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Lord Flashheart on 14 June 2010
Metallicube said:

I think  MS conference proves that MS doesn't infact "care" about hardcore gamers as their fans claim. They only care about making money. They simply go where the money is. Right now, they see the money at motion control games with Kinect.

The tragedy is however, the quality of these Kinetic games looks nowhere near the quality of Wii's games. They look extremely boring and look like nothing Wii hasn't already done. Because of this, the sales will reflect the quality. So now, MS risks not only missing the boat with the expanded audience, but angering the core gamers as well, which is where the vast majority of their sales come from. MS could be in trouble after this conference.


So the new crytek, reach, fable, forza kinect, GoW3 footage, rising lets not forget Crackdown 2 the CoD agreement means they are ignoring the hardcore.

How dare they like Sony and Ninty want to make money



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IxisNaugus on 14 June 2010

I for one was severely disappointed. Call me an optimist but i expected a lot more surprise announcements. I thought it started off pretty good, some great looking games were shown, then they started talking about Kinect and they really dragged it on for far too long. I'm not surprised people are a little more than upset.



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SHMUPGurus on 14 June 2010

What the heck are some of you guys blabbering about? They're still getting the multiplatforms, they're still giving us Microsoft Games Studios games, and they're still gonna support ''hardcore'' gamers because of that.

Weren't some of you guys complaining a few months ago about the fuckton of games already releasing this year for all platforms? I'm sure some of you have a family to feed too, so I say focus on a little number of exclusives as possible and support the big guns.

Kinect is a plus. Everyone just keeps on complaining all the time... jeez.



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Skeeuk on 14 June 2010
puffy said:
Skeeuk said:

xbox 360

 

  • gears of war 3
  • fable 3
  • halo reach
  • new crytek game
  • epsn deal
  • timed exclusive content on COD games
  • natal
  • redesign 360
its not that bad

 

I think when you put it like that, it's worse..

ESPN will be America only, map pack timed exclusivity? Why is that even relevant? and the only new game shown was a new crytek game.. It didn't even show us what to expect!

Gears, Halo, Black Ops and Fable 3 were basically it.. They were already known about too. Fable 3 looked good but where was the Kinect integration? What happened to Milo and Kate also? Sony are going to shit all over that and I think Nintendo might do even better than Sony as they will have the element of surprise. We'll see though..

I get the feeling that Microsoft are really starting to focus on development for the next generation, I don't think anything else can explain the sheer lack of anything from them.. The basically have nothing for 2011 except Gears, Kinect Star Wars and something to do with Forza. Have they ever been this light on with games?


true, to sum up only fable 3 and halo reach to look forward to this year, the actual conf was ok but surely its gotta be the weakest one out of the three.



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Legend11 on 14 June 2010
Lord Flashheart said:
Metallicube said:

I think  MS conference proves that MS doesn't infact "care" about hardcore gamers as their fans claim. They only care about making money. They simply go where the money is. Right now, they see the money at motion control games with Kinect.

The tragedy is however, the quality of these Kinetic games looks nowhere near the quality of Wii's games. They look extremely boring and look like nothing Wii hasn't already done. Because of this, the sales will reflect the quality. So now, MS risks not only missing the boat with the expanded audience, but angering the core gamers as well, which is where the vast majority of their sales come from. MS could be in trouble after this conference.


So the new crytek, reach, fable, forza kinect, GoW3 footage, rising lets not forget Crackdown 2 the CoD agreement means they are ignoring the hardcore.

How dare they like Sony and Ninty want to make money

Yeah they were bashed to hell for years for being the shooter console and now being bashed for not being the shooter console.

The footage they showed of core games was pretty good and for the complainers, how many core games can they actually play in a year?  There must be at least 50 big budget core games coming out between now and the end of the year for the 360 and they don't think that's enough?



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Chrizum on 14 June 2010

Oh noez, they're making a dancing game! They're abandoning the hardcore!



tripleb2k on 14 June 2010

what were the 'hardcore' gamers looking for???! HALO REACH?



libellule on 14 June 2010
hatmoza said:

Let me just say I loved Dance Central however ....

That was one of the weakest press conferences I've ever seen. Do they not have any game projects going on? I mean we usually get huge megaton announcements from E3. WTF is up indeed.

pretty good summary

MILO would have been so huge, even a little demo about "what is next"



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Lord Flashheart on 14 June 2010

did anyone not expect them to talk about Kinect? The press have been going crazy over it, certain fanboys have worried over it and the gamers have been dying to see it. MS knew this so it's no surprise it took up most of the show.

All people have been asking with regards to the 360 is what about natal? Show more than just the ball game and when they do everyone gets upset?



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Lord Flashheart on 14 June 2010
libellule said:
hatmoza said:

Let me just say I loved Dance Central however ....

That was one of the weakest press conferences I've ever seen. Do they not have any game projects going on? I mean we usually get huge megaton announcements from E3. WTF is up indeed.

pretty good summary

MILO would have been so huge, even a little demo about "what is next"

Why am I not surprised



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