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huaxiong90 on 11 December 2010
red_dragon said:

Well there is hope for 360

http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2010/12/11/if-youre-not-amped-for-uncharted-3s-trailer-tonight-at-spike-tvs-vgas-dont-worry-because-theres-something-even-bigger/

Hmm...



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Blood_Tears on 11 December 2010
Solid-Stark said:

Overshadowed? Not necessarily but too many people (not mentioning names) are overlooking and taking the OP's comment wrong.

I think an official trailer reveal of a just announced game (u3) and a game heavily rummored(ME3) would create more buzz than just another gameplay trailer of a game that already has been announced and is already anticipated.


Exactly, that's how i took it as well. We know Gears is the bigger selling franchise, but by overshadowed i took it as just in the moment hype. UC and ME are game of the year franchises and nothing to snuff at. Gears 3 was already announced so i already had my hype moment for that and a new feature or kinect is not going to do it for me now. But the other 2 would.



Carl on 11 December 2010
red_dragon said:

Well there is hope for 360

http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2010/12/11/if-youre-not-amped-for-uncharted-3s-trailer-tonight-at-spike-tvs-vgas-dont-worry-because-theres-something-even-bigger/

Halo: Combat Evolved Remake!!!



                            

zgamer5 on 11 December 2010
kowenicki said:
LivingMetal said:
heruamon said:
red_dragon said:

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/12/11/gears-of-war-and-the-vga-s.aspx

They plan to announce it later on. Make sense because it was going to be overshadowed by Uncharted 3 and Mass Effect 3.


Dunno why, it handily outsold those two games.

 

Maybe because Gears 3 is current lacking more than Microsoft would like to be known when compared to both U3 and ME3.

yeah... ok fella.

it wouldnt be remotely overshadowed... and everyone knows this.

did you read the posts of people who replied to you?

ofcourse a feature anouncement is going to be overshadowed by a game anouncement even if it was halo vs dragon age.

other then that i expect ms to anounce something big at vga.



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themanwithnoname on 11 December 2010
Boutros said:
themanwithnoname said:
Boutros said:
Shadowblind said:

I wonder if we're looking at this all the wrong way. Perhaps Microsoft doesn't want to overshadow something else of theirs . . . I did hear that they have more then one title to announce. Or maybe it was show. Either way, a Gears announcement would obliterate most other ones other then a new Halo . . .

Maybe its smart, maybe it isn't. All I know is the VGAs just got less interesting.

That's what I think too.

I'm expecting something else from Microsoft. Big hopefully.

I think there's a better chance of it snowing in hell tonight, personally.

All we'll get are a few multiplats like ME3, Arkham Asylum 2, and Saint's Row 3 (that's a guess, it seems like this would be a good place to announce that). Like I said before, Microsoft doesn't announce anything outside of E3 anymore. The only exception is Gears 3, which everybody knew was coming a month before it was announced. We might see a Kingdoms trailer with actual gameplay, but I'd put that at about a 5% likelihood of actually happening.

But don't you find the lack of Microsoft games for 2011 odd? I'm sure they have something to announce and now would be a perfect time otherwise it goes all the way to GDC.


Not really no. I think Microsoft will focus more on Kinect titles (which might show up tonight, but others in this thread are pretty much saying that the audience is anti-Kinect) than non-Kinect titles in the forseeable future. This year was their last big year of non-Kinect titles imo. Of course, there's still Forza 4, Gears 3, and Kingdoms (whenever that releases) and Microsoft will rely on third parties to keep non-Kinect titles flowing, which they will.

I think if Microsoft had something, we would've heard from it by now. We knew everything coming out in 2010, outside of the Kinect titles, at this same point last year. Microsoft haven't been mildly surprising since they announced Halo: Reach and Crackdown 2 at E3 2009. If you look at their E3 shows the past couple of years, you're lucky to see maybe three multiplat games (one of which is always Call of Duty), and the rest of the show is dominated by Microsoft published and third party exclusives. If something were to be announced, it'd be far more likely to be announced there than here.



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sully1311 on 11 December 2010

has anyone got a streaming link. Live in UK so cant watch on Spike!!



themanwithnoname on 11 December 2010
huaxiong90 said:
red_dragon said:

Well there is hope for 360

http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2010/12/11/if-youre-not-amped-for-uncharted-3s-trailer-tonight-at-spike-tvs-vgas-dont-worry-because-theres-something-even-bigger/

Hmm...


Don't get your hopes up, you will be disappointed.



themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.

LivingMetal on 11 December 2010
kowenicki said:
LivingMetal said:
heruamon said:
red_dragon said:

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/12/11/gears-of-war-and-the-vga-s.aspx

They plan to announce it later on. Make sense because it was going to be overshadowed by Uncharted 3 and Mass Effect 3.


Dunno why, it handily outsold those two games.

 

Maybe because Gears 3 is current lacking more than Microsoft would like to be known when compared to both U3 and ME3.

yeah... ok fella.

it wouldnt be remotely overshadowed... and everyone knows this.

Really?  Do you know at what point Gears is in development to be shown to the public.



LivingMetal on 11 December 2010
Carl2291 said:
red_dragon said:

Well there is hope for 360

http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2010/12/11/if-youre-not-amped-for-uncharted-3s-trailer-tonight-at-spike-tvs-vgas-dont-worry-because-theres-something-even-bigger/

Halo: Combat Evolved Remake!!!

Sony is doing this with some of their last gen games.  Why not Microsoft?



Solid-Stark on 11 December 2010
Blood_Tears said:
Solid-Stark said:

Overshadowed? Not necessarily but too many people (not mentioning names) are overlooking and taking the OP's comment wrong.

I think an official trailer reveal of a just announced game (u3) and a game heavily rummored(ME3) would create more buzz than just another gameplay trailer of a game that already has been announced and is already anticipated.


Exactly, that's how i took it as well. We know Gears is the bigger selling franchise, but by overshadowed i took it as just in the moment hype. UC and ME are game of the year franchises and nothing to snuff at. Gears 3 was already announced so i already had my hype moment for that and a new feature or kinect is not going to do it for me now. But the other 2 would.


Great to see someone understands. Some people on this site over react when they think their favorite console/franchise seems to get bashed.



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