No, I said it was VERY CLOSE to be as bad as Nintendo's last years not that it wasn't.

And what's wrong with wii fit?

best

• showcasing new games for 2009 and 2010
• new halo game reveal
• natal demo

worst

• arrogance of turn 10 dev, it was cringeworthy
• microsoft exec clapping his hands hard to spool crowd on
• microsoft exec paused after a announcment expecting people to clap but they didnt.

Well I would say that the Spring release date is the best news!

@ bobbuffalo, firstly in what way is Crackdown a GTA clone. I am not a great fan of the game, but I am not going to rubbish it by calling it a GTA clone, it is a super hero game. Even if you don't like Splinter Cell, I don't, you still had to find the game quite impressive, the animations were great and the tecnique of projecting stuff onto the walls looked nice.

So you are not impressed with the way the voice controls worked, or the way that it accurately captured him, even if it did not look that fun?

whats wrong with natal?

That conference kicked ass.

BEST: Halos, L4D2, Beatles Rock Band (the video more than the presentation), MGS, FF XIII, Natal, streaming HD, Crackdown 2, Alan Wake, Forza, improved functionality

Worst: I was actually a little irked that the Live racer looked like a Looney Toons set than anything Mario Kart related... Also, the lack of anything from Lionhead, Rare, or others dissapointed. Heck, I even expected a teaser for more Gears.

I laughed at the part where Epic demo'd that 2D game, fought that boss, and it completely disappeared........and the player's character got stuck in mid-air. That made my day!

I'm a huge Nintendo fan, and I don't like motion controls that much. A swing here, a punch there is fine. Those are simple movements that the game can detect most of the time. Anything more complicated and there is trouble. This is not a problem with a detector. This is a problem with the unpredictability of human movement.

Microsoft is claiming that they have perfected voice recognition, visual recognition, motion control, and gestures in one fell swoop. This is the same company with  a 25-50% console failure rate. They can't even make a decent mouse, and they think they can manufacture the holy grail? It makes sense that they gave no  price, because that would have really put a damper on the buzz they are getting. If Microsoft really believed in this tech so much, it would have been bundled with the next XBOX, but they are not, so they are floating it early.

Write it on a calendar: June 2, 2009 - Project Natal will be a disaster on the order of Daikatana or the Virtual Boy.

For Christ's sake, they had a demo of a virtual boy... made by the biggest exaggerator in the business. Why does anyone believe what Molyneux promises anymore?

you first =P

well I mean that it was a sandbox game. I don't like that genre. the only game I mildly enjoyed was No more heroes but not that much.

yes it is very impressive but it looks like all those shovelware games on the wii: they try so hard to imitate the big guy that they cross the line. And I agree with malstrom, I won't see it happening and if it does it won't succeed.

I wouldn't so sure about that. Games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band bring tons of revenue for music companies, specially now that p2p has killed the cd market. Considering both beatles and both surviving wives will get a crapload of money from game sales and DLC songs, it was like a promotional event for a new disc - musicians don't get paid to attend those, they go on their own because they get a cut from sales.