In line with journalist and presenter Geoff Keighley, this 12 months 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 method after a considerably detrimental response final 12 months to full-blown showcase occasions with solely a handful of bulletins:
“There have been lots of reveals final 12 months the place everybody was disillusioned after they weren’t actually press conferences, proper? Like Take-Two, Capcom, Sq. Enix and issues like that.”
“I feel [they] have realized that in case you’re going to do a press convention, you type of must have Half-hour-plus of stuff, and generally 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 firms as a substitute take part in occasions just like the Summer season Recreation 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 folks to be “hyped about video games generally” round this era.
“There may be nonetheless a scarcity of video games popping out proper now, this sort of is the Covid hole 12 months I feel… with lots of video games being delayed as a result of they have been began in the course of the pandemic. We’re nonetheless hoping for lots of issues to return out.”
Geoff’s Summer season Recreation Fest begins on ninth June and can showcase “what’s subsequent in gaming” together with some “big” new sport bulletins. And whereas he does not anticipate everybody to essentially get every part they need, he nonetheless expects it to be lots of enjoyable.
What are you hoping to see introduced at Summer season Recreation Fest and every other future showcases this 12 months? Depart a remark down under.