As COVID-19, or "coronavirus" concerns spreads across China, Sony is taking health safety to heart, even in the United States. Originally scheduled for a booth at this year's PAX East event in Boston, Massachusetts, PlayStation has cancelled their appearance at the show, citing that they will no longer be attending due to coronavirus concerns. This means that the first public hands-on demo of The Last of Us II will no longer be available, nor will any of their other planned demos, such as Nioh 2, Iron Man VR, and other titles. For the companies still attending the event, PAX East will begin on February 27th.

UPDATE: Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment made the decision to cancel its participation at PAX East in Boston this year due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19 (also known as “novel coronavirus”). We felt this was the safest option as the situation is changing daily. We are disappointed to cancel our participation in this event, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern.

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[SuperDan]

In real life

Wait it's out in 30 days ?... Like I said I've not paid any attention.. To ps4 stuff at all in a long time . Since I made my gaming pc ... I guess that's the way it goes ..
I saw a Facebook post... Saying it's out in 100 days ..

 

[Pipistrele]

It's not as serious as Sony is taking it.

It's not as mild as you may think either.

 

[SuperDan]

If you believe what the news is telling you... . Then you need to wake up.... It's going to be much much worse . . ..

 

[Plasmaster09]

Something tells me they just have nothing good to show, or or it's a convenient excuse to skip the convention and show things off at their own event instead. They've been bailing conventions left and right in favour of PlayStation Experience, they're already not attending E3, which is understandable considering the event is dying anyway. I think the upper management has decided that it's cheaper and more effective to do these things online, as Nintendo did.

well, at least it means nintendo gets more attention
note: yes I am in fact very biased

 

[teamlocust]

Convenient excuse Sony, also Chinese stop eating snakes and shit

 

[Tigran]

yep, this is exactly the same reaction back 100years ago people reacted to Flu.at time Flu was equally death sentence if they got one.

Flue is STILL more deadly than the Coronavirus has been in the West and well.. Most of the rest of the world that isn't that densely populated.

 

[Crazywhitie]

I think this was a way out for Sony. They still haven’t shown anything on ps5 that supposed to release in 8-9 months. And cancel list of Us demo. Hmm.

 

[ds34]

It was probably their PR departement that kept them from showing up since TLoU features a virus...