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Cliffy B labels Kinect E3 Experience event 'awesome'

Microsoft's rather bizarre E3 Kinect 'Experience' event has got the thumbs up from Cliff 'Cliffy B' Bleszinski.

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NastyLeftHook5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

how about .... you

dizzleK5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

lol. cliffy thinks shiny objects, non-smearing guy liner and a sale on hair gel is awesome too. he's a tool.

Microsoft Xbox 3605496d ago

http://twitter.com/andrewpf...

@andrewpfister: BTW, the official slogan for this year's E3, as determined by our panel of experts at the bar last night: "Eh, it's not for you."

lord_of_balrogs5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

Now if we could have a kinect game where we can use chainsaws.... awesome.

Rainstorm815496d ago

for kinect or even simpler Gears

PS360PCROCKS5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

Hahahahahaha that cracked me up nastylefthook

Parapraxis5496d ago

Kinect-enabled Gears 3 confirmed?
lol

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-Alpha5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

Can someone explain to me what this event was? Was it just an unveiling of the name? Because there is a "Project Natal" conference Tuesday according to the schedule: http://www.e3expo.com/

Notice how it's right after Sony's conference. Purposely done?

Edit: Wait a minute, wait a minute, THAT was it? That's what is showing Tuesday?? No way! Did I miss something here? Where there ANY hardcore games? Are you guys sure this was the actual conference for Kinect??

@Marius

Wow, I'm totally shocked! Where's the crap from Bethesda?? Criterion? I'm so disappointed :O

LordMarius5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

Thats the event that just happened right now, it will just be shown on Tuesday,

and yes it was purposely done...i think

Speaking of Twitter:
http://twitter.com/TheKevin...

Edit: Yes Alpha-Male this is what you will see on Tuesday, no hardcore games(maybe tmrw at the press conference)

ozhuerta5496d ago

I wonder about that real elephant o.O
Will it be there on tuesday?

logikil5496d ago

From other sites, the Tuesday event is supposed to be the same event except opened to a wider audience of 3000 or something along those lines. So far from the twitter feeds, Cliffy seemed at least amused, as did Felicia Day. Stephen Totilo though it was okay, but lots of me-to type games. The me-to games would have to be expected though, as a means to get people eased into the tech, but it really would have been nice to hear about something else besides Star Wars to be excited about. And no one has really talked yet about how the games actually looked which is intriguing to me.

jack_burt0n5496d ago

yeah during the sony conference is them airing the jungle party but u dont seem to believe me.

-Alpha5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

That's because you never explained or gave me reasons. Sorry if it seemed like I was just being stubborn, but I did not understand what you were saying, and now I'm totally confused and a little dumbfounded. I was expecting to hear so much more.

@logikil

So there's another event Tuesday that's Live?? Or is it just a pre-recording??

van-essa5496d ago

It's the official announcement of Kinect, nothing more. Microsoft's E3 press conference is tomorrow, Monday 14th at 6pm GMT.

oldjadedgamer5496d ago

@Alpha

This may be off topic, but I'm drunk and may not have read the article very well.

First of all, I'd like to thank you for your opinions over the past couple months about the new developments coming from both microsoft and sony. This is my 1st post at N4G, but I've been a follower for a long time. You seem to be someone willing to see both good/bad points of both machines.

I sincerely wish that all of the articles about the new motion control would be denied. Until both products are shown fully (at E3 or otherwise) there are no certain facts about either.

IMO I hope the natal (or whatever the new name is) shows games relevant to the non-casual gamer. If not, I can't see myself buying it, no matter what the price is. But the same is with the move.

Until anything "real" is shown about these "new consoles" are shown, I will remain skeptical about hardcore motion control.

P.S. I love some wii games, so I am trying to keep an open mind about both systems

Christopher5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

@Alpha: From http://www.xbox.com/en-US/c...

"If all this seems hard to picture, you can experience the event yourself in a 30-minute, commercial-free special broadcast on MTV on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 3:30 pm ET, and on Nick at Nite, mtvU, MTV Hits, and Logo at 9 pm ET."

I think it's just a re-airing of the event.

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Edit: Yeah, just the two live events. So we've got tomorrow and that's it for Microsoft. They list all of the E3 events from here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/c...

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Edit 2: As far as the event, read what people have been typing. It wasn't for me, but Microsoft still has the opportunity to mention third-party titles tomorrow at their 360 conference. This event seemed pretty much just a way for advertising the rebranding and release of Kinect to the public in a big way.

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Wildarmsjecht5496d ago

Lol..Gaf is awesome. From what Ive been following from a couple of live blogs, not necessarily too exciting although the star wars game was pretty cool. can't wait to see vids.

crapgamer5496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

He usually has a solid perspective on what's what and I think the fact he praised it, even though they showed casual games was a good sign. I don't see why people are hating on Cliffy B? Dudes like a cross between a rockstar and CEO. I dig his games and his input. I mean what do people want? Everyone is saying this thing was cool, nobody getting paid to do so.

*Edit* I think Microsoft wouldn't have had a choice in the matter. Every single person said positive things about it. I think that says something nice about the product and what it's supposed to do.

On a side note, I see the POS3 Fangirls are out in force trying to hurt the MS machine! Wont happen though, the show looked tight and I'm even more excited then I was yesterday! Good stuff, twitter and all the people tweeting about the show have pretty much quelled any fears I had about how awesome Kinect was going to be.

PS360PCROCKS5496d ago

Um, you really think they would invite Cliffy B and let him walk out and say "that sucked, how stupid"

logikil5496d ago

Why not? He isn't an MS employee, and they invited other folks that weren't blown away by it. CheapyD didn't seem all that interested and wasn't afraid to blog about it. Epic games gave MS pretty much its second biggest game this gen, you think they are just going to toss Cliffy and his crew out the door if he happens to say he doesn't dig on Natal/Kinect?

PS360PCROCKS5496d ago

Ok dude. The people hating on it don't make games, they're mostly reporters and bloggers. If your boss invited you to his house for dinner and it sucked and you were asked if it was good would you reply "Terrible, just terrible." He might not be employed by them personally but you know who publishes that game, signs the checks, make the advertising, provides the platform. Yeah, Microsoft.

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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran

One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"

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Goodguy011d 7h ago

Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.

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GamerRN11h ago

If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off

Cacabunga10h ago

Xbox games are releasing on all platforms. Who needs this hardware? PS or PC is all you need

Flewid6389h ago

I've never owned an Xbox in my life and I have GamePass.

thorstein7h ago

The only Xbox I owned was the 360. I have gamepass for my PC.

GamerRN3h ago

Majority of Gamepass users are currently on console...

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crazyCoconuts9h ago

Even if they could get it down to $800 for a box that can run with comparable performance to a PS6 (at, say $200 cheaper) the population of people willing to buy such a thing would be so limited.
It would be the worst of both worlds.

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Futureshark20h ago

A slow, painful and public death too.

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Looming Xbox layoffs threaten Microsoft's reputation

Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era

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Jingsing3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.

YourMommySpoils2d ago

Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.

Bathyj1d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

That's not true at all the OG Xbox had drive and they had hunger and they wanted to accomplish something. It was a great console.

they didn't quite reach their goals and they gave up prematurely because they couldn't win. It was halfway through the Xbox 360 when kinect released and that was when they lost their way and we're a rudderless ship ever since

Agent751d 13h ago

In all fairness, Xbox had some great games with online play, Xbox 360 even better. Xbox consoles started to die with the Xbox One. Ditch consoles for the PC and PS.

YourMommySpoils1d 5h ago

@Bathyj hard to compute ay. Xbox was never better than a PC and that's all they ever were. A demo box. Doesn't get more true than that.

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isarai3d ago

What reputation is this threatening exactly? 😂

Lightning773d ago

Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.

The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.

Christopher2d ago

That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.

1Victor2d ago

@christopher: “ That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest”
The key word big can be ether good or bad 🤷🏿only time can tell

DarXyde2d ago

First Forza being generated entirely via AI?

If any company would do it, it'd be them.

Nacho_Z1d 21h ago

Isn't the point that it's irrelevant how profitable MS is, the suits have decided it's time that the Xbox division started making them money. Hence the layoffs, the pivots.

hennessey861d 16h ago

That wouldn't surprise me, as motorsport has been heading down hill since the great number 4. Where as playground have consistently put out better games. I think the two studios will be merged under playground games banner.

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Microsoft planning “major” Xbox layoffs next week

The cuts are expected to be announced next week.

Microsoft is also planning thousands of job cuts that will impact other parts of it businesses

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Obscure_Observer6d ago

MFs has been beating their chests over great quarterly results and big profits to shareholders while firing people by the thousands just like Sony.

I wonder if at the top of those rumored layoffs they´ll also cancel upcoming or unannounced games while shutting down more studios as well.

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pwnmaster30006d ago

Always got to throw shade at Sony smh.
Yes we get it,
MS good Sony bad
MS bad Sony is also bad lmao

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Obscure_Observer6d ago

F* them both!

Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares.

blacktiger6d ago

He was talking about both. Why you getting offended when he's using both names

pwnmaster30006d ago (Edited 6d ago )

@Blacktiger

Im not offended , that’s just his formula lol
He can’t help help himself, he needs to bring Sony down when the topic involves MS.
Whether is good news for MS or bad, it some how leads to Sony doing bad lmao.
It’s actually hilarious.

InUrFoxHole6d ago

He's not wrong but im tracking what youre saying. In this case is should just be MS bad. Thats a lot of people fired

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Tacoboto6d ago

"just like Sony"

Gosh you're insufferable, not everything needs to be both-sides'd. Sony's had layoffs, but nothing like what Microsoft has been doing and is continuing to do.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I mean, no offense, but this is why you’re not some corporate business person running a major corporation. Big profits don’t mean jobs are safe. Do you understand why things like this happen:

Cutting jobs to maintain or increase profitability, especially in underperforming divisions like parts of Xbox like other gaming divisions.

Corporate restructuring and relocating resources for strategic stability in ever changing markets and consumer behaviors.

Investor expectations and optimizing operations to maintain investor confidence. Whatever boosts stock prices and improves future margins.

And there’s many other factors at play. It’s never as simple as business doing well, everyone’s safe. That’s just you not understanding at all how corporations work and have been working since the beginning. This isn’t something that’s specific to Xbox, you can bet your ass Sony and Nintendo do this and if it’s not clear by now, game development is not a stable job nor has it ever been for many. A lot of developers are contractors and guess what happens when a project is done?

Ganif6d ago

Nintendo said they have no plans for layoffs, and you can't seriously claim that the scale of Sony's layoffs most of which involved Bungie which is self managed as even close to the same scale as what Microsoft has done since they purchased Zenimax. And that significantly less layoffs would have happened if those publishers had stayed independent. Keep in mind that much of these layoffs have been due to redundancies specifically related to these buyouts.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

@Ganif

Nintendo:

https://gamerant.com/ninten...

Sony:

https://gamerant.com/playst...

https://techxplore.com/news...

I don’t think it’s realistic to treat Sony’s layoffs as somehow outside the norm for the industry right now. Even if Bungie is self-managed, Sony’s cuts went far beyond that like Naughty Dog, Insomniac, London Studio being shut down completely, and multiple teams across the globe took hits. These weren’t just minor adjustments.

Nintendo, I had to look up and you’re right. They seem to be an outlier, but rest assured at some point it happens. And even then there’s been layoffs, albeit a smaller amount and contractors.

Would fewer layoffs have happened if studios from acquisitions stayed independent? Maybe. But even independents have been hit hard and look at what’s happened with Embracer’s fallout, or smaller devs like Digic, Roll7, or Volition. This isn’t just a “Microsoft problem” or strictly tied to acquisitions; it’s a broader correction happening across the whole industry, and unfortunately, layoffs are a big part of that process right now.

Ganif6d ago

From your article:

"According to reports, Nintendo of America restructured its testing operations, leading to layoffs of about 120 contractors, part of a strategy for global integration.

Nintendo of America, publisher of iconic franchises like Mario and Zelda, is shifting some contractors to full-time roles for better development integration."

Contractors are not employees, and even if you want to count them as that, it's 120 people vs around 7500 since Microsoft purchased Zenimax.

In an era of game industry layoffs, Nintendo is hiring more people
https://automaton-media.com...

Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits
https://kotaku.com/nintendo...

Nintendo CEO’s refusal to layoff staff goes viral following industry-wide cuts
"Satoru Iwata took pay cuts to ensure staff didn’t have to be let go"
https://www.nme.com/news/ga...

And as for Sony you're comparing less than 1000 total jobs to an estimated7500

Has the industry faced layoffs, yes, but that still doesn't account for the mass layoffs due to redundancies that was easily predictable, or that fact that at least 1/3 of Microsoft's layoffs and studio closures happened before the industry downturn.

thorstein6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Take the L, Crimson.

People hate Nintendo, but Ganif proved why they deserve support.

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-Foxtrot6d ago

It's like banging your head off a wall, he just can't help himself.

Microsoft can do no wrong, Sony sucks at everything and Nintendo is bigged up because it's less hassle than trying to defend Microsoft all the time

What's going to happen when Microsoft finally turn completely third party, then what?

anast6d ago

I enjoy Obscure. Obscure does good work.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

Did you know that the first n4g was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.

Tacoboto6d ago

I wouldn't be surprised at this point if anast and osbcure were both alts for the Admin.

We know how Obscure especially drums up additional comments and clicks with his spam-worthy remarks that somehow never get moderated

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Profchaos6d ago

Thats business present a strong front to your shareholders while your company burns around you.

Keep shareholders happy at all costs andnif not happy keep them numb to the reality of you organisation

Angyobangyo5d ago

" Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares. "

Just for the record, you clearly you do if you have to vent this hard.

TheExecutioner5d ago

Basically you think like kids when it come to choose between candy or chocolate.

Sonic18815d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Are you and Anast the same person?

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