"Presents First Look At Xbox Series X Gameplay" - Let's Rate Inside Xbox Show

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hiccupthehuman said:

Bandorr said:

Sitting at 43up, 32 down.

The third comment I see (with 1.3K upvotes) says "Anyone else notice that 10k dislikes just vanished?"

Interesting indeed...

The_Liquid_Laser said:

The Medium is also going to be on XBox1."At the time of writing, The Medium is only confirmed for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X release during holiday 2020."
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/05/07/bloober-team-new-game-the-medium/

Also, I'm not down with "at least we got to see something".  I like when a reveal is actually a reveal.  I am used to a presentation where they show the hardware, give the specs, give the price, and show off exclusive/next gen games all in the same presentation.  That is what we've always gotten in the past.  That is what I expect.  Now Microsoft is just dangling a carrot in front of everyone's face when they really have nothing to show.  This presentation really sucked.

There is this old saying, "Those who know, don't say, and those who say, don't know."  Well this is a lot like that, only it's "those who have something to show don't say, and those who say don't have anything to show."  Microsoft is saying a whole lot, but they really don't have anything impressive to show.  They trickle out info and hype it to death, but it's really a lot of nothing, just like this presentation.  Sony is holding their cards really close to their chest.  They means they have something great to show, at least they think it's great.  Microsoft doesn't even think their product is great, so we get a constant, fluffy, marketing blitz instead.

MS is also holding plenty of cards close to their chest. Have they released anything on their first-party games? We don't even know a confirmed launch lineup, price, features of either system. I disagree greatly by that last line. It's a great product, no doubt. Digital Foundry, people who've had a hands-on will tell you that much. By this same logic, Stadia has been pretty silent, so I guess they must be making a killing right now and have plenty of great things planned!

Not to demean Sony or their PS5, which I very much do look forward to, but Sony has set their estimated PS5 sales at 5-6millions compared to 7.5 millions PS4 in the first quarter. This is despite PS4's launch lineup not even being particularly great either. Already there, at least to me, that doesn't really scream: "this'll be a killer launch, and we'll have a killer lineup".  To me, everything from PS5's marketing, from the leaked Bloomberg articles, all of it have told me to keep expectations reasonable and not get too hyped. MS is taking a different approach, and this time (only this time so far), it bit them back.

Stadia has already launched.  There is no need for them to hold cards any more.  And I seem to recall xCloud revealing before Stadia, and it was even a bigger joke.  Microsoft has a long track record of trying to hype up their latest product only to have it be disappointing in the end.  Microsoft is great at marketing, but they are bad at actually making quality products.

So, I agree they are still holding cards to their chest, because they haven't really revealed anything yet.  This presentation sucked and the Digital Foundry "reveal" sucked.  Based on this track record I can only conclude that it all sucks.  Every little Series X reveal is going to suck.  If they had something good to show, they would hype it.  Microsoft are the masters of hype.  If they can hype total crap like this presentation, then they can definitely hype when they have something good.  But since they don't have anything good, then they are going to hype this crap instead.