Last night was the annual The Game Awards, which was full of games, including a lot of cool premieres like Hades 2 and Armored Core 6. Overall, the show went very well and judging by it, 2023 will be a very glorious year for games. At the same time, Sony was collecting award following award, while the competitor in the face of Xbox was almost invisible.
It is ironic that The Game Awards 2022 was held at the Microsoft Theater, and the event was attended by Phil Spencer himself. One of the games published by Xbox even won an award, presented another batch of titles for Game Pass and new features were announced … but otherwise, loyal fans of the brand were disappointed.
In social networks, they express bewilderment – why, with all the studios bought and titles being developed, Xbox has not really shown anything since June itself.
The host of the popular show Kinda Funny tweeted:
Very surprised that Xbox did not attend The Game Awards in any way. In my opinion, this is a missed opportunity to imagine what awaits us in 2023.
And the Wirecutter editor noted:
This time the Xbox was the quietest of all the Game Awards ceremonies.
Someone is amazed by the fact that even Nintendo had more presentations than Xbox. Others say that three years have passed since the release of the Xbox Series, and the Microsoft platform is only rocking.
For some strange reason, Xbox didn’t even bring Starfield and Redfall, which are scheduled for release in 2023. Against the background of regularly appearing Game Pass icons, it seems that Xbox has put all its capabilities on the subscription service. Especially once morest the backdrop of the situation with Activision Blizzard – because the likelihood of blocking the deal by the antimonopoly service has become quite real.