2019 Xbox E3 Conference Discussion Thread

Grade Microsoft's 2019 Xbox E3 Conference


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After E3 2017, I crapped all over Xbox. As of now, more excited for gaming on Xbox since the 360 launch. Believe we’ll finally see Phil’s version of Xbox come to fruition.

Told you all last year that when Spencer got his promotion, Microsoft was putting more money into gaming than ever before. That was the time Microsoft was going to decide to either spin off gaming or go all in. Having Spencer report directly to Nadella was “all in”. When you factor studio size growth combined with studios purchased, the number of Xbox developers is 3 to 4 times greater than what it was before E3 last year.

Answering Val’s argument...Microsoft, a data driven company decided putting games on PC has hurt them so much....they’re quadrupling down on PC.

They are building a Age of Empires studio internally now. Puts them at 14...doesn’t include that there’s multiple teams at Playground, Rare, Obsidian, InXile and Ninja Theory.

Satya Nadella is the one who said they’ll aim for a AAA game a quarter. That’s the head of one of the top 2 companies in the world who’s taken Microsoft from a stagnant company to a growth stock talking to investors. Quite different situation than the empty promises to gamers when Xbox was buried under Terry Myerson.

People underrating the value of Game Pass to drive the platform and mindshare of new and old IPs. Old plastic wars are over. Enjoy glimpse of reimagined Xbox on Sunday. I’m hyped.
 
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Wonder if they will finally announce FF14 for Xbox. Sony and MS cross play roadblock should no longer be an issue.
 
Coulda swore they, Square, had mentioned something already but I may be wrong

They said they were talking with Nintendo, Microsoft, and Google about it. The blame was on Microsoft and then Sony because of cross play so I would assume its just a matter of time.
 

If that is accurate than that just shows that despite what everybody has made it out to be, other than 2017, MS and Sony were on par with each other for commitment.
 
If that is accurate than that just shows that despite what everybody has made it out to be, other than 2017, MS and Sony were on par with each other for commitment.

Well I don't think the complaints about the X1 lineup were about whether Sony showed more games at E3.
 
Lol, and you would be mistaken. It most certainly was one of them.

Sony probably is viewed as having better E3s and I doubt that doubt that people like to make a big deal about winning E3 even but that isn't why people talk about Microsoft's commitment. Their commitment was in question because of what they actually released the past few years.
 
Sony probably is viewed as having better E3s and I doubt that doubt that people like to make a big deal about winning E3 even but that isn't why people talk about Microsoft's commitment. Their commitment was in question because of what they actually released the past few years.
Yeah I'm aware of all the subjective, pretentious crap that represents one side of the issue. That has nothing to do with MS commitment to their investment which has produce greenlighted titles.
 
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After E3 2017, I crapped all over Xbox. As of now, more excited for gaming on Xbox since the 360 launch. Believe we’ll finally see Phil’s version of Xbox come to fruition.

Told you all last year that when Spencer got his promotion, Microsoft was putting more money into gaming than ever before. That was the time Microsoft was going to decide to either spin off gaming or go all in. Having Spencer report directly to Nadella was “all in”. When you factor studio size growth combined with studios purchased, the number of Xbox developers is 3 to 4 times greater than what it was before E3 last year.

Answering Val’s argument...Microsoft, a data driven company decided putting games on PC has hurt them so much....they’re quadrupling down on PC.

They are building a Age of Empires studio internally now. Puts them at 14...doesn’t include that there’s multiple teams at Playground, Rare, Obsidian, InXile and Ninja Theory.

Satya Nadella is the one who said they’ll aim for a AAA game a quarter. That’s the head of one of the top 2 companies in the world who’s taken Microsoft from a stagnant company to a growth stock talking to investors. Quite different situation than the empty promises to gamers when Xbox was buried under Terry Myerson.

People underrating the value of Game Pass to drive the platform and mindshare of new and old IPs. Old plastic wars are over. Enjoy glimpse of reimagined Xbox on Sunday. I’m hyped.
Honestly, a AAA game per quarter is too much. Should be like 2 a year, imo.
 
Yeah I'm aware of all the subjective, pretentious crap that represents one side of the issue. That has nothing to do with MS commitment to their investment which has produce greenlighted titles.

If everything was fine they wouldn't have needed to buy a bunch of studios.
 
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Just two more days until the conference.


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Now go look at what they actually showed. A basic number doesn't show commitment at all.
Again, whether you or I subjectively like something has nothing to do with MS' level of commitment to their product offerings. I'm not usually interested in Sony or Nintendo's offerings, but that doesn't mean they aren't committed to their stuff.
 
Again, whether you or I subjectively like something has nothing to do with MS' level of commitment to their product offerings. I'm not usually interested in Sony or Nintendo's offerings, but that doesn't mean they aren't committed to their stuff.

Come on its obvious Microsoft didn't have the commitment towards first party as the others. They didn't have the same commitment they had the previous gens. Surprising with what they have done to remedy that that anyone would even argue that regardless of preferences.
 
Come on its obvious Microsoft didn't have the commitment towards first party as the others. They didn't have the same commitment they had the previous gens. Surprising with what they have done to remedy that that anyone would even argue that regardless of preferences.
No, you are trying to have a different conversation based on something you are trying to infer from a limited scope of information. MS’ or another company’s current practice does not directly correlate to their previous practices, let alone the motivations/decisions driving said practices. Adaptable businesses will constantly reevaluate their practices, procedures, and philosophies based on what they feel is working and customer feedback, but the act of changing those things is not a direct indicator of any lack of commitment anymore than the inverse conclusion that it actually an indicator of serious commitment. I understand your situation though, as MS WANTS their act of buying more studios to communicate that they are upping their commitment. It’s good marketing.
 
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No, you are trying to have a different conversation based on something you are trying to infer from a limited scope of information. MS’ or another company’s current practice does not directly correlate to their previous practices, let alone the motivations/decisions driving said practices. Adaptable businesses will constantly reevaluate their practices, procedures, and philosophies based on what they feel is working and customer feedback, but the act of changing those things is not a direct indicator of any lack of commitment anymore than the inverse conclusion that it actually an indicator of serious commitment. I understand your situation though, as MS WANTS their act of buying more studios to communicate that they are upping their commitment. It’s good marketing.

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