See MS it's not false advertising so yup you are clueless. It's just CD showing the game at it's best but MS just confirming the game is coming to XBO. They are not selling it as the XBO version. MS only crime is having a video they were given.
Keep getting upset all you want doesn't change you are wrong. No skin off my back.
They have since added to the description of the video "In game footage provided by CD Projekt Red, captured on a PC." to clarify which is the least I ask of companies showing content that inaccurately presents the game.
Microsoft is promoting a game for their system not for PC. If they show gameplay with better graphics and performance one could easily be lead to believe that this is the Xbox One version of the game, especially since it is on the Xbox Youtube channel and displays the Xbox logo at the end. When consumers are well informed it's harder to hide these things, Youtube shows us the resolution and framerate of the video so if that doesn't match up with what the Xbox One version offers they should be called out on it and at least provide a disclaimer that it's not Xbox One footage, which they now have after the backlash.
Sure CD Projekt Red wants to show the best version of their game but in (MS) uploading a video of the game to the official Xbox channel they are both misleading consumers which these days isn't so easily done. This is different to devs showing better looking footage of games earlier in development but having to dumb it down to optimise it or for whatever other reason as time goes by, the difference being that they're still in development so they're showing the best content they have at the time and most likely wouldn't have even made optimised versions of the game for consoles yet. That being said, this is something that has to be looked at on a case by case basis as situations vary so whether or not a game is truly being falsely advertised isn't just a matter of it looking or performing better but the point in its development, the availability on other platforms and simply whether or not it has been stated that it's not footage from the platform which is being promoted alongside the game.
Just to clarify (because I feel my point is a little unclear from what I said above). This is both CD and MS promoting their game and the fact that the game is going to be on the Xbox One. They are in fact selling it as the Xbox One version because it is on the Xbox channel and have the Xbox One logo in the video. In what way are they not selling this video of PC gameplay, on the official Xbox channel with the Xbox One logo in the video itself, as gameplay of an Xbox One game?
What I want is more honesty from the games industry and that's what the backlash against MS and CD Projekt Red in this situation is working towards. Companies may have been able to get away with it for a while now but a lot of people have had enough and don't want to be mislead by companies anymore so they'll call them out when they see it. This isn't about MS or CD Projekt Red in particular but the situation itself, if other companies do it I hope they're called out too.
