It's hard to keep a secret when you plaster it 50ft high up the side of a hotel in downtown L.A., but it would seem this is Sony's strategy. Even before E3 has kicked off Sony went all-in with a giant billboard for God of War, a hulking brute of an advert that, literally, casts a shadow over E3. In one ballsy move Sony has set the tone for its conference… games, games, and more games.
But it’s also shown its weakness, when you have too many AAA games (nine should make the show, with GT Sport, Days Gone and Spider-Man PS4 elbowing into God of War) it can be hard to find room for a shock surprise that will get the crowd roaring.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
Could really care less about them "winning" E3, but I expect a good damn show regardless. I've got my fingers crossed on a couple things, that's for sure!
Nope, just the release dates of gt sports, days gone spider gow tlou2 knack 2 and so on
No they don't. Sony has shown enough and if they wanna show something new, then i'm fine with it. All I want is gameplay from the one's shown last year with release dates. MS is the one who has to show something "New" for me to be excited since they haven't released any brand new IP's all year.
I'm looking forward to the unannounced games.
Sucker Punch new ip
From soft new ip
And more.
No Sony doesnt need a huge surprise. There will be huge surprises though as usual.