In these segments, O’Brien and co-host Aaron Blair play and comments - with scorn or praise - on games that are about to launch.
Since I’m reviewing Witcher 3 myself soon, I’m trying not to watch anything that isn’t short videos or which might contain spoilers. But what you’ll notice from the segment is it’s advertised as being the Xbox One version of the game. Here are two screenshots of how they present the game in that segment.
You can clearly see it is in an Xbox One green case. Yet, as GamingBolt reports:
“Senior Games Designer at CD Projekt RED Damien Monnier clarified on Twitter that the footage was, ‘PC but an old build (this was recorded a while ago).’”
We’re not sure what that means, but the important part is that - again - The Witcher 3 was advertised as explicitly being on Xbox One, but it, in fact, was PC. I say “again” because Microsoft themselves falsely advertised or misrepresented gameplay footage as Xbox One, by showcasing gameplay on their channel with the Xbox Logo on it. They then had to retract/qualify, by indicating it was from PC.
None of these appears particularly malicious. Yet, it’s hard to believe how many people would know this, and make their purchasing decisions off such false information.
It’s perfectly logical to assume that videos showcased on the YouTube channel for your platform is gameplay from your platform. It’s perfectly logical to assume showing the box of an Xbox One game, while O’Brien holds the Xbox case himself, while using Xbox controllers with Xbox prompts in the game, would lead us to assume it’s an Xbox One game.
But time and again, we’re later told it’s not.
It’s hard to know who to blame here: Clueless Gamer is a comedy segment. It’s not a review, despite people continuing to call it that. It’s carefully provided code and no doubt what’s eventually shown is agreed upon by the devs and publishers. That’s not review, that’s PR. It’s funny, it’s enjoyable, but it’s not a review.
Nonetheless, it still influences our decisions. We see this game running, we think it’s Xbox One, we think it looks really great. (I’ve seen Xbox One footage from leaks and the game really is gorgeous. I and many others would not be able to tell the difference if they had just played an Xbox One version!) If they wouldn’t a PS3 version of a game, then play it on PS4, then maybe they shouldn’t do this. Of course, it might be irrelevant considering they probably don’t consider themselves as part of any PR.
CD Projekt Red probably found it easier to give PC code, since the game was probably not even gold when this segment was made. And, again, if that’s the case, why not simply say so? There was no good reason to intentionally choose an Xbox One cover, then showcase PC footage.
http://www.mweb.co.za/games/ViewNew...sing-The-Witcher-3-and-what-must-be-done.aspx
Since I’m reviewing Witcher 3 myself soon, I’m trying not to watch anything that isn’t short videos or which might contain spoilers. But what you’ll notice from the segment is it’s advertised as being the Xbox One version of the game. Here are two screenshots of how they present the game in that segment.
You can clearly see it is in an Xbox One green case. Yet, as GamingBolt reports:
“Senior Games Designer at CD Projekt RED Damien Monnier clarified on Twitter that the footage was, ‘PC but an old build (this was recorded a while ago).’”
We’re not sure what that means, but the important part is that - again - The Witcher 3 was advertised as explicitly being on Xbox One, but it, in fact, was PC. I say “again” because Microsoft themselves falsely advertised or misrepresented gameplay footage as Xbox One, by showcasing gameplay on their channel with the Xbox Logo on it. They then had to retract/qualify, by indicating it was from PC.
None of these appears particularly malicious. Yet, it’s hard to believe how many people would know this, and make their purchasing decisions off such false information.
It’s perfectly logical to assume that videos showcased on the YouTube channel for your platform is gameplay from your platform. It’s perfectly logical to assume showing the box of an Xbox One game, while O’Brien holds the Xbox case himself, while using Xbox controllers with Xbox prompts in the game, would lead us to assume it’s an Xbox One game.
But time and again, we’re later told it’s not.
It’s hard to know who to blame here: Clueless Gamer is a comedy segment. It’s not a review, despite people continuing to call it that. It’s carefully provided code and no doubt what’s eventually shown is agreed upon by the devs and publishers. That’s not review, that’s PR. It’s funny, it’s enjoyable, but it’s not a review.
Nonetheless, it still influences our decisions. We see this game running, we think it’s Xbox One, we think it looks really great. (I’ve seen Xbox One footage from leaks and the game really is gorgeous. I and many others would not be able to tell the difference if they had just played an Xbox One version!) If they wouldn’t a PS3 version of a game, then play it on PS4, then maybe they shouldn’t do this. Of course, it might be irrelevant considering they probably don’t consider themselves as part of any PR.
CD Projekt Red probably found it easier to give PC code, since the game was probably not even gold when this segment was made. And, again, if that’s the case, why not simply say so? There was no good reason to intentionally choose an Xbox One cover, then showcase PC footage.
http://www.mweb.co.za/games/ViewNew...sing-The-Witcher-3-and-what-must-be-done.aspx
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