Poll Sony has PlayStation Experience. Nintendo has Nintendo Direct. Should Microsoft Have Their Own Event? (10 votes)
With Sony's recent announcement that they will be holding the PlayStation Experience annually, it seems that they, too, have now decided that they want to control their messaging, by delivering information directly to consumers, and by spreading it out. It shows they have enough confidence in their output that they can hold multiple events throughout the year.
Nintendo, of course, already does this, with about 5-6 Nintendo Direct broadcasts held every year, which are great for new game reveals, information on how announced upcoming games are coming along, and generally, at delivering the message directly to their customers.
But what about Microsoft? Microsoft does not have its own event yet. They used to, back in the day, X0 (and it was awesome, just like Space World), but they don't hold them any more. Do you think they should? Should they do it Sony's way, with one big event a year, or Nintendo's way, with multiple, relatively smaller webcasts? Or something new entirely? Maybe a combination of both?
The next question is, can they do something like this at all? Microsoft has the smallest and weakest first party- any event by them would be more reliant on third party games, and third parties already reveal games and information at their own schedule, so would they have much new stuff to show at all?
What do you think? Should Microsoft have its own event(s), or is doubling down on E3 wiser?
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