That Ninja Turtles game is day one for me
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Haha I agree!
I must admit the last 2-3 state of plays have been terrible IMO.
That was one of the most exciting things in the show tbh!
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This, Sony wasted absolutely 0 bullets for this show, it was all about small games (the new ones), most of them multiplatform.
I still expect them to do another show, bigger one, before MS does it’s next one tho.
When theyre not doing a firsty party title deep dive or their E3 equivalent showcase, State of Play is just Inside Xbox without the cringe.
So the optimal path forward is obviously focusing on the first party deep dives near launch and the big e3 equivalent showcase. Dont even bother if its going to be like the SOP we got today. You can put that out as a Xbox Wire blog post.
Yeah after today’s tire fire I’m thinking Xbox should just avoid this whole idea. 
Yeah, people will use today’s State of Play as an argument in favor of Microsoft not doing this kind of show when we have a lot other Nintendo Directs that proves them wrong…
No the point is Microsoft shouldnt do anything until they have things to show, and clearly right now there is not much to show.
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It doesn’t need to be only first party games. They could use it to promote the next indie exclusives like Tunic or RPG Time or announce new games. Use it to promote a game that’s already on Game Pass but they just want to point out (Nobody Saves The World could have used something like it…).
Netflix has Tudum, DC has the DC Fandome, Disney has Disney+ Day and Xbox has the Xbox Summer Showcase.
The other companies mentioned above also produce a hell of a lot more content annually than any gaming company does and it seems to work for them.
And it’s not like Xbox also doesn’t have QuakeCon, MineCon, soon to be BlizzCon along with Gamescom, TGS, the VGAs and their own XO event’s.
Once all of the studios start to get into a position where they have a regular release of games they can then start to have a more regular foucs on specific titles. Almost like that recent hire for a head of broadcast and events is like forward planning for what’s to come…
The current plan from what I was told was a show for May and one for September.
Didn’t get any more detail than that.
Yes, before you ask, I also found it odd that they said May, when June is right there as the normal E3 spot.
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May makes sense for games that release in June and July.
Also 3rd party stuff.
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They could show Redfall in May and release in July
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Also probably not to have it too close to Summer Game Fest.
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what it should be is not whatever today’s SOP was
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I hope it is a big showcase.
May show centred around Redfall, September show centred around Starfield makes sense.
I don’t think this will happen this year though.
Dedicated shows to each project makes sense instead of one big conference
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Dedicated show to each project attracts the people interested in that project. Big show attracts people interested in different projects (as well as unannounced stuff) and results in greater exposure for all titles.
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The Xbox team loves E3 when it comes to it. Phil especially so maybe they just stick to the status quo