Man, what is with this obsession some people have with the word "AAA" and acting like a game only matters if it's either that or a certain genre and that anything else immediately doesn't count and is "lesser" as a result. This is the same thing with people who constantly shit on Xbox first party games but then conveniently leave out Forza Horizon 3 & 4 because they're "just racing games" as if that makes them somehow not equal or the same level as others?

The fact that there are so many hilariously dumb hot takes like "they were all only smaller games", "just AA games", "indie games", etc.... literally based on what? Because they actually bothered to show different genres and have actual variety in the games they showed instead of constant 3rd Person Story Driven Single Player Games(TM)? or whatever people wanna define as "AAA" now? (I mention that one specifically because it's obviously what a lot of people think about when they mention AAA now". Does knowing that Bright Memory Infinite is being developed by one person somehow affect your ability to enjoy it or look at it critically? Are people not allowed to be excited for The Ascent because god forbid it's a shoot em up and that inherently makes it lesser or smaller somehow? We could get a fucking remaster of Cars: The Video Game from 2006 (which I would buy day one), which can easily be a huge game for some people because what's what they're all meant to do: appeal to different people and not just only have one certain one as "the big one". Now that Xbox is trying to showcase variety to show how there's something for everyone it's a problem? At one point people (probably the same people) complained that Xbox had TOO MUCH of the same stuff.

The immediate dismissal of some of these just because they aren't all the same thing is so disgusting, and I truly feel bad for anyone who thinks this way unironically.

The show wasn't great, they definitely messed up the messaging by saying it was gameplay then showing almost nothing but trailers, but I really liked the variety of the games they showed and I would gladly take shows like this more than ones that just have all the same shit, and it's absurd that people are acting like that's a bad thing. I really liked Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, those were probably the highlights for me. You couldn't pay me to play Scorn though, that shit would make me feel sick. 

MS is also holding plenty of cards close to their chest. Have they released anything on their first-party games? We don't even know a confirmed launch lineup, price, features of either system. We can't even pre-order the thing. I disagree greatly by that last line. It's a great product, no doubt. Digital Foundry, influencers, media who've had a hands-on will tell you that much. By this same logic, Stadia has been pretty silent, so I guess they must be making a killing right now and have plenty of great things planned!

Not to demean Sony or their PS5, which I very much do look forward to, but Sony have revealed they set their estimated PS5 sales at 5-6millions compared to 7.5 millions PS4 in the first quarter. This is despite PS4's launch lineup not even being particularly great either. Already there, at least to me, that doesn't really scream: "this'll be a killer launch, and we'll have a killer lineup".  To me, everything from PS5's marketing, from the Bloomberg articles, all of it have told me to keep expectations reasonable and get hyped, but not too hyped. MS is taking a different approach, and this time (only this time so far), it bit them back.

They do that with every livestream. The livestream event was like 2 hours long. They just reupload the 27:45 minutes of actual footage. This isn't some conspiracy to hide likes. If it was, they'd just disable likes/dislikes altogether. They do that with their E3 livestream too where they get a good percentages of likes.

Stadia has already launched.  There is no need for them to hold cards any more.  And I seem to recall xCloud revealing before Stadia, and it was even a bigger joke.  Microsoft has a long track record of trying to hype up their latest product only to have it be disappointing in the end.  Microsoft is great at marketing, but they are bad at actually making quality products.

So, I agree they are still holding cards to their chest, because they haven't really revealed anything yet.  This presentation sucked and the Digital Foundry "reveal" sucked.  Based on this track record I can only conclude that it all sucks.  Every little Series X reveal is going to suck.  If they had something good to show, they would hype it.  Microsoft are the masters of hype.  If they can hype total crap like this presentation, then they can definitely hype when they have something good.  But since they don't have anything good, then they are going to hype this crap instead.

Medium is the only one that was confirmed. There's an interview article with the developers and they said its xbox series x exclusive and PC. 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-07-layers-of-fear-dev-bloober-talks-its-xbox-series-x-survival-horror-throwback-the-medium

Hope this link works. We don't know if the other two will be like the one yesterday. The next one is all about the system. The games you saw apart from medium are all multiplatform titles. It will probably look the same on all consoles. 

They were just giving third party a chance to showcase what they have. Some don't get a chance to have that kind of exposure. 

What did u think of the inside xbox show yesterday? 

Yea I wouldnt know what the cost for that would be. I know in nz 4k + hdr tvs are super cheap.  Same I love technology and always gets excited when new generation of Consoles arrive. Yea exactly. It doesn't make sense but it happens. Are u going to get both next gen Console? 

This link works.   I checked a third site and it said Series X and PC only.  Looks like my first link was wrong.  I'll bump the presentation up to two since it actually showed 2 exclusives from what I can tell.  2 out of 10 (still not too great)

I watched it again today to see how I felt about it. My biggest grip is how much they hyped up AC Valhalla and barely showed any gameplay. I think that is what most people are annoyed with when it comes to the show. If they showed a solid 2-3 minutes of solid gameplay of AC, I think most peoples reaction would have been much more positive. All the other games they showed look great to me and there was plenty of diversity. The use of smart delivery for most of the games is a positive in my book, especially when all of them are within the launch window of the series X.