PlayStation Experience Release Date, Update: Sony Cancels PSX 2018

No PSX 2018 will arrive this year, and Sony has confirmed. This news was first confirmed by PlayStation Blogcast, Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden. It means the PlayStation Experience event will not be held in North America this year because there is not enough to show off right now.

According to Layden, the company has faced the difficult decision based on where it currently stands on several projects. He added that the company did not want to set expectations for a high-profile media event like PSX without much to show.

"Now that we have Spider-Man out the door, we're looking down into 2019 games like Dreams and Days Gone. But we wouldn't have enough to bring people all together in North America to have that event. We don't want to set expectations high and then not deliver on that. It was a hard decision, but we have determined that this year we will not hold PlayStation Experience," Layden said during PlayStation Blogcast.

Some publication suggests that Sony chose to forego the festivities this year because it may want to focus on its efforts on the PlayStation 5. As of the moment, there are leaked information about this consoles, and the company hasn't given any information about it.

This comes right after E3 from Sony this year, which focused on four games including Spider-Man, Death Stranding, The Last of Us: Part II, and Ghost of Tsushima. The event featured a few surprises including the debut trailers for third-party games like Control and Resident Evil 2. The PSX debuted in Europe in the early 2000s. After that, it became not active for some years before coming to the United States in 2014. This news surprises fans of PlayStation as every year. The company was holding an event.

The game that brought massive success for Sony is Spider-Man as it broke records set by God of War only months earlier, Gamespot reported.