I am wondering what has happened to Microsoft, The new sku is just a reskinned 360 with wifi.... lame

But if they keep the other sku's in production a core 360 for $150 is insanely cheap and is the news of the conference imo.

Sure if you sit kids down in front of the conference and show them the tiger, they will want one but most people have been able to do all of that stuff on the wii for years.

The reason the wii has sold almost half of the consoles this gen is because the other half of the market has been split between the PS3 and 360, with Microsofts conference I now believe they are somewhat giving up on the hardcore market.

If sony comes out like they should tomorrow, then they will have a much larger portion of that hardcore market automatically thanks to Microsoft.

Sony has got to be happy that Kinect is only launching with a comparable lineup to what Sony had at GDC.

I was totally open to Natals possibilities and honestly thought Microsoft would hit it out of the park with amazing new exclusives, integration with hardcore games and with the announcement of a slim.

None of this happened.

to sum it up, MS news is as follows;

ESPN deal, pricecut to existing sku's

Then they'll have to do some creative bookkeeping so they can sell Xbox/Kinect bundles for under $300, because the casual family audience they're trying to appeal to won't pay well over $400.

It's still possible MS sells the kits for under $100, but I really think if they were going to go aggressive with the pricing angle, they would have most definitely announced the price with much fanfare rather than completely omit it.

Yes I always saw it that way, that Natal is a big test for next gen cos they'll have 2 years or so and see if it works out or not. But it seems they're investing in it so much and pushing it so hard that it will be impossible to back away from this strategy. I already get the feeling that they've locked themselves to Kinnect as their "main thing" for next gen, not just to the end of this gen.

Nintendo pretty much has it in the bag for me this year, with all their awesome new JRPG support.  Though I am super excited about LBP 2.

lot of but hurt ppl on here today.

conf was ok nothing major, from what i got out of it........

• gears of war 3
• fable 3
• new crytek game
• halo reach
• espn deal
• timed exclusive dlc on cod games
• natal
• 360 slim

Complete thoughts

Black Ops graphics looked horrible especially compared to the video of Rising, Reach and Gears. 6/10

Rising looked fun but loses impact since it is multi-platform. 7/10

Reach looked good but the only thing that stood out was the Space Battles. 8/10

Gears 3 4 Player COOP awesome no split screen weak. The new brutes look great. 9/10

Kinectimals looked scripted hand locations completely different on video than where the girls hands were, also how did she know the cat would fall? Cute but very limited market. 5/10

Kinect Sports game play looked horrible and the running did not look enjoyable. 3/10

Adventure game simple but seemed fun could be a good party game. 6/10

Dance game looks very fun and the tutorial was a welcome feature. 10/10

Workout game calorie burn seemed over exaggerated and wanted to see my actual face none of natal games seemed to do that. Overall looks like a good experience. 8/10

ESPN looked cool but will it actually be a live feed or just old games. 7/10

Fable 3 looked interesting but no kinect info or game play hurts. 5/10

New Crytek game interesting but nothing special. 7/10

Slim built in wifi and 250 GB HD nice 299.99 Launch this week amazing. 9/10 

Overall 7/10 Kinect worked but it was in a very well lit stage and no price. Only one new game announcement only saved by the launch of Slim this week.

GameStop says Kinect will be $149:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=111337&page=1#

For Sony, I'm guessing: The Last Guardian gameplay trailer, LittleBigPlanet 2 live demo (using Move), Killzone 3 and GT5 being demoed live in 3D, inFamous 2 trailer, GT5 release date, Versus gameplay trailer, lots of Move games and maybe even PSP2.

If all goes as planned they'll definitely have a better conference than MS, but you never know.

Got it.  So, due to the second half of the show, Gears 3 and Halo Reach have disappeared off the face of the earth?  Oh yes, and Black Ops Fable 3 and Rising are no longer about either?

As I see it, Microsoft mentions they have all the top hardcore stuff in the first half.  In the second half, they do all Kinect stuff.

$149 and new console $299

- Fail.

If I were Mr Sony, i'd knock some dollars off the PS3 price just as Kinect launches.