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Has Microsoft already lost E3?

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disolitude said:
Mr Khan said:
disolitude said:

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.

Bing voice search will sell bunk. If anything out of that will really move 360's to new audiences, it'll be Disneyland Adventures and possibly the Tim Schaffer Sesame Street one, but i don't see those features doing much of anything, except broadening the potential use of existing 360s (which will lead to expanded revenue in its own right, to be sure).

Mostly Microsoft needs to refine their presentation for Kinect. They're getting close, but bad actors onstage has always been a negative.

It's not a total failure, but its not what Microsoft needed to make up for their lack of new hardware in this run

I politely disagree. I know so many people that use Xbox for media streaming and when they show their freinds voice search on Netflix, people will eat it up. Hell, I want kinect just for that...And for scanning shit lol. Star Wars looked kinda lame but I want to try it for shits and giggles and Kinect Sports 2 looks fun.Mass Effect 3 looked really good too with Kinect.

Kinect really has a double standard around here.  MW3 and Tomb Raider which seemed as much "on rails" as any Kinect game shown. And people will be raving about those 2 for months to come.

Incredibly true, all I could think about whilst watching the MW3 demo was "and COD gamers think Kinect is all about on-rails" seriously unimpressed with a franchise I didn't know could let me down, due to not liking it in the first place.

 

Fact is even though there were no massive surprises there was a number of good big games and services announced so yes they "played it safe" but it was still all in all a decent showing.



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BenVTrigger said:
Both Sony and Nintendo have new hardware so its hard to honestly compare them.

Plus how can Microsoft have possibly "lost" when the other two conferences haven't even aired yet.......

Honestly core gamers can be so annoying.

You make a point about the others not aring yet but their conferance was just so bad... It hasn't lost yet technically but I wouldn't be putting good odds on it to be the winner or even not last...



From an entertainment perspective they have done well this E3. Xbox has become more than a games console - and i think that Kinect will make the multimedia content more accessible - especially to people perhaps with sight or even hearing imparments; i think they shouldve mentioned how the console would be better for people who find navigating GUI difficult - for whatever reason; technophobes or those with visual imparments. thus making hand movements, voice commands very useful.

however for me i dont care about that, i recently signed up to a film thing a few days ago on PS3 and i've only seen 1 film - so what a waste really. point is even if their is loads of multimedia content, i care only about games. i can do all that stuff on my PC.

and because i suspect Sony have planned to show their HD collections, this alone makes them more interesting this E3. the reason i think Nintendo has a chance is because we have no idea what Project Cafe is.... will the games deliever? and come on another Halo... we have this every year, shooters dont interest me!



Tomb Raider on rails, wow just wow. MW3i can see until you get online



I knew we wouldn't get a good core showing (Gears, Halo and Forza along with COD exclusive content is BIG for the typical 'core'gamer, but crap for me) So I didn't get my hopes up.

Now what I did expect was a good Kinect showing, but it was all BS. I GET why MS are going this route, but I don't like it. That was an awful conference but not an 08 Nintendo or 06 Sony awful ... just a dissappointing awful.

Halo 4 should have been a 720 launch title.



 

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If they win, this is the worst E3 ever. I'm a 360 fan too. Their conference was crap!



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d21lewis said:
I watched it on Gametrailers. The comments were basically:

-*shows MW3-GeoW3* Shooters? We're tired of shooters! Show something different.
-*shows Forza* A racing game? Snore....Gran Turismo will PWN this game!!
-*shows Kinect* Nothing but Kinect? Show something else!!
-*shows youtube, TV, Kinect Fun Labs, etc* PS3 already has youtube, it can access Bing, etc.
-*shows Halo 4* Boo!! We already knew Halo 4 was coming


So basically, people don't want shooters, racing, features, family games, applications, or classic franchises. Now I can't wait to see how people react to Sony's conference. Probably:

-*Modern Warfare, Resistance 3, etc...*Hooray!!! We love shooters!
-*Not likely but, Gran Turismo* Hooray!! A new racing game!!
-*Move support or new Move titles* YES!! We LOVE Playstation Move
-*Cross Game Chat* That's so original and new!!
-*Uncharted 3 footage* I just jizzed all over myself!!

I wish there were more surprises to Microsoft's E3 and the Halo 4 announcement wasn't the announcement I wanted them to have as the E3 Megaton (since Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, Halo Anniversary, and Halo Dance Central already came out this gen...) but I wonder what people want. What M$ announcement could have made people happy (Alan Wake? A new JRPG?) It was a no win situation.


yeah pretty much this! MS can do no right to some people



 

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oniyide said:
Tomb Raider on rails, wow just wow. MW3i can see until you get online

Well I love tomb raider but that demo of Tomb Raider reboot was 100% on rails. Full of QTE FTW! If something is going to be on rails it may as well get me invovled and have me flailing like wii and Kinect do...not just have me sit there and wiggle the right stick on que...



^^ if you honestly believe thats how the next TR will be then we dont need to discuss anything further