Sony: We will show CoD and Assassin’s Creed Vita “when the time is right"

"Sony’s press conference at this year’s E3 was lacking one vital thing – PS Vita games. They managed to show a logo for Call of Duty: Declassified and a nifty little trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, but we never got to see how those games actually look like when running on the system."

[Lior]

So E3 the worlds biggest gaming expo wasn't the right time to show some of the vitas biggest titles?

[WildArmed]

Well with the mixed receptions of First Person shooters on Vita, I don't blame them waiting for something solid to show before going through w/ CoD:Vita.

On the other hand, I can't see them going wrong w/ AC:V. As much as I don't really like touch interface, I think it might work really well w/ AC:V. Get rid of menu buttons and have all buttons do something instead. You need to switch weapon? hit a single button and then use the touch screen to navigate.

Maybe they aren't too far into the development of either games?

[frelyler]

Right, as in they were not ready yet. Why is that so hard to understand? Just because one of the largest expos is coming up does not mean all dead lines will be met. Would you rather see crappy footage of an unfinished product and pan it, or wait and see something the developers are truly ready to show? Not to mention Ubisoft is not Sony, they run their own ship. If images were shown people would just dismiss it and call the Vita a failure based on unfinished work. Sony is smart and knew most people would adopt that attitude, so they took the lesser evil and just let people know it was coming. Either way Sony can't catch a break from the gaming public and we would see an article about how crappy this new COD looked had they shown it. Got to love the media and "gamers."

[SSKILLZ]

has nothing to do with E3, their just not ready to show progress at the moment.

[GodHandDee]

I'm pretty certain Gamescom is the biggest gaming expo now.

[Jazz4108]

When 2 out of 3 big players are skipping gamescom I would say they are not the biggest gaming show unless your counting people since the show is open to the public.

[ddurand1]

thats exactly why gamescom is the best place to unveil vita titles.

There will be a serious amount of random people there that arent ready or willing to buy a vita yet. If you put vitas out on display with COD on them, you better believe there would be people lining up to play.

they dont need to market vita at E3 to gamers, they need the dare I say casual market to play these systems and see how awesome they are.
let the other people skip it.

[DiRtY]

TGS for Western games sounds like a brilliant idea!

[lodossrage]

Ever think that MAYBE those games simply weren't ready yet?

"When the time is right" doesn't have to mean any particular event. It could simply mean when they're presentable.

[DiRtY]

That would be even worse since these games should be the new hotness on the Vita this year.

Halo 4, TLoU, Resident Evil 6 are not ready either (gold status) and they were shown at E3.

[lodossrage]

So? Those games are made by different companies. They have no control over what is "presentable" and what's not.

Activision and Ubisoft's games NOT being presentable have NO bearing on Sony, Microsoft or Capcom's games being ready.

Are you saying they should have shown potentially lackluster videos just to appease fans, just for them to turn around and whine "that looked like crap?"

[RustedMan]

the problem is, is that it was said with in a "wink wink nudge nudge" sort of way. as if they are presentable, and we brilliant gamers are supposed to crack their debut.

[Sanquine90]

OMG:D WHY SONY? WHY? :(

[colonel179]

Yeah, just like Resident Evil for PSP... OH wait, it was never released!

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

Must mean Gamescom then.

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

OMG disagree for guessing. WOW !!! just unbelievable.

[Cryptcuzz]

Don't worry, I agree with you to even it out, because I too believe it could be shown at Gamescom.

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

I disagree with these random disagrees on my comments for guessing.

[KonaBro]

Sounds like....
Sony is planning on having their own event later on this year to show off more games.

[PersonaCat]

Orrr it could mean that these games aren't ready to be viewed yet. As in they aren't that far along.

EDIT: Oh wow, just realized this is a gamingbolt article. Nothing to see here, move along.

[Tony-A]

I hope the "time is right" around mid-August, during Gamescom..

[kevnb]

E3 really isn't that important, it has 0 mainstream relevance.

[Ezio-Auditore00]

I think what they mean is when the game looks good enough to show they will show it so i believe the right time is gamescom

[metroid32]

New Original Zelda and Monster Hunter 4 are 2 massive 3DS games in development,not to mention Lego city and Smash bros 3ds,Resident evil Downfall 3D as well wow 3DS this year is rocking and ill be playing all these titles on XL not to mention every1 that has played on it says it makes the graphics better. PES13 3DS will be another big games to play on 3DS this year i will be all over it.

[bothebo]

I seriously doubt the quality of MH4, RE: Downfall, and PES 2013 on such a piece of crap. I could draw images that are more detailed than what the 3DS can do.

As for your first parties, good for you. It's the only thing that gives Ninny any legitimacy.