The new DF Direct Weekly 'drops' a day early. Is the recent Xbox Developer_Direct the best games show in years? The digitalfoundry team reckons so!
In fairness to Microsoft, it has followed up on its media briefings in recent years with separate shows that go into more depth on certain titles but Developer Direct takes things to the next level in getting the major presentation. The scourge of press events - CG trailers - are essentially gone. Each segment focused on the games, what the vision is behind them and why the developers are excited about them.
Tango Gameworks revealing a brand new game - and releasing it at the same time - was another high point. Where would a title like that have sat within a traditional E3 media briefing? An 'oh that looks interesting' moment is transformed into an actual event - and we're loving what we've played so far. The cherry on top?
Microsoft made moves towards this in its E3 media briefing last year, but there were still 'in-engine' vagaries and even inaccuracies - in-game Forza Horizon 5 footage showing ray tracing effects that are definitely not in-game, for example. However, for Developer Direct, there was no disclosure at all. Was Forza Motorsport running on Xbox Series X? Probably not, based on the mouse pointer seen in one shot.
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