Phil Spencer On Bethesda Deal, Series X/S Launch, And More

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DonFerrari said:

sales2099 said:

Seems to me with that Jim quote he is proud to offer something new with PS5 that is unique to the platform. After Phil’s quote in January that was about “cross gen for 2 years” he positioned himself as a alternate philosophy for gamers. 

Sure he didn’t say anything specifically, but it was a perfect positive PR storm he created and rode for months. Again I believe what sets the two people apart is transparency. Any misunderstanding on PSs part could have been addressed on the reveal trailers...or even a community manager posting a clarification. Something easy to do. 

You may enjoy the long stretches of silence followed by Sony hitting hard when they are good and ready, but it also leads to fans being disappointed when they hear games that they thought for months were taking full advantage of the hardware were actually being shared with 2013 hardware. I knew Halo Infinite was cross gen since 2018, that’s transparency. If Sony execs were more chatty, maybe that misunderstanding would have been avoided. 

Yes paragraph one is a valid rationalization that we already discussed. Phil intended to say all games would be crossgen (we won't make people buy a new console to play our games), while Jim is they want to explore what is possible only on PS5 (which in no way means all being exclusive).

Fans hype and are disappointed by their own expectations. Phil said X1 wouldn't hold out their games, still what happened with Halo? Yes that is lying to be a good guy.

It wasn’t a select few who were let down, it was the majority of PS fans online that expected certain games to take full advantage. I stand by if Sony was just a little more chatty, you guys would have had realistic expectations right away. 

Imo I’d chalk up Halo Infinite to dev incompetence. 343 is just horrendous with deadlines. Halo 5 launched without basic features that took over a year to add. Halo Infinite had the gameplay down but lacked lighting, fidelity and texture polish that only time can fix.

Last edited by sales2099 - on 20 October 2020