Sony Will Skip E3 2022 Ahead of PS5 Launch

Following a ton speculations in recent weeks, Sony has officially confirmed that it won't attend E3 in 2020. In a statement to GamesIndustry on Monday, the company said that it decided to skip the event because it doesn't have the right 'vision' for what the visitor has planned for this year. Instead of attending the mega gaming expo, the company says it will attend 'hundreds' of smaller events to showcase its upcoming games for PS4 and PS5.

Co-ordinate to a Sony Interactive Amusement spokesperson, "After thorough evaluation SIE has decided not to participate in E3 2020. We have bully respect for the ESA as an system, merely nosotros do not feel the vision of E3 2020 is the right venue for what we are focused on this year". The company also said that the decision to skip E3 in favor of smaller events is role of its plans to ensure that "fans feel role of the PlayStation family unit and accept access to play their favorite content".

As pointed out by the report, Sony has used the E3 as a platform to announce details virtually its next PlayStation consoles for a quarter of a century, starting with the very first E3 in 1995, when the company launched the original PlayStation. The Japanese tech giant besides announced the PS4 at E3 2013, which is why many observers and gamers expected the company to attend this yr's consequence to announce more details about the upcoming PS5.

In instance yous don't know it already, Sony's side by side-gen gaming console is expected to launch after this year, and the company recently revealed some new details about the device at the just-concluded CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the visitor, the device will come up with 8K graphics, ray tracing capabilities and SSDs for faster game-loading. It is also expected to be powered by custom CPU and GPU chips from AMD.