#State of decay 3 e3 Pc#

Meaning, a demo that shows someone using xCloud at home but I have not heard if this scenario made the final cut.Īs Microsoft announced last week, GamePass for the PC will be talked about in much greater detail. While I don’t think Microsoft will share the raw performance figures of xCloud, I have heard that it does best Google’s previously announced 10.7 teraflops.Įxpect to see new demos of the service and I know at one point, they were looking to have a demo from a location outside the venue. Microsoft has been talking about this service for about a year and at E3, we will get a new look at the offering. In addition to Microsoft having a solid first-party presence, sources at the company are saying that this is among the strongest showings from third-party companies in its E3 history.īut the darling of the event will be the company’s xCloud service. Microsoft will be running the demos from a PC with an Xbox controller as they don’t want the first impression of the new game to be running on the now dated Xbox One hardware. Of that, I expect titles like Gears of War 5 (codenamed Halifax) will have a strong presence, and we will also see items like new DLC for State of Decay 2, Forza Horizon 4 Expansion 2, Halo Infinite trailer and gameplay, Age of Empires info, Fable details may be tossed in as well it looks like there will be at least 3 new IPs that we haven’t seen previously.įor Halo Infinite, this will be the first real showing of the next generation game. On the games side, Microsoft will be showing off 14 titles from their own game studios, according to Phil Spencer.

Keep in mind, these consoles are more than a year away, Microsoft isn’t going to announce everything at this event, just enough to keep the event interesting but they will hold major details back until closer to release.

By holding the explicit specs back, this allows the company to talk about the underlying features of the console without playing all their cards for the upcoming devices.Īnd there is an important reason behind this approach, the final configurations and performance are still in flux. Also, expect to hear about how these new consoles can take existing Xbox One X games and enhance the graphics and gameplay experience. Instead, look for the company to provide performance multipliers for the hardware I have heard that Lockhart and Anaconda are targeting at least a 2x performance gain for the high-end (Anaconda) and 4x for the lower end hardware(Lockhart).įurther, the company will likely highlight features of the new platform such as using solid-state drives, Navi graphics, Zen 2, backwards compatibility and other components of the AMD platform.

For those who are hoping to see a list of raw specs, I don’t think that’s on the agenda quite yet. On the hardware side, I expect Microsoft to start to peel back the layers on the secrecy around their next generation consoles, Anaconda and Lockhart. While I think most of them are simply logical guesses, after talking to many people in the industry and insiders at Microsoft, here are my expectations for Microsoft’s E3 event. Unlike previous years, the company has a chance to fully own the spotlight as Sony is not making the trip and with xCloud and a new generation of consoles on the horizon, the company has a lot to talk about.įor the past few weeks, forums, Twitter, Reddit, and nearly every other gaming community has been filled with ‘leaks’. On Sunday, Microsoft will head to LA where the company will be hosting their annual E3 keynote.

State of decay 3 e3