E3 2021 Was Xbox's Biggest Show Ever By Viewers

I think Microsoft have delivered solid and consistent showcases for the past few years including this one. They've got the tone and balance right between showing games and talking heads. Some of the other publishers' own showcases this year left a lot to be desired and they could learn a lot. Quite a few of the E3 branded shows completely missed the mark, and I have to wonder if gamers were the audience at all for some of them.

Anyway, good luck to MS going forward.

Xbox is such a pathetic platform.. they can’t make quality games so they borrow some of Bill Gates money and steal games that were already being made away from other platforms.. What a stain on the industry

I am proud of what XB has done & proud the direction that they are taking, but could they do more & do it quicker?

I think a quick fix might be to bring back some classic games and/or remaster them. I was really hoping that they would have announced at least 10-12 more titles to backwards compatibility & had they done that on top of their showing they would have killed it over the top!

If I am being honest I do not like to play Ori, Hellblade, Sea of Thieves, Battletoads, Cuphead & not excited for Fable, Avowed, The Medium or Everwild. But I do like the graphically superior renditions of Crash & Spyro and the comical Lococycles with decent graphics and I think it is the graphics & art style that keep me engaged along with the gameplay mechanics. What I am most excited to play are games like Titanfall & I LOVE the campaign and multiplayer for Titanfall, SW Batllefront, COD, & Battlefield . I love the action of Anthem & Outriders without the loot & rpg elements. And I would love to see more of those types of games & as it stands it seems empty for next gen aside from BF2042 (which has no single player campaign & sux). XB needs to get back to its roots & give us more games like Halo & Gears with a mix of the aforementioned...bring back BRO games!!! Crossfire X is a good direction! Forza Horizon looks phenomenal too!

A quicker fix is to bring more games to BC, such as MechAssault 1-2, 007, TMNT, Transformers, Ridge Racer, Binary Domain, House of the Dead, Time Crisis....to keep us engaged until next gen games trickle in.

A Cruis'n Blast or Asphalt to XB would have just made my 2021, sometimes simpler things can make all the difference.

the 360 really was the biggest era for MS, no doubt. They sold something like 80 million units and gave sony and the ps3 at the time a shit ton of trouble. It feels like the xbox series is going to do gangbuster sales this time around, on par if not better than the 360. Sony better be prepared, because this time around MS is going all out. They have the best console, the best subscription service, and some can argue even the best games.

About as meaningful as "The greatest lineup in Xbox history"

Rumor has it Sony had to postpone Gran Turismo once they knew how great Forza Horizon 5 looks, plays and performs.

Oh Sony.....maybe if they would hire Microsoft to make their racing games instead.

I wouldn't be so proud of that. Since the Bethesda show was fused with Xbox's due to the merger. And the main fact that Sony wasn't there.

And they really delivered the goods IMO.

“We are pleased to see so many people waiting for salvation, for the deliverance we’ve been promising. Your Faith has empowered our service and as our profits reach new heights, we understand that there’s no hurry for these games to be released. Our 30+ different gaming studios thank you for the time and patience you have given them.”

I was expecting Fables, Starfield and Perfect Dark gameplay. Came away satisfied by FH5 and Stalker 2 instead.

The expectations to the new E3 format were big to begin with.

If the show was good,depends what you was looking forward to see.
Halo fans aswell as haters wanted to see if 343i could come back with better graphical presentation of Infinite...which they did btw,there was absolutely no negative comment about it since.

Xbox/Bethesda and Nintendo did great,Capcom+SE+Ubisoft+others dissapointed

A lot of viewers doesn't mean it was a great show. Just like a lot of preorders doesn't mean a game is great... I'm looking at you, Cyberpunk. The show overall was ok

It was a very good one, indeed. Not hard when Sony once again did not take part on it.

Great one, nonetheless.

Jesus Christ, Phill, we get it. You think you're great and everything you do is amazing. But will the show where its just xbox and not xbox/Bethesda be as "big" or do you think absorbing the previous biggest e3 show into yours maybe kicked the numbers up a bit?