Subie_Greg said: 4. The reveal. I know some of you will be quick to point out that Microsoft said it wasn't going to focus on gaming until E3. Ok, when you have a reveal for your next GAMING CONSOLE, and you don't focus on gaming... you messed up. Pretty sure Microsoft made fun of Sony for not showing the PS4. The only thing Microsoft did right on May21st was show the console. And many a xbot wished they had handled it like Sony did.
Yeah Microsoft messed up.
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The issue wasn't so much that their reveal didn't focus on games. That would have been fine, in the right context.
The problem was that they didn't even provide a solid reason for the lack of games until something like 12 hours *after* the event, when they went into damage control.
They could have opened up their event by going "We've got great games lined up, and we're excited to talk about them, but with E3 so close, we've decided to have a games spectacular at the show, and so we're going to focus on other features of the system right now."... accompanied by some images as teasers. Something as simple as that would have had everyone going into hype mode, speculating about what MS have in store. And if MS considered games to be the most important thing, they would certainly have done something like this.
The fact that they didn't, that games were an afterthought and something to bring out as damage control, rather than as something deserving of dedicated focus in an appropriate location, is what so many gamers are finding so offensive.
Nintendo, in their most recent Nintendo Direct, demonstrated just how much they've got in store for E3 by giving out a significant bit of gaming info ahead of time that would typically have gotten E3 focus. Sony have emphasised gaming repeatedly since the reveal, which I believe focused primarily on games. Microsoft, on the other hand, basically said that being an "entertainment hub" is more important to them than the games. And THAT is how they've messed up, in this respect.
But then, who didn't see this coming? Look at what MS has done with their other new/"upgraded" products over the last 5 or so years. I'm rather surprised that people didn't see this coming. Sony went through something akin to this situation with the whole rootkit fiasco - and that taught them enough of a lesson that they're not going to go all-in with the DRM until it's proven to be safe to do so. MS had no such lesson.