Good grade, but does not erase five years of fail Matt!

Lol.....gets a $70 billion check from your parent company, buy half the industry and then congratulate yourself for all the content you got.

Is he for real? The level of entitlement and privilege is gross.

Redfall and Starfield are just the latest examples why nobody should ever trust XBox advertising. Hololens, Crackdown 3, Phantom Dust Remake, and Scalebound are some of the other major offenders in the last decade. Games like Halo: Master Chief Collection and Sea of Thieves were horrible at launch.

Meanwhile, MS continues to choose profits and executive pay over the talent of their creative teams. Oh, but then let's wine about how "hard" it was from an executive decision-level to close one of their studios and lay-off all the talented employees. Was it harder than what those creatives are now facing on the other side?? Cry me a river. MS is no different than every other corporate entity and it's utterly appalling and saddening that this is the state of the videogames industry. But ya know, keep lapping up the kool-aid that these executive wankers continue to casually spill on the floor while they reward themselves with more money and moan about how many pats on the back they deserve for a "job well done."

You deserve a piece of shit💩. This dumb ass thinks we didn't forget about the closures.

Great showcase of games and pushed out some much needed hype.

A positive grade not going to happen most of the games are years away. Microsoft has no idea how to run the Xbox brand. A game like Wukong got pushed back because of the Series S and optimization basically the Series S screwed over Series X owners again. The showcase may have been good but as for a grade I would say a C- at most.

a solid showing, nothing mind blowing, Indy & Doom were my top picks

A good show no doubt but we won't forget your bs

Seems to me Booty has taken over from Spencer as chief bullsh1tter now.

Different mouth, same old cr*p.

Sure, sure, now deliver.

Shut up. This is the best showcase Xbox has had in 10 years. Let’s see what they bring next year… back to dog sh*t

You don't deserve shit. The studios deserve all the credit. What horrible leadership at Microsoft.

It's actually crazy to me that they buy up the industry, and not only talk about "hitting their stride" with these games that were in development whether Microsoft purchased them or not, but now they're out here fishing for likes like a YouTuber. Get the entire f outta here with these pats on the back with dead presidents. This entire approach is deplorable, especially in the midst of studio closures.

I’ll guarantee that that’s why he and Phil didn’t say much after they axed all those studios. They were just like “we’ll ride it out til the showcase cuz we have some good games then everyone will forget.” Sad part is, they were mostly correct.

If we look the games they announce yes, they would have a good grade. But on the other hand are ton of games they announced years ago and finally they are looking the bright sun after development problems.. the best example it's the new Gears of War, excited? Of course, but now we have to wait 3/4 years on a new Xbox showcase to finally show gameplay and again they are going to say they deserve a good grade.

Idk, they deserve that consumers still have a careful look about MS it's going to do in the future.

Oh man, don't beg

"Deserve?!?" Oh man. Wrong language there lol You bought all of those multiplatform games. The XGS games still don't have release dates from announcements several years ago.

Perfect Dark? No release year, let alone date, in trailer
Gears of War E Day- Same
State of Decay 3- Same thing
Fable-2025
South of Midnight -2025. 9 years since We Happy Few and 7 years after Xbox acquisition.

Look. The rest of this year looks solid and 2025 and beyond should be consistent moving forward but Xbox has yet to deliver consistency for the last 10 years.
The show was good because they bought 30 studios and have plenty of multiplatform content to show.
I judge systems based off what their first party games deliver. Xbox has been a disaster for so long that I need to see if XGS can deliver great games consistently.
Not impressed by buying Bethesda and ABK.

Games are made for playing not watching Redfall got a standing ovation when it turned up at an xbox show before release
What grade did that showcase get ?

For the first time in years the 2024 XB showcase was very interesting to me. I saw several titles that I'm interested in playing hopefully in 2025. The downside was most XB exclusives shown had no concrete release dates.

sure HIV positive

Hope he doesn't pull a muscle patting himself on the back.

I could just accept the fact that they indeed had a good Showcase.

But I just can't help myself that I simply dislike the way Microsoft/Xbox achieved it.

It's the big picture, the pattern, simply everything about how Microsoft, publically observable, have been approaching the console business since the 360 era.

Going forward to everything that wasn't even meant to be publically disclosed.

Such as their intern statements that every Zenimax IP will be exclusive, to "pushing Sony out of business" or "playing the long game to take over Nintendo".

It's their cockiness, their money brute force, the Xbox One betrayal and back paddling, and it's also Game Pass, which underlying strategy is to bind IPs behind licenses and a double paywall. Sacrificing all of our privilege owning a game.

And sacrificing important revenue for studios, such as Hellblade 2, which, how recent reports show, failed to even reach the Top 100 in retail in Europe. Potentially putting even Ninja Theory at risk of getting internally questioned financially by execs.

Looking at most recent sales data from Europe, I am "delighted" that Microsoft's business strategy doesn't translate into better numbers.

But rather a strong dislike, with hardware sales of the X|S falling down to only 68K in a whole month, Hellblade 2 missing retail's Top 100 and the Series S most likely being again responsible for another delay of an anticipated 3rd party title.

What I am saddened about the most though is:

How people can't clearly see the true nature of Microsoft's market behaviour.

And what must have had happened why they dislike Playstation so much that they accept Xbox's strategy over them.

Did he really just....? Man, what a friggin heel..... You're not allowed to think that way, dude. Also, you showed a bunch of trailers. Yeah, that's flashy and all but there SHOULD HAVE BEEN a lot of gameplay and release dates, you've had years to get things together. Even Sony operated during COVID rather than sitting around and making excuses and what did we get? GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK! And what's The Coalition been up to and all they had was an intro trailer? You may have drummed up excitement but it's lights, smoke, and mirrors with no promise, dude. Nintendo showed a lot more gameplay, I might argue at least Sony showed gameplay than you did even there their State of Play was crap, you skated by with trailers that don't tell us anything. Nah, dude. What a punk

We deserve? How about you shut up and just focus on releasing good games.

Only a hater would give it a negative grade

Dude laidoff thousands of employees and now he wants a pat on the head because he managed not to screw this one thing up.

MS owns /controls the majority of what were once private/independent studios, so I mean, it's was kinda not hard to put together a showcase of what's upcoming. Starved for some attention/recognition there Booty?

oh for fk sake

"but we did good, right ?"

do you think that changes anything? a sort of online grade that necessarily means nothin?

And still only showed games we already knew were coming. It was a good showing of games with a great tempo. But did not show anything new and impressive.

It was a good show, so good that even Sony fans get to be excited as like half of it is coming to playstation.

gross

Wish someone could get Yves Guillemot out of there, creatively he’s run the entire company head first into the ground. NFTs are fucking dead. Not to mention they were a terrible idea even when they were around.

Sounds like … more Ubisoft garbage