Microsoft wrapped up their E3 press event today and aside from the members of the audience who went home with a free, newly redesigned 360 the rest of us were left to wonder “Where’s the beef?”
Microsoft started the event with gameplay footage of Treyarch’s multiplatform Call of Duty title, Black Ops. After the demo Microsoft announced a new, exclusive partnership with Activision for the Xbox 360 to receive all map packs first for the next 3 years. The use of the word “exclusive” was odd. Generally, when referring to something as being exclusive that would indicate that you’ll only find the item on one console.
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Halo/Gears/Fable - we knew these were coming. Kinect does video chat and allows you to yell at your tv to pause video playback. Thanks, but my remote works fine.
The rest was all about the same 5 or so Kinect games we saw yesterday with nothing for the hardcore gamers whose hard earned money put the 360 where it is today. And did you see the lag on Kinect Adventures? That guy had to jump well in advance of the obstacles on screen to compensate for the delay. Clearly he practiced that for the demo. His buddy was all over the place.
Even the new, quieter 360 with a bigger harddrive and wi-fi at the old price still seems to be playing catch up with the PS3 - but without the bonus of a Blu-Ray player.
This has to be the worst Microsoft showing at E3 in memory. Can anyone think of anything good that came out of this? Other than showing Gears 3 and Halo reach, I got nothing out of this - and I don't think anyone needed to be sold on those two games. I still planned on buying them even if they were a no show at E3.
has anyone ever tried to use voice reconition software before? its such a hassel
imagine watching i movie with your family, you say "pass the pop corn"
kinect hears "start the rough porn" you are **cked!!!!! lol
Some things never change.
I hope this doesn't happen: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
It was awful, they were supposed to have a separate Kinect conference weren't they ? So everyone was hoping this 1 would be all about GAMES.
Start the rough porn.... LOL.. Really!?
Either than that, I couldnt believe my ears and eyes when the guy said the show was over I was like "but you forgot the show some games".
fable trailer was nice but i didn't know it was too much to ask to show some gameplay ..
I wasn't really impressed with any of the Kinect games (Forza might be a buy for me), and they didn't really show anything that we didn't know about already. Even the Crytek announcement was drab without any footage of the game or other information. Microsoft's 09 Keynote >>>>>>>&g t;> Microsoft's 10 Keynote
i have never been so stunned. the lack of really any games was amazing to me. sure there was the games that we all knew were coming, but that was like 4 and then the rest to kinect?
i truly am saddened by MS today. thankfully gaming is my hobby and not my life haha
On topic - Yeah I agree, Kinect delivered on some parts, namely the fact that it works, specifically the voice control and hand movements. But there was still noticable lag and jitter during the games.
The first 35 mins of the conference was great, then it was 1 hour of crapness, plus I really hate that guy with the sunglasses (the "you wanna see what an Avatar's shoe looks like, BAM"). The slim announcement MAY have redeemed the show, IF it wasn't leaked, but it was so predictable that he was going to lift up that 360 case and reveal it.
but the new xb360 looks freaking sexy
i want it=]
Yeah, except it looks like they completely ripped off the design of the old PS3. That system should've been the one they launched 5 years ago.
Just watched the conference and about the map packs and addons he said "First on Xbox in 2010, first on Xbox in 2011 and first on Xbox in 2012. He said first, not exclusively on Xbox.
The only time he said exclusive was about the agreement. Which I am guessing is right. Does Sony have an agreement to release the map packs first on the PS3? You can only have one exclusive agreement for being first.
Didn't read the rest of your "article".
Kinect’s voice recognition was also shown off during video playback. “Xbox! Pause!” Here’s a quick tip. You know what else can pause video even quicker? The pause button on your remote, and it won’t cost you an extra $150-$200.
Perhaps “exclusive for at least a little while” would be a more appropriate phrase. To understand fan’s reaction to this announcement, I suggest Microsoft employees try using “we’ll be exclusive for a little while” on their girlfriends or wives and report back to us to let us know how well that goes over.
Microsoft has spoken loud and clear this E3.
Unfortunately that message is “Yeah, we got nothin’.”
trash
3 games in 2 hours?
And two of them were fitness games?
talking bout crysis 2 is the best on consoles, well that wouldnt include ps3
more then happy with microsoft!!
what did you like the most?
Try coming here with 2 years of "PS3 is teh doomed" articles.
This is called a comeuppance where the press stops protecting Microsoft because their offerings at E3 were disappointing. And I mean a shambles.
Microsoft has their own Giant Crab and his name is Kinect.
Even though I hate MS, I feel sorry for them and their fans.
This isn't the same thing as reporting the price of Kinect listed by Gamestop. That is your error. It isn't a matter of truth but of policy.
Kinect is little more than a well advertised adrenalin shot.
Amazingly the conference was not as flashy as past Microsoft E3s but yet delivered more concrete offerings for the future of the company/platform/gaming.
Not much worried about opinions coming from supposed journalist using RROD on new hardware as the story picture
LAME!!!!!!! You and many so called `Journalists`on the web failed to realize that MS put on the Cirque show and their presser today to gear more towards capturing the casual and bringing them in, in doing so they did what they needed to do, but yeah of course you`re not impressed because you like me are in the core, but open your eyes, if your a journalist/blogger then be one who looks at the whole picture, there was something for everybody. They run a business and to grow it to please us all they have to exxpand their audience and that is exactly the direction they are going. Not a fanboy rant, just wish people would expand their thought process to think far and wide.
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so very true well said
is and a multi-platform game their first announcement is timed DLC exlusives for that game, there's no way you can call it successfull.
are you supposed to put the controller down to do things that would be easier witha controller
So there will be no Versus 13 on X360, neither something exclusive from Konami. That may not be profitable within X360 audience.
after the hardcore stuff. i guess they thought they would make it better by giving away free xboxs.
Bottom line, when the 3 days are up, if there are a bunch of titles I knew I wanted but want more after, and if I can add another 5 or so games to my wish list that I didn't expect to look as good, then the entire thing is a success in my eyes.
They showed Halo, Gears and Fable, 3 AAA titles I want, they showed a frickin Crytec game based on Spartans!! (How anyone cant get excited by that is beyond me) and they catered for an age group obviously a few years below ours (Although reading some comments you have to wonder...) It's all good. Pick a few games, add some from the rest of E3, and it adds up to a great 3 days.
Seriously, what do you expect from a company with little to almost NO First Party Studios? Halo: Reach is a Second Party Title, Gears of War 3 is a Third Party exclusive, MGS: Rising is probably a Timed Exclusive, and the only two REAL exclusives were Fable III, and Codename Kingdoms.
But hell, MS isn't concerned. Look, it's clear they've built themselves up as the Multiplatform System. Now how long that'll last with DVD9, we don't know, but for now, it seems to be working.
I think that some of the Fanboys on this site just want MS to fail simply because they have some deep seated personal grudge against MS. I don't know why, but it's there. Most of them don't even own a 360, yet they pretend to be so shocked when their isn't an overabundance of first party titles at MS Keynote (in light of what I just said in the above two paragraphs, and the fact that the FP Studios MS does have are all mostly working on Kinect Games).
Seriously, grow the Hell up. Sony is going to blow you away right? Well then, stop obsessing over how "MS Failed" and prepare yourselves for the impending awesome. I've enjoyed my 2010 E3 Experience IMMENSELY, as a WHOLE. That's right a Whole. I'm not just looking out for exclusives as that's f*cking CRAZY.
All in All, I have WAY more than enough games to play. Between the games on the PS3, the games on the Xbox 360, and then ALL the multiplats, I don't see how any multi-console owner could complain. Hell you should be out trying to get a second mortgage. I know I will be. There are still games I haven't even gotten yet ... >.<
Just my 2 cents.
Good comment. I think it's more important to have substance than quantity. If Sony/MS show 2 or 3 new things and build on what they already have then it's a success. I'm looking forward to seeing Sony 2morrow. I have a 360/PS3 so it's a win, win situation for me!
so there aren't any games I'm interested in besides Gears 3. I have been thinking about trading in my Xbox360 (before it RROD's) and to know the future is bleak in terms of games that interest me, it makes trading in the console a easier decision.
I thought MS showed some great stuff.
ESPN
MGS Rising
Gears 3
Kinetic
Partnership with Lucas arts
XBOX slim
plus some other stuff
Hey, you might hear me say exactly the same about Move later this week.
This was the worst conference in xbox history. Besides the games that we knew were coming out(gears 3,halo, timed exclusive crap) there were NO GAMES, i mean NONE. The highlight of the show was MGS Rising gameplay trailer. Now as for the casual market, this was great and i think eventually im going to purchase that cam