I just got the redesigned 360 and it's worth every penny.

On to the topic at hand. If you watch the entire episode of gametrailers Geoff gave each company head one minute to say why they won E3. Reggie, and Stringer just rambled everything they showed. Mattrick's response was pretty funny (Geoff even laughed), because unlike the other guys he didn't try to list every single thing they showed. He actually waited 10 seconds before starting, mentioned the key issues, then the rest of the time he joked around.   It was really funny compared to what these guys usually do. Every year the three guys are just boring. This was a nice change.

Let's not talk about MS being cocky by Mattrick  having a little fun, when sony took a ton of jabs at their press conference.

After reading this thread, let me paint the picture:

Geoff Keighly gave a guy from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft 1 minute to explain why their company "won" E3.  All three were put on the spot and had to improvise.  The Sony guy did a great job.  Reggie ran out of material at around 30 seconds and had to backtrack.  The Microsoft guy (who needs to be fired) said he'd wait a few seconds before he started to "handicap himself" because Microsoft had such an advantage.  He ran out of thing to say about Microsoft at around 25 seconds.  Then, he floundered around nervously.  He just said whatever came to mind.

My point:  Don't take these poorly thought out comments too seriously.

Software, software, software. These services aren't going to make a difference in terms of being able to sell more units quicker. Kinect is the only thing that could do anything, and that's going to hinge dangerously on whether consumers respond to it as a gaming interface (its future as a pure interface is up in the air, but its gaming applications don't entirely look up to snuff so far)

i agree...i enjoyed the interview.  I laughed a few times.  I enjoyed Reggies too.

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That's not entirely accurate. You mentioned Uncharted 2 for instance, which by all rights shouldn't have moved consoles, yet on the week of release we saw a moderate boost in PS3 sales, even with good but not brilliant lifetime sales.

Another example would be MGS4 moved consoles and has sold well, but not above 5 million. You can't just shove a threshold on these things. The core fanbase is important to certain franchises.

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Gran Turismo will really be the first full game release of a driving simulator on PS3. It's actually quite a big gap in the software market. The full game of Forza 3 (and 2 actually) has so far managed less than GT5: Prologue, even though it only has 6 tracks, 60 cars and a lot less features than Forza. This would suggest that the fanbase for this genre of games is still present and mostly on PS3. A survey recently suggested that  >50% of people that planned to buy GT5, had yet to purchase a PS3. I don't put much stock into thse surveys, but it does suggest a positive trend for GT5.

Have these amounted to anything more than tempory spikes? I'm talking significant long term leaps in sales in multiple millions? Not 30k extra for the launch week. 

Of course you can. Name a game that sold 10 - 15 million copies and wasn't considered a system seller? There aren't any really, so we know it's at least 10-15 million and to lesser extents that could drop as low as 7 million, but in the 4-5m area it becomes a whole lot murkier.

True, but the question still remains the same. Why should we expect more from 11 million GT fans from 6 years ago, then 11 million Halo fans from only 3 years ago?

Or a negative situation for the PS3. 140 million PS2's and 35million PS3's. Over 75% of them have yet to purchase a PS3 too, it doesn't mean they for certain will.

did he really answer some of those questions with "eh" ? ... wow, professionally done.

1. In that case Halo 3 barely pushed that many 360s and nor did Gears 2. I don't think either the 360 or PS3 has had a major and sustained boost in sales from software if that's your benchmark. Price cuts around the holiday season and redesigns have been far more successful. In fact, I could argue that MGS4 has sold consoles since launch due to the promise of an exclusive MGS game.

2. Mario Kart Wii? I doubt many Wii owners would have bought a Wii solely because of that game. It was a combination of Nintendo software that helped sell the Wii. Even Super Mario Galaxy to a lesser extent due to the new casual gamer market.

3. Where do you think they've gone. Some may have gone to Forza but a significant number have stayed on PS3 with prologue, yet the features for that title were very few and far between. There are 2 issues that suggest to me GT5 will sell well. First, as I mentioned before, there is a gap in the software market. Secondly, being deprived of something you enjoy leaves you hungry. The fans haven't had a full driving simulation on PS3 and Forza hasn't sold well enough to convince me that fans have shifted to 360.

And I didn't bring up Halo Reach, which I think will sell quite nicely. It wouldn't suprise me if it sold worse than Halo 3 (I'm fairly sure it'd do better than ODST) as the FPS market is getting a lil' oversaturated, but if it sells more, I wouldn't be that suprised either, as its a Halo game.

4. The other thing to remember is that when GT3 was released, PS3 was at approx. 20 million. This may not show current trends, but it shows userbase can mean squat for larger franchises, especially ones that that aren't heavily front-loaded.

Oh hell yes they are! Xbox Live, PSN are both highly subscribed services. Netflix which is a comparable service has millions of Xbox 360 users online so ESPN would feed off and expand the scope for both on demand services, especially in conjunction with Kinect. The same would apply to services like Primetime which will probably be Kinect enabled as well.

Anyway the gaming applications I saw looked up to snuff. Did you not see how awesome the dancing and fitness programs were? Also we haven't seen the core games thus far so I would have to reserve judgement until Gamescon before I make any decisions about its worthiness.

I don't think their being cocky. Just confident.