Or maybe - maybe! - they can’t legally write “Captured on Series X” because they don’t have the actual, final thing yet and everyone should bloody relax?
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You're putting words in my mouth.
Expectation was probably more of the last reveal on actual hardware (two week tweaked Gears I remember?)
Why not?
In this case, MS was servicing a bunch of developers whose games would likely have been overshadowed if the slate contained a bunch of AAA games.
Yea, well, not going through the list of what makes it optimized for Series X was the big mistake there. I'm not going to slam the games. There were a handful of games that actually showed gameplay, but aside from the 3ish titles, it was a cutscene roll. With no idea how XSX actually impacts what we see on screen.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1777595379/scorn-part-1-of-2-dasein/posts/2830766
Apparently Scorn is now Win10 & SXclusive (4k60).
Heh.
Well, they're a small team.
Apparently Scorn is now Win10 & SXclusive (4k60).
Heh.
Well, they're a small team.
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Yah, but what does that actually mean? If people like the games, does it matter? I think people are trying to extrapolate a lot from youtube likes and the truth is probably a lot more complicated.
But it does no harm. I can understand people being underwhelmed, but MS didn't have to do anything better/different. MS has lost a grand total worldwide of zero sales because of this preview. There's not a soul alive who'd buy XBSX if only the order MS had shown the content had been different, with better (first party) games up front and these other games afterwards.
If you want to state MS had to get this one right above all other reveals and presentations, what's the reasoning? Each presentation is part of the marketing campaign. You want them all to be good, but we don't expect them all to be 100% amazing either (see Sony's snorefest PS5 reveal). No singular lacklustre presentation is going to kill a system; the only thing that'll kill a system is if there are no must-have killer games shown. Up until the platform launches, these companies have months to show stuff, and keep showing stuff, including vapourware that never actually gets released (I think back to various PS4 titles).
Check out this PS4 reveal to refresh your memory.
MS can show whatever they want prior to release, even a load of concept renders, and people will bite. Just like shiny artificial lures on the end of a fishing hook, as long as it looks convincing, people will get excited. Four years later, they may start asking questions, 'whatever happened to these promised games?', but that won't affect sales any. PS4 sales didn't suffer because PS3 was revealed on concept renders, and PS5 excitement isn't impacted by the volume of vapourware titles announced.
This reveal wasn't important. Neither is the next one. Nor the one after that. Somewhere in the mix is an important reveal, but it can be between now and a few weeks before release.
Think i need to just say again because i know I've come across extremely negative.
I personally was just mildy disappointed as expected couple big 3P AAA .
Best way to describe where i think they approached it wrongly was this.
At E3 you wouldn't expect them to open with the indie reel or close the show with it.
It definitely has its place though.
This is the equivalent of that.
I personally was just mildy disappointed as expected couple big 3P AAA .
Best way to describe where i think they approached it wrongly was this.
At E3 you wouldn't expect them to open with the indie reel or close the show with it.
It definitely has its place though.
This is the equivalent of that.
The individual games are all upvoted except assassins creed, we can conclude, assassins creed ruined the whole presentation by it's inclusion.
You say that, but AC was highlighted to be shown, and well, if i need to wait for DF to go through it frame by frame to pull out the gameplay aspects, it never did its job.
So that could've been one, madden was there also.
So it obviously highly dependent on marketing rights.
Why did they even show that AC trailer before, wasn't exactly at their own event.
The individual games are all upvoted except assassins creed, we can conclude, assassins creed ruined the whole presentation by it's inclusion.
Will obviously be the lowest selling Assassin's Creed of all time. It's already flopped and they've only released two trailers on youtube.
I wonder if what hardware Bandai Namco used for the anime game trailer. The framerate dips are really visible
The hilarious thing for me was that it's Bright Memory, a game by a one person, that looks awesome with real gameplay hahaha. While other AAA games were filled with cutscene and looks so current gen...
The big event should be when they show real gameplay running on the console, announce the price, and open preorders. So in june to make it a proper E3 replacement?
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Didn't they say July for the 1st-party reveals?
Those are the bigger ones yea. I would say those are the ones that sell gameplay in marketing videos etc. But Those types of titles are very difficult to win in. Competition is very steep. There’s always a new best contender. I think for games that aren’t competing in those spaces I just see narrative/epic set piece marketing. Like the early trailers for UC and TLOU. Even Halo infinite. They didn’t start out with gameplay trailers.
yea that’s fair.
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