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Sony Cancels PS3 Showing

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 31, 2005 @08:26AM from the something-is-afoot dept.

Gamespot has word that the planned pre-E3 showing of the Playstation 3 console, to be held in Japan, has been canceled. From the article: "Sony told Reuters that it decided to cancel the PS3 meeting because it 'would pressure game publishers' if held in March, but it left the door open for another pre-E3 event. The company also emphasized that the cancellation is not a sign that the PlayStation 3 development is falling behind, and it still intends to unveil the machine at E3 at the latest."

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Re:So... by ivan256 · 2005-03-31 10:07 · Score: 2, Informative

I'm failing to understand what the issue with "pressuring game publishers" is.

Perhaps they don't want to pressure developers into rushing something to be ready to demo at this pre-E3 showing. It's all well and good for them to have hardware ready to show, but they need software to demo as well, otherwise you just have a box.