PS3 at E3: Viewing will be restricted, no demos?
Published April 11th, 2006 in Gaming, Noteworthy, Technology
It looks like we won’t be seeing much of the PS3 at this year’s E3. People have been speculating from the beginning that Sony will be tying the console down, and not letting us see much, pretty much how the PSP was debuted. SPOnG has heard information from numerous sources, developers and third-part manufacturers, that Sony won’t be allowing their products in the Sony booths. Nor have any numbers of PS3 units have been outlined for 3rd parties, so they don’t know whether they’ll be able to show off their products at all.
“From what we have been hearing, the PlayStation 3 will be shown in a similar way to which the PSP was debuted at E3,” one publishing source told SPOnG last week. “Attendees will be able to view the machine in a tightly-restricted environment. People thinking the floor will be awash with playable demo pods will be sore if they walk through the doors expecting to be able to sample a massive range of [PlayStation 3] software at leisure.”
Sony is cutting it really close here. I think even the developers and 3rd parties are annoyed now. How will they be able to showcase their products / gear at E3 if Sony hasn’t communicated with them. Many people will be disappointed, and I think it will be similar to the 360 at E3 (or some other conference where it was), where you could play a demo of the games, but they were not run on the 360’s but G5’s! Sony really needs to hurry up, otherwise Nintendo’s Revolution release and 360 release will really bite their asses off!
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