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I watched Sony, EA, and Ubisoft at my buddy's last night.
I don't know who's been putting together the press conferences for Sony the past few years. But once again, they knocked it out of the park. They pretty much got the formula figured out. 90% trailers/demos, 10% everything else. The 1-2 punch of God of War and the release date of The Last Guardian pretty much sealed it up.
The bit of info they gave for their VR, and the Batman, Space game (don't remember the title), and Resident Evil coming out, I knew my reservation was a good decision. I can't wait.
Insomniac handling the new Spider-Man game gives me hope it returns to it's roots.
Hideo Kojima is just one weird motherfucker. That Death Stranding trailer really made me scratch my head and just say "da fuck was that?" But cool to see the Norman Reedus partnership still lives.
Ubisoft.........on the other hand.
While we watched the replay and just skipped through the boring stuff, 2 hours long and this is what I came up with: It wasn't a press conference. More like a pitch to everybody watching, the gaming industry in attendance, investors around the world. "We need your money.......now! Or Vivendi is going to take over."
Between getting games from all ages from kids to adults crammed in, to promoting the new Assassins' Creed movie (and soon Watchdogs movie), and finish it off some ski/snowboarding game which I'm not really interested in, I think Ubisoft is really scared right now and are doing everything they can to stave off this takeover.
Super excited for Ghost Recon: Wildlands, that looked awesome. Bit of a gut punch it's coming out in March.
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