Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Congratulates Sony On 'Nice' PlayStation Showcase

I bet it was "fun to see what's to come" when a majority of what was shown is hitting Xbox, too.

Just show us the games Phil...

PlayStation is essentially having a bit of a "slow" year now that ND, Sony SantaMonica and Guerilla have all released their games. It is the perfect opening for Xbox to release some big hits and take over some gaming "mindshare" and attention.

They just need Forza, Starfield, HellBlade 2 and Avowed to be there and that should be a stellar lineup. Throw in the rumor of Indiana Jones since the movie is around the corner and things could get real interesting real quick. Now if ID and compulsion show something off watch out!! The internet might argue with each other for 4 months about games. Sorry it’s hard to make that sound stupid without sound but you get the point.

I liked the showcase, especially Indie games like Neva and Sword of the Sea, both were nice highlights. 👌

Lay off it Phil. The PlayStation fans think it was awful.

"Nice" is ... a polite adjective.

The Spider-Man 2 gameplay does look fantastic, I'll give them that much, but this definitively did not delivered on everyone's expectation of a "phase two" for Sony. I dont think almost anything had a date, not even Spider-Man 2, and too much of it was just "not actual gameplay" footage, too much cinematic. I almost quit half way through it but kept on watching (did skip a lot at some point) because I wanted to get to the Spider-Man 2 footage.

But yea, at least we got a lot of Xbox multi-plat reveals.

fail spencer, get back to work.

This just seems like trolling in the light of that utterly disappointing showcase.

That’s the viciousness we wanted to see from Phil Spencer!

Great show. Nothing Xbox shows in June can come close to looking as good as Gran Turismo did 👍

What a boring showcase, it Will be a slow year for ps5 owners, and the wii u gamepad what the heck nintendo failed whit this concept, and the splatoon copy from square Enix looks awful, hope Microsoft Will do better with the upcoming show.

@rustyduck PlayStation state of rekt.

No pressure Phil, far as "winning" shows Sony just hung a curveball in the middle of the plate.

I suspect sony was hit by the massive delays like xbox has seen with its major titles. They just didn't back themselves into the corner by announcing them super early with a release date/window.

Phil just stop with the congratulations messages

Seriously? I wish Phil would stop congratulating everyone, especially when the majority found it to be crap. It was a very bad showcase.

Technically, Sony put on a better Xbox showcase than Phil... (although it was boring)

This is just Phil being nice as usual, which is equally as annoying as usual but funny this time as the showcase wasn’t that well received it seems.

Of course Phil thinks the show was nice, it's like his own 2021 show with nothing but dateless CGI trailers 😂

@Bleachedsmiles IDK I thought the character models were a little low poly and the lighting seems unrealistic. The cars look good though.

I thought it was pretty decent, I liked the Assassin's Creed trailer & the MGS collection reveal and the new game by the Journey lot

This is how to be a Boss!

@GamingFan4Lyf But at the time I didn't know most of these were also Xbox, as nothing was said

I bet Phil was a relieved man after that "showcase", no big hitters other than Spider-Man, lots of generic looking looter-shooters.

If ever Xbox had a chance to steal a lead its with their own showcase this summer.

Of course Xbox congrats Sony on the showcase. Pretty much every game shown is coming to Xbox. Add in the Sony Wii U and their CGI trailered Redfall games at the beginning and I'm reckoning Phil Spencer can't believe his luck.

With Games taking 'longer' and 'longer' to make, I expected Sony to have a 'Slow' year this year. Most of their 'big' Studios have released 'something' in the past few years and with most taking around 5yrs to make even a sequel, I didn't expect too much.

Before the Show, we knew SM2, Wolverine and 'Factions were in development and as GT7, Horizon, God of War, LoU2 and even Ghost of Tsushima all releasing in the past 2-3yrs, I doubted those Studios would show 'something' - although as I said, I 'expected' Factions this year.

MS had a 'tough' year in 2022 and know how the lack of 'first party' can still hurt despite all the work and effort you put in to ensure a 'great' line-up of games for people to play on their 'favourite' platform - even if most are playable 'elsewhere' too - the fact they are still coming to 'your' favourite platform should still be 'exciting'...

@Moonglow It's not as bad as being so barren for the foreseeable future. But you'd be right in saying there's a lack of heavy hitters. Most people will agree it was a good showcase of third party games, but a poor showcase of Sony's own. Concord and Fairgame$ come from studios that haven't even released a game yet, and Helldivers 2, while being a Sony IP, is a third party game.

@BAMozzy Any studio that has released anything in the last 3 years is probably not got anything to show yet. Which is why Sucker Punch, Bluepoint and Housemarque aren't there. Naughty Dog did announce The Last Of Us Factions at Summer Games Fest last year, but they had nothing to show. Pretty much just concept art and that was it.

@BeerIsAwesome ign thought it was 9/10 as far as it goes as they showed a rip off of splatoon and 10 minutes of spiderman. Also dont forget a phone and kishi set streaming device equivalent with haptic feedback

@BeerIsAwesome That's my point - I didn't really expect anything from Sony Studio's - but Factions was also indicated to be coming soon - rumoured to release in 2022, then 2023 and now 'nothing'.

Its not 'new' in development, its a project that was in development with LoU2 and supposedly became too big to include so a separate release was planned. Some even expected a 'stealth' drop or maybe a 'Beta' test soon after the Geoff Keighley show...

@BrilliantBill having a slow year... I see it as they have a slow Gen, if you wrap up sony exclusives from 1st party you will get spiderman miles and spiderman 2, horizon forbidden west, and gow ragnarok and Grantorismo
Those games are good but they are identical sequals to the original
Xbox had many diversity in games halo infinite forza horizon high on life hifi rush scorn as dusk fall grounded and starfield forza motosport soon this year

Poeple say PS is far away in exclsuives and after seeing 2021 - 2023... I say PS lost their charm with Rayan and with all main studios already dropped their games and others working on 5 live service games (we know sony suck at this) their will be a huge open hole next 4 years for xbox to man up and beat them come on xbox you got 23 main studios +8 ABK studios if done when sony has 21 half of them are small support studios that are busy making ***** live service games

This is your chance

I watched the whole thing and it was very mediocre. There are 6 games from the entire showcase that interest me and only 2 of them are exclusive.

Phantom Blade (looks interesting)
Metal Gear Solid (even though I have them all)
Assassin's Creed Mirage
Foam stars (yes I liked it)
Final Fantasy 16 (looks incredible)
And obviously, Spider-Man.

But for those saying it was "boring" are essentially saying 90% of games due for Xbox over the next year are boring because most of them will be on Xbox. I didn't think much of it but some look interesting.

And I'm glad E3 is gone. These kind of showcases are the evolution of that imo.

As a Sony guy I now wish and pray that Microsoft gets AB. Sony needs the competition it seems as they are winning this generation without much effort. Sony during the PS3 era was perfect as Microsoft was kicking their ass and we got some really special games (journey but also the resistance games).

I’m really looking forward that the MS showcase kicks Sony’s ***

@S1ayeR74 I think it’s just a practice in good manners. It gets more attention because of articles like this. But I think he just wants to reflect how people “should” act on social media, whether he feels it or not.

Don’t get me wrong, as a guy who has gotten behind Xbox I got a sense of pleasure from seeing the surprisingly bad showcase. Still, as a gamer, some of those games did look to be super fun. I’m just glad I’ll get to play most of them on my Xbox, and I’ll just buy Spider-Man 2 on Steam when it gets there.

Honest question for all of us guys. What would it take for MS to have a showcase that kicks Sonys a**? Like give me your list of games that would be “just enough” to do it (Not an unreasonable list of everything possible, but a proper list of what, at minimum it would take in your eyes).

I’m sure Jim Ryan will say the same after Xbox’s showcase (probably not).

@xMightyMatt14x Forza gameplay and Starfield gameplay with stable fps 😂

Xbox leadership team must be over the moon after yesterdays showcase. It was predicable and awful, with a real lack of first party news for Sony. I was expecting Sony to KO Xbox with the showcase, but now they have an opening to win back mindshare.

Sony may save thier big reveals for Geoff in June but the broken up nature and messaging may backfire big time.

Typical sony fans. The games arent exclusive to playstation, and therefore are worthless!

The Phil haters in here are looking like children, too.

@Jenkinss No not typical Sony fans. We waited two years for this showcase and this is what they presented. If Phil ever decides to leave Xbox he is welcome at PlayStation as both Hermen and Jim Ryan (ugly version of Gordon Ramsey) do not understand anything about their core audience (Phil is a gamer and understands what people want).

@TakeItEasy You missed Sackboy, Returnal and Ratchet and Clank.

@xMightyMatt14x

First, I want Microsoft to do what Sony did for its showcase and tell us what were are seeing (cgi or in-game), but I also think all content should be shown on console, not PC - because we all know what a high-power PC can do.

The Series X (and especially the Series S) are a big question mark for many gamers as to what they can "really do" since it doesn't seem like any first-party game (minus Flight Simulator) have really pushed the boundaries of the consoles. The Velocity Architecture was supposed to be this amazing thing (and there is some cool tech behind it)...show it off!

1) Show us a glimpse at Indiana Jones (even if it's just like an in-game cutscene - heck even just hype-building CGI trailer would be fine just to hint at the "vision" Machine Games has for the title)
2) Show Starfield running on Series X|S
3) Show real gameplay of Hellblade 2 and (at minimum) a release window
4) Give us a small taste of Avowed. It's already confirmed to be in a playable state, so maybe there is enough there that is demo-able. But an in-game cutscene would be fine if that's what is most "polished" at this point.
5) Another hype trailer for Perfect Dark (preferably with in-engine footage)
6) While I think the original Gears of War trilogy is perfectly fine via backwards compatibility (especially with resolution boosts and FPS boosts), maybe a UE5 remake of Gears 2 by holiday 2023 and Gears 3 next year?
7) Release date for Forza Motorsport as well as showing it run on Series X|S hardware
8) Another hype trailer for Fable (perhaps there is some in-game cutscene content)

Microsoft needs to show why Series X is considered the "most powerful console".

It basically needs to be the opposite of Sony's in terms of first-party content.

Microsoft has yet to really grow confidence with its fanbase after Halo Infinite and now Redfall's poor reception. And with so many games already confirmed to be in development, they need to be shown off now.

Some CGI trailers are fine for the sake of building hype for early-in-development titles, but at this point we need to see "in engine cutscenes and/or gameplay" running on Series X|S hardware.

I'd also like to see Microsoft do more partnerships with third-party developers (especially Japanese developers):

A small update on what Kojima is doing if there is something to really tell.

Maybe confirm the Persona rumors circulating?

Random: Partner with Bokeh Game Studio for a Day One Game Pass release of Splitterhead?

Pie in the sky: Final Fantasy VII Remake finally on Xbox?

I think the bottom line is that Microsoft showed so many games up front that we have yet to see running on Series X|S hardware, that this would be the perfect time to show us some progress on those games.

I am sure there will still be some third-party announcements, but Microsoft really is in a fantastic spot to show first-party content.

Stop being the nice guy

Just fix the performance issues on xbox ports, every ps5 game runs way better

Also make sure forza and starfield are good (lol)

How about the next xbox refresh hardware

@Green-Bandit Please don't refer to all of us as "the internet." Yes, I know we all know what we really mean and the etymology of the word and all that, but look past that: surely we could all do better to name our groups than to resort to needlessly popular metonyms (or succumb to inefficient, incorrect or weird group behaviours tbw).

@Sanquine "ugly version of Gordon Ramsey"

I LOLed so hard at that!

I really love HZD, so I hate to be too harsh on Herman, but I honestly think the guy is a total disaster that represents the worst of the worst of the industry. Jim's the obvious punching bag, and ultimately the problem is his, but bad as Jim is I think the freight train to mediocrity accelerated once Herman moved up.

@pip_muzz The Persona Q....I mean Playstation Q (WiiQ?) is a fine concept, and the large screen sounds great in concept. The problem with it is it's not going to be a cheap device, and it's locked to RP on a single platform when other better multiplatform versions exist, and the only way Sony could make theirs seem viable is artificially cripple the other ones, which they might do, but it's an awful look.

Well, that and the thing looks like an ergonomic nightmare and I could build one with an even bigger screen with an iPad 10, Dual Sense, and a bottle of Gorilla glue.

@Jark i don’t think of the kind, smart, mature and fun people i chat with online as the internet. I mostly think of them as friends and extended family. But the ones that make our industry look bad. The ones that insult, threat and bully, i look at as the internet. They don’t deserve more time or characteristic group names as that would give them attention or my time which i find unnecessary. Play stupid games win stupid prizes or in this case a bland name that reduces them to broadband usage and not by name.

@BrilliantBill hard to say though, spider man 2 and ff16 is about as big of games as it gets. Both coming this year for playstation. It's really all about Stanfield for this side of things. Gotta be wonderful.

@Lostitall "It's all abut Stanfield"

That's a very unintentional auto carrot funny right there!

The only reason some are saying it was bad is because of Playstation’s rep for GOTY contending exclusives an there weren’t many. We know for a fact we have Ghost of Tsushima 2, Wolverine, KOTOR, Death Stranding 2, TLOU Factions, FF16, Silent Hill 2, etc. I’d rather Sony held back than build up our hopes with footage an release dates only to be delayed! Everyone complains that Microsoft did that with Xbox upcoming exclusives! We got Spiderman 2, Marathon, FF16, Metal Gear, the Metal Gear compilation, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Phantom Blade Zero which looks very good. I thought it was decent, not incredible but decent an i’m still hyped for the stuff we know about! If Xbox’s is as good i’ll be happy, surely gonna see Starfield an Forza, other stuff i’m not so sure.

@NEStalgia it happens haha

I sense a little sarcasm from Phil. Hopefully has something good to show in their showcase. Hopefully something from ID software. Man, they they should allow that studio just make something akin to titanfall 2s multiplayer