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I agree with this. I would say Sony is looking pretty savvy right now. I don't know how long in advance yesterday's demo was planned, but to have it the week after a disappointing XsX showcase (which I thought was alright, but not really close to NEXT GEN IS HERE level) is perfect timing. Not only is the timing great, but they have a third party team talking about how great the PS5 is, not just Cerny or someone at Sony saying it, which makes it seem even better.
On top of that, all they have needed to do prior to this is tweet a logo and unveil the DualSense to generate millions and millions of views.
I wasn't convinced of their plan after the Cerny GDC talk, which I was pretty critical of, but right now it seems like they are captain of the hype ship for the time being. Yesterday's demo had nothing to do with XsX, or what XsX can't do, it was just about what PS5 CAN do, and yet still it came off as a total PS5 home run. Whoever planned it all either got really lucky or is a genius.
I mean, as underwhelming as you may have found it, there WERE some snippets of actual gameplay last week. Take it or leave it, it's there.
Why I mentions medium, that looked good, but hardly anything concrete in terms of gameplay, that was more my point, most people would take away it was just 3rd party cg trailers, rather than xbx gameplay blow out
Only game was that one man made game, and thats been on the internet for ages, so hardly mind blowing
As you said, nothing that screamed 'next gen is here's, more well heres some trailer that might look like that.
More my point, just think xbx dropped the ball with those trailers
Put it this way the unreal 5 demo made me think, shit ive gotta spend more money on my pc now, the xbx trailer made me think, I'm good for another few years yet
If that makes sense
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