Sony has revealed that PlayStation Experience is not happening in 2018. The news comes as a total surprise since the event looked like a staple among the events you would expect to drop over the year.
Sony has revealed that PlayStation Experience will not happen in 2018. The news comes as a total surprise since it looked like a staple among the gaming events you would expect to occur over the year.
According to SIE Worldwide Studios and North America chairman Shawn Layden, Sony simply doesn’t have enough material in terms of games and new assets to offer users to not make the event disappointing (perhaps even more than PSX 2017).
“For 2018, I know this is going to be a disappointment to some people, but we decided to not hold PlayStation Experience this year,” Layden said during the latest PlayStation Blogcast.
“We won’t have it in the States this year. The reasons behind that really are we don’t have…we have a lot of progress that we’re making on our games…Now that we have Spider-Man out the door, we’re looking down into 2019 games like Dreams and Days Gone,” he added.
“But we wouldn’t have enough to bring people all together in some location North America to have that event. We don’t want to set expectations really high and then not deliver on that. It was a hard decision, but we have determined that this year we will not hold PlayStation Experience.”
Interestingly, Layden said that PlayStation Blog and social networks have acquired a great relevance when it comes to delivering PS4 announcements, and that going forward it’ll be even more important:
“Part of our commitment is that going forward we’re going to amp that up, we’re going to crank [those] communications [up]…and find more ways to get our message out and get a view into what our activities are and what our hopes and dreams are, if you will, for PlayStation and for Worldwide Studios.”
Maybe PlayStation Experience could make a comeback in 2019?
Source: IGN
Published: Oct 1, 2018 10:09 am