| Ryuu96 said: I called it, that feeling! Maybe I should stop saying Starfield will get delayed. But I did say Starfield won't get a date until they're absolutely 100% certain and that won't be until a few months before release, Todd won't look silly again. Hmm. Just a thought, with Xbox and Bethesda's marketing team separate, would it have been Xbox who told Bethesda not to show up at TGA's or Bethesda deciding not to show up at TGA's? Cause earlier today when I said I had a feeling Xbox won't show much at all, I was more speaking about XGS, I thought Redfall would at least be there. Strange, if there's no early 23 showcase then either stuff is being delayed or they said fuck it to actually marketing their games. |
I'm far more concerned by the lack of Redfall at the show than the lack of Starfield. Bethesda can drop a Starfield release date reveal trailer outside of any show and get many millions of views across their own youtube and repostings on IGN and such within a few days. That is not an issue at all. Redfall though, Redfall's marketing thus far has been a complete and total disaster. Barely anyone even seems to know it exists, let alone are hyped for it. The trailer for it with the most views is the reveal trailer on the Bethesda Russia channel ironically, with 1.1m views after a year and a half, but the same trailer has a measly 463k views after 18 months on Bethesda's main US youtube channel and just 302k on Xbox's youtube channel, while the gameplay reveal from 5 months ago has just 481k on Bethesda's main channel and 302k on Xbox's main channel, quite poor for a AAA game. Xbox really could have used promotion for Redfall on The Game Awards, which gets over 80m viewers.
Now basically their only option is to shadowdrop a release date reveal trailer onto their Youtube channels outside of any event, which will also get barely any views just like the earlier trailers did. Seems like the only paths to success for Redfall now are: Xbox spending a small fortune on a tv marketing campaign for Redfall when it releases, or streamers loving it and giving it a ton of free advertising with streams when it releases.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 08 December 2022
