Phil Spencer Was 'Pleasantly Surprised' By The Reaction To Xbox's E3 2021 Showcase

So was I, to be honest. Most YouTubers, sans DreamcastGuy and Matty, felt it was quite a strong showing for Xbox. Next one ought to be even better, with more games ready to be shown.

You narcissistic batard! Ha! Just kidding, good showing.

Having never been an Xbox owner until recently, Game Pass was too good a deal to turn down. Was lucky to get a Series X, and the show really showed me what a great future Game Pass has. FH5 looks amazing.

You can argue that PlayStation has better quality Exclusives but when you have a packed backlog of games that you can never run out of. Pick up something new to play almost every day at one low monthly cost. There is simply no comparison. Game Pass is king. I have played 54 games on the series x and 47 were on Game Pass. If I bought the 47 on PlayStation it would cost as much as a series x and thats If the games were second hand and I sold them after playing them

I subscribed to Game Pass in 2017 when it wasn't clear what it will be. First-party games were not included by default. The first games to join at launch were Sea of Thieves, Crackdown 3 and State of Decay 2 in 2019.

In the beginning, Game Pass was like PS Now is after seven years, a paltry and random collection of games. Game Pass has become the best value in gaming in less than four years. Imagine when Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Fable, Perfect Dark, Avowed, Forza Motorsport and The Elder Scrolls VI join the service.

What Phil Spencer and Microsoft have done during the last generation shouldn't be understated.

It was a good showing. I would have liked less cinematic trailers that give me no idea what the gameplay would be like such as contraband and redfall, but it was still a good showing.

I honestly was surprised by how impactful that presentation was. The “worst” I saw was articles from pro-PlayStation entities trying to pretend that E3 should just stop existing (reading in between the lines: because it makes PlayStation look bad when Xbox and Nintendo go there and shine.)

Great guy. Keep going!

Initially, I was a bit disappointed by the lack of unexpected new reveals. But reflecting on the event afterward, the number of game pass games coming this year. And the great improvements with Halo's visuals. Made this a really strong event.
Going into next year things are looking even better.
I Will pick up a PS5 eventually. But I am glad I started off with a series X just because of game pass alone. (I am saving sooo much money.)

Most games I’m interested in unfortunately only release in 2022 or 2023. This year it’s only HALO for me and maybe maybe Psychonauts.
I still find more games I want to play to be on PS5 only (mostly console exclusives, or better performance or good DualSense implementation), even though I got game pass.

But it was still a nice presentation.

@Tharsman pretty sure you’ve read between the lines wrong and most of the narrative surrounding E3 ceasing to exist was because of every other showcase during that week being terrible.

Xbox and Nintendo where stand outs and I haven’t seen a single article saying otherwise. Every article regarding E3 has been about how bad it was other than the two above.

By all means if you can link the articles and they are clear then fair play, but everyone I have seen has been positive about Xbox and Nintendo 🤷🏻‍♂️

Presentation wise it was MS best in a long time. Good format and having two shows worked so well. I’m glad they are getting praised for it. Because let’s face it they’ve have some pretty lack luster ones. Now they have their footing and I think they get what the pacing needs to look like.

There wasn’t a ton of content up my alley but that’s not the point the presentation was good.

Well I'm one of those who thinks E3 should be scrapped, this years E3 was the worst I've seen in 10 years, xbox's and nintendos were good but nothing mind blowing and no real surprises and the third party developers presentations were so God damn awful and this is the only E3 I've reflected back on and thought about how I've wasted 3-4 hours of my life watching that.

I think they should all do their own showcases like playstation and EA and spread them throughout the year.

@UltimateOtaku91 nintendo do their directs like three times a year

@UltimateOtaku91 Oh gawd no. Even if you hate E3, the one good thing about E3 is you can plan around when to look for news. When they all do it random times I year, I tend to find out what they had to say 3-18 months later. The hype games they wanted to showcase were already released and reviewbombed by the time I even know they existed.

Yea, I watched it and thought, oh man this is good and how did they get Forza Horizon 5 past the rumor mill to surprise us all? But I thought the gaming media and Youtubers would roll their eyes at another Horizon game and lament the lack of actual gameplay shown.

Surprise, lol.

In Phil we trust