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Why is anyone expecting MS to cater to the "hardcore" when they already have that demographic (COD/Halo teens) on lockdown?  Unless you mean hardcore as in small pockets of niche gamers that don't amount to shit.  They will follow the money as everyone is doing.  Laugh all you want, Wii got the same shit and it prints money.

Money talks, bullshit walks.



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Lord Flashheart said:
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

WOW, you look REALLY alone on this one

let's hope you will feel better after some sleep



Time to Work !

I think you'll need it after all you've done tonight.

You must feel really good



hopefully they are saving their important stuff for leipzig



So this pretty much confirms that the press doesn't hate Nintendo; it's just full of manbabies who want everything to be all about them.

To Microsoft fans: Welcome to the Idiocy.  Grab a seat and prepare for some hilarious times.



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Lord Flashheart said:

I think you'll need it after all you've done tonight.

You must feel really good

"ALL" I have done tonight ??!!?? lol

really funny to get this comment from you considering how you are getting frenzy to "lock" all the bad impression coming from everywhere ...
Indeed, you have a lot to do, you may not sleep anytime soon.

Have a good night in front of your keyboard



Time to Work !

libellule said:
Lord Flashheart said:

I think you'll need it after all you've done tonight.

You must feel really good

"ALL" I have done tonight ??!!?? lol

really funny to get this comment from you considering how you are getting frenzy to "lock" all the bad impression coming from everywhere ...
Indeed, you have a lot to do, you may not sleep anytime soon.

Have a good night in front of your keyboard

I don't like doing this as English is your second language and I don't want to knock that. In fact I applaud it but what?

Lock the bad impression? Can you explain it a bit more please?

oh and Just for you



andremop said:

People just need to realize the videogame industry cannot live for the hardcore anymore...Just look at EA, UBISOFT, ROCKSTAR... selling millions, and still... losing (tens of) millions.

Microsoft will invest in things a little more profittable... so should everyone else, imo.

No more "need to sell 5 million just to break even" or "announced in 2003" games. It's just not worthy.

I don't think so.

Everyone who tries to copy Wii motion controls will fail. The wii success story can not be copied. Just like Blizzards WoW where all copycats failed to recreate WoW's great success!

Casual games don't buy many games and from what I've seen they always look for  something new & cool. Hardcore games is where the money is  and where you can sell the  same sort of game again an again! 



Lord Flashheart said:

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?


well i thought the reason they had 2 conferences was because they wanted to balance the hardcore and core presentations. I mean sure they showed halo reach, gears 3, and fable 3 but i wanted to be surprised by microsoft like the year before. Something huge like maybe a GTA5 annoucement or something. I guess microsoft showed the hardcore stuff but their main tarket was kinect and wii sports like games.



lilc64 said:

They didnt show any games that would make a causal gamer pick kinect over the wii. The only hardcore games they showed were multi platform and gow and halo reach and i had so much interest in fable 3 but that demo was horrible. I mean the espn thing is pretty cool but making all your xbox interface voice activated and motion sensing isn't very amazing. Its like voice recognition on your cell phone, you play around with it in the beginning than you never use it again. While watching the chick do the kick boxing you clearly see how much kinect lagged behind her movements. What really gets me is where was the kinect intergation with HD games like halo reach or alan wake i didnt care about the wii sports.I dont get how people are saying this new xbox 360 at the same price point of the current ps3 will cause trouble, anyone with half a mind can see the ps3 still has more hardware and features in the current console.All this is my option but really?

Starting to look like the Sony ad with Kevin Butler was actually somewhat true. Buttons really are important! (for core games).