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Tom Henderson — "I'm hearing that there's an Xbox announcement today - Probably the direct"
- Thread starter Thick Thighs Save Lives
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CuteFaceJay
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Do they not normally like to promote these before it actually happens?
Killjoy-NL
Member
"We'll be bringing the following titles to Playstation..."
Perrott
Gold Member
The Death of Dreamcast: Sega Confirms Price Drop, Inventory Reduction, and More - IGN
Sega of America is calling it quits in the hardware business, and as part of their plans to completely wash their hands of that side of the business, they are dropping the price of the Dreamcast to $99.85 US as of February 4th, 2001. In addition to the price drop, Sega will be offering a number...
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
PlayStation fans are looking forward to it 
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ChuckeRearmed
Member
No. I think they want to announce it close to the release. Last year the date leaked.
Skifi28
Member
I understand it's the announcement that happens today, not the actual event.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
It's good enough even if the announcement montage reel has Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves in it
ManaByte
Member
The Death of Dreamcast: Sega Confirms Price Drop, Inventory Reduction, and More - IGN
Sega of America is calling it quits in the hardware business, and as part of their plans to completely wash their hands of that side of the business, they are dropping the price of the Dreamcast to $99.85 US as of February 4th, 2001. In addition to the price drop, Sega will be offering a number...www.ign.com
Either this is trolling or people seriously have no fucking clue why Sega left hardware and why there's zero comparison to MS.
Skifi28
Member
It's good enough even if the announcement montage reel has Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves in it
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Topher
Gold Member
Or he is just saying the end result will be the same. The "why" doesn't have to line up. Not saying I agree with him though.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Give me some positivity!
chromatic9
Member
Direct what?
Direct to PlayStation?
Direct to PlayStation?
a multicultural team of v
Member
I swear, I finally broke down and bought a 360 last year to play Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and at the rate it is going I am going to be able to play them on my PS5 by the end of the year...
I haven't even played them yet
I haven't even played them yet
Crispy Gamer
Member
Get ready for the "best game lineup in the history of Xbox"
Mr Moose
Member
Shadow dropped like HiFi Rush.
King Dazzar
Member
Cant wait for a load of wishy washy wank about we all play well together and that includes our customers on PlayStation, Switch, PC etc etc etc.
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Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Should be 'sorry for the vagueness' not 'no vagueness'. Duh!
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
I think the decision to buy it last year was sound lol. Both the 360 HW and most games for that system were at an all time low price. I think I've bought like thirty or so 360 games (including some delisted titles) that I wanted to play and they all were really cheap.I swear, I finally broke down and bought a 360 last year to play Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and at the rate it is going I am going to be able to play them on my PS5 by the end of the year...
I haven't even played them yet
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Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Dream on.
They will do that as soon as they put Spiderman 2, FF16, Last of Us 2 and Horizon FW on Xbox.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I had guessed the 16th
Its exactly what Phil wants no matter what has been said publicly, its free money for MS
Those guys don't care near as much about console wars as they do money
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clarky
Gold Member
Can't see it being a Sunday tbh.
OverHeat
« generous god »
Your in for a rude awakening…
King Dazzar
Member
You not been reading the news/rumours? Third parties dont demand releases back in return.....
Tom Henderson does that a lot.
Sometimes his broken english/typing is very funny, like for example, not long ago, he was asking for further info on a matter and told people' my mail is in my boi'
a multicultural team of v
Member
I was surprised how expensive 360 consoles still were. I managed to find a cheap one on Facebook local marketplace, but what I saw on ebay was kinda crazy. Now I'm stuck where I want to play then sell it asap (difficult with Yakuza and FFVII coming up in a month...), but I know as soon as I do that the ports will be announced with a bunch of upgrades or some shit and I'll wish I waited.
Then again if I waited they would have announced the 360 cures cancer and I'd have to pay $50000 for a console, so basically I would be screwed regardless.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Unless we see HiFi Rush and Sea of Thieves on PS.
clarky
Gold Member
Why today?
Astray
Gold Member
I meant at the direct itself + accompanying interviews pr etc (not sure what day it's actually slated for).
As for the overall rationale, it's obvious that just leaving rumors swirling around social media is deeply damaging for the brand, like, even if you want to go into some form of multiplat publishing, you need to quickly address it from a PR standpoint and let your consumers know what the strategy is. The execs have been silent for 1-2 weeks now while the storm is raging.
The more they wait the more reports will come out either wondering what's going on, or adding more details they don't want to come out yet. They simply NEED to get their messaging out, no matter what it is.
clarky
Gold Member
kk.
As far as im aware only HIFI Rush and possibly Sea of Thieves are the 2 games which are being touted (likely and makes sense), the rest the internet has run with and MS are doing a Sega and shutting up shop (unlikely). Think you might get conformation of the former at the direct, not the latter (lol).
Astray
Gold Member
Rumors have been rumbling on this very forum since beginning of December. And it ain't just about SoT and HFR. Those are seen as the confirmation of those December rumors.
I don't think it will be exactly like Sega, but MS Gaming's circumstances are not great and they have a lot of reasons to go full-multiplat.
Mr.Phoenix
Member
What's new on Xbox is that we are now going to be on PlayStation.
Then they announce Starfield directors cut coming to PlayStation, then that game somehow goes on to sell 7M copies on PlayStation in one month (not gonna happen but play along). Then you have this weird unique situation where MS holds off their games on gamepass day 1 only so they can release them on Playstation first to make sales.
Some inception-type shit right there.
Then they announce Starfield directors cut coming to PlayStation, then that game somehow goes on to sell 7M copies on PlayStation in one month (not gonna happen but play along). Then you have this weird unique situation where MS holds off their games on gamepass day 1 only so they can release them on Playstation first to make sales.
Some inception-type shit right there.