Sony Fails to Score an E3 Hattrick, But Still Brings the Best Games

Push Square: "And just like that, another slew of E3 press conferences have come and gone. Sony's own show ended just a couple of hours ago, but what did we think of it? As is tradition, we've got editors Sammy Barker and Robert Ramsey together in order to share their thoughts, both positive and negative, on the PlayStation maker's most recent event."

[Alexious]

Right on. Best games but few dates

[Makish]

only game i wanted to play was days gone , everything else was sequels and remasters ,cgi trailer , and a spiderman game that looks like every other spidey game

[Bladesfist]

Spiderman might be good. I will wait for reviews but the traversal looked like loads of fun. Cant say im excited for days gone at all. God of war was the best thing shown for me (I've played 1 and 2 but not 3 and the one after it so am interested in returning to it)

[mikeslemonade]

lol Days Gone is clearly going to be a flop.

The SotC remake is all you need. Sony has impressed for 4 straight years.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

"Spiderman game that looks like every other Spidey game"....yeah sure ok...

[Neonridr]

@mikeslemonade - so we should all just be excited about a re-release? Seems reasonable..

[Ron_Danger]

I think a lot of people missed all of the announcements they made during the pre-show.

[Makish]

the last 2 spiderman games had arkham like fighting and QTE , so yes it played like the past 2 spiderman games , but with updated graphics , theres only been 1 good spidey game in the past 10 years and it was spiderman : shattered dimension

[bouzebbal]

Games were there.. Blockbusters as well !!!
No denying ps4 owners have invested in the right system !

[darthv72]

At least we know what to expect for the ps5. Remakes, remasters and reboots of games like horizon, days gone, last of us and especially last guardian.

Spiderman was cool and very inspired by batman arkham city. God of war looks nice too. Detroit is another interesting game too.

[The 10th Rider]

I sort of agree here.

Microsoft had Anthem and Metro, both of which were mind blowing, but multiplatform.

Sony had Spiderman and God of War, which are the best exclusives of E3 so far, I'd say.

It was great to see release dates for so many of the big games at Microsoft's conference. Disappointing to see almost none at Sony's.

I typed up all of the announcements of each conference as they were happening, and I've gotta say they were about equal. Microsoft showed much better multiplatform games and more games in general, but a lot of them were indies. Sony showed better exclusives and some new IPs, but the new IPs were all VR. Neither company brought out a single new AAA IP. Both relied heavily on what we already knew about. Neither company spent much time talking.

I'd say Sony had the edge if you're interested in VR, but Microsoft had the edge if you're interested in 4K gaming. Both played it pretty safe this year.

[Doabarrelroll]

Clearly you didnt see the 2018 appear at the end of the games for everything except days gone.

[The 10th Rider]

That's a year, not a date.

[joab777]

I guess , but the point is that these are the games that are coming soon. We get mad B/C they show us distant games, and they give us a straight hour of many of the industries most anticipated games, and we we want more lol!

No one impresses me.more than Sony right now! They are doing almost everything right!

[The 10th Rider]

Well, we don't really know how soon. They barely showed solid release dates for anything. People were expecting Spiderman, Days Gone, Detroit Become Human, or God of War to hit this year . . . But at best a couple got release windows, and not even release windows this year.

[thatguyhayat]

I was sliightly dissappointed with no new IP announcement but at atleast we have TGS and PSX to wait for now

[Gardenia]

Bloodborne 2 maybe?

[FernDiggidy]

hopefully a sucker punch game as well! Would love an infamous second son sequel.

[Bladesfist]

Ubisoft brought the best and most diverse set of games in my opinion.

Beyond good and evil 2s cinematic trailer and Mario rabbits got both me and the crowd more excited than anything at Sony's conference. Ubisoft also had more variety in their titles. Way too many cinematic movie games from Sony. It was nice to see open world, naval combat, tactics games.

As for cinematic movie games I'm more excited by the brother's developers' new title. I'm hoping the co-operative storytelling will be really new and fresh.

[bigevil1x]

I was OK until I seen one of the assassins creed Editions for 800$... you think they would learn from for honor

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[Bladesfist]

That doesn't really affect me in the slightest though. It's just a marketing tool. I just thought Mario rabbits and beyond good and evil had more charm and flare than most of what we saw at E3 this year. They seem like typical games focused entirely on gameplay. Although it is hard to tell with bge2, that's the feeling the trailer gave me.

[Fishermenofwar]

I want Skull and Bones NOW!!!!

[FITSniper]

Go play Black Flag then. Looked practically identical. Very little new there to me.

[Discobastrd]

Not sure why youre getting down votes for this. I'd agree in terms of diversity. And STARLINK for Switch!? Loads of fun! I'm really hoping thats good.

I love a quality cinematic game as much as the next guy but I need diversity. So many apocalyptic games! Getting a bit drab. Detroit at least was more focused on the issues AI may bring in the near future! :)

[Bladesfist]

Agreed. It looks like it's up to third parties and indie devs to push forward with innovating and fresh new experiences. Can't really blame the first parties for playing it safe. They have a smaller market by nature and need to be as mass appealing as possible to attract more new gamers to the platform.

[BEASELY]

I think everyone was tired by the end of the day, though. That crowd looked exaughsted and had been cheering for games all day.

[Bladesfist]

That's a good point. The conference was pretty late.

[Petebloodyonion]

The article sums up perfectly my feeling toward Sony this year.
Solid but not on the level of past conventions.

[Relientk77]

It was good, not great

Really wanted surprises, new game announcements, and JRPGs

[Toiletsteak]

Shadow of the Colossus was a nice surprise.

[itsmebryan]

How many times are they going to remake Shadow of the Colossus?

[Nitrowolf2]

@itsmebryan

Well this is the 1st time, the collection that came out was just an hd port.

Really isnt that much, and this IMO warrents itself as acceptable because its not just a port its a full overhaul

[buttcheeks]

@itsmebryan uhhh once I guess because it would be the only REMAKE not remaster and its only been remastered once

[RememberThe357]

Hopefully it'll get remade every damn console generation. If only Capcom would do the same for Okami.

[FITSniper]

I was quite happy.

[VsAssassin]

Shortly after the conference, I was underwhelmed, but after giving it some more thought--Shadow of the Colossus (Remake/Remaster), Spider-man gameplay reveal, Days Gone proper gameplay reveal, and God of War--I now think the conference was great. It's just that the previous two Sony E3 conferences were truly exceptional, and topping them would take more than awesome gameplay reveals.

I also believe Sony has dialed down on the announcements in order to save the breath-taking reveals at PSX 2017.

[SkippyPaccino]

I believe they saw Microsoft brought a dud that they probably held back for PSX.... They showed a bunch of games at their pre E3 show and people forget that they have over 5 exclusive releasing this fall.... I believe the bar is soo high for Sony and going last will always bring out the cranky gaming journalis that it was almost impossible for them to reach it. Personally there isn't one game that was shown that I'm not interested in.

[AnubisG]

I was hugely dissapointed with Sony this E3. Yes, they showed tons of games but we already knew about these games. There was nothing new other than SotC remake which is fine but certainly not a megaton announcement. They had good games yes and many of them but as I said, we already knew about these. E3 is for suprises, new game announcements... not showing the same exect stuff you did last year.

Last years Sony conference is how it is done. This year was a huge letdown. Where was FeomSoftwares new IP? Where was SuckerPunch new IP? Where was the megaton announcements??

[SirBradders]

PSX and TGS is where I expect them to announce them games.

[AnubisG]

We will see. But than why waste money and time on E3?

[vallencer]

That doesn't excuse them from have one of the most lackluster e3s in recent years. I mean bethesdas was by far the worst one no argument there.

[buttcheeks]

Dude you make it seem like you're owed announcements they have more than enough AAA exclusive games announced right now no need to rush out more unnecessarily just focus on the extremely impressive lineup you have now

[AnubisG]

Well actually yes, we are owned announcements. That is why people look forward to E3. To see what's *NEW*. That is the whole point of that show.

If you are ok with this lackluster showing that Sony did, great. Good for you. However, when it comes to E3 I expect more. There was no point to this show. It was a waste of time and money. We already knew about these games. They could have released just the trailers for them online like they do all year around. I'm sorry, just because you were happy with the showing, that will not change my mind and the minds of many. Most people were dissapointed with Sony this year. What they did last year was how you do an E3 show.

[SirBradders]

Exactly my thought.

People seem to forget Death stranding, ff7 remake, matterfall, from software, insomniac games, sucker punch and whatever indies are brewing.

I think sony after seeing MS lineup kept their cards close and will reveal more at PSX and TGS this year closer to scorpio release.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Slow down there camper, Sony can't show everything during E3. Remember we still go Gamescom or Paris games weekly, Tokyo Game show and PS experience in December.

[InTheLab]

Best games but nothing like last year. Looks like MS won the battle of marketing deals but Sony killed with exclusives.

[vallencer]

What exclusives? They didn't announce anything new. All those games were already announced except for the shadow remake. Monster hunter is on all platforms. This website I swear. Sony could take literal craps on their stage and it would still be a good show.

[SkippyPaccino]

So they can only show their exclusive once and never mention them again? What game does Microsoft have to combat what sony showed yesterday? Let's not forget that Microsoft opened their conference with a reveal of a car... A car!.... Lol

[InTheLab]

Yeah because we haven't been looking at crackdown for 3 years...

[Doabarrelroll]

MS only has marketing to anthem, Assassins creed, and metro

PS has marketing for everything else

[slappy508]

The games we were shown absolutely blew me away. And days gone I wasnt 100% sold on it but I am now. And man I don't even need to mention God of War. They've been pumping out incredible looking games for us. Disappointed that none of those are releasing this year but for me the horizon expansion, Crash and Ni No kuni together with all the other 3rd party releasing later this year makes up for that.

[Ashunderfire86]

I read all the comments on here an don't tell you wasn't excited for Monster Hunter World 🌎!!! That game had a mind blowing trailer like Shadow of Collossus remake!

[Discobastrd]

Spiderman looked amazing fun! The game would need to keep up with the imaginative play and set pieces to not get boring over 15/20 hours. Pres was quite subdued compared to recent years but the quality was there. PS5 reveal next year for fall 2019 release?!? Who knows ...

Days gone looks too similar to other games and they didn't show TLOU2 so that may be 2019 now with cross plat release over PS4 and 5 (but thats a real stretch).

GoWar looked great fun as well and loved Horizon so looking forward to the dlc as well as Uncharted dlc

A remaster of Shadow of the Colossus as well will be a day 1 for me also. Still got my PS2 version! Loved Last Guardian! Such a misunderstood game. Fumito Ueda is a legend.

Detroit also looks promising as well and all the new VR stuff!

Add all that to everything not shown (Anthem/Ni No Kuni etc etc) that is cross plat and the next few years are looking great.

Here's hoping XBOXOX (the Boxox? What are we calling it? Botox?) production ramps up and finally gives me a reason to get one this gen. Not at that price though :/

[itsmebryan]

I think the response from the audience at the Sony conference said it all. They didn't seem too impressed. Also now at the end he said "PlayStation is the best place to play games." Why? When everyone knows games look and run better on X1X?

[TKCMuzzer]

Aaaah, these best place to play games is where you get the best variety and get to play them with people you want. People like you have lost sight of what gaming is about. Go on fork out $500 to play a game at a higher resolution. There are millions of people who play the inferior looking versions but just enjoy the games regardless of format, this is what it is about.

[leeeroythe3rd]

Nothing big for this year... 2018 looks good though.

Days gone was my favorite and my original impressiin was oh boy another zombie game. It had some great graphics and liked the level design.
God of war... pretty but not hugely impressed as looking fun to play
Detroit ... pretty
Horizon dlc... hopefull goty edition to come . Still waiting on deal for original . Yeah a 2017 game!

Best looking potential line up... gameplay may be questionable on a few titles . The big issue is when are these going to male market... sony relying on 3rd party for second hlf of year

[TKCMuzzer]

Eh, Grant Turismo Sport is pretty big and if gamers has bothered to watch the pre show they would have seen that its looking rather impressive.
On another note, I have found that with Sony pushing releases to the earlier parts of the year I am left to purchase more of the 3rd party games at the end. Why everybody wants everything at once is beyond me.

[BEASELY]

Sony could have flat out bodied and humiliated Microsoft, but instead slightly won more or less by default. Still a good conference, but I thought they would take advantage. A Last of Us 2 gameplay demo would have been the tipping point towards domination.

[PFFT]

What games???? Most of what was shown were 3rd party titles mixed with VR and games we already knew were coming. Spiderman and GOW were impressive BUT we already knew about them. Days Gone looks great BUT the characters look kinda odd last gen like. And the UnSharted engine is starting to show its age. The Horizon expansion looks lovely though.

[Roronoa0411]

besides VR there were three third party games, everything else was a first party exclusive… not sure what you were paying attention to.

[Doabarrelroll]

Uhhhh your cofusing sony with MS sony showed VR amd actually exclusives except for destiny and COD amd monster hunter, please tell us what games Ms showed that we didnt know about at all

[TKCMuzzer]

So, they showed games then, I suppose VR doesn't count if it's not on your system of choice.

[DrShoe]

What is this squaretube talking about, Sony took the title again this year, even though Microsoft released it's new xbone.

[YEP414]

Ea by far had the best conference

[corroios]

Lol. Microsoft got zero games, just the trailer of gow was enough. Multiplatforms games just show the total lack of games Coming to the xbox.

I even Think That sony hide games because of weak e3 of microsoft. They are so Far ahead That is scary.

[PistolsAtDawn]

Disagree. Sony failed hard this E3 IMO, not only did they show that their games are still a ways away, but they gave NO reason to choose playing Multi-Plats on their console over X1X...and they actually KILLED hype I had for games going into E3. I've pretty much lost all interest in GoW, Spiderman was on my radar but now just looks like a really scripted QTE fest, and Days Gone still looks the best out of my anticipated, but hasn't proven to be a stand out game among the 25+ other games I HAVE to play.

[zerocarnage]

Could of been a better show, but what could you expect from a console developer that's showed all there cards and gone so high in the industry it now has to pull out amazements to get any higher...

I said it before Sony have done to much to fast and now they need new ground breaking games and tech. Sony wanted to bring in everything at a much faster rate than the competition. I prefer the saying don't show all your cards to early or you eventually become well known for it and become predictable. Nintendo and ms have done rite in taking a steady pace approach in my book.

[Amongunz]

Ps4 e3 was not good. Own it.

[Skankinruby]

Don't know what qualifies as a 'hat trick' but they showed more trailers and gameplay for the laundry list of games we already knew were coming and they looked damn gorgeous. Other than a pro price cut that's exactly what I was expecting

[GamePeace]

Conference was alright. Not many surprises, because they already announced most of the stuff. The biggest surprises were Monster Hunter World and SotC Remake for me. Still they know how to deliver ...