So, are retailer's hugely excited about Kinect coming out of E3?  Us consumers sitting behind our keyboards don't know.  We can pretend we know but we don't.  So if he says that, it likely means that they are.

One thing that is pretty much fact is that all over the sites that reported on actual hands-on impressions with the Kinect games have consistently been overwhelmingly POSITIVE.

Excitement was big for Kinect before but now its even hotter among the mainstream and its only going to get hotter as marketing kicks in.  We also don't know 1) Most of what Halo Reach is going to offer 2) most of what Fable III is going to offer or 3) the price and upcoming 'core' experiences of Kinect.  These things will be shared in the months to come.

This is not cockiness or arrogance, folks.  This is confidence.  He knows things we don't ...

WOW, wake up and smell the bitch slap Microsoft!

@Squilliam

I don't see the ESPN partnership as meaning anything to my actual GAMING. I mean, I watch football on TV, but WTF, lol?

IMO, there was a lot bad about the conference, including pretty much every boring, goofy Natal part, and nothing good that I didn't already know.

In that sense, Sony's conference was just as bad, but they had Kevin Butler, so it was at least funny for a moment.

I had such high hopes for Microsoft this year. Such high hopes.

Maybe I was expecting too much. The redesign leak was a huge blow to my enjoyment of the show, because they just didn't leave me with anything. Nothing I'm really excited about. Bah!

The last two years, the freakin' shows were awesome. Where is my goddamn megaton Microsoft?..and Sony is starting to always suck at E3. People laud their "exclusives" but they never show anything new, and if they do, it sucks. FF14, ugh. MMORPShit. They just show the same games we already know about, and they leak every game as SOON as they possibly can.

Nintendo kept ALL of those games quiet for the show and blew everyone away. THAT is how to do E3. MS just had poor planning thie year when it comes to game announcements, and Sony can't keep everything from being instantly leaked, so we got what we got.

Based on this logic a lot of 360 IPs are 'weak'. and games like Mass Effect, Fable & Alan Wake dont even exist on the radar, lol.

He corrected the number in a later post, but the point is, if you've played both games, I think you'd know that they can't be directly compared. Halo 3: ODST had its own campaign and online mode (firefight). GT5: Prologue's features will be available in the final release.

It sold more than 3.76, that's just retail copies, not including download numbers.

The Feedback is a LIE !!!

Comparison on the exclusives, I just don't see SOCOM 4, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Gran Turismo 5 outselling Fable 3, Crackdown 2, and Halo: Reach.

I disagree with this but what did you expect Microsoft to say. If they had d come out and said Nintendo had won E3 that would have practically confirmed that they we pulling out of the video games market