A console launch exclusive is exclusive to Xbox. Your thinking makes zero sense. I don't care if a game I play on PC is played elsewhere anyways. Your rant is full of lies. Xbox has tons of games (more games released on Xbox last year than PS5, and Microsoft had the highest average Metacritic score of every publisher). Play games, not exclusives, ignore whether or not it is exclusive or not. 

Sony has two games that matter, Ratchet and Clank and Horizon 2. That's fine. Xbox has tons of their own. Halo Infinite for me was way more fun than either of those two. You hate Xbox and you have a thing for PS, we get it.

I'm out of this thread. Microsoft had Persona and Starfield for me. Overwatch and Diablo for me. I'm more than happy.

I want Nintendo news next! Where is our Breath of the Wild 2 showcase!!!

underwhelming show with many fillers... will give it a generous 5/10. most of the games showed are known, old games, or expansions with no new AAA announcements. Examples, overwatch, Minecraft, Diablo, Forza, league of legends, flight simulator, sea of thieves, fallout 76,elder scrolls, Persona series, and many other indie games.

It was really cool to finally see a new trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong after 3 years of nothing since its first one. Also great the Persona games are coming to Xbox! Starfield looks cool. I'm glad Microsoft had more of a focus on gameplay for their Xbox showcase.

I like most genres in gaming, and have multiple consoles.  Doesn't excuse the poor showcase.

Starfield is the only thing I will be missing on Playstation, and even that looked kind of.. I dunno. Sure, cool stuff with the spaceship and all but the whole thing seemed oddly bland and soulless. The character models looked outdated and robotic even compared to something like The Outer Worlds. But I guess it's always been like that, these games have so many NPCs that you can't make them all vivid and memorable characters. And they still have time to to hone it. We'll see.

Yeah, I agree mostly. One addition: Gamepass. That nearly everything shown is on gamepass is amazing value. Most interestingly Diablo IV isn't, but I guess that might change once the acquisition is done.

A question for you: what did you think of Ravenlok? I am impressed by the unique artstyle and also I am a sucker for Alice in Wonderland, so that is good. gameplay seems also tolerable.

Kudos to MS for still trying to put on a big mid year gaming event - while other companies have completely abandoned the idea.

I think its a solid showing 7-8/10. So much content for game pass owners (I'm sure there was something for everyone), and a decent amount of actual gameplay shown. Starfield looks amazing.

Some minor gripes would be the lack of follow up to already announced but unreleased games that fans are eagerly awaiting such as Fable, Avowed, Helblade 2 etc. No real new big announcements - but I guess it wouldn't even make sense to make further announcements when we still waiting on the games that have already been announced to get proper reveals.... thirdly we are only in June 2022 - nothing big coming for the rest of the calendar year? That being said I feel like these gripes are more directed at MS Studios as oppose to the actual conference showing.

Oh man, I just realized something: They bookended the presentation with the two games that got delayed from this year to next. Started with Redfall and ended with Starfield...as if to say 'here's what you're not going to be playing this holiday season'.

These days you gift people game pass for the holidays and they can play them when they become available and play the other available games from the same gift

There were several games I put into the "maybe" category.  Ravenlok was one.  I'd have to wait and see how it reviews and such.  

As for Gamepass, it is kind of the opposite direction of where I want gaming to go.  I like all physical.  However, I recognize that it is a good value, and I currently think Microsoft is doing everything right to make it succeed.  The biggest difference between Gamepass and Stadia is that Microsoft recognizes the importance of exclusive games.  I would bet, if someone did a technical breakdown, that Stadia was running on better tech than Gamepass.  It doesn't matter though.  Gaming is about games.  Microsoft has the games.  Microsoft just showed off a ton of exclusives including a few really big games that are going to draw people to Gamepass.  Google also gave up quickly when they discovered how hard it is to succeed in gaming.  Microsoft does not intend to give up.  They have been around for several generations and now they are investing heavily toward their all digital future.  Gamepass is going to do well. 

Microsoft is doing everything right currently.  Sony is not.  They are going to get blindsided over the next couple of years when they see that sales are not going their way anymore.  In fact, gaming is currently changing in some fairly permanent ways.  There are a lot of consumers out there who have tried hybrid consoles and will not want to go back to a TV only system.  There are other consumers who are going to try Gamepass, and then will never go back to anything other than a subscription service.  The way I see it, Microsoft and Nintendo are currently carving out their part of the market for the next decade or two, and Sony is mostly just standing by and letting it all happen.