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Shoestar on 14 June 2010

The conference was a let down personally since I expected so much more. The new X360 and Kinect was expected but the pricecut never materialized. There were only 2 'non kiddy' games in Fable and halo reach shown.... a small trailer of a spartacus game and cod? 

 

No new IP... no new exclusive.... Now I hear MGS stays multiplat?



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Grimes on 14 June 2010
Legend11 said:
Grimes said:

I see a BIG problem for Kinect right now.

They showed nothing about Kinect that will support the existing owners of Xbox 360s. No Halo or Gear support for Kinect. So there isn't a big incentive for these people to get it.

If the Kinect costs say $150, that will bring the total price to $450. No way in hell are you going to get many people to buy in at that price when the Wii costs $250 less.


The games for core gamers will take longer to make.  It's a little unreasonable to expect core games to be developed using a completely new control paradigm in one year or even a year and a half,


That does not negate the point I was making. And if it takes that much effort and redesign, then it will be too costly for developers to justify the time and expense.



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Solid_Snake4RD on 14 June 2010
Wagram said:
selnor said:

That was a great conference.

First part was for hardcore gamers. 2nd part was for casuals and hardcore gamers with families and friends. 

My wife watched it and she is loving Kinect. My daughter is 3 and she loved the Kinectimals. This is very very smart from M$. 

This will sell to casuals hugely guys. That was M$ aim. Great to see Hardcore market catered for and not forgotten. The new 360 looks beautiful. Absolutely gonna buy another new 360 in the next 2 months. 

Fantastic conference M$. 

Great price on the new 360 to. That is a bargain. 

You should just work for Microsoft. You could be there PR.

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Rainbird on 14 June 2010
Legend11 said:
Grimes said:

I see a BIG problem for Kinect right now.

They showed nothing about Kinect that will support the existing owners of Xbox 360s. No Halo or Gear support for Kinect. So there isn't a big incentive for these people to get it.

If the Kinect costs say $150, that will bring the total price to $450. No way in hell are you going to get many people to buy in at that price when the Wii costs $250 less.


The games for core gamers will take longer to make.  It's a little unreasonable to expect core games to be developed using a completely new control paradigm in one year or even a year and a half,

It is not unreasonable to expect them to be shown however. Kinect was announced a year ago, there has to be a better core game out there than an on-rail Star Wars game they could have shown.



-Newcloud- on 14 June 2010

im confused is the MS show all over?



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greenmedic88 on 14 June 2010
Kantor said:
Metallicube said:
-PaNdOrA- said:

So now:

- Motion controls are awesome

- Casual games are welcome

I guess the Wii is "cool" now :D


Haha yeah.. The only thing I liked about this conference is that NOBODY can POSSIBLY diss Nintendo's conferences anymore for being too "casual" focused. Nintendo would have to do A LOT to top this in terms of casual focus. They'd have to like, have a bunch of todlers on stage playing "Imagine Babiez", or have an old man playing "Wii Nursing Home" or something.

This confernece made Nintendo's 2008 look like gold.

I wouldn't go that far. The real issue wasn't that it was so casual focused. The issue was that pretty much every game they showed for Kinect was a Wii game without a controller.

Oh, and everyone saying "My daughter/wife/grandmother loved the look of Kinect", are they the ones who are going to buy Kinect?

I think for all of the households that ALREADY have an Xbox, odds are good that if there's a daughter/wife/grandmother in the house, Kinect would be a likely purchase.

For all those households without out one, no. Assuming the Kinect kits are $150 on top of a $300 console, no. Everyone will not be buying this. That is simply not accessible enough. If that's the pricing scenario, most of those with casual interest who said "yes, I'd like to play that!" will end up saying "no, I won't pay that much."



nordlead on 14 June 2010
-Newcloud- said:

im confused is the MS show all over?

yea, you can check out the OP or the liveblog on VGChartz (also linked in the OP) if you want to know what was presented.




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caz604 on 14 June 2010

Well my 2 cents....

As far as presentations go, it was decent.  There were a few odd moments there, didnt quite flow smoothly, but nothing to really complain about.

They seemed to have softened their content and style a little this year, mixing up both their strength with FPS/TPS and trying to market to the new gamers with Kinect.

I actually thought it was a good product demonstration of Kinect.  As UI goes, I'm excited.  As for the games, the Shape software and Dance software are going to be a system seller for the product.

Caveat though, for those saying MS won?... get real... Sony and Nintendo haven't even shown their presentations... lets try to limit our fanboyism please.  Overall, I'd give MS a solid B plus



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MrBubbles on 14 June 2010

they had some nice stuff there....but it seems like there was a lot that wasnt there.  for example... no xbla stuff...practically nothing from rare...rare can work on multiple projects so there should be more from them.   it just seems that they should have been able to do a conference at least twice as long.



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andremop on 14 June 2010

Guys they "announced" a Sonic Kinect game too... it was one of those boxes for the lauch lineup!

Rejoice!