He asks everyone to look under their chair. Space helmets. Todd unveils a 1:1 scale replica of the players spaceship and will be demoing the game from orbit.
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Xbox announces Xbox & Bethesda Showcase for June 12
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Didn't Kait have one more story to tell? I'd imagine a reboot would happen after gears 6, if it ever happens.
They will undoubtedly open with it. They'll close with a "one more thing" announcement that will be an unrevealed game.
They opened with it last time to manys surprise though that was simply a trailer whereas this will be meatier. I'm thinking mid way
They really don't. What a strange requirement to place on them.
If they reveal the first gameplay & release dates for 2-3 of their upcoming titles, they're more than good.
Outside of that, the games will be ready when they're ready. No need to show gameplay or try to put a release date on a game that isn't ready yet.
That's actually a really good question.
I lean towards opening with Starfield though. Get it out of the way so it's not a distraction from the other titles.
It's hard to nail down what I'm most excited for since they have so many games coming, but if I had to pick two coming in the near future it would be Starfield and Contraband. Two games that sound like my dream games.
People waiting for space flight in starfield is just hilarious. You guys should brace yourself for disappointment, cuz i don't see it being realisticly feasible. If the game have handmade planets, i think it will be close to destiny/borderlands, where you visit specific areas in the planet itself, so space flight is just not possible since it will be a direct flight to areas itself (just like destiny loading screen).
I think it'll close. They'll keep it hostage to keep people watching. Plus there will probably be a pretty long demo of gameplay, and it would be better toward the end of the show for pacing purposes. And then one more thing cgi teaser for some future game at the end.
They probably won't. Third party games at Sony/MS/Nintendo conferences usually just have the one logo, and other platforms are announced after. It'll probably be the same
We had a verified ex-Bethesda dev confirm manual space flight here yesterday. Unless he was lying manual spaceflight is in.
This is a reasonable list that I also am hopeful for. I'd like a Grounded 1.0 release date as well. Been touching it here and there with friends since it came out but I wish there was more of the campaign that had an interesting start and then just stopped. The seemingly radiant quests haven't been very interesting though they provided direction on where to check out.
Flight mechanics are pretty common in video games. It's weird that this keeps being made into such an impossible feat.
True. That would probably be best for branding. At best, "coming to Xbox Game Pass and consoles" but yeah gonna be lots of press release reading to see what is going where
That does make sense of course, but then, why append the 'Bethesda' for this one!
They'll probably keep both in the headline for a little bit and then revert to your suggested after a period of bedding in (Bethesding in?)
The audio director of Starfield basically confirmed in a recent video that travel between planets won't be through a loading screen:
"Our sense of scale had to be totally readjusted from making a game on a planetary surface as we've done before, and now we have these very vast distances against the black starry background"
Even without the leak, to many hints were given on the topic. Like this interview snippet with Geoff.
I would think about now a lot of those acquired studious should be ready to show more . Star field is obvious and probably time to talk about when Deathloop will come to Xbox/gamepass.
The only game I am close to certain we will not see is Perfect Dark given all the stuff coming out of that.
Interested to see off Double Fine have any smaller projects on the go.
The only game I am close to certain we will not see is Perfect Dark given all the stuff coming out of that.
Interested to see off Double Fine have any smaller projects on the go.
Keeping in mind we don't have access to any private long term plans or anything, but it seems that it will be ongoing for now. Partially this seems to be related to their limited integration policy for acquisitions, and partly a practical matter so as not to overload the existing management.
If you want to see the ultimate example of a limited intigration gaming acquisition katamari of doom, see the Embracer Group, whose subsidiaries pursue independent mergers and acquisitions, and which runs about 6 different publishers each with their own duplicate staff for various duties. And some branches publish games from other wings of the company! Letting your acquisitions stay intact means inefficiencies from duplicate staff, but it's also attractive for the companies being acquired, and is less likely to mess with what they're already doing - I.e. Better to be a bit inefficient than to screw up a good thing. It also let's you just hit the ground running because there is a bare minimum of time necessary to "absorb" them.
As far as Microsoft's gaming structure, Matt Booty runs XGS, Todd Vaughn runs Bethesda, and both people then report to Phil Spencer who runs Microsoft Gaming.
I'm the future, it's very likely that this will be joined by a 3rd person running Activision-Blizzard-King, also reporting to Phil directly. There is also a chance they might choose to abolish that joint structure and have Blizzard and Activision and King as 3 separate lines with a direct interface to Microsoft, but it is above my pay grade to comment on the likelihood.
I suspect that the next showcase in 2023 post merger will not be called "The Xbox + Bethesda + Activision Blizzard King showcase". At that point they will probably call it something like "The Xbox Family Showcase" but still keep the sub-brands separate during the show and in marketing materials. I also suspect that future games from Blizzard will display the Xbox and Blizzard logo side by side on the publisher splash screen. This is comparable to a service like Disney+ where they want you to know what is Disney, what is Lucas, what is Marvel Studios and what Is Fox. They all have brand recognition, prestige, etc.
