A nice taste for the next gen, now show me the first party titles!

Heaps of pre-rendered or CGI trailers. I always have a hard time getting excited about those, but we know that some quality titles are underway. Either way, I'll wait at least one year before buying any new console once they release.

Isn't this always the problem.  Gamers become over expectant of ever game reveal.  When I first read the headline and saw that MS wasn't showing any of their stuff, I instantly thought these must be cross gen titles MS is giving a platform to give them more air time.  I really did not expect to see anything shattering during the release of any of these systems until a year or more after their release.

Personally, I watch this show to see if there were anything I care about and there were a few i will be keeping an eye on.  My main reason for getting a PS5 and a XSX is due to being able to use them for playing all the games I love at the highest setting and hopefully 4K 60FPS. Then again, I never get hyped for a new gen.  I stopped doing that a long time ago.

"Gameplay"?..........ok.

aside from the quality of games, this just tells me that all theese shows per month means that they are spreading what little they have across each month. I do not have even medium expectations for that july show.

beats knowing only how a controller looks

People won’t be inclined to admit it, but nobody likes seeing 3rd party games at a publishers E3. It’s just fluff that advertises the competition as much as your own. Prepare to be surprised, people still very much in the dark on the beefing up MS has been doing lately. MS got their fluff out of the way. 

And the irony that Sony has thus far shown a logo, spec sheets, and a controller. No 1st party exclusives officially unveiled...I’ve known about Halo Infinite and Hellblade 2 for a while now ;)

You would be right if both companies where boasting and trying to one up each other and both trying to show off. But since last year its all been coming from MS. For all that and this is all they have so far? After a point it only hurts the brand more than showing nothing. Now if Sony where to anounce something small, but just a little bit better than this show, then fans would jump on it like if they showed the bigest show ever made and thats something that I really hope never comes to happen. Gamers happy that trash was shown, just because its a tiny bet better than the competition. 

You are right, it was really tyring to see the same game on e3 being shown like 5 diferent times. I really hope we are past that and third partys either show their stuff on their event only, or split games on diferent platforms, then step out of the conferences. Would save them money and would make the remaining shows a lot better.

And again, MS did have that one up on sony and just had to wait untill sony counters for them to counter again. But now they are piling up crappy anouncements one on top of another. Now its just a detriment to the inmage of the xbox. Just look at all the backlash this show is receiving. 

Its a saying as old as time.  If you have nothing good to say then dont say anything at all. 

This is a weird year with E3 being cancelled. Guess the masses expect that surprise AAA or 1st party exclusive. This wasn’t that show. Even those Xbox/Pc games are AA at best. It would really suck to see them alongside their best if E3 still happened. This way the fluff is out of the picture, Sony counters in June, but MS counters again in July. 

Honestly, Im kind of glad and Im hoping E3 never comes back. It was a waste of time in my opinion and its the main reason for games getting anounced years before its ready just cuz they need to show something and fill a time slot. Now I hope devs and publishers do things on their own time when they are ready.

I hope you are right. I do really wish the new gen fires all cylinders so devs have a bigger push to drop last gen and optimize for 9th gen. All we can do is wait and see what sony reveals and from there see what MS counters with.