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Tom Philips from Eurogamer : "Sony has 1st and 3rd party stuff still to announce, feels like it has quite smartly held some stuff back"
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So it's better to own next gen talk for 1.5 months and let microsoft own next talk all the way to launch? holding on on more games to show in august makes sony stay relevant in the next gen talk.
This is probably why I'm meh on it.
A big WOW gameplay demo was really needed. They didn't have one.
DeS with seemless world traditions and insane graphics or some Horizon gameplay would have done it.
Judging the quality of an event with social media interactions ain't it.
Why are you comparing one title to one title series?
If Halo, Forza, Fable and Perfect Dark are there do you really want to say they're bigger together than what Sony presented?
I'm not talking about quality, I'm just saying that by pure interest/sales etc what Sony put there was incredible. They got Spider-Man there dude, alone 13M views.
Yeah 25 million views... It didn't delivey.
Maybe u don't like Sony games and it is fine... but an event with Spiderman spin off, Horizon 2, GT 7, Ratchet, Demons Souls remake didn't delivery I don't know what will delivery.
MS still has the Xbox Series S console reveal. Dude, lower your expectations. MS generally has more to show and its ok.
Sony doesnt need to "own 2 months" to have a good launch. They will have a solid launch.
Here is what will make or break either one. Console prices. We won't know until August or Sept because they are playing cat mouse game. Either way, MS still has the upper hand from the rumors going on. I dont think you should focus who is "winning" but focus more on specific details we are in dire need of. (Console tear down, BC info, OS info etc)
Ahh, the constant drive to upstage one another.
Makes for exciting times as a gamer!
Judging the quality of an event from a couple forum posters saying it was mediocre ain't it either.
Sony showed off more first party games than Xbox will likely have over the next 3 years and people are still acting concerned and disappointed.
And that's assuming DQXII is even coming to PS5 at all, which is not a guarantee.
An event with a showpiece gameplay showing to make people think "damn this is next gen".
The UE5 demo was more impressive than anything on show.
Small trailers for games we knew were coming with little gameplay doesn't make a great show.
I compared an entire series to an entire series. Halo has 60 million franchise sales, Ratchet has 16 million. Ratchet has also realease 11 mainline titles while Halo has released 7.
I understand you're not talking about quality as obviously a Fable or Perfect Dark are gonna be a huge deal from that perspective, but I just wanted to point out from a purely sales perspective, Halo is a juggernaut.
Social media interactions and viewings are more indicative of the brand power PlayStation has.
Not the quality of the show.,
Not the quality of the show.,
Disagree. The initial reveal was some crazy show of dreams, for sure, but in the grand scheme of console reveals, it was good. Assuming the stuff they've held is decently big (Silent Hill/God of War/FFXVI, talk about next-gen enhancements to their PS4 games like Bloodborne) they'd do a decent job of depriving Microsoft at least some of the oxygen around their reveal. Best case scenario for the Xbox show in terms of exclusives would probably be something like Halo/Fable/Forza/Hellblade/Perfect Dark/that Rare fame they had a trailer for/an Obsidian RPG, maybe Outer Worlds 2? And while they while they said Psychonauts 2's PS4 version is unaffected, I could see them saying that it's Series X only for next-gen enhancements, no PS5 patch. Which would be by far the best MS first party has looked in the past decade, but also something where Sony could still reasonably claim to have a pretty strong first-party advantage if they get out there quickly with a second showing.
There's also the issue of announcing the price. Holding games to show at the same time softens that blow, since it's pretty clear they don't think people will be happy about the price.
Sony got exactly what it wanted from the event without revealing anything mind blowing. I can see why some maybe disappointed but the event was aimed at a mass market and hence the broad range of titles aimed at different age groups. It was never going to satisfy a hardcore crowd
But you gotta put all together mate.
And not, I'm not sure about Fable or Perfect Dark quality as 3/4 of Xbox output this gen for me has been mediocre at best.
But just personally I'm not excited at all in another Fable and surely not in Perfect Dark coming back but again, this are just personal preferences.
There's a "problem" because I wasn't blown away by a console reveal?
Damn, better get that checked out. Hope I'll survive.,
lmfao the salt is REAL with some posters in here. Who the actual fuck thought the SOny showcase wasn't good? I get one not liking the games/franchises they focused on or whatever. But to actually it wasn't good? With so many first party unveiling including a lot of gameplay? New first party IP unveiling? Seeing some really cool third party titles like RE8 and Deathloop?
Yeah some people are just trolling now. Apparently view numbers, consumer engagement metrics, media outlet reviews etc don't count. The event really made some ppl real insecure it seems and it's gonna get more insufferable in the coming months I guess
Yeah some people are just trolling now. Apparently view numbers, consumer engagement metrics, media outlet reviews etc don't count. The event really made some ppl real insecure it seems and it's gonna get more insufferable in the coming months I guess
Yes it is. Just look at the May Inside Xbox. Do you think there was so much backlash and disappointment because the Xbox's lack of brand power and not the quality of the show?
As a PlayStation fan I'm pretty sure Microsoft will use whatever all their old and new first parties have done in the meantime to try and stun us completely with amazing games. It might just be smoke and mirrors or it might not, we will only find out later. But I'm fully expecting them to have a knock out presentation to combat Sony's offerings.
However, Sony has the August State of Play saved up.
In the context of the first next gen game showcase.
Some gameplay which had me thinking "okay this is next gen".
See ASilentProtagonist post and my reply to it.
You knew Ratchet and Clank was coming? Miles Morales? Really?
Ratchet and Clank showing was a true next gen showing for me and many others.
Era bubble I guess. I remember once the event was over for the next few days regular people even at my work were talking about and how excited they were.
It was a positive event, if it wasn't it would've been disliked to oblivion. Don't pretend it wouldn't we've seen such things happen before as well as constant mockery on social media.
I get people wanting more gameplay instead of trailers, and wanting more. That makes sense but let's not generalize it as if the show was viewed by the mainstream as a negative one similar to the Road to PS5 or Inside Xbox.
It was a positive event, if it wasn't it would've been disliked to oblivion. Don't pretend it wouldn't we've seen such things happen before as well as constant mockery on social media.
I get people wanting more gameplay instead of trailers, and wanting more. That makes sense but let's not generalize it as if the show was viewed by the mainstream as a negative one similar to the Road to PS5 or Inside Xbox.
But that's the social media response to the show.
Not likes, views etc.
I'd prefer a drip drip of regular updates to this. What we seem to be getting are intermittent small gushes every few weeks...I would take really small details being discussed weekly. Even if the "big stuff" wasn't towards the end of the summer.
Well, yeah. At every stage of a new console rollout, you have to show new things. We never get everything all in one go.
And beyond the initial rollout, it's this way too. You never get a completely comprehensive snapshot of everything that's in the pipeline, there's always stuff TBA. This isn't so much a matter of some unprecedented game of cat and mouse between Sony and MS, as just normal platform marketing.
And beyond the initial rollout, it's this way too. You never get a completely comprehensive snapshot of everything that's in the pipeline, there's always stuff TBA. This isn't so much a matter of some unprecedented game of cat and mouse between Sony and MS, as just normal platform marketing.
Yup, there were months of "Sony's silence is concerning..." posts and threads, and Sony pretty much showed that they had a quite a number of PS5 games deep in development and ready for the first year
I agree that xbox output has been mediocre this gen, but Microsoft have spent several years making sure that won't happen again.
And what do you mean 'put all together'?