Interesting insight.
While I was watching it I was thinking to myself: "they are trying to stay loyal with those who spend some money on a peripheral and that's the smart way to go". Yet still,  I think this presentation was not what someone would expect from the "american" company of the bunch. Not spectacular spectacular if you know what I mean.

In terms of gaming, the others are releasing new hardware, so MS didn't have much chance. But in terms of general entertainment and taking it to the next level, thats a whole different story.

But, although there are a ton of haters, I think MS have done an incredible job in broadening the appeal of Kinect beyond just the casual gamer. I am now excited to get Kinect to try out some of the new stuff. I know people are always opposed to change, but Kinect really is starting to make the motion sensing and voice control look natural, the Ghost Recon demo looked amazing. I think we are looking at the future. Also some of the new innovations in Kinect fun labs have been going unnoticed, they can very well incorporate into future games, such as the head tracking 3D effect.

Overall, it was a bit disappointing to not see more controller based hardcore games, but I am really impressed with what MS have done to appeal to the core with Kinect and also take entertainment to the next level with Live and futuristic Voice+Motion support.

Yeah. Honestly, one of the weakest shows in years, still quite decent though.

Do you really need kinect for voice commands in ME3??
Headset would work just fine....
It wiil be funny if ME3 on PS3 will use headset for voice commands.

I thought their Kinect showing was quite strong.

Shows they're serious about it.

just an fyi, i missed the actual conference so i'm speculating off of posts here but...

... if the show was terrible then recent history proves post E3 sales will be fantastic!!

Was it really that bad?

I mean, Bing voice search across all streams of media on Xbox Live will sell more 360 units than any bombshell "exclusive". With this lineup and features, Kinect will annihilate this holiday season.

Not sure Sony or Nintendo can do much to change that, even if they announce 100 exclusives.

Thats the worst E3 conference in history, so underwhelmed i cant believe they didnt announce any new core games for this year or even a single new IP.

@disolitude wow yea awesome sales equals good games right?
Noo.. uncharted3 with hopefully the last quardian is gonne kill all the xbox games..not sales wise..but reviews and game of the year awards.

and that is what counts
yaaay for american xbox fans..
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They just couldn't keep their games secret for long enough.

And I mean a year with 3 (almost) confirmed AAA exclusives (Halo Remake, Forza 4 and Gears 3) and at the very least 2 AA exclusives (Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports Season 2) is certainly not bad. (only counting the games that were present in the conference)

Obviously their show was about 2011 and not the future. Well aside from Halo 4 that is.


Sony is doing it differently and announces big games quite a bit before they are going to launch them. Killzone 2, GT5, The Last Guardian, Agent, FFVersusXIII.
That's not bad or anything, it's just different.