Unreal 5 Demo vs Series X Reveal

[hinch]

Machiavellian said:

DonFerrari said:

It is all about balance. Sony also had a lot of Indies on PS4 reveal but they also revealed jaw dropping demos at the same time and good quantity. When the event made by MS had basically only indies and one crossgen that wasn't looking jaw dropping besides Hellblade or Halo also not doing that when presented that harm a little the power narrative MS is going for.

But sure in the end all that is irrelevant as both companies are still to really show what they have for launch and will probably do it along June/July.

You really cannot compare an E3 event to a streamed small event like MS showed we need some context.  Neither Sony or MS has showed their hand so can we not act like that small streamed event was the only thing they will be doing for this year.

The fact is, you are comparing a tech demo to a game showing and trying to find meaning.  The meaning is that one is a ways off from realization and the other is around the corner.

I will give you this, MS should know by now how gamers are.  If you are not blowing their minds then you are garbage.  There usually no middle ground and they should just follow Sony play book.  Show them trailers of stuff years off from completion to get the wow factor going even if those games may never see daylight.  What was that capcom dragon game that never came out and was exclusive to the PS4.

Actually that is a kind of bad thing for Microsoft. If you look at Youtube, that so called tech demo for "Unreal Engine 5 Reveal" has over 10.2million views and is met with a majority of positive feedback. Whereas the "Xbox One Series X Gameplay" has around 2.2M (across 2 videos) with very mixed feedback; not including the initial video that was deleted probably due to amount of dislikes.

More importantly though, first impressions is key, especially in this industry like this where trends do matter. What happened to Kinect, game share (DRM) and $499? Or PS3 with the infamous $599, with giant Crab at E3.

Both are videos marketing tools. Microsoft has laid out their hand first showing firstly hardware unveil, now software. Sony have talked about their consoles via GDC and have collaborated with Epic to show something running on it. Tomato / Tomahto.

Last edited by hinch - on 16 May 2020