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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer on E3 Showcase: 'Content Will Drive the Length. Quality is Key'

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer on E3 Showcase: 'Content Will Drive the Length. Quality is Key' - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2019 / 3,041 Views

Head of Xbox Phil in a response to fans on Twitter said the plan for Microsoft's E3 2019 press conference is for it to have a similar length to their past press conferences. 

The exact length of the show will depend on the amount of content as he feels that a quality show is more important than making it longer.

Other confirmed E3 2019 press conferences include Bethesda and Ubisoft. Nintendo will also attend E3 2019, however, specifics have not been announced.


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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19 Comments
VAMatt (on 01 April 2019)

In other words, the show will be as long as they think it should be.

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KLAMarine (on 01 April 2019)

Best of luck, Phil.

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Dallinor (on 01 April 2019)

Just PR talk. As long as they try not to redefine what exclusive means, ala 2018, with console launch exclusive, World premiere and a booming voice saying exclusive again and again, the talking points can be on the games, and only the games. I'm expecting this one might be a little light with perhaps lots of early trailers, 2020 should be their huge showcase after all the recent acquisitions.

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dane007 Dallinor (on 01 April 2019)

I have them all and ps4 exclusives werent that great as well. The best one for me was gow and that was average . When it comes to third party than xbox x is the best way to play. To be fsir the switch is the best among them

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V-r0cK (on 02 April 2019)

Quality is key, and that's been the result of this gen.

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Zoombael (on 02 April 2019)

Whats he talking?

Certainly not the quality of their first party games and 'exclusives' he was referring to.

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Ljink96 (on 01 April 2019)

Phil likes to talk up his E3 presentations a lot, but the past E3 was pretty good so maybe he's not all talk anymore.

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LivingMetal (on 01 April 2019)

So after three console generations they are finally figuring this out? Thank goodness we've had other options.

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Azzanation LivingMetal (on 01 April 2019)

Its abit tough to say that when the last 2 E3s, Xbox out did there operations. Especally in 2018.

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COKTOE LivingMetal (on 01 April 2019)

"Xbox out did there operations"...Can you clarify the meaning of this? It's literal gibberish.

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Azzanation LivingMetal (on 01 April 2019)

They provided the better E3 showings in the past couple of years.

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COKTOE LivingMetal (on 01 April 2019)

Ah, OK. I very much had no idea what it was you thought they had out done. I guess so...... Last year anyway. And even then, I didn't think it was that great. And as for the prior year.... Wasn't 2017 the year of the booming "exclusive" voice that accompanied many games that were very much not worthy of that distinction? I mean, not without substantially distorting the meaning, and value of that term....I think it was 2017. I found that conference to be an affront, and very much emblematic of everything I don't like about MS and Xbox. Almost 2 years hence I think it's fair to say now, that the impact of the 2017 E3 conference was negligible. Whatever though. I get what you're saying now.

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Azzanation LivingMetal (on 02 April 2019)

I just saw my mistake in my first reply, i meant competition not operations.. that was an auto correct failure.
I believe the showing for E3 2017 was still among the better showcases for games. Regardless of the aftermath of complaints with the exclusive word. A game is game, doesnt make it any better with a word behind it. Just my opinion.

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LivingMetal LivingMetal (on 02 April 2019)

Doesn't matter. E3 is only a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. Sega had a better E3 than Sony two gens ago with the Dreamcast. So where is Sega now with hardware? See my point? Microsoft needed to take what Nelson said and have that mentality THREE generations ago. Thank goodness I don't cherry pick success to justify myself.

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Megiddo (on 01 April 2019)

I wonder which super expensive car they'll bring in this time.

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Jigsawx1 (on 02 April 2019)

Im looking forward to it, hopefully we see halo infinite campaign gameplay.

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Azzanation (on 01 April 2019)

Doesn't matter what Phil says, haters are gonna hate. I am looking forward to both there PC and Xbox lineups.

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Ganoncrotch (on 01 April 2019)

"content will drive the length" sounds like something someone would say with a tiny di.... show!

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