And now I think about that recent thread where people were saying that canceling Pax East was an overreaction. That the decision was based on fear and not fact.
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Rumor: E3 about to be cancelled, official announcement coming soon (Update: Officially Confirmed)
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Very informative. Thank you.
Hopefully they still do the conference streams over that weekend and don't spread them out. I know they will for more attention, but I love just getting a pizza and some beers and just having continuous streams of announcements.
Fuck the ESA and the shopfloor, but I love that.
Fuck the ESA and the shopfloor, but I love that.
Technically this doesn't have to affect Microsoft's plans much (aside from the reduced foot traffic, of course). Their conference and "booth" were both at the Microsoft Theatre across the street anyway.
Of course, if they go ahead with their original presentation, that would still mean putting hundreds of media (I would think) together in a room.
If they scrap the whole thing and do something else, I wonder if that potentially means we hear more sooner, or later, than early June.
Of course, if they go ahead with their original presentation, that would still mean putting hundreds of media (I would think) together in a room.
If they scrap the whole thing and do something else, I wonder if that potentially means we hear more sooner, or later, than early June.
I like to believe that there is a timeline where Trump not being president allows the US to quickly respond to Covid-19, resulting in large events not needing to be canceled in the US.
I just hope that if E3 dies, someone comes in with a replacement event. I love press conferences way too much. Geoff Keighley, I'm looking at you!
I like the convention feel? Online is cool... but in my opinion, it's not the same as seeing the show floor or hearing a live audience.
Even then watching reaction videos of directs on YouTube are way more entertaining to me than an awkward live audience. There haven't been any good theater reactions since 2015 lol
ESA is probably canceling because of the large amount of people that are on the show floor and the risk that pertains. MS would irresponsible to do anything at the Microsoft Theatre.
Yeah, I give zero fucks about seeing an audience, it's always about the actual content. Reaction vids live on youtube.
Eh, even with a half competent president, I don't know if we see anything different so far. The virus really just got going here the last 5 days or so.
It’s official: E3 2020 has been canceled [Updated]
ESA announces it won't hold massive game marketing event for the first time since 1995.
arstechnica.com
Would be surprised if they'd announce this now and not wait a little closer to see how bad it gets, but would be great news if they are actually taking it this serious and won't fuck over loads of people who already paid the plane and hotel fee. Also gives the pubs a lot of time to readjust their announcements, which is all 99% of us care about regarding E3.
banning / postponing large public event is exactly one of those measures that helps slow down the spread of the virus.
you can't STOP covid 19, eventually, most people are going to have been infected by it. It's all about keeping the rate of infections at a manageable pace, so hospitals can handle it.
"It" being treating those people who have a more severe case, as opposed to the 80% who barely show any symptoms.
So no, i don't believe a President other than trump could have "saved" E3, i actually think they'd have had it canceled sooner.
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There's a good chance next gen consoles get delayed so it would be much later they do a reveal.
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These two posts look AMAZING right now 😂
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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
Okay so the posts here were very bad by me, I thought that the US was testing a lot of people so the low confirmed count of cases was accurate and I was on edge because my wife's friend had just been racially profiled. But still very bad posts.
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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
People are allowed to believe this is an overreaction from Sony, just like people are allowed to believe it's a sensible precaution. Do not attack others just because they disagree with you about this.
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Not ruling out a next gen console delay, but a few days ago AMD commited to next gen consoles being on track to holiday 2020.
they can still do their briefing there as normal, just without an audience
At that point they might as well do an Xbox like Direct.
And a week or so ago E3 organisers said it was still full steam ahead, things change.
Why bother when you can do a Inside Xbox at your massive Headquarter in Redmond WA.
Same here, I always made it an event holiday. Watching the Giant Bomb coverage, live streams and the GB@nite and hang out in the chat was big part of it toom
Because theyve already been planning this briefing for months and they might as well use the plans. also unless they revamp inside xbox it will be nowhere near as hype as a briefing
Sure, but the reason for a console launch delay would be because of production, hasn't the situation in China improved?
It's not being eliminated ever. It will eventually just become a normal strain that has immunity against it and vaccines. It's also just getting started in the US and people here can't take off work.
It won't be finished by June...
So, you expect them to risk their employees flying to the Microsoft Theater just to have the conference on the stage with no audience? That doesn't even make any sense, they might as well save money and do it in Redmond where they don't have to risk people flying.
To be fair, nintendo directs at one point were this
They can make them better.
It has, but it's hard to hold launch events if there are virus fears, and there's every chance a recession might happen which only compounds the problem.
I just feel Sony, who've been ahead of all this, are holding back PS5 news/reveal because they genuinely don't know if they'll launch this year.
Eh. We're a long ways from that. Product delays would require massive disturbance of production infrastructure. Comparing "large gathering of people events" getting cancelled to product launches being moved is two different things. They're far more likely to launch with limited scope than to miss launch all together
These two posts look AMAZING right now 😂
PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
Okay so the posts here were very bad by me, I thought that the US was testing a lot of people so the low confirmed count of cases was accurate and I was on edge because my wife's friend had just been racially profiled. But still very bad posts.
PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
People are allowed to believe this is an overreaction from Sony, just like people are allowed to believe it's a sensible precaution. Do not attack others just because they disagree with you about this.
from a mod no less...LMAO....mod can't be ban, right?
What even is this.
Just because it's 'slowing down' in China doesn't mean it won't pick up steam elsewhere.
Italy is fucked right now and Australia is starting to get more and more cases by the day.
Better to cancel E3 straight up now rather than wasting everyone's time by waiting and hoping this virus will all blow past (it probs won't).
These two posts look AMAZING right now 😂
PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
Okay so the posts here were very bad by me, I thought that the US was testing a lot of people so the low confirmed count of cases was accurate and I was on edge because my wife's friend had just been racially profiled. But still very bad posts.
PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
People are allowed to believe this is an overreaction from Sony, just like people are allowed to believe it's a sensible precaution. Do not attack others just because they disagree with you about this.
Thanks for this laugh. Those back to back cracked me up.
You wouldn't believe how hard everyone involved with the Tokyo Olympics is trying to say otherwise. I agree with you, though.
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