So Ep 60 of Invisible Walls is up on Gametrailers.com, and this is an episode we crammed in by recording late on Tues night after everyone had dragged their tired asses back to the office after day one of E3 and its various presentations.
The focus of the show was to discuss the three 1st Party media briefings and dissect them in our own unique way. While I don't want to spoil the show for you, I was of the opinion that Sony had the best lineup but their conf was not as good as it could have been, while MS had a good lineup, but their presentation was slicker.
Of course this has been met with howls of outrage from the more one-eyed members of the GT community, the ones who scream blue murder and lob out the racial and homophobic insults like there is no tomorrow. These of course are the people who can listen to the same episode 50 times in a row and still only hear what they want to hear, so maybe they should be one-eared, instead of one-eyed!
Here is the response I posted on the talk thread for IW 60:
"The question asked on the show was 'Who had the best press conf?', not 'who had the best games?' or 'who will sell the most games?' or 'who has the whiniest set of one-eyed illiterates as fanbots?'
I am on the show because I look at things in a slightly different way to the rest of the crew, based on my 12 yr background in Games PR. I see the industry a little differently and that is why Shane asked me on the show in the first place. That won't change, so get used to it. I don't expect you to agree, just respect that I have a different opinion than you and move on.
A good press conf should not drag out, should cater to the target audience (in this case the games media and not analysts, shareholders or fanboys) and the presentations should be informative, concise and not feel like they are being done by a bunch of rank amateurs who have never had this thing we do called 'media training'.
In my OPINION (and that is all it is, not law, not fact, not gospel) as a former PR person, of the three press conferences I saw, Microsoft managed to execute their event within the parameters I have mentioned above the best. Even though they did not have the strongest content.
Sony, IN MY OPINION did not execute quite as well AGAIN BASED ON THE ABOVE PARAMETERS even though their content far and away outstripped the other 1st parties at E3.
So, when the question was asked, I answered honestly and I still hold that opinion, even after multiple viewings of all the PC's.
Now if you don't mind, I am going back to play inFAMOUS, which I happen to think is one of the best games of they year, but please don't tell the Sony fanboys, because it might confuse them that someone can actually love games simply because they are great, and not based on the name of the system you play them on."
Now you may wonder 'why bother defending yourself time and time again against these guys? They won't change!'
My answer to that is simply - I have to keep on doing this in the hope that some of them will learn that we are allowed to have opinions that differ and at the end of the day as long as the games are good, who gives a damn what system they come out on?
So anyway, here is the link to the show, hope you enjoy!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/51228.html
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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I still think it's a waste of time to try and educate people. Some of them will grow up and abandon their weird POV, some of them won't. It's not your role to educate, so why bother?
As far as the press conferences go, I'm with you on this one (and I posted that in the comments section on GT as well). I agree that Sony showed more stuff (and they should - they have 2 platforms after all).
It doesn't even matter that their games will get releases over longer period of time than what Microsoft announced. It looked more impressive (and w/o qualifying, it was in fact impressive).
As far as presentation goes though, MS spent my time more wisely. No South America past-gen results, no dick-measuring with "only available on..." (which is SUPER lame if you start "avatar" cart racing game presentation with that line). And even space on the screen was used in a much more responsible way (watching feed from big screen showing PSP with the game on the PSP screen left me with 220x120px of used space; in other words I couldn't see a thing when Sony rolled out their reel).
Microsoft conf. wasn't flawless but it was executed very well. The only problem MS seems to have is ppl on the stage - Peter Moore was the man and right now it seems Jack Tretton is leading the pack. :)
Cheers!
This is so true Marcus, let's hope next time you won't have to defend yourself against these low lives although i can't imagine them ever stopping and realising anytime soon.
Do you really get that much hate mail from people for this kind of stuff?
I think the problem is that consoles are so expensive, kids can usually only pick one, so they eventually choose which one they believe is the best, and hate the feeling that they can't play an awesome game.
Us older gamers can buy all of the consoles out there, and thus like you said in ep61(was it?) just enjoy GOOD GAMES, no matter the platform.
I don't know if this will ever change. :s
good god can anyone get the right to free speech anymore?
In my opinion (I hope no ones going to send me racial emails to me) Marcus is one of my favourite game journalists. Not because he’s British/welsh but because he gives an honest opinion and I respect that. So wtf is wrong with everyone when someone says I like this better and that means that you must say the same thing even though we all know we have free speech. So come on that person who says that marcus is a x-box (and he clearly said that he’s a fan boy of good content no the hardware) just grow up.
my Gametrailers name is liamh101
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