Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Is Already Hyping Up June's Games Showcase

All aboard the hype train 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃

I hope it's a strong showcase. So far the E3 2015 press conference is still by far the most impressive Xbox showcase of the past decade, would be nice if a newer showcase got close to that.

On an offtopic note, I wonder what's happening with Games With Gold as May starts on Sunday yet an announcement hasn't happened yet.

Phil and the gang don’t hype to much, we all wait in anticipation for this to me amazing with great demos and release dates.
Don’t raise our expectations then let them down.
Just chill and be cool, remember least said the better sometimes.
Let the games and release dates do the talking in June.
You have put so much pressure on Starfield already.
This showcase can set Xbox alight for 2022 and 2023 hope it does for real.

He has a history of hyping up just good or ok showcases. Why don't we let the hype build naturally and blow them away with a good show.

I do hope that they really do a good job with this event. Microsoft are known for not being very good at putting together these types of events with showing gameplay instead of trailers etc. Hopefully they've learned from all of that in the past.

Even without any unannounced projects or reveals of 'rumoured' projects, I think that MS would still have a 'great' show.

Expected in the next year, we have Redfall, Starfield, Forza Motorsport, Deathloop & Ghostwire: Tokyo and possibly Hellblade 2 as well. On top of that, we know that State of Decay 3, Fable, Perfect Dark, Avowed, Outer Worlds 2, Indiana Jones and Everwild in active development.

That's not ALL the studios, we don't know yet what inXile, Compulsion, Double Fine, Id Software or the Coalition are working on after their last releases - maybe too soon for some to announce anything.

That's just First Party. They have Xbox Publishing too (Contraband by Avalanche for example), ID@Xbox, Cloud Game Publishing (announce in March - Native to Cloud games exclusive to Xbox), Game Pass announcements, 3rd Party partnerships (Warhammer: Darktide, STALKER2 (I know the situation for this is difficult so maybe won't see this) Scorn, ARK 2 etc)

So even without any surprises, there is a LOT they could show with actual 'game-play' instead of CGi which, for me at least, I'm excited for...

They need this one to be pretty good, especially with the negative press they've gotten this year with a few of their 1st party studios appearing to be struggling. Have a really good show by showing actual gameplay of several anticipated titles, release dates/windows for several others like Redfall and Hellblade 2, and more Game Pass bombshells.

A really good showcase would go a long way to showing that the news about a few of their studios wasn't anything to really worry about and that they really do have things going on the right track, not just a bunch of potential and nothing to show for it.

This a trend for him. An event gets announced way too early and Phil spends a month and a half hyping it up. Then people are let down because their expectations grew beyond reasonable levels.

Nintendo and Sony seem to have the showcases figured out. Announce it within a week of the event and set expectations to what is in the event.

@BAMozzy The 1 year timed exclusivity might be regarding talking about a Xbox release too so we may not hear about Deathloop Xbox version until September for example.

Just tell me about Fable. That's all I need to know! Oh and also a Plague Tale 2 release date. Please and thank you!

A new quake would be awesome, have good memories playing quake 2 and 3 as a child
My wife would love to see a new Banjo game, she is enjoying kirby on the switch at the moment. She is also hyped for Fable

@Grumblevolcano Whether they talk about either of those games or not, they are still expected within the next year. The point I was trying to make was that with ALL the things we know will be coming - not just the year ahead, but also games we know are in development from first and third party studio's, MS has more than enough to fill 2hrs of a 'great' Show without ANY unexpected surprises.

in depth look at actual game-play from Redfall, Starfield, Forza Motorsport and Hellblade, maybe some work in progress Game-play trailers (not CGi) from Avowed, Fable, Perfect Dark, Indiana Jones etc, add-in updates to current games (SoT, FH5, MSFS...) as well as whatever Game Pass, ID@Xbox and Xbox Publishing (Contraband by Avalanche), and finally the usual 3rd Party multi-platform games that are partnered with MS, they have more than enough options to excite without any big surprises.

By unexpected surprise, I mean brand new, unannounced and specifically unexpected reveals. A big Surprise (for example) could be Kojima's 'next' project coming 'exclusively' to Xbox Cloud - after all, MS announced their Cloud Publishing division in March specifically for Games that run natively in the Cloud. I know its been 'rumoured' for a while, but that would still be a big Surprise. However, if Gears 6 was revealed, its almost expected to come at some point -if not this event, an event in the next year or two.

Anyway, all I was alluding to was the fact that MS has a LOT of options they 'could' show that we already know about. Things to be excited for without revealing any 'new' projects. Of course having a few surprises is also 'great' but its not like they don't have games we already know of and excited to find out more - whether this Show, or in the near future...

I'm starting to feel bad for all the other Microsoft studios every time they announce an "Xbox & Bethesda" event. Did they merge? Did Microsoft buy Bethesda? Is this just for the first year leading up to Starfield? It's kinda confusing. Unless other Bethesda games take up most of the show in which case fine I guess?

Really getting the impression this is the first time he’s seen the games Xbox studios have been working on. I know his role is more being the face and arranging the cheques…but as head of Xbox I’d be keeping a keen eye on where the monies going. And we’d have less slacking because of it - I’d be brutal.

Team Xbox are the hype kings so I don’t expect anything less. I hope we get some news on games coming very soon rather than Look at this game that is coming in 2024/25….

I fear it will be mostly the later.

@jumpin_jeeps they said from start Bethesda would keep its independence. I didn’t really believe that to be the case and still don’t. However from a PR point of view they are definitely keeping them separate - I believe this is so they can release some from Bethesda on multiple platforms.

I want just two games revealed: Perfect dark (gameplay) and a new killer instinct (announcement)

My son has really got stuck into slimerancher recently so if they could give us s release date for the new one that would be great.