The bad news it not just about the specs. It's completely about the strategy. Im fine with how they revealed the specs, but their messaging is weak. Specs are specs and if they are lower, you have to bring some other stuff to the table that will make gamers go crazy. Games, tech demos, giving examples that are not 10 year old games. It's just that MS is giving gamers a positive vibe for the last 3 months, after allready getting a lot of positive vibe from Xbox One X and GamePass.
Not likely, Sony knows how much word of month matters, and if multiplats run better on the Xbox and Microsoft's first party studios starts to deliver they'll be in a less than ideal scenario.
Yes I understand, but with PS4 they managed to do reveal first, and tech dive later, for those interested.
This doesnt make sense at all. Why would a market leader company not care about marketing. Yeah PS5 is gonna sell well, but they'll loose a big piece of the market if they dont care about marketing. Decades of goodwill is nice, but teenagers dont care about decades of good news and will see the positive vibe around MS for the last years.
This is what I don't get, rumor was Sony had dev kits out earlier than Microsoft yet Sony appears to be less ready for a Fall release. Everything from BC support to having external storage available is all up in the air. Not even a glimpse of what the PS5 looks like.
I believe Xbox One went wrong, not just for the presentation. It was a long time of bad narrative, not just the event. Sony used that against them at the E3 after that, continueing the bad narrative. The positive vibe around MS started with their BC plans and later with GamePass and Xbox One X. MS was not clear enough about why you would want their OG Xbox One. Memes, YT videos, less powerful, it all worked against MS. MS made the mistake to think people automaticly wanted their product without really hyping gamers up.
It created a lot of goodwill (X enhanced games from OG Xbox to Xbox One) and a positive narration. It wasnt suppose to defeat Sony current gen, but together with GamePass it is easy to see that MS was creating this positive narrative and is now delivering on it.
I have no doubt about MS pleasing their customers, but before knowing pricing, (worldwilde) availability, models (Series S?) and launch games, I find such statement a bit precipitated because it would mean not only to catch the marker leader, but do better than him.
Im not saying they will catch the market leader, but i do think theyll come closer than current gen. Again, the narrative on YT is shaping a bad vibe around PS5. That wont mean theyll 'lose' next gen, but dont underestimate a gen reset. After Ps2 it seemed like nobody wanted to have an Xbox.
Yeah, I don't think they will do a parody because it would have been too mean to Mark Cerny, who is not to blame here (the marketing team is).
Why would a company want a negative vibe around their new product? It really doesnt make sense to think that is smart.
They could have just shown games in earlier months, without saying anything about power. Then still, they can bring bad news a lot better than this.
Uh? How has it tricked me if I start by saying "if it's true"? And which marketing exactly, MS saying they won't focus on next gen only?
True, Neither is MS really. They just already have their shell finished and are showing off their features in bite sized chunks. They did this from a different more effective angle in my opinion. I guess we have to wait for both to arrive at a point where they want to talk content. Its just with sony we will get everything at once, and wish MS we already know a bunch more.
Here's how much Sony bungled it: Cerny didn't even show examples of his Secret Sauce Drive.
