Sony Has Confirmed PlayStation Experience Won’t Happen This Year

Sony Has Confirmed PlayStation Experience Won’t Happen This Year

Today’s PlayStation Blogcast featured a very special guest appearance from Sony Entertainment Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden. Chairman Shawn Layden confirmed the news that Sony’s PlayStation Experience event won’t take place this year, noting that it was a “hard decision.” He gave an update on the future of PlayStation Experience and then went on to discuss this week’s big Fortnite cross-platform play announcement.

Layden later spoke about the cross-play beta test for Fortnite, and whether the functionality would arrive for other titles. “Once we can prove that this is all holding together sturdy and well, I would anticipate seeing other games in this service over time,” he said.

“Now that we have Spider-Man out the door, we’re looking down in 2019 to games like Dreams and Days Gone but we wouldn’t have enough to bring people all together in some location in North America to have that event,” he said. “We don’t want to set expectations really high and then not deliver,” later he said.

“It became a great place to bring new news, to let [fans] get closer to some of the new stuff we’re working on,” Layden said of past PlayStation Experience events.

PlayStation Experience started four years ago as a celebration for PlayStation’s 20th anniversary as a way to “bring fans together” for a consumer event, according to Layden. The event expanded over the next few years as a place to give news updates. This year, though Layden expressed that “we have a lot of progress that we’re making in our games” but also that there’s not much to share at this point for upcoming titles.

Read the full article at Variety.

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