Serious question. Most modern consoles launched with ~20 titles on day one. I’m not talking back-compat – I’m talking new titles that take advantage of the new platform. This can be re-masters, games that ship on past-gen and new gen, or new-gen exclusives. Quick search: X1 had 22. PS4 had 23, Pro had 30. Going back; 360 had 18 and PS3 had 14. Playstation 1 had 10.

We had over 50 Xbox One X Enhanced titles on launch day; 67 as of today.

When I check this list – I see nothing all the way back in the neighborhood of 50.

What am I missing?

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In every console launch I have been a part of, the number of “launch titles” has always been a metric. As you know, I was doing a number of interviews prior to launch, and at the top of many lists of questions was “how many launch titles will you have that take advantage of the new console?” In fact, many people leading up to launch were suggesting that developers would not heavily support this console. So my assumption based on the number of questions I was getting was that the launch title metric was still important.

So – I did some research and realized that we were going to have more “launch titles” than any other console.

Now – if you were to count “playable titles” that honor would go to the PlayStation 3 by a wide margin, having the HW ability to play the PS1 and PS2 games would have put it in the thousands.

If I ever said we had more total titles to play, I misspoke. I think what we said was that we had more Launch Titles, which is quantifiably true, and I think I explained what I meant by that number on GB as well.

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For this point, I disagree since I watched the industry use the exact same term for the PS4 Pro launch.

Sony themselves talked about 40 launch titles. So if I say 50 launch titles, why am I spinning?

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/11/03/39-games-enhanced-for-ps4-pro-launch/

I’m really trying to understand how anything we said was spin, damage control or PR. We used the same terms.

«Sony themselves talked about 40 launch titles. So if I say 50 launch titles, why am I spinning?»

But here he’s clearly lying.

Please stop. It's not a good look.

What are my thoughts? I'm wondering why you don't post the entirety of what Panello is quoted as saying per dualshockers:

Panello is not lying when he says "the industry [used] the exact same term for the PS4 Pro launch"

https://www.mobipicker.com/ps4-pro-launch-titles-confirmed/

http://www.godisageek.com/2016/11/ps4-pro-launch-titles-list/

http://moviesgamesandtech.com/2016/11/04/playstation-4-pro-launch-titles-revealed/

Seeing a lot of users here with arms up. I have to wonder where the uproar was when media referred to PS4 Pro "launch titles".

What are my thoughts? I'm wondering why you don't post the entirety of what Panello is quoted as saying per dualshockers:

Panello is not lying when he says "the industry [used] the exact same term for the PS4 Pro launch"

https://www.mobipicker.com/ps4-pro-launch-titles-confirmed/

Seeing a lot of users here with arms up. I have to wonder where the uproar was when media referred to PS4 Pro "launch titles".

This is some heavy language, Gribble.

What reality are you referring to?

Lying about what? Please elaborate.

MS Xbox Senior Marketing Director Albert Penello recently said this in response to people who thought that enhanced games are not «launch-titles»:

«For this point, I disagree since I watched the industry use the exact same term for the PS4 Pro launch.  

Sony themselves talked about 40 launch titles. So if I say 50 launch titles, why am I spinning?

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/11/03/39-games-enhanced-for-ps4-pro-launch/

I’m really trying to understand how anything we said was spin, damage control or PR. We used the same terms.»

But going to the blog link that mr Penello provided, I don’t see any use of the term «launch titles» , but they rather said that 40 games were going to be enchanced at launch.

What are your thoughts towards this?

https://www.dualshockers.com/microsoft-explains-xbox-one-x-most-launch-games/

Serious question. Most modern consoles launched with ~20 titles on day one. I’m not talking back-compat – I’m talking new titles that take advantage of the new platform. This can be re-masters, games that ship on past-gen and new gen, or new-gen exclusives. Quick search: X1 had 22. PS4 had 23, Pro had 30. Going back; 360 had 18 and PS3 had 14. Playstation 1 had 10.

We had over 50 Xbox One X Enhanced titles on launch day; 67 as of today.

When I check this list – I see nothing all the way back in the neighborhood of 50.

What am I missing?

***

In every console launch I have been a part of, the number of “launch titles” has always been a metric. As you know, I was doing a number of interviews prior to launch, and at the top of many lists of questions was “how many launch titles will you have that take advantage of the new console?” In fact, many people leading up to launch were suggesting that developers would not heavily support this console. So my assumption based on the number of questions I was getting was that the launch title metric was still important.

So – I did some research and realized that we were going to have more “launch titles” than any other console.

Now – if you were to count “playable titles” that honor would go to the PlayStation 3 by a wide margin, having the HW ability to play the PS1 and PS2 games would have put it in the thousands.

If I ever said we had more total titles to play, I misspoke. I think what we said was that we had more Launch Titles, which is quantifiably true, and I think I explained what I meant by that number on GB as well.

***

For this point, I disagree since I watched the industry use the exact same term for the PS4 Pro launch.

Sony themselves talked about 40 launch titles. So if I say 50 launch titles, why am I spinning?

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/11/03/39-games-enhanced-for-ps4-pro-launch/

I’m really trying to understand how anything we said was spin, damage control or PR. We used the same terms.

Sony never said anything about «launch titles»