Will the PS4 be at PAX East?

If February 20th is indeed the date we get a new console announcement, do you guys think it'll be at PAX East (a month later) in any capacity? I don't think it has to necessarily be playable, but it'd be cool to at least see one in action (see live demos, etc).

Much like Playstation reveals of the past any "announcement" made in February will be lots of spreadsheets, graphs, talking heads and MAYBE some prelim shots of the case/controller and a quick video teaser or two. Maybe they have a design prototype on stage so that they can do a big sheet reveal.

As such I doubt there will really be anything meaningful to show as early as PAX especially since I'd imagine they'd be saving anything really meaningful for GDC or E3.

Who knows?

I'd wager not. They didn't publicly show the vita at the pax prime months after E3 pre-release, so I can't see them showing the ps4 pre-e3 to the public ether. I doubt they would even have enough produced by the factory to demo in mass at that point.

No, at most they may have trailers that were at the Feb. 20 event. E3 is "game"day to them where actual gameplay is shown.

If they have a big screen at their PAX booth I could see them running whatever tech demos/trailers come out of this event on that screen.

Whatever they show the 20th they will show at PAX. I don't think they would waste showing anything big for the first time at PAX.

That would be like showing a trailer for some huge scifi movie for the first time at Dragon Con rather than at Comic-Con.

Don't expect anything new.

No. Sony likely doesn't consider any of the PAX shows to be an appropriate platform for announcements, too many fans, not enough business.

No I don't think so. Pax East isn't really the type of place where they would show it, I don't think. It's really more about games than hardware, at least from my experience. I will be super surprised if it is, let's just say.

Well Sony does keep hinting at something big on the 20th, but we really don't know at this point. I think announcing the PS4 would be a great idea, they could build a bunch of hype around it and it would allow them to have a leg up on MS who will no doubt announce their next system really soon.