I was convinced this Xbox Showcase was going to be amazing. Xbox is lagging so far behind at this point, they needed to come out all guns blazing and I really thought that's what they would do.
They did not.
I'm gutted, because even though I'm a PS guy, I know that Sony are at their best when they have to work for it. When Sony's number one spot of threatened they perform their at their best.
This Xbox show told me one thing, Microsoft is no where near ready for the next Generation. the proof of this is the fact that everything outside of Halo was teasers and nothing had a date. Look at Fable, they showed us nothing apart from confirmation that it was in development. Forza was even spoken as "Very early work" in it's presentation segment. These are 2022 release dates and we all know it.
With Sony;
- Spiderman was given a date of this year,
- ratchet and clank had a gameplay demo,
- Gran turismo had a Gameplay demo,
- Sackboy showed off gameplay,
- deathloop showed gameplay
With the exception of Psychonauts 2, nothing about the Xbox show looked interesting to me. A teaser trailer for some game I've never heard of is not going to get me to consider jumping back on the platform again. Plus even if I pretended that each trailer was 100% in game footage (which they were not) nothing looked next-gen to me. There was nothing that looked even as good as games on the current gen hardware.
And that last sentence is a good TL'DR for my whole post.
