It was expected: anyone expecting new AAA was delusional -they are saving then for PS5, otherwise they will attend E3 this year-. They would have been better off just having a VR focus show and droping the rest in random trailers. At least you se expectations that way.
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State of Play (March 25th) |OT| Sir Dan where art thou
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as a VR owner, this was the bomb, i did not expect anything and was honestly expecting some trailers. this was that and nothing more and they delivered seeing how this will be an ongoing thing. people need to understand that this one episode was not their entire catalog of games and info
So true, Sony cancelling E3 should've been enough to understand the fact, that until PS5 announcement, we won't see anything big from Sony. But just wait till the next show, it'll be the same thing all over again.
No Man's Sky VR alone made my day, wasn't really expecting it anymore.
Will Concrete Genie get a physical edition? God I hope so.
Excited for Concrete Genie, Days Gone (I've had it pre ordered since 2016), Crash Nitro Fueled etc. I didn't expect much, Im just glad they're doing something. A little dissapointed over the fact that Dreams was absent, and especially Medievil..
I don't expect a big blowout until around September. Except for PS5 and the generall titles, all I want is All Stars 2
Excited for Concrete Genie, Days Gone (I've had it pre ordered since 2016), Crash Nitro Fueled etc. I didn't expect much, Im just glad they're doing something. A little dissapointed over the fact that Dreams was absent, and especially Medievil..
I don't expect a big blowout until around September. Except for PS5 and the generall titles, all I want is All Stars 2
One of the criticism against Sony in recent months was that their approach of just announcing games by-the-drop on PSBlog, dropping trailers and game announcements on their own - isn't conductive to actually helping those games be marketed/nobody reads blogs these days/etc etc.
Could State of Play have been better? Sure. But this show is literally also what some people has been asking - in the sense that it's basically just a packaged up version of several PSBlog trailers in one reel.
This. i also feel like we need to give playstation some time, it's their first video, lets see how it grows and how they apply feedback. i think its unfair to break something or someone down and give them no chances to apply feedback to improve.
I am very disappointed.
Otherwise a nice little showcase, much better than I was afraid it could have been.
Great showing, had much more content than I was expecting. I prefer to have fewer shows with bigger announcements but if this is representative of what these shows will be then that's great.
Heh, you got that right. Not sure how people are seeing the difference, it's pretty much following the same cycle
Next time Sony should lead these State of Play "directs" with a short-summary of what they will contain (e.g., VR exclusives, updates on announced games...) as Nintendo usually do, so they temper expectations ahead of time. This was very disappointing for anyone expecting big reveals or updates on the most anticipated titles.
Why expect big reveals ? They've explicitly said they're skipping E3 this year for that very reason. This isn't the only State of Play, it began and ended with the promise of future instalments throughout the year. We'll get our updates, whether its now or in a few months time doesn't make a difference, its not like it'll make the games release sooner.
Yeah so you can understand the theme surrounding the direct.
This one felt very VR based
they kinda did, maybe they should have been clearer about the show being VR focused but they did state it will have VR software.
what i do hope they do in the future however is state the length. some people thought this would be E3 level and expected the big 3 to show up, which clearly did not happen.
That's basically what they did on their blog.
You also had Zhuge in the initial announcement of the "direct" saying that people should temper their expectations.
'New game announcements' is going to set off the rabid hype machine in a flash. It's not their fault, it's people having... excitable expectations, but hey...
They were not very specific. This phrase:
...matches any pre-E3 conference since PSVR was announced, don't you think? So then you can't blame people for expecting announcements on that level, especially when Sony has confirmed they are not having an E3 conference this year.
What I am saying is that what Zhuge did is what Sony should have done in the press release for the State of Play series' "pilot". I don't think his warning was heard beyond ERA. I don't think their video would be sitting at 10K dislikes (vs 3K likes) if they'd have done that.
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The content was pretty bland, and the delivery was a little dry, but I liked the format and pacing
All the VR games looked pretty meh to me, Day's Gone looks solid but it's generic as hell
Concrete Genie looks like it could be pretty great
I look forward to the next State of Play, when hopefully they'll have more to show
All the VR games looked pretty meh to me, Day's Gone looks solid but it's generic as hell
Concrete Genie looks like it could be pretty great
I look forward to the next State of Play, when hopefully they'll have more to show
Was this really so underwhelming that no news stories pop up anywhere detailing the announcements? It's pretty incredible how under radar this went, comparing with the Directs.
You can visit small sites like IGN. They covered the games of yesterday's State of Play. Here for example.
they could have just released those trialers on their youtube channel and be done.
they got people to waste their times and watch the show, so kudos for that i guess
they got people to waste their times and watch the show, so kudos for that i guess
What is with the negative reactions in here? It was perfectly solid with some promising stuff in there as well as some release dates and interesting new VR stuff to look forward to.
Some of you really sound ridiculous
Was anybody seriously expecting megaton news?
And yes there are plenty of Nintendo Directs that aren't revolutionary in their announcements.
Some of you really sound ridiculous
Was anybody seriously expecting megaton news?
And yes there are plenty of Nintendo Directs that aren't revolutionary in their announcements.
Apparently 18K were expecting that, compared to the 6K that liked the show (numbers from the Playstation and Playstation Europe Youtube channels) so I'd say the negative reactions are not just ERA's neither rare.
after seeing Sony's response to the Nes/Snes Classic i didn't have high hopes for this. copying Nintendo isn't working for them
Gamers expect megaton announcements at every single show they watch, as if big AAA games take 6 months to make...
As a PSVR user I was happy with the focus on VR games.
As a PSVR user I was happy with the focus on VR games.