Sony And Microsoft Can’t Match Nintendo Directs

This week saw Sony and Microsoft both getting in on the video news show format. Sony had its first PlayStation “State of Play” video, focused on PSVR titles. And Xbox put out the first episode of its “[email protected] Game Pass,” a mouthful of a name for a presentation that included both announcements and developer interviews. Neither of them were as good as a Nintendo Direct.

[EddieNX]

Presumably they'll have better efforts in the future , but the last direct was very very good, Like a mini E3. So until they match or exceed that, Nintendo direct is best.

[Jin_Sakai]

Nintendo know how to do shows. They usually announce something great or at least a surprise which gets people excited.

[EddieNX]

Indeed.

Dat Astral Chain trailer...

[bouzebbal]

Lol not much is needed before all them fanboys show up... None of Ms or Sony said they were gonna make a Nintendo direct or similar.. It's you fanboys who came with this dumb conclusion, not them...

[King_Noctis]

“None of Ms or Sony said they were gonna make a Nintendo direct or similar.”

You are delusional if you think Sony’s State of Play and Xbox’s [email protected] Pass show aren’t model after Nintendo’s Direct.

[Godmars290]

Until they have an actual major announcement you mean.

[Zeref]

I think people are overrating directs. There are plenty of bad directs. But I guess the good ones stick to people.

[indysurfn]

? I would agree if you said that the other way around. There are a FEW soso directs. Nintendo needs directs because it would be stupid to announce all those games in just three major shows. Because only a few would get attention.

Could you imagine arms, going up against spatoon...zelda...mario Odyssey .maro cart...a million jrpgs.yooshi....supersmash...e tc etc etc.

[eagle21]

I guess Nintendo made it LOOK easy....lol.

[AspiringProGenji]

We’ll see how borh can improve it. The first Nintendo directs were a bore and it took them time to make it interesting too

[porkChop]

Yeah, both can vastly improve their shows. They'll be fine.

[CrimsonPheonix]

Some of you are effing stupid. Its just a video that shows upcoming stuff. It doesn't matter how long Nintendo's been doing it. Its just a video anyone can do it. how satisfied people get just depends on what Sony has to show.

[Juusterey]

So your saying that if they can't natch on their first attempt they can't match?
That's pretty stupid

[NovusTerminus]

Nintendo has had some pretty bad ones as well, and is MS and Sony's first one, give it some time.

[TheColbertinator]

Sony should stick to conferences and not those lousy cheese fests like the last E3.

Simply shut up, show games, introduce team, show games, show more games and no music on stage that drags on for more than 30 seconds. Easy way to do a conference and keep people talking.

[jaycptza]

You should shut up

[TheColbertinator]

Make me you weenie

[Ausbo]

Sony and Microsoft have big shows that they save most of their announcements for. Nintendo sprinkles theirs in 20 minute directs throughout the year. So yeah the directs have more announcements than the others.

Also, Nintendo has been doing these for 8 years.

[Razmiran]

Sony cancelled their big showa dude

[luckytrouble]

Two of them. Because they don't have anything big and new to show at the moment. They haven't commented on PSX 2019 yet. So why expect them to pull a major Direct when they clearly did not have the content necessary for it?

I already typed something up on it in the blogs section, but suffice it to say the State of Play was fine and actually did a good job meeting the expectations Sony set prior.

[CrimsonPheonix]

The amount of time Nintendo has been doing doesn't matter.

[PCgamer98]

They don't need to actually.

[DarkZane]

Nintendo had years to make their directs like they are today. There was no way Sony and Microsoft would get it like that on their first try.

Give them a year though and it will probably match the Nintendo direct or be better.

[King_Noctis]

Better than Direct? Unless Sony/MS can develop game as fast as Nintendo, I don’t see those shows can match the excitement of a Nintendo Direct.

[rob-GP]

Go back and watch the first few Nintendo directs, I imagine they weren't as In depth as the ones we get now

[IRetrouk]

Its gonna be hit and miss for all of these types of presentations, it's a good way to showcase stuff though, I prefer it to waiting all year to hear everything at once.

[Bronxs15]

yeah right, nintendo is the most out dated and least capable of the bunch. anything nintendo can do, sony/ms can do better and have done for a long time.

[EddieNX]

Except neither of them make as good exclusive games. Well done genius.
The Switch Ch isn't oudated either, it's just different.

You aren't very good at this are you Bronxsy?

[Atticus_finch]

"Except neither of them make as good exclusive games"
You should never go full fanboy.

[Bronxs15]

Ok, I’ll give you this. Nintendo is the best at catering to the 6-12 preteen demographic. By far. No contest.

Exclusive games will be about a persons preference. Does Nintendo make a exclusive first person shooter as good as halo? Does Nintendo make an exclusive third person shooter as good as uncharted? Likewise no one else makes an exclusive board game like Mario party as good as Nintendo.

[bluefox755]

They exceed Nintendo in my view, since I have zero interest in Nintendo games.

[shauzy]

why was the playstation video streamed even? with a set date? for just 20 minutes?

[Bronxs15]

Right? They should have just uploaded it to their YouTube channel. Then they probably wouldn’t have gotten so many dislikes lol

[shauzy]

I waited all day, even took a day off from work man, i thought they would have big announcements, or at least a human will come talk to us

[DefaultComment]

Well, if we are being honest here it's no surprise to perform underwhelm on their first attempt. Not to mention that State of Play was a vile copy of Nintendo's mini direct that it's basically a grid of games shown.
Will Sony get better? Of course they will! If they stick to doing this more often. will they surpass Nintendo's Direct? I highly doubt it, not because they can't do a better presentation but because Nintedo has that "magic" that makes it unique and no matter how cool the competition does Nintendo's gags and IP are unforgettable.

[masterfox]

Why match it ? , why create another kinda kids show ?.

[AK91]

Microsoft now but Sony has the potential although they have a couple years till they can be considered being good.

[CrimsonPheonix]

dummy the next one could be good you don't know anything

[Prince-Ali]

so no one here thinks its absolutely stupid to compare Nintendo directs something that's had wellll over 10 shows and compare it to Xbox 'directs' which have had less than 3 and Sony that have had 1!? like you all dont think that's stupid??
And are we REALLLYYY all gonna sit here and pretend Nintendo directs have always been stellar shows!? looooooooool oh purleasssee!!!! they've only gotten their sh*t together in the last 2 or maybe 3 directs...

[TheHateTheyGive]

Let me know when nintendo gets back in the dedicated home console business and we will talk. Nintendo fans love to boast and talk crap about xbox and PlayStation when they did not even support nintendos last home console wii u, they let wii u rot and die, nintendo had to run to their very successful handheld fanbase and create some underpowered gimmick hybrid that can't even run modern games , the list is way to long to post. No one cares about handheld gaming other than people that lack social skills and need to games 24/7 even when they go out.

[timotim]

Agreed.