Paris Games Week 2015 Expecting Record Number of Attendees

Paris Games Week organiser SELL announced on Tuesday that it is expecting a record-breaking attendance for this year’s gaming convention.

[JMaine518]

Can't wait!!!!

[LaFleur]

Agreed. Especially looking forward to Sony's conference!

[MrSec84]

IMO you only have to look at Sony's E3 and TGS to gauge the level of potential Paris and PSX could have this year.

At E3 Sony brought 3 entirely new AAA IPs, Horizon, Dreams and RIGS, along with bringing The Last Guardian back out of the shadows.
At TGS there was Gravity Rush 2, Ni-Oh (a game that was basically vaporware for years), Yakuza 6 and King of Fighters 14.

We already know that Media Molecule will be doing a big showing for Dreams, but there's also the likelihood that Guerrilla will have new information and footage for RIGS and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Sony London hasn't released a major AAA game since The Getaway in 2004 on PS2, yet they're still the second biggest studio Sony has.
IMO they could very well show off a bunch of new PS4 games, likely some VR stuff too, though I think Sony will do what they did with RIGS and just show a small amount of footage on stage.
Maybe we've already kinda seen London's VR game and it's actually going to be connected to The Getaway.

The Getaway and Eight Days on PS3 were never canceled, only placed on hold in a similar fashion to The Last Guardian, so maybe both are PS4 games now and they were moved over to PS4 when proper hardware was made available to worldwide studios.

Quantic Dream are heavily rumored to be showing up, their game has been in development on PS4 for a good 3 years already.

With it's heavy appeal in Europe Paris could be where Gran Turismo for PS4 finally gets officially unveiled and announced.

WiLD, Rime, Alienation, Shadow of the Beast and many other smaller studio releases could be shown, with new gameplay and release dates being given out.

Paris Games Week could be utterly phenomenal!!!!!

[ValKilmer]

This seems like it's becoming the new Gamescom.

[ABizzel1]

It should to be honest. Where do you think most tourist / families would want to go?

1. Honey let's go to Germany.....I have a Game Conference?

-_-

2. Honey let's go to Paris....I have a.....

DID YOU SAY PARIS, oh babe I love you so much......runs to call friends.....OMG he's taken me to Paris, I know he's sweet and I'm so lucky.

Paris is just simply a more internationally known city, and it's easier on families.

[Germany7]

Now i want a game conference in Amsterdam.

[HeartlessGamer]

Can't wait for Paris Games Week

[Lucreto]

Paris Games Week is the second biggest show in Europe but it never got much attention until Sony decided to move the conference there this year. Frankly I never heard of it until Sony mentioned it.

Can't wait for the conference, Media Molecule, Quantic Dream and possibly Ubisoft with the new Far Cry.

[Majin-vegeta]

*Smacks head*

How could you forget Horizon?

[Lucreto]

How COULD I forget Horizon.

*Smacks self*

[MasterCornholio]

I'm pretty sure Sony is going to have a big presence there.

[triple_c]

Not only will they have a big presence there, they will have the show all to themselves. They let Microsoft have Gamescom and let them get their conference out of the way so they can have PGS all to themselves. Also, this PGS event takes place right around the holidays. Having so much good PlayStation news come out around the holidays could sway a lot of peoples purchasing decision.

What Sony did was pretty smart.

[Spectre_StatusN7]

Gran Tursimo 7!!!

[RAM0N]

New ips, gt7,sfv,horizon,dreams and uncharted 4

[RAM0N]

And more

[FoxyGotGame]

It's great that barely a few months goes by before another Game Event .....

Paris Games Week should throw up some awesome surprises and great expected announcements. Following 2 months later PSX 2015, where I feel Sony will showcase their top secret work. This Gen I am glad Sony is not hyping/announcing titles years in advance like last.

Which could make things that much more excting "IMO" /

[Crashbandicoot77]

And then PSX in December

[XanderZane]

Way too many conferences in such a short time span. There was Gamescom, TGS, Hong Kong event, PAX event, another event I can't remember the location, M$ Device Event today, Paris Event and Sony's own even in Dec. Like 7-8 events in less then 6 months. It's crazy.

[GrubsterBeater]

"Way too many conferences in such a short time span."

You make it sound like having conferences full of gaming news is a bad thing. I bet if it was XBox having all these conferences, you would hear about how XBox has the upper hand now, and XBox is making the right move by having all these conferences.

First it's all doom and gloom because Sony didn't have a conference at Gamescom, and now they are having TOO many conferences...

If Sony keeps going the way they have been, showing many new exclusives and other amazing games, then Sony can have as many conferences as they want to. I get super excited for every conference, knowing that I'm gonna see new games for PlayStation, or just new trailers for games I already knew about.

[FoxyGotGame]

"Too many conferences"?

Maybe because some Companies have more to show than others. Interesting that now the nearest competitor has had all of its game conferences ...there are now too many LOL :P

Don't worry, there's plenty of Salt 'n Vinegar to go around /

[XanderZane]

It's too many conferences no matter who's having them. Microsoft has been to just as many conference as Sony. They were at the Gamescom, PAX, SDCC and Hong Kong conferences without Sony. E3, GamesCom and TGS are the BIG conferences. Sony/Microsoft did E3. Microsoft did Gamescom and Sony did TGS. All the other conferences are just fillers. Three conferences in 6 months is fine. 7-8 conferences in 6 months it just too many. Both Micorosft and Sony showed pretty much everything at the BIG conferences. I'm not expecting much at these year-end conferences.

[GrubsterBeater]

@Xander

You're not expecting much at the end of the year conferences because you own an XBox One and not a PS4... I'm sure we will all be excited in your stead.

Just enjoy your salt n' vinegar chips while we enjoy the game announcements.

[MasterCornholio]

Its not too many conferences if Sony has the content to support those conferences.

Also I find it funny how you are claiming that the conferences are to close to each other. However many people (like you) didn't complain about E3 and Gamescom being less than a month away from each other.

Ironic isnt it?

I told people this would happen after they bashed Sony like crazy for not having a Gamescom conference.

I guess you could call this karma.

[TWB]

Understandable, I hadnt even heard of Paris Games Week before Sony decided to attend.

[MasterCornholio]

Well trends can change. PGW could become extremely popular if Sony has a great showing there.

Maybe thats what they want?