In the ongoing court drama between Epic Games vs. Apple, new documents have emerged that suggest that Epic Games approached Sony for first-party exclusives.
After having to prove itself for years, Xbox doubled down and pulled it off..
Yep Xbox absolutely knocked it out of the park with that stunning show, it was everything a gaming showcase should be, games games and games, well done team Xbox.
It really did. Like I came out of that with the hype for new games I haven’t felt since… well the better years of E3.
It was without a doubt one of the better showcases in years. There was plenty there that excited me. Something has been lacking in years on all platforms
It was an amazing showcase I loved everything about it. Can't wait to play some of those games.
What's going on. 4 comments & no negatives yet. Wow, what's going on with N4G.
Show was so good, it made me forget about that blue dragon rumor until the next day. Too many games to process.
While the Sony State of Play had a critical lack of first-party titles and new stuff, Xbox came in hard and delivered one hell of an event.
It was a great show, but still a multiplateform show. xbox needed to give a sign of life, and they did. Sony on the other hand showed some console exclusives..
State of play was light yes that’s clear, but Sony is still planning to deliver console exclusives.
The following games from the showcase are multi-plat and also coming to PlayStation and there may be more so perhaps what Sony learned was to let MS spend the money on advertising games for them.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Atomfall
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Clair Obscur: Expeditions 33
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Fallout 76: Skyline Valley
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
MechaBreak
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Mixtape
Sea of Thieves: Season 13
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
romulus23:
they are advertising GamePass which the none subscribers have to pay 70$ for it.
Buyers on PS help make Gamepass games even more profit by paying retail price, while Xbox gamers get all on day one using subscription. Huge difference.
@Hello_World
You just made it sound like real life. Playstation = Hard working people who have to pay taxes.
Xbox = Jobless bums who claim universal credit benifits rely on the working class people to pay taxes so they can get free money.
@ocelot7
PlayStation equals hard working people because Sony isn't able to provide a day one subscription model?
If you want to fork over $1,000 to play these games and believe that's a good idea, you can. But don't hold it against others that are provided multiple options to play all these games.
GamePass isn't cheap on console... Xbox players are paying for it. And the more MS puts on GP the more they'll eventually have to raise the prices. It'll all work itself out in the end I think.
Sony been doing it before MS has for years, so they dont need to learn. If the time isnt right then the time isnt right.
I hope they learn aswell BUT looking at both sides at least Sony isn’t announcing games to show off again, and again, and again over a couple of years
While a good show there was a lot at Microsoft’s conference that were announced and shown off years ago. If Sony sticks to only showing off games when they are going to be released the same year then I kind of understand it but if they don’t then I’d be flabbergasted by it
Fox,
Like Wolverine?
Like the now-canceled Factions?
Metroid prime 4?
It's hilarious that not showing games now is justified because it's not an imminent release.
Let Sony do its thing when they drop the ball for gen and a half of duds shows then they’ll be even with Xbox and we should worry till then they earn it.
All that been said congratulations to Microsoft for finally doing the minimum of having good looking games coming soon took 100 billion to do it but hey gotta spend money to make money or so someone broke once said.
Its hilarious that the best a fanboy can do is provide a backhanded compliment. You console fanboys never fail to be entertaining. Sony, like MS is a company that provides products and services. Never should anyone say "till then they earn it" in regards to good will with its consumer base. This is how you get bad business practices. When Sony and MS dont provide value with its products, then they should be criticized. If they do provide it, then they are rewarded with your purchase. Any form of comradery past that is just shilling for a company for some sense of childish bragging. Unless you own stock in said companies, quit it. You make it way worse by being a fanboy. Corporations love blind sheep like yourself.
It was as much of a PlayStation Showcase as it was an Xbox Showcase. Most of the games they showed have been confirmed to be coming to PlayStation. Furthermore, even the ones they did not announce coming to Playstation yet are rumored to be coming to PlayStation in the near future. Sony will announce their first party games when the time is right. No point in announcing them 5 years in advance as MS did in 2020.
It's embarrassing how "professional videogaming journalism" has fallen off.
Article written by a 13 years old full of acne.
Gotta start somewhere. Especially with computers and AI taking jobs from fast food joints and supermarkets which traditionally hire teens.
No, they get FREE help from grown ass adults who have their own limitations and bias and no understanding of what journalism is since they are trying to champion a topic by using basic connect the dot logic. Hence “high quality” article like this.
Problem isn't that really. It's @christopher for allowing such a clickbaity, console war encouraging, juvenile article in the first place on N4G.
I think people need to be aware that purpose of State of Play is updates on small scale and 3rd party games, their big scale showings are PlayStation Showcase.
June is for showing games been like that for 20+ years. Why Sony is just letting Xbox take all the spotlight makes no sense.
I think we may be witnessing the fall of PlayStation not because Xbox is good, but because PlayStation is focused on GAS and push to PC. Only fueled more now that Helldivers 2, a GAS that sold more on PC was a hit
Just look at the XBOX diversity in their console exclusive lineup
Gears 6 (cover shooter)
Perfect Dark (Mirrors Edge with guns)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ( the most insane flight/ all of earth sim ever )
Indiana Jones (First person take on a slightly over used genre)
Avowed ( don't know much about it)
Doom: The Dark Ages ( just an all out FPS and my PlayStation needs more fps)
Fable ( RPG that has better graphics than Hellblade 2)
State of Decay 3 (Open World Zombie Survival Game)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 ( post apocalyptic 1st person suspense)
I mean all that for what? $10 a month on Game Pass is bananas.
Those Xbox games are coming to PS5, why waste the money? Xbox advertised those games for Sony and Xbox gets to push Game Pass.
@Isarai, What exclusive games has Microsoft released this year? Lol. Playstation released Stellar blade, Helldivers 2, rise of Ronin, FF7 rebirth etc etc and it's only June. You xbox fans always do this, you have something positive happen for your platform of choice and immediately you start running your mouth about what Playstation is or isn't doing in comparison. Leave it alone, take your W and be content.
" June is for showing games been like that for 20+ years. Why Sony is just letting Xbox take all the spotlight makes no sense "
I agree, but what im saying is the headline makes no sense as that's not the point in State of Play. Saying " they wish state of play was as good as Microsoft's showcase" is like saying " mcdonald's wishes their burgers were as good as a Michelin star restaurant's burger."
A proper statement would be " Playstation wishes they had a showcase to rival Xbox's"
"June is for showing games been like that for 20+ years."
June was for E3. E3 is dead and has been irrelevant for even longer, and there's a reason for that.
@derek
Bro, i have no clue what any of that has to do with what i said. Also i haven't been a fan of xbox since like 2009 🤣
Approved this silly submission of an "opinion article" with the last 2 votes it needed to have a laugh at the upcoming comments.
Seriously, console war shit like this one should be banned from n4g.
I've noticed that console wait flame bait is the only thing getting approved lately with other articles taking a few days to show up after not getting approved
Aye. Usually I just use the "how submissions with most approvals" choice ..look what they are and approve. Wish we would have way more reviews here instead of opinion articles. So many of them are just bait.
They get written, approved, and many comments because that's what draws attention. Want it to stop, get people to stop clicking and commenting.
One one side a company that has brought real innovation in videos games with the first truly 3d graphics for mass entertainment, handheld devices, VR, great francises ... on the other side the Netflix of video games, and so .... who wants to be who? Let's stay focus and play some games kids.
Rubbish. All 3 companies have brought innovation to the games industry. In fact, the Xbox 360 was so impactful that it shaped the feature set of gaming consoles to this day with Xbox Live, 3rd party apps, communication features, etc. Nintendo has always been innovative with recent additions being motion controls from the Wii and the portability of the Nintendo Switch. That led to devices like the steam deck, ROG, and the other nearly hundred handhelds.
Three Love Live mobile games have died in the past year despite the series’ ever-growing popularity both in Japan and worldwide, but why?
Yeah, that is pretty low for 4-6 Sony games. Given that Gearbox got $140M for Boderlands 3 alone.
*Epic wanted some Sony exclusives to help their store.
*Microsoft most likely were/are in talks to bring their games to Steam.
*There's no way Game Pass would be on Steam. That would cut into Valve's profits. That rumor sounds ridiculous. It's possible like the other offerings. But I wouldn't do it as a business.
Epic had definitely been busy. Funny thing is that it would be Tencent, a Chinese company, raking in the money by owning 40% of Epic. Just making that company bigger.
Epic should just stick with making game development easy for the gaming community. Especially with the impressive Meta Humans and UE5. All this other stuff they jumped into just makes them look desperate and shady at the same time. Not a good look.
wow thats not alot actually. given they paid 140 mio. for borderlands 3.
im actually surprised by this.
Bruh this courtcase is becoming more interesting than E3
Cheapskates, just like the majority of Epic Games Store users that are just there for free games and free to play Fortnite