Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has been talking to a variety of YouTubers following yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase, and revealed that the team could have made yesterday's show even longer.
Talking on the Parris YouTube channel, the GM of Xbox Games Marketing explained that the reason behind condensing it to a single hour was Xbox Game Pass related:
"For us our focus was - hey, we could go have a bigger show with more time, and just have more variety of stuff, but we wanted this to have a very clear sense of purpose, why every game was in this show. And what you saw was us from beginning to end, for the first time ever, putting a show together where we can say listen, if you're a Game Pass member, every game in the show you can play."
Greenberg couldn't be teased into giving away more details in regards to future events, but explained that the Xbox team definitely won't be remaining quiet from now until the end of the year:
"Is this the last time we're going to do anything, announce anything, show anything between now and the end of the year? No. Do we have 15 studio teams working on a lot of games? Yes. This is a big moment in time for us as it comes with games and showcasing the games, but we definitely have more to show and tell, but it's not like next month we have a second show with five more new games. I don't want to mislead people."
What else do you think Xbox has up its sleeve? Give us your thoughts in the comments below.
[source youtube.com]
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Perhaps they should have called it the 'Game Pass Showcase' then, been more upfront about it.
Woulda preferred better quality than better quantity tbh
@Grot Exactly, finally someone gets it thank you.
Confused about game pass thing. They showed us Outer World DLC, (that is also coming to PS5, already a weird use of time.)
GamePass does not tend to include DLC... does this mean this DLC is free with GamePass?
@TanaD Yeah, everybody outside of dedicated xbox communities are just shrugging.
I really don’t get the negativity towards the showcase. I’m literally baffled. I thought while it wasn’t perfect, it was pretty solid. I also felt like if you took both showcases MS matched Sony’s. Minus the console reveal, but Sony should have revealed that thing (it’s so ugly ._.) back during the Mark Cerny presentation.
@Tharsman it might since OuterWorlds is consider first party.
@mousieone are DLC free in MS first party games in GamePass?
@Tharsman Its free for Gears 5, I think.
I thought is was a great show. Certainly better than Sony’s or their own show in May. Not sure what else people want. You want games? They showed you tons of games.
I am excited for almost every game they showed.
@KelticDevil It being better than Sony's is subjective. But I do agree they showed a ton of stuff. More than enough to keep Xbox fans engaged which was the end goal.
Lack of gameplay rather than lack of content was my issue. Especially when both companies historically been a bit guilty of announcing things too far ahead of release.
Even Fable. I was so so excited to see that trailer.... but we knew it existed. Wanted to see at least something more.
@Tharsman The Master Cheif Collection DLC is free for Gamepass Subscribers, and all of Destiny 2's DLC will be included.
@Jaxx420 You knew that Fable existed because it was leaked.
Microsoft's event was better because it showed many varied first-party games. Although most of it wasn't gameplay, most of Sony's event was literally third party and will come to Xbox.
@BlueOcean Microsofts event being better is subjective.
My view was both were equal as I dont like judging any game by trailers. There were a few trailers in Sonys conference too.
My only point there was some will prefer Sonys event some will prefer MS. Its subjective just not fact.
For semantics sake my own opinion? I think both could have done so much better but I am taking into account the impact the pandemic has had so I cant complain about either just happy to see what is coming.
@Jaxx420 I thought the same thing. Both showcases were guilty of showing games far out of the timeline. It’s what they do. Also, MS was okay, not fantastic but good. It had some pretty nice high points and some really troubling lows. I said as much elsewhere (not PushSquare) and got chew apart by some... kids. Apparently, no matter how subjective you are, just saying MS wasn’t awful makes you a blind fan.
Bottom line is what’s coming out in December and honestly neither Miles nor Halo are impressive to me. The Medium, however, yeah that looks pretty interesting. And I love Tetris. Even if I wasn’t invested in the ecosystem, I’d still be leaning towards MS.
/rant
@mousieone I got the impression MS's first party have been held back by the pandemic more so than some of the third parties who's games are likely further along in development, so showing a lot of trailers is understandable.
Sony's for example I was dissapointed to see no gameplay for Spiderman when it is a launch game, that really let them down for me as good as it was to see some R and C gameplay.
Forza will have had the biggest hold back, same with Gran Turismo as so much on-location travelling required when developing racers from the ground up vs re-using assets. So no surprise Forza is some ways off.
And yeah unfortunately any praise for MS at the minute incites a reaction elsewhere, which is a shame as they are clearly putting a lot of effort in to right a few wrongs from the current-gen.
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