I'm OK to just let it die, 2016 was 15 mins of awards 15 mins of games and 90 mins of ads.

I admire his passion for gaming, and I do realize he does what he has to do to keep VGA alive, but realistically, if he has to go through so much effort to keep it alive, then is the show really that relevant? There is no governing body which chooses the awards, and there is no centralized governing body for the industry to begin with except maybe ESRB which is only in the US or other groups in other countries. No group of people universally accepted as speaking for the entire industry which gives the awards. The awards are chosen by committee of peers in the industry with no real way to govern who or how those people are chosen.

The show is really nothing more than a vanity project. It has about as much merit as any internet publications own awards do. The establishment for an authoritative awards show just isn't really there for gaming right now....and outside our little circle, there is little mainstream interest to get outside sponsorship, which only makes the merit of the show questionable as too much bias can be introduced through sponsorship(although that's more conspiracy theory than likely actually happening).

So what's the point? The awards really mean nothing except to the winners to slap a logo on the box.

What's the point of the awards? They don't even show most of the awards or the categories.

The truth is, even us gamers don't really give a rat's a** about the awards themselves, outside the times we can gloat or argue about them on forums depending on the situation.

The truth is, us gamers tune in to watch the game reveals and trailers. Maybe some enjoy the developer interviews. Truth is, to gamers, we don't care as much about what happen the past year, but rather, what we have to look forward to in our never-ending insatiable desire to play more and new games.

It's a more pretentious version of E3 press conferences where we have to sit through a bunch of self congratulatory speeches, the occasional political statement from that quarters "found Sarkeesian" idiot, and a bunch of Keighley promoting himself along with the industry which the viewers of the show already love.

So, what's the point? If he just made a show that was about game reveals, he'd probably get more viewers.....but we already have shows for that throughout the year.

Not that I want him to give up. I'd just rather see it become something more authoritative, rather than the glorified falsely inflated important factor that it has been made into in recent years. Heck, I'd even settle for something like Nick Kids Choice awards, but realize that would be highly prejudicial considering just how terribly fanboyish the gamers who are likely to vote can be.

If that is his effort to keep it alive then it may as well be dead. How do you possibly sit there and say "We don't have time to give all the awards out" then proceed to show 30 minutes of terrible rappers? His show is awful. Glad we had time for a child and his mommy to get an award because he sits on his a** and plays video games all day when they could have been concentrating more on the developers...you know the people who spend years of their life sacrificing family time and doing crazy amounts of overtime for said kid to get more credit than they do? As long as the awards are in Keighley's hands I'd rather it be dead...I'd much rather it go to someone who is competent and respectful (for one) who will host it in 2017 giving ALL GAMES of the year a chance at an award, someone who will make better categories so a game that DLC has it's own category and RPGs that were ACTUALLY released this year don't get screwed over simply because Keighley wants the games he wants to win, win. Instead of ten tons of ads that has a screen at the end repeating itself 3 times telling me to buy a game I have no interest in buy, they actually secure some games to reveal.

But if you like 2 random rappers who are terrible at rapping that Keighley found outside of a Chipotle then go for it. Gamers want stuff for gamers.

No he's not. He's about himself and making money and getting noticed. He's the bloody DORITO POPE

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

The guy had paid advertisements in his bathroom. On his toilet paper. He's a total whore. He's fake.

I face plamed so hard when he started off the speech with "Kojima told me several times he didn't want this award and he wanted to put the Konami stuff in the past" (You know like a respectable adult would with a bad falling out)...then proceed to regurgitate everything we heard over and over and make up things like the "He was locked away for 6 months" only to FORCE him to accept an award he never even wanted. Yeah, Kojima was uncomfortable. Shame Keighley doesn't have the respect for people he spent 5 minutes talking about.

They would be better breaking up what valued assets they still have and put them out to auction for the competition.
There is no more financial gain for them on any trajectory in the entertainment space.

FYI, it hasn't actually been confirmed. This is just a lot of assumptions. If this is the case i would expect Sony to come out and say so. Chat bot response doesn't count as official confirmation.

People are also saying this is also an inadvertent mistake. If this is the case Sony and its customers would be best served by coming out and saying so.

If this isn't a mistake I think they need to confirm it and Playstation gamers should complain.

This is beyond nuts, this was pretty much the exact thing that the playstation execs during the ps4 era mocked the xbox one over and xbox never recovered after it, this is why you need stiff competition folks, Sony high on their own supply just like the early ps3 days where we apparently needed 2 jobs to afford one, I was a massive Ps3 fanboy mainly due to the fact that the xbox 360 pushed sony into a corner resulting in them actually trying real hard to get market share back and as a result we got crazy good exclusives, just for old times sakes like I used to do back in 2012 right here on n4g ill relist some of the major exclusives of ps3 again

Demons souls
Metal gear solid 4
uncharted 1,2,3
infamous 1,2, festival of blood
little big planet 1,2 & little big planet karting
gran turismo 5 and 6 & ridge racer 7
killzone 2,3
twisted metal
journey
ratchet and clank tools of destruction, quest for booty, crack in time, all for one, into the nexus
resistance 1,2,3
last of us 1
god of war 3 and ascension
motorstorm collection
ico & shadow of the colossus collection
folklore
modnation racers
warhawk & starhawk
sly collection & jack and daxter collection
Puppeteer & comet crash & tokyo jungle & rain & gravity crash & Echochrome & the last guy
Heavenly Sword
3D Dot Game Heroes
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
Mag & Socom 4
Fat Princess
Ni no Kuni, Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3,4,5 (these all came to pc later )

But just think and compare this catalog of games to ps5 ?
Saros, astro bot, demons souls remake, ghost of yotei, I would have included gran turismo 7 but that came on ps4 as well so not really an absolute exclusive that one needs to buy a ps5 to play like the other 4.

We are almost in the 6th year of the ps5, the 6th year of the ps3 was around 2012 and almost all the games from the list above were already released on the ps3, now if they are really pulling this online crap every 30 days non sense its only because of a lack of competition from xbox and so they have console players by the ba**s, now I don't know whether this is confirmed or not but regardless if this is in general where their headspace is at it seems like we should be worried, its the real playstation gamers that will be affected if its true, Im not even a playstation gamer anymore but my recommendation is put your money where you mouth is and really abandon playstation if this ends up being true.

@darthv72 Yeah LIKE 14 years ago. Its like saying "Give sony flak for raising game prices, because it would have made you mad in 2012"

I find their communication to be very poor. If this is an error on their part why let people get worried about it? I understand they don't respond to rumor but sometimes they make it worse by not responding and this is an unforced error on top of and apparent unforced error.

There’s people that talked directly to people, not chat bots, that confirmed it’s real 🤷‍♂️
I expect those fans that were so against Xbox doing it to eat a whole lot of crow

It's also worth noting that the text stating a 30 day license seems to only be visible on PS4, PS5 users aren't seeing it at all.

@ VersusDMC The entire goal for us gamers is to want to avoid that lol, what if sony's servers are down or having some maintenance, many times ive just played my installed games without even signing into psn, from now one it means every 30 days I have to at the very least sign it to psn to even play my installed games, cannot even play single player games without singing in, so for example if sony just decides to ban me from psn, I cannot even play the games locally already installed on my drive that I purchased after march 2026, you don't think thats insane ? you just want to accept that ? abandon playstation right now if this story gets confirmed.
we officially have started renting games from march 2026, it was a good run we had 1994 to 2026.