Xbox Showcase and Starfield Direct: VP reveals what to expect next week

In less than a week, the big Xbox Showcase will kick off, followed by a Starfield Direct all about the space saga. Xbox Vice President Aaron Greenberg commented on the event in more detail up front and revealed a few details on what to expect.

Next Sunday, June 11, 2023, Microsoft will hold the big Xbox Summer Showcase – the most important event to introduce its upcoming gamers, which otherwise took place as part of E3 in Los Angeles, which is known to have been canceled this year. Microsoft is running a double feature with Bethesda, because after the public Xbox show there’s also a Starfield Direct special, which focuses exclusively on Bethesda’s upcoming space epic.

What exactly is planned now? The Xbox show is said to last about two hours, with a focus on games from Xbox Studios and Bethesda. Xbox Vice President Aaron Greenberg revealed via Twitter that gaming is really the focus of the action. He said in a tweet that the show will feature “toys, games, games, and Starfield.”

Microsoft can’t resist digging into rival Sony either, because according to Greenberg none of its own games will be presented exclusively with a CG trailer. In particular in Sony’s recent PlayStation demo, CG trailers could be seen without real gameplay – a circumstance that Microsoft also took advantage of in the past, when it introduced titles like Fable, Perfect Dark or Avowed, which at the time were still at an early stage. Development. “Everything is either in-game footage, in-engine footage, or in-game footage with some of the cinematics. Each of our trailers will be named as such, so hopefully that’s clear to our fans,” Greenberg said.

Next small dig: “There will be no movie trailers on our game show,” Greenberg continued. Recently, Sony also included the trailer for the live-action adaptation of Gran Turismo in the show. And another change from last year: The show will only feature games due to be released for Xbox within the next 12 months. With this announcement, you entered the forefront of 2022, but later you had to admit that a number of titles like Forza Motorsport, Ark 2, or STALKER 2 couldn’t adhere to that release time window anyway. So this time, such a promise has been let go and we too dare to look beyond the mid-range horizon.