While Nishino was giving his keynote at the TBSE, of course, this was right after the State of Play broadcast, and well, the internet is giving this very little respect. Geoff Keighley went and called it the “big State of Play” in his tweet, and just that one word sparked a million reactions. It was like he tossed a grenade into a calm pond, and now everyone’s arguing about the splash.
Others are totally winning. Like SixEye, who said, “That state of play was fire” with an applause emoji. Praise definitely indeed. But scrounging down for a bit of a minute reveals a very different story. Gabriel, under the guise of “x3me_,” posted an angry meme with the caption “Big State of Play?” as if genuinely questioning reality; then Rob, under the guise of “Blake96t,” proceeded to say, “Geoff were you fried or something.” The division is very much real, and the juxtaposition itself is quite funny.
What transpired during the State of Play to cause such a division? Well, from the chatter in the replies, Marvel’s Wolverine seemed to be the main attraction. But wait for it: somebody cited a “Fall 2026 release window.” Fall 2026! That is two years from now! So, chubby eyebrows regarding the use of the word “big” are granted. If the biggest game shown is arriving in two years, is it really a biggie right now? Pretty much what the argument in some of these tweets is.
Of course, it’s not just about Wolverine. There’s supposedly some news about the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 on December 8, which should be great news for flight sim fans, as it comes with PSVR2 support. The conversation in the replies, however, quickly went off-track, as always, to spread some console war rubbish. Andy, or pilater89 in Twitter land, decided to throw some shade: “100% no tweet when Xbox does this,” insinuating Geoff is playing favorites. To which Snuubz retorted, “Xbox is dead lil bro.” It’s clockwork. No one really can have an intelligent conversation about gaming without someone bringing up their platform wars.
But then again, there’s a whole other juicy entertaining thread elsewhere. It began when Rob aka Blake96t called the show “crap” while saying Wolverine was good but too far away. Then Luigy aka ReformedPlay3r came down on him, calling Rob a “Nintendo/WWE fanboy” and telling him to “GTFO and go play that boring ass Kirby game on the Switch 2.” However, Luigy is appropriately problematic. Another user, LusilverX, calls him out with, “Bruh.. your name is literally Luigi. You’re doomed on self-hatred.” The irony is palpable. It’s a mini-drama of sequential explosions with people throwing barbs about their gaming preferences. It’ll only get messier when the same bunch starts arguing over which JRPG is better: Trails or Xenoblade. This is what happens when you put a room full of gamers together-one way or another, they never stick to a single topic for very long.
In the middle of all these shenanigans and drama, Dream Walkermust is the one voice of reason, sharing a link to TGS official coverage with live English dub. So, anyone who really wants to watch the keynote, instead of just reading the highlight reels through Twitter fights, will have that choice now. Either way, sometimes the fights are far more interesting.
Now, flip in due course of time for opposite feelings. Some are genuinely thrust by what’s coming, albeit far away. Others are disillusioned, wanting news ASAP, more concrete. And then, the third batch is ready to go into a classic Console Wars rage, hurling insults upon anybody’s opinions of games. A perfect 2024 state of gaming culture in a nutshell: great promise, heated debates, and loads of waiting in-between. The most important word in the tweet is “big,” and here “big” seems more like a flexible concept. Where one person feels something worthy enough to make it into history as a “big announcement,” someone else feels it is just a teaser for horrors awaiting him. And honestly, that just happens to be the ordinary course of these big showcases- they have promised the world and here we sit, dissecting every little second, overhype, and then get let down-or just simply enjoy it for what it is. Now we wait for Nishino-san at TGS; maybe this will be one moment everyone can agree on. Or not.
