Even the slightest
possibility of a surprise announcement of Team Ico's elusive The Last Guardian getting a release doesn't absolve Sony from needing to prove to gamers why they should be playing titles on a PlayStation 4 and not an Xbox One.
Not exact matches
A
surprise announcement is not out
of the realm
of possibility, and we'd certainly love a release window for either
of those games, but we're not expecting anything in that department.
So there are two
possibilities - either Borderlands 3 gets announced a bit before (or after) E3, with no appearance at the show whatsoever; or the Gearbox representative is misleading people to restore some element
of surprise to the game's
announcements (as a reminder, Ubisoft and Michel Ancel did this with Beyond Good and Evil 2 last year too).