It was smart but it was not a reveal. Far from it.
They just wanted to give people something official to be hyped about while shifting the next gen conversation on them while others like Google and Microsoft have talked so far.
The smart aspect is that in this way they are associating with them certain next gen features and expectations like ray tracing, very quick loading times thanks to SSD, hardware accelerated 3D audio, powerful next gen CPU cores. They also cleared some doubts/concerns about backwards compatibility with both PS4 and PSVR. When the competition is going to announce some of these features as well they won't make the same impact.
At the same time they're not giving away performance numbers, all their plans relatively to new services, new OS-based features and their vision about the future of cloud gaming and PSNow. And obviously most importantly they're not talking about games.
That will take a good while and a dedicated event. But it's clear that they're ready to disrupt the usual timing of announcements and talk about things whenever they see fit and that makes them more unpredictable for the competition.
They just wanted to give people something official to be hyped about while shifting the next gen conversation on them while others like Google and Microsoft have talked so far.
The smart aspect is that in this way they are associating with them certain next gen features and expectations like ray tracing, very quick loading times thanks to SSD, hardware accelerated 3D audio, powerful next gen CPU cores. They also cleared some doubts/concerns about backwards compatibility with both PS4 and PSVR. When the competition is going to announce some of these features as well they won't make the same impact.
At the same time they're not giving away performance numbers, all their plans relatively to new services, new OS-based features and their vision about the future of cloud gaming and PSNow. And obviously most importantly they're not talking about games.
That will take a good while and a dedicated event. But it's clear that they're ready to disrupt the usual timing of announcements and talk about things whenever they see fit and that makes them more unpredictable for the competition.