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Analyst group EEDAR has deemed Microsoft’s pre-E3 2013 showcase a success that put to bed fears over Xbox One’s dedication to core gaming.

Xbox One was confirmed for a November launch priced $499 / £429 / 499 Euros this evening. You can read our summary of the whole show and games, including trailers here.

In a note sent to VG247 this evening, EEDAR vice-president of insights Jesse Divnich wrote, “Coming out of Microsoft’s E3 conference, if there was ever any doubt about Microsoft’s dedication to the core gaming community, they were put to bed today.
Microsoft made it clear today that their attempts to make the Xbox One a truly integrated entertainment device that will service all members of a household will not come at the cost of alienating the core gaming community.

“From Titanfall, World of Tanks, Quantum Break, Ryse, Dead Rising 3, to Sunset Overdrive, It’s evident that Microsoft is investing more resources and capital than ever before to securing exclusive content and games from third-party publishers and developers while investing more resources to internally-developed titles.”

Elsewhere, the Xbox 360 redesign was ‘in-line’ with EEDAR predictions, and the group called Microsoft’s Xbox One segment ‘stellar’. The firm will issue more predictions concerning Microsoft’s next-gen strategy in coming days.

I never thought there was a need for any fear in the first place.

Who really thought this console was not going to have games? People were and are still are more worried about the DRM policy on it, which did not get adressed during the conference.

Anyways, we will see how the reception of this news will be in the coming days, after the hype has died down a little.

Best E3 ever and the most hyped I've ever been for a console launch. I preordered mine 1 hour after the conference and so did one of my friends. I know 4 more hoping to do the same but they may be out of luck

I'm pretty hyped because of Killer Instinct and a couple of more games. But I can't get over the fact that MS will tell me how to play my games. I think they need to be more relaxed when it comes to restrictions.

This was easily MS best E3 in the past 3 to 4 years.

It was their best E3 ever IMO and I have been Xbox gamer all gen but no they have done nothing to put my fears to bed about being corporate criminals and I'm still not buying it.