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Why Sony Didn’t Show The PS4 Console | TheSixthAxis

TSA: "Public opinion is critical, of course, and Sony’s stock fall around the presentation indicates that there’s some grounding to the debate. But imagine if Sony had made a massive deal of the unit casing itself and then picture what today’s press clippings would be about – would anyone be talking about the Share button? Or the Gaikai streaming?"

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ShugaCane4081d ago

I was more interested in what was inside the console than how it looked like anyway. Plus, I think this is a good marketing decision since it triggered even more hype and expectations.

negative4081d ago

Oh come on. All of those trailers could have been running on a high end PC for all we know. The product should have been showcased.

And there should have been more GAMEPLAY!!!!

madpuppy4081d ago

I think it was a great Idea to not show the console, also, I think it was a great idea that there was no fat at this conference, No music or movie stars. Just a focus on games and hardware.

I hope that MS follows suit and has a conference without all the fat ( MS just loves flashing lights in your eyes) I just have a bad feeling that we might just see "circ de soleil" flying around or "the blue man group" with its flashing lights and banging drums. Justin beiber playing a kenect game, while they give out hand mirrors to everyone in the audience to be told on stage to look at them at the same time while emotional music plays and the person on stage makes some sweeping, emotional speech that "YOU" are the star here.

PLEASE, MS, just the facts, specs and new services, bring out the developers to talk about their next-gen games and wrap it up.

cleverusername4081d ago (Edited 4081d ago )

What stock fall? (And don't post a link to a false article)

KwietStorm_BLM4081d ago

Apparently in Japan, their stock fell a whopping 1% early into the conference, but rose higher than where it started after it was done. But, of course since the drop is a great thing to exploit in the net, that's where we're at right now.

smashcrashbash4081d ago

It's another lie people are cooking up. It was a slight drop by 1% and then it leaped right back up afterwards and people claim it plummeted.Nothing but a lie from the haters. Sony showed us what was inside the console. The games, the controller, the specs etc. I am not sure what is everyone's problem with not showing in the console case.They are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill to satisfy themselves.Sony made the PS4 known and said their goals and plans and showed how much support they had and people are still trying to play it down.They didn't waste anytime and got down to business.They have several months to show the physical console.Who gives a $hit if we don't know what it looks like right now? What difference does it make?

jmc88884081d ago (Edited 4081d ago )

They did? Must of missed that.

They showed us what WOULD be inside the console.

Then proceeded to show us PC games running on PC hardware.

Killzone MIGHT have been a PS4 devkit production. Then that other game with the

The problem is that you say they didn't show the case.

No, they didn't show the case, nor showcase what was inside the case.

They had a PC running those things. Thus we've not seen how the outside looks (some people care because of space) and we haven't see what the INSIDES can ACTUALLY do.

We saw a PC, that they said was what is comparable, and what the PS4 game devs, will try to 'target'.

So you merely THINK we've been shown more than what we've been shown.

It's alot more than just the 'look' of the console.

It's the actual INSIDES that we have yet to see. Just a spec sheet stating what the insides will be.

Kurisu4081d ago

Of course I want to know what the console looks like to a certain extent. I mean you have to look at it for a solid few years next to your tv and you don't want it to be an eye sore. However for me its all about the games and the services and so far so good. I'm sure there's still plenty to come. Looking forward for a price point and a release date.

Jadedz4081d ago

The gaming media tore them apart.

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy855h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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