Measures of Success: A look at Microsoft's conference

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mibuokami said:

I look at it this way.

It was an appalling performance from my personal selfish point of view because they didn't showcase anything new that is of interest to me. I am not a fan of kinect and never liked halo or forza. The only thing they show that interest me was Tomb Raider Origin and Gears 3, both of which we already knew well ahead of the show.

Sony's conference wasn't much better though... in fact, I would say its even more disappointing because expectation was higher.

I understand that MS needs to be more pragmatic, I just don't see how that clashing with my opinion suddenly invalidate my opinion. 

I don't play MS marketing strategy, I play their games and they are not making or announcing the ones I want. Therefore MS conference failed.

I would not say that it invalidates your opinion that Microsoft did not cater to your needs.  However, the thread in question, the article in question, and the opinions of some other people on this site extend this assertion to the notion that Microsoft "lost" E3.  If we're going to discuss winning and losing E3 (in general, rather than personal terms), we have to have that discussion in the context of the goals of the three companies at E3, all of which are similar, and few of which have anything to do the personal tastes of people like you and I who have already bought their consoles, or were unlikely to be swayed if we havent.

Ultimately the MS Conference may have failed you, but it succeeded by any reasonable measurement applied to it in general terms, far above and beyond Sony's, at least where home consoles are concerned.