PlayStation has cancelled its GDC plans for this 12 months.
Sony has confirmed that it’ll not be attending Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March. The firm cited issues over the coronavirus outbreak, the identical purpose behind its choice to additionally skip PAX East later this month.
“We have made the difficult decision to cancel our participation in Game Developers Conference due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19 (also known as coronavirus),” Sony mentioned in an announcement to GamesIndustry.
“We felt this was the best option as the situation related to the virus and global travel restrictions are changing daily. We are disappointed to cancel our participation, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern. We look forward to participating in GDC in the future.”
Sony shouldn’t be alone on this. Facebook’s Gaming division, which oversees Oculus, can be skipping the present this 12 months. With that mentioned, Oculus will be making bulletins round GDC on-line.
GDC revealed that round ten China-based exhibitors have needed to cancel, although some Chinese corporations determined to as a substitute ship their US employees to attend. For its half, GDC organiser UBM mentioned it’s following US quarantine pointers, increasing on-site sanitation choices and rising the frequency of facility cleansing.
The coronavirus outbreak has to date precipitated the cancellation of The Taipei Game Show, initially scheduled for February, and managed to disrupt manufacturing operations in China. The toll of that is predicted to hit Nintendo’s Switch supply as early as April.
GDC 2020 runs March 16-20.
