Xbox Announces Extended Showcase 2023 Featuring 'In-Depth Interviews' & More

The format last year was good but the developer direct earlier this year was the best of any digital showcase put out.

Hoping Forza Motorsport finally gets a final release date.

Does anyone really want to watch those In-depth interviews? It’s nice seeing developer’s passion for their projects but they rarely give any actual insight into the game….it’s usually just a bunch of waffle about realising their “vision”

I’d rather a focused 30 minutes of new announcements, gameplay footage and a release roadmap that they can actually stick to. Either way I’m looking forward to it though and will be tuning in.

@Chaudy the main showcase is at a weekend, Sunday June 11th. This one is the extended show as a follow up on Tuesday June 13th. Both 10am PT!

** The presentation will air at 24fps at launch.

At least there's #notE3 content to look forward to anyway this year!

@NEStalgia I must be the only person on Earth that doesn't care about E3 being cancelled. I much prefer the Xbox Games Showcase, State of Play and Nintendo Direct.

@GeeEssEff Agreed. I like interviews when they're about a game I already know I enjoy, not when it's someone trying to sell me something that won't be out for months.

And as for gameplay, agreed, but it would be really great if they could explicitly show us the gameplay running on Series X since everything shown lately turns out to be running on a high-end PC.

@GeeEssEff I actually enjoy these more than a 'showcase' that just shows off small game-play trailers and barely have time to really take in everything you have seen before the 'next' game trailer starts...

Its great to get an idea of what games are expected - some may stand out, others get lost in the mix of all the other games. Therefore its great to hear from the devs, talking about the 'details', outline their vision and/or plot details etc.

It often provides more information about the game from the developers themselves and often with more Game-Play. A game like Forza Motorsport trailer would look like any other 'racing' game trailer, but then the developer sits down, talks about the changes and maybe even have a race and let the 'interviewer' try it, get to see more details about accessibility, more details on Cars, tracks, customisation etc - stuff you don't really get to see in a game trailer...

Of course, if you aren't interested in 'that' game, its 10-15mins of 'chat' and extra looks at a game you aren't going to play anyway and just want them to 'move' on to the 'next'. At least with 1-3min Game-play trailers, the 'next' one is coming up very quickly...

At least Xbox know that some people only want 'trailers' and therefore keep their interviews, discussion etc to these 'extended' shows. In the past, you'd have several interviews during the main show as well as bombarding you with trailers, montages etc so the pace would fluctuate. If you aren't interested, then at least you don't have to watch the Extended show as its mostly just looking at stuff you've already 'glimpsed', but now get to hear more about in a bit more depth...

Often, with a Showcase, I forget half of what was 'revealed' and often watch some/all trailers again as they release separately on youtube so I can watch it, take in 'details' I miss and/or immediately 'forgot' because something else was being shown off...

@Kezelpaso ah okay that makes sense, thanks.

@Solidchief The extended showcase is actually ok and includes some of the spirit of E3, but I can't stand the Direct formats to the point that, I used to schedule out all of E3 week and watch every presentation. I don't even watch the directs/state of play anymore. At all, ever.

It's not a presentation, there's no energy, there's no reason to schedule to watch it "live", it's nothing but a glorified commercial with with a youtube playlist for trailers. You could watch it any time. You could watch it a year later, it doesn't really matter, there's no current moment to it, it's nothing but an commercial, not a presentation of any sort.

With an E3 type presentation there was a show to it, an energy, a one time only sort of live show moment everyone experiences together, good and bad when a "moment" could happen any time. The gaffes made it "real", and the crowd surprises made it real. The polished and edited commercials of rapid fire trailers.....why do they schedule a time on that? Nothing is in the moment. If you missed an E3 live show you missed "the moment". If you don't bother watching the edited showcases you just check the news sites for a bulleted list of what you missed covered in under 20 seconds. You can click on the trailer you want. It's all pretty low energy. I don't think the edited showcases add anything more than just posting it on Twitter honestly.

So far XB's have bridged the gap better than the other two and still felt a little bit live though so I'm hopeful for XB, Nintendo and Sony's are like the looping info videos that play outside museum exhibits while waiting in line.

@BAMozzy Yeh I get you. I do like it when Devs are talking over gameplay footage explaining what is going on and how it fits into the wider experience, their commentary definitely has a place in these shows. However when it’s a proper interview format and you’re watching 2-3 people sitting down talking about the creative process I switch straight off. You are right though, the amount of buy in does entirely depend on how hyped you are for the game they are talking about and also the game itself. I don’t want to watch Forza gameplay footage, I want to play it…..ASAP please Xbox 🙏

Not used my series x in about 4 months hopefully this will give me a reason to switch it back on !

I'm ready for it. Looking forward to next month.

@GeeEssEff I would even go as far as to say they are very necessary, gamers these days are so disconnected from the dev process and spout nonsense cause of it, they need to watch more of this stuff