Console War - The July Events stand-off

[DonFerrari]

Chazore said:
Neither of them really did much for me tbh.

There's that one game from Rare that I like, but that's about it. I feel no desire to grab any system, based on those offerings.

Well you are a PC player mostly so I wasn't expecting you to feel the urge to buy any of the two consoles at launch.

chakkra said:

DonFerrari said:

Let's go.

Phil promised that Xbox One isn't holding Series X back and that the game was made ground up to take advantage of Series X (including on the show), so we can't really discounted that for the graphics, if you liked the gameplay and it going open world that is fine and you can certainly think it is the best game to be released next gen from all announced so far.

Medium, Phantasy Star Online, Stalker 2 are timed exclusives right?

Fable, Forza and Avowed barely showed anything, but yes were among the best graphical wise on the show (but not above what was on PS5 show imho).

Being in gamepass doesn't make the games better or anything, but yes I can see from the perspective of value proposition. But if I were to give points for that I would have to take points for games being on PC, and that would be a shot down on Xbox.

Everything that is MS Studio and had launch date or will launch in the release window was crossgen though (and not surprisingly the best looking games weren't crossgen).

Since you only mentioned the MS event titles none of what was show on PS interested you?

Wait, so you asked the question just to debate those who preferred Microsoft's presentation?

Nope. I discussed the points he brought not his preference. Even said that it is fine that he thinks Halo Infinite is the best game on launch for both consoles. And you can see that a lot of others gave reason why they prefered Xbox presentation and I didn't quote or discussed, because it was pointing personal taste instead of facts or similar. Also I was curious on why his mention of Sony but not listing a single thing he liked (or even disliked).

CGI-Quality said:
*Removed the Nintendo answer since it really isn't on the same level. I agree with that assessment.

Fair enough. Once we have the rumored presentation of both Sony and MS in August I plan on reddo the thread with links for the 2 or 3 MS presentations, the 2 Sony presentations and collection of Nintendo presentations for the year since they basically sliced their presentations over several months (and again to be fair they basically mostly listed soon to be released instead of games that will perhaps not release for the next 3 years like Sony and MS probably did).

FarleyMcFirefly said:
I was originally disappointed with the 8 minute direct, but after having time to digest everything I realized over half of the announcements I'm really looking forward to (Cadence physical! SMT3, SMT5).

That was the reason I listed Nintendo on the pool, even though it was a smaller presentation and also not showing next gen for fans of Switch it could potentialy be better than MS and Sony show.

curl-6 said:

My little brother, who I share a flat with, has said he's planning to buy a PS5, so I guess I'll just play Horizon Forbidden West and any other PS5 titles that catch my eye on his; we share all our consoles. (Except for the Switch since he wanted to take it on the go and so got his own)

I guess if I get a Series X, then between us we'll have access to the full breadth of the next gen. They'll need a few more games to win me over though; Halo Infinite and Hellblade 2 are on my "interested" list, but it'll take more games than that til I'm willing to drop $600+ AUD.

I hope what MS just showed isn't all we're getting as far as big games for the next 2 years.

Good for you that you'll be able to enjoy both consoles plus switch without as much hardware investment. I try to help my friends with lending a lot of my games after I finish.