Let's be honest, Sonys "State of Play" hasn't been very good either. Yeah, the event didn't show anything that I'm interested in but the xbox community seem to have liked it. So I wouldn't call it abysmal.

Gamers: Xbox is only for dudebros. All they have is shoot-shoot bang-bang!!

Also gamers: What's all this colorful kiddie shit? Xbox dead!!!11!1

Yea, let's keep expectations low. It's just tiny poor mistreated Microsoft after all.

Hellblade was proclaimed as a AAA game by Ninja Theory themselves btw.

It was described as an indie AAA by Ninja Theory. A game between indies and big AAA games.

Some later called this a triple I game.

Well yeah, Dunkey is a pile of trash. The guy made a snarky callout vid to a fan who was only criticising unkey's lack of consistency and accuracy in one of his reviews, which shows his immaturity and the fact that the guy, who likes to act meme worthy, cannot take valid and warranted criticism.

Same goes for Sterling, who likes to take the piss out of folk who don't agree with him or go "thank god for me". the guy also comes to news late these days, harping what we've been harping for days/weeks/months and even years. He was also stupidly avoiding the EGS debacle that started out, blaming Steam, for the shit he got himself into with Steam's search algorithm, so rather than blaming his own shitty and retarded means of deliberately looking for shitty games, he blames a company instead, and you know that's fucking stupid do go out of your way to do such a stupid thing.

MBG is his own case. A guy that's switched sides and now has an insane bias for that ship he's jumped to, lest he be lynched by the crew on that ship, it's textbook fanboyism at it's finest with that guy, because not every fucking thing has to be exactly the same as PS. Everyone doesn't have to adhere nor copy them, yet that guy thinks that's how the entire industry should run. Foh with that fanboy. 

All 3 of them are garbage people for their own garbage reasons. You can like them all you want, not gonna stop you, but I am however gonna call them out whenever they come crawling from under the floorboards.

You know I'd gladly trade TB over Jim Sterling any fucking time of day, because back when TB was alive, Jim actually had to learn from the man, but now he's gone, Jim's gone off on his own mediocre and retarded track of thought. Now opting for quick clicks, week/month old arguments that have since been agreed upon or done before. 

It's not Xbox only fans that dislike those 3, it's people from other platforms like myself as well. Those 3 are beyond mediocre and show stupid levels of bias for their own gains. One is a wannabe memelord, one is old tirade news, the other a fanboy who just jumped ship and wants to promise himself that he's okay with his own decision. I'm ever so tired of people on here or anywhere else, holding any of these 3 up to some sort of standard (which at this point is dangerously low), because it's setting a bad example of who's actually worth a damn, or who actually does something for this industry (because it ain't fucking Jim, not anymore).

I wouldn't call it abysmal. Maybe a bit over hyped if anything.

I only watched to see the 2 things I was looking forward to the most. Granted they were PC related lol Halo on PC and showing of Age of Empires IV, and thankfully I received both of those things!

Well after the XB1, I just don't care about MS anymore. They can do whatever they want. Maybe they'll win me back with the Scarlett, but as of now I just don't have any strong feelings either way for the XB brand.

There were no games shown that I will buy, but if others were excited, so be it.

Edit: That being said, I didn't know anything about the event beforehand. So I had no expectations. Was disappointed to see what Ninja Theory was working on, as I LOVED Heavenly Sword and their new game looks like the farthest thing I could be interested in.

I get the feeling more people are excited about the services Microsoft is providing (XCloud, Gamepass) than the actual games. I don't mean that as a diss, just seems to be what is generating the most buzz for Xbox over the last couple years.

I agree with the video that Microsoft has hired lot of devs to make content/games for gamepass. Gamepass is something Microsoft is really investing and they scarified gears5 as well which was definitely a failure for them. IMHO there is nothing wrong with indies or smaller games. But I am not sure this tactics is going to work for them. Halo, Fable has to be huge success for them. Sony can counter gamepass with free games from PS+.