What was shown at TGA that overshadowed the Xbox reveal? What did TGA show anyway?Some people are thinking it was a mistake to reveal the console so randomly like that. Like, people kind of forgot about it by the end of TGA
It did feel like it got buried being near the beginning of the show. Ending with it would have been a lot more impactful.I think so.
Randomly uploading a teaser trailer, even that exact trailer, on social media/YT like the Switch reveal in October 2016 would have been better.
It was cool but kinda a thud amidst so much other game news. On its own on a random day of the week, maybe with a teaser tweet a day or two before, would have been much better imo
Both the Series X and PS5 are gonna be beefy boys.What really matters is what's to come, but all signs point to it being an insanely powerful console
I mean it's still a year out. A full out marketing campaign will come.MS is clearly veering towards a "phone model" type console tier, for better or worse
i'd go far as to say it works to their advantage to be quiet about it. let the common folk keep buying Xbone iterations while nerds dork out and drop $500+ on the new thing
I mean it's still a year out. A full out marketing campaign will come.
Don't read too much into the PS5's marketing strategy.it was a killer chess move. it arguably made more waves in terms of getting attention this early on in the 2020 hype machine than that Wired article about PS5's preliminary specs.
crucially, the reveal had a controller visible at all times that looks just like Xbox One's. that shouts something pretty loudly to anybody who's not a forum devotee, without requiring extra cumbersome text: this system follows in the last console's legacy and may very well be compatible with older software. (which, as we all know, it is.)
everyone has 11 more months to strike with game reveals, spec reveals, prices, and more. and the Xbox group, under Spencer's leadership, has been cranking on a Scorpio/Series X strategy for a while now. compare that to Sony's scattered current state, with various leaders bailing over the past 12 months. PS5 may very well do fine in terms of marketing and 11 months of teases, but Xbox sure seems poised to control and lead on mainstream messaging this time around.
Man when you consider the last reveal of the Xbox One and compare it to this one during the TGA, this reveal and the timing were pretty much destiny and perfection! They killed this showing. The messaging is clear, the hardware is bold and unique and the game shown really pushed the message forward about what next gen means for Xbox. This reveal will be talked about for years to come.lol the PS5 was randomly announced on a fucking article. This was miles better. I get the bias against MS is strong in here but c'mon.
And yet, here you are.... funny that. LolI have no interest in XBox first party games so no hype at all.
Definitely yes. It was buried in a series of announcements, it made no sense to announce it here (right before Christmas, what Microsoft was thinking), and it should have been in its own event. Console announcements are special, they are exciting and get people to dream and get excited. We had none of that yesterday. It doesn't feel like a lot of hype is happening right now too.
Watch Sony capitalize on this and announce an event 3 weeks in advance and build hype just like they did with the PS4. Much more people will talk about it, articles and speculation will come out every single day until the event, everybody will talk about PS5.
There are literally a dozen threads on the front page of resetera, the Xbox reveal has over 3300 replies last time I checked, Hellblade is nearing 1,000 replies, and the specs have impressed everyone. It's also trending on twitter and every major outlet has picked it up. I literally do not know what you're getting at. It stole the show.
everyone has 11 more months to strike with game reveals, spec reveals, prices, and more. and the Xbox group, under Spencer's leadership, has been cranking on a Scorpio/Series X strategy for a while now. compare that to Sony's scattered current state, with various leaders bailing over the past 12 months. PS5 may very well do fine in terms of marketing and 11 months of teases, but Xbox sure seems poised to control and lead on mainstream messaging this time around.
It's a mix of all three answers: it was hype because it was totally unexpected, but at the same time it felt like a regular ad, plus the lack of buildup made the surprise factor less that what could have been? Dunno if that makes sense.
It would have been much better if they had made it the last announcement.
And outside of resetera?
I mean, what "stole the show" is subjective. And as for twitter Series X is not trending. It stopped trending soon after it started trending because there were other announcement divvying up the spot light. My thoughts on the reveal are not to disparage the console. I'm personally glad we can put a form factor to the device instead of the endless spec lists carted around the forums.
My point is that the reveal would have had more reach if revealed outside the onslaught of info and via it's own event.
😂 I love this forum.it was a killer chess move. it arguably made more waves in terms of getting attention this early on in the 2020 hype machine than that Wired article about PS5's preliminary specs.
crucially, the reveal had a controller visible at all times that looks just like Xbox One's. that shouts something pretty loudly to anybody who's not a forum devotee, without requiring extra cumbersome text: this system follows in the last console's legacy and may very well be compatible with older software. (which, as we all know, it is.)
everyone has 11 more months to strike with game reveals, spec reveals, prices, and more. and the Xbox group, under Spencer's leadership, has been cranking on a Scorpio/Series X strategy for a while now. compare that to Sony's scattered current state, with various leaders bailing over the past 12 months. PS5 may very well do fine in terms of marketing and 11 months of teases, but Xbox sure seems poised to control and lead on mainstream messaging this time around.