yes, but expecting Microsoft to fail every year is not a strategy. it's like hoping for a miracle. thats no way to run a business.
it worked for them last year because Microsoft wasnt ready for launch and fucked up both of their conferences by overpromising and underdelivering. not to mention managing to somehow fuck up Halo. Is Jim Ryan hoping they will have another bad conference this year? another bad Halo showing? more CGi trailers?
Besides, Microsoft went out and bought zenimax. they didnt just buy bethesda, they bought the airline. whats been sony's response? nothing. they have done nothing except for dismantling their legacy, their studios, and made a good half a dozen anti-consumer moves. i'd say it's sony who is bleeding and MS instead of just watching sony bleed keep stabbing them as they bleed. its ruthless and kinda cool to see, tbh.
We are sitting here holding our dicks waiting for sony's e3 conference, and yet we are forgetting that MS is sitting on 24 studios worth of shit. Microsoft's deck is even more stacked than sony's. star citizen, elder scrolls, maybe the new fallout, halo infinite, all the cgi trailers from last year should have demos now which means fable, perfect dark, avowed, hellblade, forza, and everwild will be going up against horizon, gow, gt7, tlou factions and maybe a new sony IP. three of those games are likely cross gen (horizon, gow, factions) vs only one by microsoft. i dont think thats a bad lineup from sony, but i dont think they will kill microsoft like they did last year because last year's microsoft wasn't ready. they are this year and their bleeding out microsoft strategy is simply not going to work.
it is already blowing up in their face with the fanbase turning against them way more than they did last year when i was virtually the only one ringing the alarm bells annoying everyone here on gaf and getting banned left and right on era. I sense far more people are on my side this year than they were last year. they cant just do one mediocre conference in june and do a 40 minute state of play in september and think it will be enough.