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Is Multiplats At First Party Conferences A Good Thing

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pokoko on 14 June 2014
mZuzek said:
I think it's bad because it loses the focus. What's the point in showing off a game for your console if everyone knows it's also going to be in the competition's hardware?

The way I see it, if Microsoft is having a conference to show off the Xbox One, their objective is to make people want to buy an Xbox One, especially in this early stage of a new generation. If I watch a conference where they mostly show stuff that the PlayStation 4 also has - and more importantly, even last-gen systems and PC have -, it won't get me interested at all.

Third parties also have their conferences and places to show off what they're doing, that's where multiplatforms belong. The console manufacturers need to focus on what they have that others don't.

Not at all.  Especially early in a generation, the goal is to make people want to upgrade.  To accomplish that, you give them as many reasons as possible.  

This is partially why the Wii U is failing.  People are looking at what it has to offer and saying, "not enough."  Showing off multi-plats just adds to the reasons why someone would want to buy a new console, then the exclusives reel them in to your console.  Otherwise, you just get people thinking that they'd like to get one but it's just not worth the money.  That's the space the Wii U has lived in almost since launch.



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Xenostar on 14 June 2014

There certainly not a bad thing, but platform holders should be carefull about saying how much they have to show, if most of it is multiplat games. Multi plat is showing other peoples stuff.



Pristine20 on 14 June 2014

@Rol

The way your original statement was phrased seemed to imply that only nintendo's first party was any good.



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Captain_Tom on 14 June 2014

If it's a game I am looking forward to, then I am excited to see it, but otherwise I feel like they are just filler.



Pristine20 on 14 June 2014
Xenostar said:
There certainly not a bad thing, but platform holders should be carefull about saying how much they have to show, if most of it is multiplat games. Multi plat is showing other peoples stuff.


How is it other people's stuff when it's on your console? Who will advertise the smaller devs stuff?



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

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Tamron on 14 June 2014

to reword your title.

should games more people can play be considered bad?

No.



Xenostar on 14 June 2014
Pristine20 said:
Xenostar said:
There certainly not a bad thing, but platform holders should be carefull about saying how much they have to show, if most of it is multiplat games. Multi plat is showing other peoples stuff.


How is it other people's stuff when it's on your console? Who will advertise the smaller devs stuff?


Come on. This year the Multiplats shown at E3 conferences were hardly smaller dev stuff, it was every big game from every giant publisher. 

There was a handfull of indie stuff show, but none of that was multiplat at least not at launch, the only small dev games was stuff that had paid for timed exclusivity. 



JWeinCom on 14 June 2014

I think that the purpose of an E3 press conference should be to show what makes your system the system to own. So, I don't think that's the right time to show multiplatform games that are available for your main competitor as well. I think a sizzle reel would be fine to show that those games will be coming to your console, but more than that is unnecessary.



Pristine20 on 14 June 2014
Xenostar said:
Pristine20 said:
Xenostar said:
There certainly not a bad thing, but platform holders should be carefull about saying how much they have to show, if most of it is multiplat games. Multi plat is showing other peoples stuff.


How is it other people's stuff when it's on your console? Who will advertise the smaller devs stuff?


Come on. This year the Multiplats shown at E3 conferences were hardly smaller dev stuff, it was every big game from every giant publisher. 

There was a handfull of indie stuff show, but none of that was multiplat at least not at launch, the only small dev games was stuff that had paid for timed exclusivity. 


Note that the thread is not specific to big/small devs. It's calling the practice bad period. I've never seen Warner Bros studios have a conference at E3. Who was going to show Mortal Combat X/ Batman? What of MGS?



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Xenostar on 14 June 2014
Pristine20 said:


Note that the thread is not specific to big/small devs. It's calling the practice bad period. I've never seen Warner Bros studios have a conference at E3. Who was going to show Mortal Combat X/ Batman? What of MGS?


I never said it was bad either, i just said it was bad for platform holders to be saying *THEY* had so much to show that they were struggling to fit it in, when so much of it was not *Their* stuff.

 

Batman and MGS will be top of every gaming site without being part of a first party conference, you dont need to worry about them.  MK X was probably good to have a bit more exposure.