Nick of XboxEra said in the recent Podcast that he was hearing that the Xbox and Bethesda showcase could be split from each other, I'm not commenting on the reliability of that statement considering it looks very likely he was wrong on the May/September event but it inspired a poll idea!

Should the ‘June’ Event (Or Whenever) Split the Xbox and Bethesda Showcases?

Is it NPD week this week?

Yeah, I don't know where to stand on this.

I think it's a mistake from a pure marketing perspective, for example, you'd want to drive home that Bethesda is now Xbox and almost everything Bethesda is now going to be Xbox ecosystem only (and Steam, Lol) and alongside that, they'll both benefit each other, for example, some will only tune in for Starfield, some will only tune in for Xbox stuff, if you combine the two then you force people to watch stuff they wouldn't necessarily watch.

But then I think about how much Xbox has to show, they have so much announced and yet so little gameplay, they need to start having deep dives on some stuff but then also, Redfall and Starfield have had next to no marketing before this event so they're both going to receive gameplay demos, especially Starfield - Didn't the Fallout 4 showcase last 30 minutes?

Along with whatever Bethesda has to announce too and the fact that Xbox will be packing their show with 3rd parties as well, I don't know, sounds like a very long showcase unless a lot of stuff gets cut, I for example, can't see them showing Avowed, Fable and Starfield all at the same event, speaking of which, Avowed needs a gameplay demo too.

The biggest criticism of Microsoft still remains, they aren't showing enough gameplay of their announced projects - Nothing for As Dusk Falls, Forza Motorsport, Mara, Contraband, Avowed, Fable, Perfect Dark, etc. Now we're adding on no gameplay for Starfield and Redfall, I think they need to pack this showcase with a lot of gameplay demos but the 3rd parties will get in the way too.

So I don't know

What if Lord Todd wants a 30 minute Starfield presentation?

The Showcase shouldn’t be split imo, Bethesda only has Starfield and Redfall this year they could save new game announcements for VGA or the second half of the year. MS has Forza Motorsport to showcase this year and that’s it, Hellblade 2, Contraband and Avowed are the only games for 2013 that I can see getting gameplay trailers unless MS can somehow get ActiBlizz to show case Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 on the show.

You gonna throw Todd's baby to some after show?!

I'd be okay with 15 minutes or so of gameplay and even more after the show, I think we're getting 10 minutes minimum during the show, so much they'll need to tell us and this is like 20 years in the making, Todd is going to want to show us how glorious it is.

Goddamn.