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Epic: Xbox silence at GDC isn't the full picture

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shinobi602

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Microsoft's next-gen silence at this week's Game Developers Conference has been dismissed as "more perception than reality," by Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein.

PlayStation 4 has been an ever-present discussion point at the San Francisco event, with Sony publicly fostering developer relations and even showcasing controllers at its booth.

However, Rein said that assumptions Microsoft didn't have a private presence at the conference "isn't true," and that on the public side it's simply a case of one platform holder having announced their new console and the other not.

"I think that's more perception than reality," Rein said of Microsoft's suggested absence from GDC.

"Microsoft has always been very developer centric with all of their platforms and that Sony is embracing that approach is wonderful. But I don't think it diminishes what Microsoft is doing.

"I don't think with developer relations anyone is trying to be public, it's just you're at GDC and Sony has the hardware to talk about, and Microsoft hasn't talked about it publicly yet. So I think it's just the difference between someone who can say the name of their console and someone who can't."

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I like how he says Microsoft "can't" talk about it yet. They make the damn thing, don't they control when and how they talk about their own product?
 
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Miles Quaritch

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However, Rein said that assumptions Microsoft didn't have a private presence at the conference "isn't true," and that on the public side it's simply a case of one platform holder having announced their new console and the other not.
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Hmm.

Honestly, if there's anything to take from this. It's that Microsoft simply aren't ready to show anything yet. Perhaps they've hit some technical road blocks?
 
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Iacobellis

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artist said:
It's cause the 360 still has 10 more years of shelf life in the retail.
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Don't sabotage your own console.
 
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Four_Chamber

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But...but...but I thought Microsoft's absence at GDC was "disastrous"

On a side note, this thread will get less than 1/4 the views of that particular thread.
 
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Alx

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shinobi602 said:
I like how he says Microsoft "can't" talk about it yet. They make the damn thing, don't they control when and how they talk about their own product?
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They decide when and how they announce their product, and until then they can't talk about it. Nothing contradictory with that.
 
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RoboPlato

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Miles Quaritch said:
Hmm.

Honestly, if there's anything to take from this. It's that Microsoft simply aren't ready to show anything yet. Perhaps they've hit some technical road blocks?
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Don't see where you go that from. I just think MS is sticking to a predeveloped marketing plan, independent of what Sony is doing.
 
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Gorillaz

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Feels like this is there way of saying, yea it will probably be announced later then most believe, in may/right before E3
 
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ii Stryker

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MS has their plan and they're sticking to it.

All the "meh" will be revealed soon enough.

The anticipation of VGnerd christmas is palpable though. E3 can't get here soon enough!!
 
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polyh3dron

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Reinforces what I said before. Only reason devs aren't talking about it is because NDAs. Zombie Games knowing nothing doesn't mean much, they're near the bottom of the console development totem pole.

MS won't delay this thing, we'll see it launch this holiday season whether its ready or not.
 
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Wynnebeck

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Four_Chamber said:
But...but...but I thought Microsoft's absence at GDC was "disastrous"

On a side note, this thread will get less than 1/4 the views of that particular thread.
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Please take this nonsense out of here. Even though the original article was quite hyperbolic, it still brought a good point in which many developers are sitting and wondering what's going on with MS. Who cares about the big publishers they obviously had meetings with? I want to hear about the little guys and how MS is going to move forward with them after hearing horror stories in indie development involving MS.
 
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harSon

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Microsoft has always been a company that's more in the business of showing what they're working on instead of telling you what they're working on. It's a fundamental difference between Microsoft and Sony, which can be see by the way they announce video games.
 
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ChosenPredator

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Opus Angelorum said:
Microsoft must be enjoying all of this negativity, they have nothing to lose.



It would be hilarious if the Xbox 720 version was better.
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pretty much people already have "Epic" low expectations of the console purely based off of rumors they can only excite people now unless those rumors are true.
 
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Bgamer90

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harSon said:
Microsoft has always been a company that's more in the business of showing what they're working on instead of telling you what they're working on. It's a fundamental difference between Microsoft and Sony, which can be see by the way they announce video games.
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Yep.

Just look at the past E3s.

Microsoft has mainly shown/talked about things coming out during the same year.

Sony talked about things coming out anywhere in the range of the same year up to 2 or 3 years after the conference.
 
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Triple U

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harSon said:
Microsoft has always been a company that's more in the business of showing what they're working on instead of telling you what they're working on. It's a fundamental difference between Microsoft and Sony, which can be see by the way they announce video games.
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So, what exactly do you call what they're doing now?
 
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jtb

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It's their console. They can announce it whenever the hell it pleases them. Sure, it makes the console wars dull for the time being, but the announcement's timing will have little to no impact on this console's success.
 
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Miles Quaritch

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mrklaw said:
You could have stopped before that last sentence.
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I only put it in due to the recent delay to their event in April. If they are following a schedule (which is more than believable), then a delay so late in the game is worrying and would likely be connected to technical issues.

I'd also add that Microsoft allegedly haven't shipped beta kits to a number of third party developers. So both raise questions about what's going on and how much of it is connected to any technical issues that may have arisen.
 
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lockload

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I said it in the other thread and i will say it here, xbox has very good relationships with developers and doesnt need GDC to make those relationships the developers already ave the information they need and have done for many months

Press at GDC is the issue they treat it as E3 and it isnt
 
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SuperSonic1305

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harSon said:
Microsoft has always been a company that's more in the business of showing what they're working on instead of telling you what they're working on. It's a fundamental difference between Microsoft and Sony, which can be see by the way they announce video games.
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Just like those fake Kinect demos.

ii Stryker said:
I'm amazed that by NOT announcing anything yet they almost have as much mind share as Sony.

It quite diabolical.
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Yup, all those rumours of how much worse it's going to be are really helping them out.
 
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