E3: Interview: How Sony's E3 2015 Press Conference Became the Greatest of All Time
"We did it for the fans".
It's hard to imagine the PlayStation 4 generation without Sony's E3 2015 press conference taking place. Five years later, the two feel so intertwined that you can't have one without the other. That's because, after what was a fairly rudimentary 2014 for PlayStation with little in the way of PS4 exclusives and an abundance of cross-gen games, Sony brought the house down with a true look to the future. Some of those projects were still years down the line, but looking back on it, the Japanese giant raised the console's expectations tenfold. And from both a first and third-party perspective, it has delivered. Sony's E3 2015 showcase has gone down in history as the greatest of all time, but it also feels like the one most important to PlayStation.
To explore that further, Push Square caught up with PlayStation's former Vice President of Third-Party Relations, Adam Boyes. We discussed the lead-up to the show, the excitement fuelling Sony, The Last Guardian, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Shenmue III, and the live reactions PlayStation employees shared with one another in the aftermath. This is the story behind Sony's legendary E3 2015 press conference.
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