PlayStation Experience: Sony’s experimental mini-E3 was a resounding success

By holding a smaller scale E3-like event focused on all things PlayStation, Sony was able to control their messaging leading into the holiday season more closely than every before, and also steal much of the momentum Microsoft’s Xbox One has built up over the last few month.

[pat_11_5]

I went in with low expectations, so perhaps that's why I was so impressed. I really do see events like this becoming the future of the industry though.

[morganfell]

My expectations were not low and I was still impressed. I actually prefer this much less formal atmosphere over events such as E3 and Gamescom. Hopefully we will see more of these events. And the less catering to the so called and worthless press, the better.

[darthv72]

Sony could do this on an annual basis. Like when MS would have their annual "X" events. Ms hasnt had one of those for a few years so who knows.

Next year I can see an Sony PS Experience 2015 and a MS X15. not sure what Nintendo would do (if they had their own event).

[theshonen8899]

@darthv72 Maybe they could do something crazy like putting a video directly online about their games. They could call it "Nintendo Direct."

[darthv72]

@theshonen... the ND are more limited in scope. Sometimes they reveal new projects but i see them as more of a reiteration of what is already known to be in the works.

and they are very scripted and controlled unlike a live event where anything could happen. but you are right...nintendo does at least have their own semi regular show online.

[OB1Biker]

What's impressive is it was definitly a success and they still got plenty under wraps for E3 and other events

[badz149]

it was a success until SE announced FFVII port for the PS4! what a huge let down!

[XanderZane]

I agree that we might see more of these events from Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo in the future, especially if they are successful. I don't think this show stole any of the momentum from Nintendo or Microsoft. I have a feel M$ will keep the XB1 at $350 after the 1st week of January. Nintendo will most likely drop their price at the E3. Sales are going to drop for all 3 consoles after January though. That's normal. As for the Sony Experience, only a couple of surprises like Drawn To Death, Human Element, Yakuza 5 and Day of the Tenacle remastered. Uncharted 4, Bloodborne and SFV were all good. Wasn't completely blown away by the keynote though. Thought way to many Indies were shown and not enough titles we really wanted to see, like Last Guardian, GT7, Crash Bandicoot, Jax & Daxter or a Uncharter Remastered Trilgy.

[miyamoto]

Glad PSX is an annual event now. I just wish they do this before Black Friday though.

[tastas21]

Lol how liong until the Nintendo Expreinrece lol

[C_Ali88]

Ummm try 2 years ago.... http://www.ausgamers.com/ne...

nice try though!

[KarmaV12]

Nice :)

[tastas21]

lol dat event sounds like it's for nintenderps and no one else3 ha.

[C_Ali88]

Okay? Point still stands they did it first...

[Relientk77]

I really liked it, wish I was there though to get all the PS Exp goodie bags, playing cards, and play the games

[pat_11_5]

The swag, other than the cool card, really wasn't great, at least that's what I was told. I didn't pick mine up.

[SmokingMonkey]

PSex- loved it.

Annually going to watch it, how brilliant is it to have a show begging in December right before Holiday madness?

[C_Ali88]

It was terribly boring.... Don't be delusional!

[Rimeskeem]

dont be a troll

[Lulz_Boat]

ohh, hello mr xbot.

[PaleMoonDeath]

"Me no like games"

Why are you here bruh?

[MasterCornholio]

That's because you were expecting TV TV TV Sports Sports Sports.

I'm sorry that Sony disappointed you by bombarding us with games.

Maybe you should post on a site that provides news for TV\Movie watchers. I heard that Rotten Tomatoes is a good place to start.

[slutface]

I wish they did it before black Friday .... To ward off competitors sales. Imagine if they broke the news about SFV before black Friday ? Sony would have broke the internet.

[hotbeef]

Bummed I missed going. Hopefully next year

[KevWriter]

Me too. Hopefully they have it in Vegas each year, since I'm just a short drive away.

[DigitalRaptor]

It was great. So much diversity on show.

If you went in with NeoGAF expectations it's likely you were very disappointed. If you went in with low expectations, it was a fabulous showing. I was expecting The Last Guardian and Guerrilla's new IP announcement, and I was still impressed overall. If you were there, you got to play TONS of great looking upcoming games.

We found out that Uncharted 4 looks almost as good as we thought it would in ALPHA build.

The Order: 1886 doesn't have bad gameplay as the crusaders have been trashing it for, and has actually received loads of positive impressions.

No Man's Sky continues to be a cryptic marvel. 65daysofstatic are doing the OST.

Until Dawn is coming in summer, and plays like Heavy Rain with more choices, which is great.

Street Fighter V is a permanent console exclusive and has cross-platform play with PC which has been long-requested for the series. We also found out that Capcom's partnership with Sony is "just beginning".

A new God of War is in production for PS4.

PS4 has tons of diversity in 2015 and beyond, and that #buildingthelist from Gio Corsi was a successful venture, and that we can only expect good things from realistic fan requests in the future.

I think repeating this event every year would do great things for the conversation between PlayStation and its fans.

[PrinceOfAllSaiyans]

Yeah the people on GAF where having way too unrealistic expectations they were expecting Crash Bandicoot, The Last Guardian, GT7, Getaway 3, and Agent.

But now I see they're all positive about the outcome and I'm glad The Order 1886 is getting positive reception now.

[Skankinruby]

It was a ton of fun, but honestly that's because my and my buddy won free tickets and I live in socal so vegas is less than a four hour drive. But if we paid big bucks it would have been a tad disappointing. The until dawn, bloodbourne, and the order hands on demos were great as well as the goodie bags, definitely would try to go if they did it again.

[SmokingMonkey]

Oh yea

FREE

Plants Vs Zombies Garden warfare PS4

Mirrors Edge PS3

Need for Speed Most Wanted Vita

How can ANYONE be upset?

You would have to literally hate Playst....oh wait, now I see what's happening.

[C_Ali88]

No you don't see whats going on here until you take off those Sony shaded glass lenses you're looking through, Nobody hates Sony (at least I don't, have multiple ps4's) It just wasn't an "AMAZING" show, why does it bother you some may have not been wowed by it? Is it so hard to understand that it didn't cause me any excitement? why does that automatically mean i hate Sony? I own their console don't I? You liking everything they do makes you fanboy yes, yes it does sir! you have no objectivity it was a boring show with ALOT of trailers which equates to it being an okay but not great experience.

[SmokingMonkey]

I never liked Gran Turismo. (or racing for that matter)

Never liked Ratchet & Clank either.

I consider myself a Big Sony supporter since the 80's. Used to love Ninty, and dfropped Xbox after the 1st one.

Name another video game show that was as good or better than that?

Did you get free games?

I imagine you were extremely soured by that FF7 "reveal"

I was AMAZED at No Man's Sky, Uncharted Gameplay

OMG at that The Order Gameplay!

The Forest was amazing...

Until Dawn had the crowd going...

Ea gave away free games....

should I go on?

[OUROSMAG]

PSX was great, far too many jaded "gamers" claiming it was garbage or disappointing.

[aceitman]

I went and it was packed and it was greeeeeeeat

[XanderZane]

It was about as good as Sony's E3. Uncharted 4 did look great and so did Bloodborne. Was nice to see a new Kings Quest and Drawn to Death was a pleasant surprised. Still Sony showed more indies, remastered or older games coming to PS4 and Vita then anything else at this show. No Man's Sky was pretty much the same as we saw it at the E3. There was a new trailer, but it pretty much showed the same thing. Fly to a planet, get out and walk around, jump back into the ship and fly away. What else can you do on these planets? Can you fight, build stations, farm materials and have space battles? How come we never see the pilots? The only real megaton was SFV being console exclusive. This is good for Sony/PS4, but bad for Capcom and the other millions of fans who would have played it on the XB1, PS3 and XBox 360. Capcom loses here in the end. The event was good, but it didn't blow anyone away. No Last Guardian, GT7, Deep Down, God of War, Rime or Helldivers, which fans were looking for. Guess we'll have to wait until E3 for all of that.

[Ethereal]

Helldivers was at the show and I was able to get a hands on. It was amazing. Difficult and requires great teamwork. Had a great time with what I played.

[XanderZane]

Did they have any info on a release date? Doesn't seem like it'll make it out this year. I'm dying to play that game and Rime. I wonder why they didn't show these games at the event.

[Ethereal]

I played with one of the developers and he said that the game should have released sooner but after the team played a good deal of Destiny they wanted to add a progression system to the game. Hence why we haven't seen it in some time. He said early 2015.

[slutface]

who wanna carpool from los angeles next year? hehehe

[Nerdmaster]

I don't know, maybe it's because I don't really like Sony consoles, but I didn't see anything surprising or that justifies having this event instead of just releasing the videos on the internet. I mean, for people who like to play demos and could be there it probably was worth it, but it's not my case.

[Gore-Content]

Oh, yes it was. 2014 ended with a bang thanks to PSX!

[Xavior_Reigns]

It was pretty good, watched it last night and for hopefully an annual showing, it was solid. Next year and so forth should definitely kill it though, so looking forward to the "winter PS E3." SE should never be allowed on stage however... the bastards. Its amazing how many games are wanted by PS fans but because of greedy publishing companies, they won't happen even though they'll sell huge.

[Predaking77]

I got to say that I enjoyed it more than E3 because Sony was not in a rush like on E3. It was their event and with the fans, not just the press. I also admire that Sony and their community/fans give indies the respect they deserve.

PlayStation Experience success marked the trend and Microsoft and Nintendo will follow Sony's steps.

What a way to end this amazing year and to celebrate the dominance of the PS4 through all 2014.

[urwifeminder]

Did not make the news never heard anything about it except here keep wasting that cash .

[qwerty676]

i went into it with low expectations and it did just that,

none of the games really appealed to me except bloodborne, bunch of niche games and indies that ill never play

and to be honest the uncharted gameplay reveal i actually thought it would look better, granted its still a year away and im still interested to see how well the final build turns out.

[WickedLester]

I really enjoyed it!

[JMyers]

There were so many announcements. So many many games... the variety is astounding, Tripple A as well as some top notch Indies.

I can't see how anyone can bash this event.