I feel like I read the e3 saga differently than most of these news outlets do. Nintendo got out of e3 and started having directs because Sony, starting with the ps2, started moving the industry toward movie trailers for games. Only certain games show well that way. Specifically, games that play like movies. Nintendo games have never played like that and Nintendo couldn’t compete. That’s why Nintendo started their “play the game” mantra.
Sony’s strategy shit themselves in the foot 4 years ago, however, when they had that killer e3 press conference that was a nonstop cavalcade of great trailers. It was the zenith of what they had been building up to. But instead of seeing it as the climax of PS4, gamers wanted that to be the new normal. They wanted that every year. And Sony just doesn’t have the games. The AAA movie-games that they show, now, take 5 years to make. You can’t always have a few in the chamber and ready to go every year.
Sony is backing out of e3 this year because they have nothing to show. It has nothing to do with e3. They are in a building year. And last year as well. Once they announce ps5, they will reveal what they are working on and it will be e3 business as usual.
We can’t forget, this is what happened at the end of last generation as well.
@moviespot: the “it was all a Dream” trope is much older and much more worn out than 1990. Famously the 80s hospital drama St Elsewhere ends the series with its final shot showing that the entire show was the dream of an autistic kid.
@ploodie: it’s just a trend. The gaming industry has become ULTRA TRENDY and publishers are itching to call the death of single player because they don’t want to keep having to make two separate games that they sell as one. But every time they try to say only multiplayer matters, they get smacked down.
@berrlett: “gamers are consumers who will never sign up for this”
I think a lot of gamers like yourself have an overinflated sense of self importance. “Gamers” DO sign up for the treatment you a hot. In droves. That’s why they do it.
Gamers have told themselves a lot of choice lies about the industry for two decades now and now they are having a hard time seeing things plainly. The info you see as an “enthusiest” who reads “enthusiast press” isn’t the actual story. You don’t see the actual numbers that these publishers make off of mobile games and microtransactions.
The reality is that you’re not with much in the grand scheme of things. “Gamers” are about the worst customers. High expectations, highly demanding, little consideration or humanity, and want to spend as little as possible if not outright steal from the publishers. Why would they bend over bavkwards to make products for that audience?
@punisher1: it boggles my mind when people like you refuse to admit that it makes smart business sense to cater to 51% of the population who aren’t being catered to in your industry. It’s not “sjw” it’s capitalism.
“It was all a dream” is like Baby’s First Conspiracy Theory. If there is an ounce of ambiguity about something in a plot, some 13 year old aspiring pot head is like “what if it’s all a Dream? I think it’s all a Dream!”
The “twist” is so done to death already that for ANY work to do it again is just hackneyed and cliched. I’m pretty sure those trope sites have a pretty well manicured list of all the shows and movies that have done it. It doesn’t need to be any longer.
@psx_warrior: I legitimately think he loved Leia and, let's be honest, wanted to have sex with her. But loving someone and wanting to alter your entire life to fit their destiny is another thing entirely.
What, Han is going to become King Han Solo? Leia is a Princess, remember. He's going to eat fancy food and go to affairs of state, Wookie in tow? Han loves gambling, sleazing, and his ship. I don't believe Han is a lost soul who was looking for acceptance and a family to belong to.
I personally like the idea of him and Leia being together for a while and then him hitting the road. I think he would probably start getting restless with life with Leia and her responsibilities. He'd try to make it work for a while, but eventually they would fight and he would have to be true to himself and leave. Then they would have emotional reunions from time to time. The love each other but they are from different worlds. They're not meant to have a household and a family.
@BruceWayneJr: Disagree in the strongest terms. It NEVER made any sense for Han to settle down. It's completely against every fiber of his character. Han and Leia staying together for the rest of their lives is improbably and silly.
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