In your mind, what will the Xbox SX conference have to do to beat the PS5 conference?

[DonFerrari]

sales2099 said:

goopy20 said:

Okay, maybe it really is just a freak coincidence that all the games MS has announced seemed to be a tailor fit for your taste in games, a 80 Metacritic game like Hellblade happens to be your favorite new ip - and only game you wanted to play so bad when it was a ps4 exclusive - even though you have no interest in any of Sony's 95+ Metacritic flagship exclusives because they're all just 3rd person story driven single player adventure games...

I honestly wouldn't know if MS's services are better than Sony's. I tried GP and it was great to play Gears 4/5 for $1. PS Now, I honestly don't give 2 shits about. Stuff like services are just a bonus to me and definitely not something a console platform should hang their hat on. In the end people will buy console X over Y because it has the games they care about. Sony caters to a wide audience with their exclusives and isn't afraid to take risks. Do I buy them all? Hell no, there are plenty of quality Sony exclusives I don't care about either. However, Sony has proven time and time again that they deliver with plenty of games and fresh ip's I do care about. MS, however, has pretty much done the opposite.

Like I said, I'm totally open minded and I do actually hope MS will prove me wrong in July. It's just that I got this gut feeling I'll be able to predict exactly what they'll be showing, and it's not going to be enough.

Well the second and last paragraph seem subjective enough to leave alone. Now I thought I explained my tastes and why I have them, how Xbox caters to it. Yet you remain unconvinced by Hellblade. Fair enough. 

I like Viking culture and time periods. Not fantastical like GOW but the actual Viking era. Really excited for Assassins Creed this year! Same goes for TV shows like Vikings and The Last Kingdom on Netflix. Something about being in such a primitive period and the drama that occurs draws me to it. This looked like a unique take on it while maintaining historical accuracy. Yet they balance that with the concept that the main character has paranoid schizophrenia with deep psychosis/hallucinations. The concept that people wouldn’t know how to react to such a thing in that period intrigues me and struck me as very original.  

It was billed as a shorter game which suited me fine. Again I’m not really into long 3rd person adventure games so this struck me as more intimate. The narrative possibilities of having multiple voices inside your head. The combat looked tense from what I’ve seen but the game wouldn’t over rely on it either. I liked that it was more about the journey and characters then the combat or puzzles. The idea that your save would be terminated if you died too much made me want to try my hardest with every encounter. I dont get that feeling much anymore with quick saves being a norm. Graphically I was also blown away. 

And then it came to Xbox and Ms bought the studio :)

Not to forget that games that rely heavily on story that will also be a point that may put someone really liking or disliking that game. If the theme of the game pleases you then you are much more likely to want to play that. Like Yakuza, it is an open world game, but I like the atmosphere so much that I done 100% in 0,1,2,6 and eager to do 3,4,5 likewise I don't have any wish to play GTA. I know that for metascore, sales, etc GTA is the better game but for my taste Yakuza will win.

Roma said:
people get easily hyped when it comes to Sony I mean the logo broke the internet, what does that tell you about the fans? Microsoft can easily beat them tbh. I think they kept the best for after what Sony would show which was not that exciting. To answer your question. Show Halo, Banjo, that open world game that i never seem to remember the name of.. Ever wild, ever world? Some turd parties and it would beat them :P

All the three have fans like that. It is just that likely Sony have a bigger fanbase.

Runa216 said:

DonFerrari said:

The reason N64 or GC even though as failures will be well remembered and X1 won't is the games.

Remove your prefferences from the equation and look at the top 10 best reviewed exclusives of N64 and X1 and you'll see.

I was going to say this, but I felt it would be a waste of time. There's a world of difference between gems like Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, and Goldeneye vs Halo, Halo, Halo, Gears, Gears, Gears, and Forza, Forza Forza Forza Forza Forza. Oh, and I guess Ori and Cuphead. 

It isn't a waste of time. He perfectly recognizes what the market prefers and that it is different than him. For me even if PS1 had only Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy and Soul Reaver and nothing else I would still preffer it to N64 just because those are the games I most loved that gen.

So if someone loves racing games he have two very competent franchises in FM and FH (I do prefer GT over and over, but that is another thing), if he loves shooter then no doubt Halo and Gears are better than any exclusive FPS on PS (sure again I don't like FPS and not even a fan of shooters in general, so for me I would prefer UC a lot more than TLOU for example) and no matter what we say there is a big public that would play consoles only for one or two genres. Hell there is a big chunky of the market that only buy CoD and/or Fifa and do that every year doesn't matter if we think that is the same game copy and paste (which also isn't really true).