Microsoft and Epic pull Gears Announcement from the VGA's

[themanwithnoname]

Boutros said:

themanwithnoname said:

Boutros said:

Shadowblind said:

I wonder if we're looking at this all the wrong way. Perhaps Microsoft doesn't want to overshadow something else of theirs . . . I did hear that they have more then one title to announce. Or maybe it was show. Either way, a Gears announcement would obliterate most other ones other then a new Halo . . .

Maybe its smart, maybe it isn't. All I know is the VGAs just got less interesting.

That's what I think too.

I'm expecting something else from Microsoft. Big hopefully.

I think there's a better chance of it snowing in hell tonight, personally.

All we'll get are a few multiplats like ME3, Arkham Asylum 2, and Saint's Row 3 (that's a guess, it seems like this would be a good place to announce that). Like I said before, Microsoft doesn't announce anything outside of E3 anymore. The only exception is Gears 3, which everybody knew was coming a month before it was announced. We might see a Kingdoms trailer with actual gameplay, but I'd put that at about a 5% likelihood of actually happening.

But don't you find the lack of Microsoft games for 2011 odd? I'm sure they have something to announce and now would be a perfect time otherwise it goes all the way to GDC.

Not really no. I think Microsoft will focus more on Kinect titles (which might show up tonight, but others in this thread are pretty much saying that the audience is anti-Kinect) than non-Kinect titles in the forseeable future. This year was their last big year of non-Kinect titles imo. Of course, there's still Forza 4, Gears 3, and Kingdoms (whenever that releases) and Microsoft will rely on third parties to keep non-Kinect titles flowing, which they will.

I think if Microsoft had something, we would've heard from it by now. We knew everything coming out in 2010, outside of the Kinect titles, at this same point last year. Microsoft haven't been mildly surprising since they announced Halo: Reach and Crackdown 2 at E3 2009. If you look at their E3 shows the past couple of years, you're lucky to see maybe three multiplat games (one of which is always Call of Duty), and the rest of the show is dominated by Microsoft published and third party exclusives. If something were to be announced, it'd be far more likely to be announced there than here.