Sony Interactive Leisure has instructed German publication GamesMarkt that PlayStation received’t be making an look at Gamescom 2023. The corporate has been skipping main trade occasions for quite a lot of years now, and didn’t attend Gamescom final yr both.
In line with GamesMarkt (by way of ResetEra), a Sony consultant merely confirmed that the corporate received’t be at one of many largest world gaming occasions. They didn’t say why, however over the previous few years, Sony has prioritized holding a number of quick State of Play occasions in the course of the yr.
Previous to the downfall of E3, Sony was one of many first firms to mark its absence from the occasion, adopted later by Microsoft and Nintendo.
Again in 2019 when Sony first introduced its absence from E3, the corporate mentioned that it desires to “search for ingenious alternatives to have interaction the neighborhood” because the video games trade evolves. “PlayStation followers imply the world to us and we at all times need to innovate, suppose otherwise and experiment with new methods to please avid gamers,” Sony mentioned on the time.
Latest Sony State of Play occasions could not have been common amongst followers, nevertheless it doesn’t appear to be PlayStation will return to main trade occasions.