At E3, game announcements are big news, but most games from last year are still unreleased

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Published onJune 10, 2016

published onJune 10, 2016

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E3 2016 is right around the corner, with Microsoft’s press conference set forMonday June 13th at 9:30am PDT, with more press conferences and the E3 convention itself, set for June 14-16, to follow. Microsoft and others have already teased new titles to be announced at this year’s show (you can readour summary of what to expectto get caught up on all the latest), and as always we’re hoping for a few surprises, too.

But once all the hoopla dies down, game enthusiasts are left to wait for those much anticipated games, and wait and wait and wait.

Cuphead, one of the games announced last year, is still unreleased although this new gameplay video showed up yesterday

A new analysis of what was announced, and what is actually available now, from last year’s E3 has made it toa post on Finder.com.au, stating that 62% of games announced at the sum of last years press conferences are still not available, almost a year later.

Of the 38% of announced games that were released only 5% were released in the same calendar year (2015), with the rest debuting this year. Here are a few more quick facts that Finder.com.au teased out of the data:

We’re still waiting for Cuphead, and Sea of Thieves, and ReCore, and Gears of War 4, and of course that list of anticipated games is likely to grow next week.

So we’ll be wallowing in the hype of next week’s press conferences and news from the E3 show floor just like you, but the business of building blockbuster games has become so big, so complicated, and so expensive, and the hype leading up to them is so important, that once the glow wears off we’ll likely be left waiting once again.

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