA title all cause they didn't hear about it 5 years ago or something weird like that. Gamers care when close, relevant and in a form that they can understand the concept of the game.
The records they have recently broken with those games literally proves 99.9% actually don't give a shit. They care about the quality of the title when it gets hear, the quality of the hardware when it gets here. So I do think you'll hear them say more next year, but after releases. After you get a big release, they reveal another title, release...reveal and so on. I don't buy that someone is dying over this shit or basing if literally buying games based on this.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Agreed. Even with how Ubisoft has shown titles over the years, they seem to only want to show their big AAA stuff when its really near release and you can see gameplay, the fact that we just got titles, code names of the other AC titles show they don't have a interest in doing these huge blow out reveals of titles even if they are in development, they'd rather give you a name and move on as they wish to avoid a situation like Watchdogs 1 and Division 1 reveal.
Even with Nintendo, they have nothing to gain telling folks years ahead when something is coming knowing that things change in development. So I believe the shotgun marketing approach for gaming will continue and how social media is, that is going to method of reveal for games going forward.