-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Microsoft cancels post-E3 media roundtable
- Thread starter somuchwater
- Start date
Impeccable
Member
Easier to dodge a bullet when only one gun is firing at a time.
(By the sounds of this maybe it doesn't matter.)
(By the sounds of this maybe it doesn't matter.)
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Seems this.
If that's a porn star in your av, please PM the name if you can.
Cornbread78
Member
........sigh... microsoft vs pr
Sorry, a little off-topic:
and this is the next minute when he is called with a foul...
That would be the MS response to more bad press...
lol I found this more amusing than I probably should.
.
Pretty decent strategy actually, one on one interviews with journalist will lead to confusion, they will not bring up inconsistent shit said to the other ones because they dont share notes or do research of any kind unless they have a twitter meting 4 days after the fact, they can work their magic on the lesser kind liek Kuchera and Polygon that will help spread the word. They wont even question about the cancelation of this event and even defend it as we can already see.
I'm sure it isn't your intention, but this really feels like a MS representative's spin on the matter.
This....need gifs fast!!
clay_ghost
Member
? It depends on a situation, also depends on who are the one interviewing. I disagree that roundtable make interviewer uncomfortable , only the interviewees. Any ideas of who are the interviewers or have that not been decided yet?
JoeyJungle
Banned
This does not bode well for MS.
I'm guessing it could be because they don't want to answer questions about:
Used games
How often the console has to console needs to connect to the internet
Kinect being creepy
Faked demo footage
Rumors of downclocking
Rumors of being 6 months behind schedule
Power of the infinite cloud BS
PS4 possibly being twice as powerful as Xbone
But this could be something innocent like canceling to reschedule a few hours later or something. After all, they're gonna kill sony at e3 lol
I'm guessing it could be because they don't want to answer questions about:
Used games
How often the console has to console needs to connect to the internet
Kinect being creepy
Faked demo footage
Rumors of downclocking
Rumors of being 6 months behind schedule
Power of the infinite cloud BS
PS4 possibly being twice as powerful as Xbone
But this could be something innocent like canceling to reschedule a few hours later or something. After all, they're gonna kill sony at e3 lol
Sweet Aunt Nancys Panties
Banned
It's actually not. You'll get better answers from someone if you interview them one-on-one rather than en masse. More questions will now be asked, and multiple variations of the same question. If their message is still disjointed, we'll find out better through one-on-ones than through a group interview.
Jake Tower
Banned
Rising_Hei
Member
Their answers would be based on early code, they will answer everything in the next months, i know everything will be fixed by them.
Don't ever doubt MS
Don't ever doubt MS
Deserves more love
Interesting. I wonder what prompted the cancellation?
You can accomplish that by sending a single email to all employees who will be communicating/interacting with the press.
If it takes weeks to craft a single email, then perhaps they need to rethink their communication(s) strategy.
You can accomplish that by sending a single email to all employees who will be communicating/interacting with the press.
If it takes weeks to craft a single email, then perhaps they need to rethink their communication(s) strategy.
You serious?
Don't get me wrong: if Microsoft is really canceling roundtable interviews, that should set off red flags all over the place. But I'm telling you, as a journalist, one-on-one interviews are always better for me (and therefore for my readers) than roundtables. The best answers come from conversations, not uncomfortable Q&A sessions where nobody wants to ask good questions in front of their competition.
fabricated backlash
Member
Information control... I'm not surprised.
MS wants to dictate the PR narrative, after they completely botched their reveal.
It's not exactly transparent or honest, but I somehow wonder if people really expect those qualities from PR events.
MS wants to dictate the PR narrative, after they completely botched their reveal.
It's not exactly transparent or honest, but I somehow wonder if people really expect those qualities from PR events.
Black Republican
Member
Sounds like a show up at E3 and run plan, lmao
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
It's probably a smart move on their part.. an open forum approach with the outward hostility by some these days just isn't proactive to healthy discussion.
As long as they do the behind-closed-doors then it's fine. It'd be a better place to ask questions and get answers anyhow.
Honestly, how many times do media round-tables really get good solid information in any forum? You just can't have the question-follow-up-follow-up scenario in that kind of forum, and a few bad seeds can taint the mood of the room.
Well.. he posted this after, but yeah.. he confirms what I was saying. Round tables are bad for actually getting info.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Jeff Gerstmann talked about going to a roundtable after the reveal show and it ended up being a panel of Major Nelson asking the engineers how awesome the system was. I doubt it was going to be any different this time around.
Tylahedras
Banned
Hi buuuuuuuuuuuuudy. Where are you from? (Is it Redmond?) (Or maybe India?)
So now it's not, "Wait till E3 before you draw conclusions" it's "wait a few months," then it will be "wait till launch," then it will be "wait till they fix it."
This send a message - and not a good one. E3 is arguably the biggest stage available in the year to explain/show off/hype your products. Dodging out of the post media PR sessions this close to the show raises a red flag imo, and shows their hand slightly. To me, this meas that there IS DRM based authentication and no used games on the console. They know that this is something that everyone will want to ask and the answers that will be provided will seriously hurt the product.
The XBone reveal was terrible, so E3 is now all about the games - but the product and services themselves, which haven't been answered yet, are still a thing that people want to know about. What better time to set the record straight then E3?
Not only that but it appears that the OS itself isn't ready and that the Snap for Kinect isn't in a working state tells me (again, my opinion) that they are not only in catch up mode this gen but the product itself isn't ready.
I really think that Sony caught Redmond totally off guard with the PS4 reveal in February, regardless if the XBone has been in development since 2010.
The XBone reveal was terrible, so E3 is now all about the games - but the product and services themselves, which haven't been answered yet, are still a thing that people want to know about. What better time to set the record straight then E3?
Not only that but it appears that the OS itself isn't ready and that the Snap for Kinect isn't in a working state tells me (again, my opinion) that they are not only in catch up mode this gen but the product itself isn't ready.
I really think that Sony caught Redmond totally off guard with the PS4 reveal in February, regardless if the XBone has been in development since 2010.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I thought it was because the journalists would be too busy playing the XBoxone that was under their chairs at the E3 conference.
... then jschreier ruined that thought with reality.
... then jschreier ruined that thought with reality.
My thoughts exactly.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Original xbox need a replacement cord because the old one could have cause a fire, and the xbox 360 RROD(4 times).
Fuck them. I'm done.
I feel like they decided that putting out a "public" message, then having a private message was too much to manage. Instead they opted to focus on private messages (one-on-one) and hopefully have rehersed the answers to all the questions they messed up last time.
Of course they likely will just say what they always have "policys have not been finalized". I expected them to be ready the first time after all the bad News/PR. Surprised when everyone came out with different messages. Some were obviously glossing over the truth, whereas Harrison seemed to tell it like it is.
Do you think they will have enough time to have a one-on-one session with every gaming journalist at their event?
Barack Lesnar
Banned
sixteen-bit
Member
Is the goal to just dodge questions until launch?
Bluekaveli
Member
That ether.
Similar threads
- Poll