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Xbox Games Showcase & Starfield Direct - Info & Reaction Thread (news.xbox.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TopHat@compuverse.uk to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/1791

Xbox Games Showcase will air at the following time zones:

10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)

13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)

17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)

18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)

19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)

2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)

3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)

YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)

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[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I used to be optimistic for Microsoft since Phil Spencer got the Game Pass ball rolling, but I'm doubtful we'll see a lot of concrete games. Especially with his recent speech that "even with games we won't sell more Xboxes than PlayStations" (not that I care about the "console war", but that's definitely not a confident man speaking). If it's a splash, it would've been bigger if the CMA and the FTC didn't start stopping Microsoft from acquiring Activision-Blizzard-King.

I'm still rooting for them, though! Sony got some banger games, Nintendo's "set for the year" with TOTK and their other smaller games, now it's Xbox' turn to swing.

Edit: My biggest hope currently is them finally rolling out Game Pass Friends and Family globally. That's my "day one" purchase with 4 friends for sure. Would love to stream those games to my Deck.

[–] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“even with games we won’t sell more Xboxes than PlayStations” (not that I care about the “console war”, but that’s definitely not a confident man speaking)

I don't think that speaks to confidence in general, I think it speaks to accepting the reality of where they are with regards to hardware sales.

I am hoping this will be a good showcase for them. Regardless, I appreciate that they are allegedly taking the "no CGI trailers" approach.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I think it speaks to accepting the reality of where they are with regards to hardware sales. Agreed, but I wouldn't say the Xbox situation is as hopeless as he paints it out to be if they got XGS games to show for it. Especially with Sony's exclusivity deals (which luckily are far less than before, looking at Street Fighter 6 for example). Phil's philosophy of getting games on any platform (despite starting to Xbox/PC lock Bethesda games) definitely shows with third party developers nowadays.

Sony set the bar low this time around, so I think it'll be good. Last showcase with the Hi-Fi Rush shadow drop was a good format for them - quick, content-filled. If they stick with that type of format, I'm a happy guy.