Sony's E3 2017 showcase was a disappointing comedown after a three year high

PS4 has stunned fans in recent years, but this year the platform is treading water.

[UCForce]

Well, it's not always perfect in the end. But still, you live and learn your mistakes. Hopefully, you can improve it for better future.

[GottaBjimmyb]

What? I thought this year was absolutely amazing. Way more excited for all of this than for a FFVII remake and shemnue 3 in 5 years.

I clearly must live on a different planet then you guys.

[Servbot41]

Monster Hunter on consoles is the best announcement they could have possibly made. Nearly nothing else could have made me this excited. Spiderman looked terrible though.

[Mr Lahey]

Really? Terrible?? What was so terrible about it?

[WickedLester]

Yes, please elaborate. This I gotta hear! LOL

[kranker]

Someone needs glasses

[Salooh]

I dunno why people expected more, they showed so far:

2 story DLC of huge games (Horizon & Uncharted 4)
Some love for VR. ( Good thing but can be better )
Beyond
Days gone
Shadow of colossus
Gt sport (release date)
God of war (release date)
Spider man (release date)
Ni no kuni (release date)

All of these are huge games. The only thing can be expected was sucker punch which doesn't make sense why they are so silent but that also gives a good hint of the next e3 where we will see the last of us 2 and sucker punch . Sony didn't have to shock us because we needed to see more of these which are more than enough compared to other systems.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

It's probably because we already knew about most of those games. People wanted to see more unannounced titles.

[Salooh]

It's not like Sony lack of upcoming huge games, if you look at it from studio perspective and their history releases,
The only game that should show up was sucker punch. Sony already announced and teased so many huge games so they needed to show clearly the actual thing and some release date.

Was the show lacking of big upcoming games? Was it cgi and unplayable? What they showed was huge. Just lacked one element which is surprise, other than that it shows how unrealistic and dramatic some people . Imagine your self in Sony and the developers position, after all this hard work it is almost nothing just because we didn't see one new ip this year?

Knowing them doesn't change the quality and quantity that have been shown. That's my issue, if you want to attack Sony only limit it to surprise element which I agree is very important , but not the complete show is rated based on it..

[Salooh]

If you apply same criteria to Ms with their so called exclusives they didn't show anything new too.

If I want to judge ms show based on exclusivity compared to Sony or even just xbox history I would give them f. If I want to judge it based on their previous e3 on their current vision of xbox(it's diffierent now) and how their new audience of gamers benefit from it I would give their show b+. See, it's a matter of perspective, all I am asking from media is to be objective and realistic. Are you expecting ms at current time to produce 5 real new exclusives? Even one is stupid, That's just silly especially if you look at ms vision now and their history.

Same treatment with Sony, look at their current vision, look at what they recently done to us, look at the history of studios, look at what's coming and make good and realistic expectations. Otherwise you create negative hype for your self and to others. I expect objectivity from media not from people. I guess I should lower my expectation and call myself an idiot for doing so...

[Nodoze]

IIRC there was no GT Sport on display at ALL during the presser, nor was there any Ni No Kuni 2. Those were announced outside of the presser. I could be mistaken, but I don't remember seeing them.

[Mr_Luke]

You are right, they showed those games in the pre-conference. Maybe that's why they weren't in the main event. They just had 1 hour and too many games to show ^^'''

[yeahright2]

they expected more because Sony could have shown more. (sucker punch, ni no kuni, last of us 2 etc.) But they had to save something for all the other conferences. Heck, this applies to all of them. I want to see what MS brings to GDC, what nintendo offers up and TGS, what ends up closing the show at PSX.
There's still tons to look forward to.

[goldwyncq]

The conference was too damn short. Thirty more minutes could have made a huge difference.

[Cohagen420]

If they would've included some of the announcements from the pre-show like GT Sports, Knack 2, and Ni No Kuni 2 that would've covered it. Although the games are still being provided, their conference felt lazy.

[blackblades]

And after like .hack remaster on ps4/pc.

[XStation4pio_Pro]

Agreed. I actually ended up thinking the one x was my peak. I expected something unexpected from Sony what I got was some great titles that will trickle out over the next few years but all shown together so it seems impressive from the start. You can hate on MS conference, but to me it was more exciting due to the hardware aspect and how that hardware will affect all games available and games patched. Not saying sony's show was bad (it wasn't at all) it just wasn't exciting - at least for me.

[joeorc]

Also Sony has more conferences coming up..

The fact even before E3 conference, Sid was showing off games and there was new games talked about ...among other games that will be coming ahead in the future..

Sony added yet another PlayStation gaming platform called PlayStation link...yes it's social gaming, but it's social multi player gaming with people that may not be heavy gamers but party gaming platform for the PS4 is one of the platforms that PlayStation was missing for the PS4...now it's got such a platform.

Topic off you have PlayStation X and TGS
It's far from treading freaking water..for Pete sake it's already sold through to consumers as a platform over 60 million units already...

Where every PlayStation 4 is also a live streaming Cable TV box with cloud recording and EPG scheduling..

No need for a cable box, with the PS4 you get access to live streaming cable TV through PlayStation Vue.

And the opinion is Sony is treading water? Really? Sony showed yesterday VR support by 1st party studio's as well as 3rd party...

If there is one thing that can be stated about Sony's PlayStation as a platform for support and its viability in the market is its not at all treading water.

[Nodoze]

Agreed. It was disjointed, awkward pauses, house lights kept coming up, and the flow was just NOT there. Really awkward at the end when they came up after spiderman, then there was another part of the trailer, and then the curtain just came down. You could see those in attendance were confused....is that it? The titles on display were good make no mistake, but no indie presence AT ALL. Also nothing really new if you will. Both of the surprises were trademarked before the show and were not surprises. PSVR titles were limited at best, but still glad to see them included.

Unfortunately as good as the titles on display were, I left wanting more. I was REALLY hoping for some Bloodborne 2 or at the very least info on a new From Software title.

[Mr_Luke]

I liked it. I liked the theater with all the special effects and the little orchestra at the beginning that introduced the uncharted DLC. Then it was all about games and that's what I wanted to see. But yes, when it finished i thought "that's it? Anything more?" Because i felt something was missing: maybe one extra new game, maybe a price cut, i don't know. But the games i saw were (almost all) marvelous. I discovered that GoW was running on a normal PS4, i can't imagine how it could be on the Pro! My personal vote: 6/10 because of all the games i saw. It would be higher if there were some extra surprises.

[Dragonopolis]

Actually, in my opinion, neither company Sony or Microsoft won or lost but had a decent showing for different reasons.....

Microsoft.... the Good: I thought they did a great job showing variety in genre of games which is a Great thing for Microsoft and the Xbox Community.... Diversity is healthy.

Microsoft.... the Bad: I didn't think the ANY of the games really demonstrated the power of the Xbox One X console. Yes there was Potentially some great looking games but not substantially great.... that it "Justified" the $499 price tag. I know there is talk on the net saying that Forza still has Plenty of GPU to use on the Xbox One X ..... Its like saying you have the fasting car in the world then when you get to the racetrack you tell everyone that the car is not using every cylinder yet......
Speaking of cars, another bad; the Porsche reveal felt like an advert......

Sony.... The Good: I thought they did a good job show casing games better than Microsoft and the games they did show seemed more polished/ even better looking than what was offered by Microsoft's more expensive system and Sony is offering the console at a cheaper price. I still would not be surprised if Sony didn't do some kind of $349 deal when Xbox One X is actually released but people should not expect an E3 announcement for that....

Sony.... The Bad: Not a lot of new surprises or huge inspiring moments. It seem business as usually almost to casual like Sony wasn't a big enough deal about gaming. The surprises we did get were older games like Shadow of Colossus and Monster Hunter, surprise maybe, but not new IP just continuation of the old... old is getting well old.....

[SugarSoSweet]

They should of shown announced a Legend Of Dragoon remake, showed FF7 Remake and showed Last Of Us 2 gameplay

[kranker]

Too much missing for me personally but gameplay showed was superb. Days gone, GoW and Spiderman all looked brilliant