PlayStation Skipped E3 2021: Was That the Right Move? - Beyond Episode 705

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Lucy O'Brien, Max Scoville, and Mitchell Saltzman to discuss all the latest in the world of PlayStation. Even though PlayStation may have skipped E3 2021, there's still plenty of games coming to PS4 and PS5 showcased during the event to discuss, like Final Fantasy Origin, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and more. Plus, we dive deep into all the news around Elden Ring, including Mitchell's interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki and all the info about the game he learned. We also discuss PlayStation's overall decision to skip E3 2021 this year. Was it the right move? And how did PlayStation's absence affect the other showcases during the event. Plus, we discuss Mitchell's FF7 Remake DLC review, and more.

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0:00.0	I'm joined this week to discuss it all by Mitchell Salzman.
0:27.6	Hello, hello, hey Mitchell, Lucio Bryan as well.
0:31.7	Not as much as Xbox, not as much as like Unlocked has got to talk about though.
0:35.9	Hey, like we're a little bit like, you know, we've been throwing some scraps and we're
0:40.8	like, let's talk about it for an hour.
0:44.2	Feed us PlayStation, no, it's not great enough.
0:47.5	And we're also joined this week by Max Gerville.
0:49.4	Hey everybody, happy to be here.
0:51.9	Happy to have you here as well on this day after E3 and none of us had to take a flight.
0:57.4	We're of course going to jump into despite PlayStation not being E3.
1:00.8	There are still a lot of games that will be on PlayStation that we're going to talk
1:04.4	about in the episode to come, but we're also going to jump into a little bit of discussion
1:10.0	about, you know, PlayStation choice not to be E3 again this year.
1:13.4	Obviously they skipped 2019.
1:15.2	Everyone skipped 2020 because it didn't happen in all senses of that phrase and a bit more.
1:21.4	Before we get into it though, I do want to do a very quick sort of news crunch because
1:26.0	there's actually been a lot of other stuff going on, but we have so many games to talk
1:29.7	about.
1:30.7	I just briefly one dimension one.
1:32.0	I didn't interview with the heads of deviation games, Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell,
1:37.6	as well as Herman Holst from PlayStation talking about their new partnership, which was announced
1:41.9	at Jeff Keelie's kickoff live, I think was what that show was called.
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