i don't expect any significant crazy announcements of the FFXIII (age of Sony am done) going multiplat variety, but I think the "holy craps" will come from displays of stunning visuals rather than big surprises. Most of the big third party franchises announced we know are multiplatform and we're unlikely to see the era of third party exclusives really return
en masse, so most of the potential surprises have to come from first parties doing unusual things or demonstrating massive technical prowess or having a new product of some sort.
Seeing The Last Guardian will be a big enough thing for me to see. My body is so ready that even Reggie Fils-Aime has to take notice.
Big surprises in order:
1. Nintendo's desperate salvo to save Wii U? QOL product revealed? Zelda Wii U? Nintendo at least usually has something unexpected, so I give them biggest odds here.
2. Microsoft still has a lot to prove after the events of last year. ntkrnl revealed a lot of what is sure to be announced, but Microsoft is going to want to grab headlines to perhaps continue the momentum they've maybe restarted a bit with the price drops and Titanfall bundles and the like. I wonder if Titanfall performed well enough to want permanent exclusivity for the franchise?
3. Sony... please Last Guardian.
Please.
adam2893 said:
this is such crap, ps3 was selling worse than the xbone and it still caught up to the 360 eventually.
There's one big major difference, though. XBO does not have the rest of the world to "pick up its slack", so-to-speak. If PS4 continues to pull away, there's pretty much no chance XBO will be able to catch up without Europe helping it in a major way. Japan is seemingly dead for everyone this go around, so that'll help mitigate things a bit, but the end result will still be similar. With much closer US numbers and the rest of the world going Sony, Microsoft will by definition have a harder time closing the gap.