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i also think that game pass in itself is more efficient marketing than a lot of these tweets and stuff, which is something corroborated by devs themselves.
i do think their social media could have a more... consistent presence regarding this stuff, though. for example, SIGNALIS and Gunfire Reborn are two bangers and didn't have presence in their main twitter which has 20 million followers.
didn't expect that since the last one skipped xbox afaik, good news!
Man, with the amount of 1st party content and day-1 GP drops, they better do direct style streams every quarter at the very least. I also want to see deep-dive style SoP's on specific titles, at least big 1st party games that warrant them i.e., Starfield, Avowed, Fable etc.
Fucking lol
For sure, once WoM spreads from GP drops it works the best. But bringing awareness to their existence from the main Xbox channels consistently should help a lot with getting people unaware of their inclusion to try it, which equals more potential for WoM to spread. Anyway, marketing is a recurring drum-beat here so don't want to linger too long on it, just that tweets are so easy to do and bare minimum is all.
I guess part of the 'problem' is that xbox has a separate Xbox Wire account for the blog posts
View: https://twitter.com/xboxwire/status/1583458089398718465?s=46&t=-Oop6bMWDqjrUU3HrkNk5Q
The main acc often retweets these but not all of them so it can get broken up.
yeah i definitely agree, i don't think it's all bad like people say here because their partners consistently have ton of great selling stuff, but it lacks consistence overall
yeah, they retweed the somerville stuff for example. but i do think separate tweets work best. the lack of consistency is what bugs me.
for example: game pass always tweets the "available now" thingie, but they didn't do that yesterday for SIGNALIS, Gunfire Reborn and Frog Detective. why?
Yeah, could be. Resi 2 & 3 next gen upgrades had also a 120 fps option iiirc. Resi 4 Remake uses the same engine so there should be a chance at least.
While I get the "Xbox should do more than one show!!" meme, like.. is that not what happened this year already? People have been clamoring in here for "DO GAME-SPECIFIC DIRECTS/SOPs FOR YOUR GAMES YOU STUPID IDIOT XBOX MARKETERS!!!!" And like. They already have. "DO MARKETING FOR YOUR FIRST PARTY AND UPCOMING GAMES THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR, XBOX!!!! WTF!!!!" But like.. They have. And, no, not just as E3.
We can talk about whether or not you liked those events (I think people were fairly positive on most of them, save for maybe an indie showcase here or there). We can definitely talk about whether you guys think they're enough. And I even agree with Klob that the tweet and social media game has been very strange and likely bad, overall (assuming that the goal of the social media accounts are specifically to market games - it's entirely possible that they've decided that this is somehow counterproductive or ineffective based on the vagaries of the algorithm and it's better return to boost Xbox rather than specific games. Who knows, probably not. It's weird either way).
But iono. If we're going to keep having this conversation reoccur ad nauseum, feels weird to not at least acknowledge some basic facts along the way.
We can talk about whether or not you liked those events (I think people were fairly positive on most of them, save for maybe an indie showcase here or there). We can definitely talk about whether you guys think they're enough. And I even agree with Klob that the tweet and social media game has been very strange and likely bad, overall (assuming that the goal of the social media accounts are specifically to market games - it's entirely possible that they've decided that this is somehow counterproductive or ineffective based on the vagaries of the algorithm and it's better return to boost Xbox rather than specific games. Who knows, probably not. It's weird either way).
But iono. If we're going to keep having this conversation reoccur ad nauseum, feels weird to not at least acknowledge some basic facts along the way.
View: https://twitter.com/XboxWire/status/1585994807209390081
Hope you aren't standing as you read November's GWG titles, as the sheer hype and magnitude for these two games surely would've knocked you off your feet
wild prediction, bunch of small tweets leading up to Halloween release date reveal?
Drop so bad, no one has even bothered to make a thread for it yet lol
One thing about the MS Marketing in regards RedFall.... It's interesting how Sony did a great work with Deathloop, some of my friends that are PS fans had an internal joke about "We will see Deathloop again in this event?"
Maybe Sony pressed Bethesda/Arkane a lot more to have those showcases, while Xbox giving time to Arkane? Dunno...
But anyway... even giving time to Arkane, nothing stops Xbox to advertise the game, and.. well... Klob is 100% right on this.
Maybe Sony pressed Bethesda/Arkane a lot more to have those showcases, while Xbox giving time to Arkane? Dunno...
But anyway... even giving time to Arkane, nothing stops Xbox to advertise the game, and.. well... Klob is 100% right on this.
Finally some next-gen content
Can't wait to play this in 4K | 120FPS | Dolby Vision HDR
Well, Deathloop premiered at the PS5 reveal show. Then got delayed once or twice so it would appear at state of plays as like a "its coming soon!" but the delay meant it would reappear later down the road. Kinda similar to Redfall where it was revealed with the CGI trailer, got delayed, but showed up as gameplay trailer at the next event, and now it's waiting to be revealed further like with a release date. I don't think there's much difference other than Redfall not having a release date and Xbox not having quarterly shows basically.
My son got gifted a free design lab elite 2 at the Halo CHampionship - code handed over by masterchief himself! (hopefully images load)
My son got gifted a free design lab elite 2 at the Halo CHampionship - code handed over by masterchief himself! (hopefully images load)
oh wow awesome!
Not having quarterly shows it's a huge difference just for marketing alone. If RedFall is released before June, IMO, the chance that we will have to see something about the game is at TGA or a poorly advertised video, like the last one =/.
New edge update says you can get haptic feedback via xcloud. I had my controller plugged in while playing via the xbox app and recall getting vibration during Persona 5. I tried it in Edge with this update both wired and wireless and didn't get any..
edit: yeah via xbox app i get vibration bluetooth and wired. I expect this will be the same over Edge soon or should be there already
There are some very talented people attached to the project. Istvan Pely (Art Director at BGS) said he has been blown away by how much they've stuck with Bethesda's original vision and design from the games on the visual side. This show is gonna be fire.
Catching up on this thread, and it doesn't surprise me one bit that Xbox's marketing is useless. Just look who's in charge of it.
View: https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1586023825627500549?s=20&t=OxwVNeQB8U1yVB7w4hGCsA
Looks like Roboquest is coming to Xbox game pass (currently PC only)
It is not that xbox marketing is useless, I think xbox do too much "marketing", theres AD everywhere, but they dont get the biggest place to put these AD.
By perspective, sony have ADs in the champions league, what big league xbox have ads? in any sports?
Plus xbox get a lot of small marketing, while sony stay silent for months and then come with a god of war ragnarok logo.
The other thing that doesnt help xbox are the leaks, when we know sony is doing a showcase, its all guesses. when xbox is doing a showcase, half of the show get leaked. Leaks are not good, period.
I will ask you, do you know who is playstation marketing president? I know microsoft want to be inclusive to its community, but sometimes its too much that we just keep asking for more.
Appreciate the enthusiasm from Aaron here but if you're going to list off titles coming to your ecosystem, please at the very least get the name of the game right! It's not Project Lana. The game's title is Plant of Lana. Lol.
Weeeeellll, Project Lana is closer I guess than Plant of Lana....
You've just encountered a rare species, the Lana Plant. Sorry, had to :)
looking forward to seeing some footage to see what type of mood they go for?.
Hahaha, oops, sorry at the misspelling of Planet vs Plant! Hahahaha. I'll just leave my post above un-edited, for laughs and giggles. ;)
Bro put an Arsenal Football club short 💀😭
He think he will lift the PL 💀😂
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