I think that's fair. Good communication doesn't have to be done through things like E3.
Understand that I agree with you that good communication doesn't always have to be done through stuff like a e3 but this is why I disagree with your next point
I think it's reasonable that people expect something from Sony right now though.
I do not believe it's reasonable that people should expect Sony to have something right now in fact I don't think it's reasonable to believe the majority of Publishers should be required to announce much of anything based on the pandemic and how crazy all that shit was last year so I commend any developer that gutted it out to show something.
That being said I do not believe they should feel obligated to cram their announcements in this klusterfuk.
Is Spider-Man 2 cross-gen?
Spider-Man 2? My God Miles Morales literally just came out about six months ago or so so I feel you're jumping the gun, they just finished Ratchet & Clank in your now asking for information on another game that might be extremely early and development so I feel maybe that might be a bit too demanding and entitled. Give the developer enough respect to have something deep and completion before rushing an announcement just to make an announcement.
I think these are fair questions and you'd think they'd have an E3, as is typical of the industry, to catch us up on some of that.
I don't think a lot of these are fair questions to be honest with you because some of the stuff you're asking for seems pretty extreme based on the circumstances of last year and literally development teams that may have not even started full production on some of the stuff you're asking for... so I don't believe they would have an E3 and I think if you even look at what they've been doing recently most would kind of know to not actually expect one based on what they're doing with state of play.
Looking at the numbers in regards to YouTube I've noticed lots of patterns that actually show Nintendo was very much on to something when they started doing those directs and they were very much ahead of their time in regards to Social Media communication because I think they saw you get diminishing returns with going to these type of press event competing against hundreds of announcements.
A perfect example to bring up ironically is when Sony themselves were at E3 in revealed Resident Evil 2 remake at the end of the day by any metric technically speaking this announcement should be much more Megaton then Resident Evil 3 remake as technically that would be the game that's more expected because it precedes 2, but when you actually look at the numbers more people actually viewed the state of play in a shorter amount of time for Resident Evil 3 then they did the E3 for Resident Evil 2 remake but clearly when you look it up it actually makes a lot of sense look at everything that was fucking announced that very day so how on Earth is Resident Evil 2 going to get the same amount of views if they're fucking competing against hundreds of other announcements at the same time?
and yet
Only major difference, one of those games was announced during an event here HUNDREDS of games are announced on the very same day.
I think they made a smart choice to wait it out and hog the media cycle lol.
Look at even Starfield in 1 day announced with a shit load of other games vs Battlefield 2042 announced BY ITSELF ALONE.
and yet
(BF 2042 in 1 day was at 11 million vs Starfield at 1.3 million)
Clearly, a difference exist from reveals when one is doing it on a day filled with them. I think Sony is making the right call here.
but I am a little worried they are all going to be cross-gen
I see no reason to be, they literally launched with exclusives like Demon Souls, Returnal, Ratchet etc. They'll show other exclusives when they are actually ready and I have no issue with this. People literally complained that Sony was showing games waaaaay too early cause they had to wait, not people are mad when they wait.
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