TTIL that Far Cry 3 Villian is Nacho Varga

Should have been black cases like the UHD cases.

Will there be a new Nintendo crossover game or partnership? (Mario + Rabbids, Star Fox in Starlink, etc.)Yes

Will Ubisoft acknowledge the recent sexual misconduct accusations in any way during the main show?Yes

Across all videos for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which version of the main character will be featured the longest (male or female)?Male

Will Rayman reveal himself?Yes

Will there be MORE than 20 cannons be fired across all Skull & Bones videos? (so if 10 cannons fire, reload, and fire again, that's 20)
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No

Will a new Far Cry game taking place in Europe be shown?No

Will we hear Michael Ironside's voice?Yes

Will there be MORE than 4 separate Tom Clancy titles individually featured on the show? (recap montages don't count)No

Will there be MORE than 2 different planets shown across all Beyond Good & Evil 2 videos?No

Will a brand new IP be revealed?Yes

Will Trackmania be featured for MORE than 3 minutes? (gameplay, trailers, interviews all count)No

Will Yves Guillemot wear a shirt or a suit or neither?both

Will a new game where you control a car (or any racing vehicle) be revealed?Yes

Tie-breaker: How many kills will be shown across all HyperScape videos?90

1: Will there be any spoken or on-screen appearance of Master Chief's full name, "John-117" during the presentation? Partials such as "John" or "117" do not count. No

2: The words "World Premiere" will appear on screen MORE than 9 times. Yes

3: Will a new Fable be shown? Yes

4: Will the word "Batman" be spoken? No

5: There will be a celebrity presenter. (I will count any real life person that does not work for Microsoft that has a wikipedia page, Tim Schafer does not count) Yes

6: Will the price be revealed? No

7: There will be a self deprecating joke about "showing real gameplay this time". It has to be an attempt at a joke and not an apologetic statement. I will consult joke experts if necessary.YES

8: Will a demo for any of these games shown off in the 1st showcase be shadow dropped during the second showcase? Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Dirt 5, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Madden NFL 21, Chorus, Scarlet Nexus, Bright Memory Infinite, Call of the Sea, Scorn, Second Extinction, The Ascent, The Medium, and Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines 2.
MUST BE SHADOW DROPPED and not made available earlier in the week!!!No

9: "Ray Tracing" will be said more than 4 times.Yes

10: The game that The Initiative is working on will be announced. No

11: Halo, Forza, AND Gears will all be present. (montages count)Yes

12: The Xbox Games Showcase will be longer than 75 minutes.Yes

Tie Breaker: Total number of times the phrase "Game Pass" is spoken aloud. 8

Crap I forgot to do this. We could come up with bets for Xbox though as a collective

@tokyoslim we could talk about August State of Play and Silent Hill

@mbun So Nintendo showcases are Nintendo supporting Indy's but for Sony only E3 counts? Nintendo has only showed %90 first part games at E3 until 2018. Sony conferences from Gamescom to Paris Games Week to PSX to State of Play and now PS5 showcase is full of indy's. You name 2 games in 7 years. On top of the indy studio's sony has supported, they also support VR studio's which Nintendo/Microsoft don't.

It doesn't matter if PS4 cared about indy's or not. People don't really care for indy's. We had State of Play full of indy's and people complained. People loved the State of Play's focused on 1 big game because people love the big games.

@tokyoslim How am I wrong when you said I'm spreading misinformation. He was talking about boosted frequencies for the Top 100 games which is said at the video you linked. Almost all games will be playable at launch. The console might have different frequencies for PS4, PS4 Pro and PS5 boost but that doesn't mean every single game will work on the PS5 boosted or not as 100% BC has never happened in any PS console.

@tokyoslim He was talking about PS4 games running on Boosted frequencies on a PS5.