Why is there so much doom and gloom for the Xbox after their showing but none for Sony after their event? R&C:Rift Apart was the only noteworthy in depth gameplay reveal. Spiderman MM, Horizon West, Demon Soul, and few others were trailers, yet Sony fans eat it up like it's the greatest thing ever. Microsoft has a similar showing yesterday and its suppose to the worst? Immature rationale on people part when it comes to this topic
I'll spell this out real simple as someone who has had every Xbox ever made and is likely now skipping Series X unless something REALLY good comes out for it. But that's gotta be years away unless a lot of serious Sony/Nintendo-esque quality games are in deep development but are unannounced.
Sony has an incredible track record going back .. Twenty. Freaking. Years. The PS4 was a monster console for world class exclusives. Everything Sony showed was
running on a PS5 and captured via PS5. Stated in clear black and white at the beginning of the show. We saw some direct Gameplay feeds including Ratchet, which looked like a CG movie in action. Spiderman, Horizon ... these are known entities with great reviews and reputations. They can show us some graphics and say it's coming soon and we can
trust that these games are going to be good. Then you combine a bunch of classics like Horizon, GT, Spiderman with new stuff that IMO looked like it had potential. Project Athia could be cool. I know I want Stray when it's released. Returnal could be good. I probably want Kena this year (looked like a CG movie! and it showed some gameplay!). Demon's souls remake will be great I'm sure. And there was a bunch of other new stuff that may or may not be good, but we already have a solid list of stuff for a
reveal event. Console launches are typically pretty dry and stay that way for about a year. For a new launch this was great, and we haven't seen anything from ND. Or Santa Monica. I have no doubt that Sony is going to keep doing what it's been good at for two decades. Producing world class games and exclusives.
The Xbox show. Now, MS has a
bad track record for this past generation. Full of fumbles, "no games" (ironic for reasons which I'm sure I don't need to explain to most here), and years of promise after promise about games about to hit. "The best lineup in Xbox history," which no one cared about at all. Seriously read that statement then go look at what they had at E3 2015. Then tell me you think Phil Spencer gets it. So lets look at what MS did yesterday. Halo was obviously a disaster. Looked old, felt old, and the last Halo games from the same company were huge let downs. Why should we expect some kind of huge turnaround? Money and time do not fix problems in software. You need the right people. You need talent, and that talent has to have drive that cannot be taught, and cannot be "bought." There is a MASSIVE difference between various software engineers (speaking as one), and a company's staff is the most important asset it has. If they are good. It could also be a liability. Anyway. There is zero reason to trust the output of 343i when it comes to Halo. After their recent problems all of a sudden they are going to produce the biggest Halo game they've ever made and it's going to be awesome? When they screwed up
remasters? It's not a talented company. Period. Ok moving on, Forza was clearly nowhere, and the rest of the games looked pretty much indie quality and were from unproven studios. Seriously. Go compare "The Gunk" to "Stray". Which one looks more creative, more well crafted and which one has WAY better visuals? Which one looks like it's going to have more "heart"? So turns out the Xbox games were basically running on PCs. Fable was a little CG trailer. Basically no real progress there it seems. Everwild is literally not a game yet. Just a corporate check box to have a cel shaded "pure creativity" game. Hellblade 2 is clearly hardly started (Hey, we are going to scout these locations for inspiration!). They literally showed us video of planet Earth as a Hellblade teaser. And the first game was entirely mediocre with some nice main character graphics. Gameplay and battle was repetitive and trite. Whispers and voices in my surround sound to raise awareness for mental illness? Again, ok. Psychonauts 2. Might be good. But the rest of that list of games was uninspired, no progress, and a lot of unproven stuff. Even a game like "The Medium" really felt like a PC game from 10 years ago to me in terms of the overall feel. Stiff characters, bare environments. The Xbox games couldn't even hold up to PS4 software. Some much for the poweerrrrrrrrrr of Series X. Seems like it's going to work out as well for them as the One X, which was a total flop and is now discontinued. Side note: The Xbox One X was hyped for 1.5 years. It lived on the shelf for 2.5 years. Do you think that was the plan all along?
But you know what else. You can play all of this Xbox stuff on a PC anyway. No actual exclusives. None.
So to sum up. Sony track record. Probably best in the world right now. Microsoft? Probably the worst. Nintendo and Sony producing more exclusive and highly rated games than MS. Games shown at PS5 event had gameplay, all on the actual system. Highly trusted studios in some cases. New stuff looked high quality with promise. Xbox had some gameplay, not running on Xbox. Studios with track records of screwing up their major franchise. Major reveal was a huge embarrassment at all levels. New stuff had literally nothing to show in some cases, others looked indie levels of production quality. Seriously. Go look again at "Returnal". Compare that to ANY game in the Xbox showcase. There were some gameplay segments shown and that was all real time. Nothing in the Xbox show was close to that level of production. It also looked creative with an original idea. Maybe the game isn't good in the end, but again this is a launch period.
And we also know Sony held back games and announcements.
The events were not even in the same stratosphere.
.....Also OP, Sony showed lots of gameplay running on PS5, which clearly contradicts your take on that....Pretty much all the games shown was gameplay. Kena, Returnal, Pragmata, Destruction All Stars, Sackboy, Astro, GT7, Spiderman, Ratchet, Stray...and many others...like Little Devil Inside, Demon Souls Remake, deathloop etc...Sony's show was way ahead of this one in ushering us into the next generation, which makes me curious if you actually watched the Sony showcase to begin with, since you didn't know they showed gameplay? Or did the graphics on the gameplay just look that good.?
