"Sony’s relative silence gives Microsoft a chance to get the stage to themselves."
E3 2019 was given to MS in a golden plate with Sony not being there and still they failed to use that opportunity. This is not going to be any different.
@steveo. You are correct he is probably somewhere crying. I mean all he has in his life is his love of a plastic box that plays games and his hatred of a different plastic box that plays games. Who knows maybe you hold him in the shower as you both sway and sob and make anti MS comments
@Steveoreno1 Ha also said IN a golden plate... haha I wish all my food was given to me, in.. inside a golden plate! And the focus on golden plates was so dumb that WE ALL forgot to mention it should have read: A Silver Platter...
umm isnt tgs this month?, aint sony there? xo 19 isnt till november, sony could still announce an inside playstation or psx type show between now and then...jumping the gun a bit, no?
Feb 12th is the ps5 reveal event, they won't have a psx conference this year and ps5 event so close together. They might have a psx fan event though to play games but I think it will be all hands on deck for the Feb reveal personally.
they may or may not do a conference, depending on what their ps5 plans are, that feb date is a rumor, they could still do a state of play or just release game info, or still have a psx and tease the ps4, they dont have to have a conference to make noise or announce stuff though.
there was also the ps5 first bits of info earlier in the year, death stranding teases and info spread out, on top of sony announcing the insomniac buy, thats not really silent is it?
I know right? Who needs tangible, profitable stuff like market share when there's mind share.
That fact that this is a space Microsoft even need to actively try to stay in says alot about how hard they dropped the ball post-360.
If you told 360 fans (myself included, I had both systems last gen) in 2012 that the Xbox would struggle to even be a relevant brand, let alone a dominant console, you'd be laughed at like you were a crazy person.
I was primarily a PS3 player tbh, but I did own a 360 for the exclusives at the time plus alot of my friends played the popular shooters on it, I'm not suggesting the 360 was the greatest thing ever.
You're right, RRoD did buff the numbers and it did have a head start, but even as a someone who is mainly a PlayStation player, it's not crazy to say that the 360 was objectively a good platform to play games on at the time.
Both systems last gen had their flaws, but neither was an all round bad platform.
Not shitting on the Xbox brand but when you add up all the years since the original xbox release it's only really been about 5 excellent years for the 360 the rest of the years have been really poor. If the scarlett gen goes south for MS I think it just proves MS got lucky with the 360 launch (halo and gears and the party chat) caught Sony with there pants down.
@sphincterboy I guess you are new to gaming. The OG xbox was a fantastic console.
It had some truly spectacular games.
Ninja Gaiden KOTOR 1 and 2 Project Gotham Racing Halo 1 and 2 The first Forza Jade Empire Crimson Skies Steel Battalion Morrowind Doom 3 Half Life 2 Breakdown The Chronicles of Riddick just to name a few. It also had the best versions of multiplat games at the time. If you did not own one you must not really be into games
The rumor is Microsoft will announce they purchased two more studios, so hopefully it will be more like four, or they'll have a boring showing. With Sony buying Insomniac, Microsoft needs to step their game up, because Insomniac Studios is one of the best studios out there and the next Xbox will need something to be able to stand, toe to toe with what PlayStation will offer.
Playground games should compete with what insomiac has to offer since they both offer some of the best open world games, just have to hope their open world rpg or whatever has the same quality their forza games has.
And the initiative is rumored to be their Naughty Dog. Hopefully coalition can do more than Gears but its not like Sony doesnt have devs dedicated to certain franchises like GT and GoW, but its weird how all MS 1st party had to offer so far was nothing but established ips, and PG is finally breaking away from Forza which hopefully translates to other devs but maybe keep 343 with Halo since its in their namesake.
I have faith that Playground will be able to bring something good out, but I don't see anything from them soon, because they are working on a RPG. Obsidian in my own opinion will put the next Xbox on the map, but again they make RPGs, so we won't see something new from them for at least four years, seeing as they'll be working on the Outer Worlds still with DLC.
The Initiative should be able to bring something good out, because the team they've put together.
Yet the sad truth is I want to see what 343 and The Coalition can do outside of Halo and Gears. Those two companies are phenomenal developers, but I want to see more from them, over more of the same.
The honest truth is I want to see more from Xbox, because as a Xbox fan I want to see the next system being healthy and I can say that the Xbox One wasn't the healthiest, because very few new IPs came out.
I like what I'm seeing from Microsoft with adding more game studios, but still they need more and even though they are adding more at the same time they don't have that many, because they sold off Bungie, plus have closed the doors on other developers too.
So I just want to see more and them not just be Kickstarter companies that Microsoft is buying.
Xbox fanboys will defend Xbox no matter what it seems I don’t even like reading some of these guys comments on here anymore. I just hope Xbox do better next gen or it probably will be Xbox last one if it don’t.
Console Warriors blindly attack Xbox... because we need to attack Xbox... Why? because we hate Xbox. Why? Because we hate Xbox... Okay... get a life, please. I'm sure they have some good things to announce just like Sony would if they had their annual show.
For the performance of Xbox this gen they surely deserve the ridicule and doubts.
Not because of hate or anything truly.
It's because this gen was 90% PR fluff and cloud promises. They strung along Xbox gamers so bad this gen that those clouds produced a storm with tons of rain that it nearly sank the xbox ship leading to a bunch of those fans jumping ship. I mean it's all in the numbers. Oh but I forgot they stopped releasing those and again changed that narrative with more PR fluff. What ever makes you die hards happy though. This is the only gen that xbox has been in where there has been pretty much no reason to own an xbox and it looks like that trend will continue. Sales and market share alone prove my point. A ton of xbox players sure jumped out this gen..
So Forza horizon. Ori. Sunset Overdrive. Quantum Break. Gears 4 and 5 and Halo 5?
The best controller. The most powerful hardware. Dedicated servers. Gamepass I mean your fanboy is showing but you may want to sound less informed in front of gamers on a gaming website
I imagine they will have one or two new studios to announce and also the games those new studios are making plus a lot of talk about xcloud and new additions to gamepass
Literally they don't though. They spend all this time and effort on these rubbish Xbox events and streams, with cringy presenters and waste of time content, all it takes is Sony to mention PS5 or announce something like the acquisition of Insomniac and Sony gets just as much interest, hype and coverage if not more...
Xbox can keep doing these absolute waster shows but if they have nothing to do apart from tread water like they have done all generaton, then who really cares? Give us something big to actually care about.
We don't need an entire conference for a studio acquisition announcement and to know what game is going to be on Game Pass next month. XO18 was a dreadfully boring showcase and I expect no better this year
I could not c less about Xbox next or xbox 1 Now that every game is on pc,.. I see no reason to buy a MS console at all,.. On 360,.. at lest you had Froza,Halo, Gears (relatively exclusive for some time), so you did not feel like a complete moron if you bought the machine,..Nowadays,..There is literally nothing that stays exclusive for long,.. basically 0 day for first party,..
"Now that every game is on pc,.. I see no reason to buy a MS console at all" Exactly. For us PC gamers it's awesome that MS is supporting our platform of choice and that we don't have to waste money on irrelevant hardware.
"and the Xbox brand clearly has life in it yet, evidenced by the strong performance of premium Xbox-branded hardware, such as the Xbox One Elite controller, and the Xbox One X"
Proof of this? When did Microsoft ever reveal any numbers that specific? They did not sustain any increased sales one they released X1X, so that certainly isn't true.
I see some people saying no one cares about Xbox and their events like ok you guys love PlayStation that’s awesome it’s a good console but to say that is just ridiculous
The last live Xbox show had 300k viewers and the one before that (e3) was in the millions Xbox one almost at 50 million sold with 65 million xbl users (this I’m sure is xb1 and windows combine) to say no one cares is just childish
Why can’t everyone just get along and love all consoles 🤷♂️
Almost 50 million sold? Link please. I don't even think they reached 45 million yet. Last time I checked they were at 42 million in late March. I don't think they sold 8 million consoles in 5 months.🤔😂
They had the stage to themselves at E3 and Gamescom this year and as usual, didn't set the world on fire with a single Xbox only related announcement. Why would this be any different?
Losing bungie was the end for xbox. Halo nosedived massively, gears hasn't changed in a decade (hope gears 5 is good!) and while forza is great, it's just a racer and can't carry a platform
I'm guessing acquisitions of Bloober team and IO Interactive, Pillars 3, inXile's next RPG, and Double Fine's next game(probably will be a smaller game). Also Gears/SOT DLC of some sort. Should be interesting.
Xbox: welcome to XO1- PlayStation on Twitter: we have acquired- Xbox: OMG SONY, JUST STOP BULLING US!!!!! PlayStation: ...... Xbox: ...... PlayStation: ..... Xbox: anyway, we would like to announce- PlayStation: psx 2019 in December Xbox: *commits self-isekai*
So many Xbox haters and yet they will still be watching eyes glued to the conference lol even tho they want it to fail and say it’s irrelevant they keep watching and can’t they keep the word Xbox or Microsoft out of there mouth even tho it’s suposeed to be a dead and irrelevant company as they keep saying idk what these Sony fans are fighting like go fight Nintendo?
But nope they hang around anything Xbox scared and afraid and ready to pounce at anything positive about Xbox I don’t get it why fight something you Considers dead and gone and irrelevant........unless your lying 🤨🤨🤨
X019 here we come!