No neither I nor 'we' as gamers are entitled for that, and I get the industry figuratively runs on hype. But their strategy is hurting them, we know nothing except the Wired articles but on MS side we have seen the form factor and Phil Spencer himself had released the die shot of the XSX which almost instantly proved it is huge and powerful (along with 12TF retweets) we actually know enough to hype! Now I've made my decision to buy only one of them and my decision making is simply buy the more powerful one, so Sony keeping absolutely silent about performance/power figures is hurting them in my case and I believe for lots of others as well. Info draught is good as long as keeping the hype up, but now it is turning into either with people losing interest or bitter resentment.
Not if the silence is caused by apparent power deficit that is talked and theorized in the interwebz, and yes they are right to not comment on rumors, BUT no official answer either by form factor or die shot reveal as an answer to MS is hurting them. The logo reveal is just too useless and unnecessary at this point in time, doing that at an event where people were expecting much more, is like a slap in the face no less.
Where exactly in my post that I claimed "sharing the die shot or the form factor IS some genius marketing move", it's not, but not responding in kind in an official capacity is imo marketing suicide that festers the fear of less powerful console these GitHub leaks alluding to and not feeding the hype. People or going crazy but not in a good sense of the word. And this is their marketing strategy, an info vacuum that will be filled with their eventual release, I can appreciate it is a valid tactic but I can still argue that it will actually hurt more than it helps.
Just buy the non-Sony console and be done with it. Thanks.
Basically this. A lot of the people dooming and glooming will start singing once the conference shows up. Sony has been quiet for 1 1/2 years now, they have a good amount in their pockets.
Like that one guy who said Sony wouldn't aquire a studio. Then they got Insomniac shortly after...
Sounds like they're showing a small piece of the console every month. It's like a striptease and all ya thirsty bastards can't wait for the main dish haha
I'm sure Insomniac knows where to go with Ratchet and Clank. The circumstances this gen just held the IP back. With no movie and Sony's full backing, I would expect a new Ratchet and Clank to be glorious.
