The biggest news by far, however, is that following on from the news of Sony and Microsoft's strategic partnership, I'm expecting their respective CEOs, Kenichiro Yoshida and Satya Nadella, to announce a civil partnership. Maybe even something on The Elder Scrolls VI - just a short teaser and the title screen would do. It’d be the perfect time to go and make a coffee, if only it wasn't somehow so damn captivating.Īs always, I'm anticipating big things from Bethesda, such as extended footage of DOOM Eternal which, hopefully, makes DOOM (2016) look like DOOM 3. Īnother certainty is Ubisoft's batshit crazy opener, where furries dance to a song that nobody deserves to hear twice. Fable 4 is practically a given at this point and rumours abound that the sole reason for its existence is to stop me endlessly banging on about Fable 4. It’ll be called Xbox Premiere - representing what Microsoft believes to be the future of gaming.Ĭhris | Yoshida and Nadella announce civil partnership
It's possible there'll be more than one hardware format, thought the all-digital version will be the standard model, and the only model they’ll be talking about at the show. They’ll also allow players to access new first-party releases not just on release day, but early. While we all expect backwards compatibility to continue to be significant on the next Xbox, Microsoft will double down on Game Pass to double the number of backwards compatible games on the service in the next year. There'll be a more overt link with PC, making it even easier for friends to communicate and play together regardless of hardware, with cross-play enabled by default across first-party titles. We all expect Microsoft to talk about their new console, codenamed Scarlett, but let's make a discerning stab in the dark about the final name and their hardware strategy.įirstly, we'll see a subscription-style model of ownership which the company has played with in the past, even if it's just for education or enterprise audiences.
James | Project Scarlett is all-digital ‘Xbox Premiere’ They can’t possible come out of E3 2019 richer for their absence, having only under delivered and been overshadowed. I don’t tend to keep scores, but I can’t deny that it’s disappointing - even slightly concerning, as a paying PlayStation customer - to see Sony opt out, and I’m not alone. It’s unlikely to be the reality of the situation, but that won’t stop people jumping to conclusions during the inevitable winners and losers debates that’ll follow E3. E3 2018 marked the first time of the current console generation where the general consensus was that team green came off better, so it almost looks like Sony have taken their ball and gone home as soon as the tables turned. PlayStation want to do their own thing, like Nintendo, but this year wasn’t the time to pull the trigger. Instead of finally blowing out Death Stranding as the world watched, they slipped out the latest trailer on a random Tuesday evening. Instead of playing their hand for a cheering live crowd, they instead chose to share a few dry details on their next console in a written interview with Wired. Sony’s decision to skip a traditional E3 press conference this year came as a shock to everyone.
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