Keenan writes: "Sony is skipping E3 once again, and after seeing how much it has succeeded since it first passed on the event, we can't blame them."
Sony has launched a BAFTA Game Awards 2024 section on the PlayStation Store that lists the different games nominated this year.
Skybound Entertainment has launched the crowdfunding campaign for its AAA Invincible game with a minimum investment set at $100.
These ppl are terrible. expecting gamers to pick up the dev costs with high as he'll initial investment. When they probably already have the funds considering they already hired a team of 30 and have the creator backing them.
They seem to be crowdfunding the idea of a studio rather than an actual game. It's already at near half a million and there isn't even concept/any kind of proof of concept. People throwing so much money at something that'll most likely be too big for crowd funding alone and will have em partner up with a publisher.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
good god. The devs are not baristas dude. Total 1% ideals. Fing Chadosaurus.
They should attend, it is always an interesting time of the year with a lot of hype and excitement around what we may see. Them not being there really deflates it for PS fans, even if it is fine from a business perspective.
Technically, none of the participants need to attend, but they do it because there is a better sense of consumer energy in the room when they are there with them. That instant gratification of hearing the crowd when they show off something impressive. The people watching at home is just one metric that these industry peeps look at. Another is crowd interaction, if their product is on display at a booth... how many come up and ask questions and look/play with what is there.
Those are the kinds of things you don't get from not showing up.
They’ve shown they can win E3 without even attending
In this day and technical age, it's a safe assumption that all of the Big 3 could easily prove they don't need E3, whether we like it or not.
Some people casted doom on Sony for not attending E3 and the reality is that they are having even more success now than when they attended E3.