Based on journalist and presenter Geoff Keighley, this yr there will be fewer third-party online game showcases.
In a Twitter Areas audio session, Geoff defined how these publishers and builders have apparently reconsidered their strategy after a considerably damaging response final yr to full-blown showcase occasions with solely a handful of bulletins:
“There have been a whole lot of reveals final yr the place everybody was upset after they weren’t actually press conferences, proper? Like Take-Two, Capcom, Sq. Enix and issues like that.”
“I feel [they] have discovered that when you’re going to do a press convention, you type of must have Half-hour-plus of stuff, and typically they solely have one or two nice video games to indicate, which is probably not sufficient to do a full occasion round.”
Geoff says there will be a “little bit of a shift” in response to this, the place these corporations as an alternative take part in occasions just like the Summer season Sport Fest and the upcoming Xbox and Bethesda showcase. He added how he has a “fairly good sense of what is coming within the subsequent month” and expects individuals to be “hyped about video games generally” round this era.
“There’s nonetheless an absence of video games popping out proper now, this type of is the Covid hole yr I feel… with a whole lot of video games being delayed as a result of they had been began through the pandemic. We’re nonetheless hoping for lots of issues to come back out.”
Geoff’s Summer season Sport Fest begins on ninth June and can showcase “what’s subsequent in gaming” together with some “large” new recreation bulletins. And whereas he does not anticipate everybody to essentially get the whole lot they need, he nonetheless expects it to be a whole lot of enjoyable.
What are you hoping to see introduced at Summer season Sport Fest and every other future showcases this yr? Depart a remark down under.
