What's wrong with the possibility of amateur games on XNA? Are you guys telling me that you haven't become addicted to various flash games on the internet before?

While the confirmation of Gears is a good thing. I think everyone was expecting some mortar rounds out of the left field bleachers. Rather then someone they already knew was in the dugout. I hope the third party developers cut loose with surprise announcements or that the big three are holding out on some info right up till the last minute. Otherwise this gaming show is a real bust. Yes Microsoft can take it away with just Gears, but where is the overkill. Where are the four or five games that are supposed to surprise us.

I pray the key players aren't holding on to fat wallets to unload at their own gamer days. Those generally blow and are nothing more then propaganda fairs for the media. Sadly that may be our only hope if this conference doesn't start churning out announcements pronto. The E3 show is just too late in the year for announcements, and those corporate gamer days always happen on like Wednesday in the middle of nowhere. I like to see the corporate entities try to one up each other.

With LBP, it's different.  There is a whole game aside from the User created content.  Then theres all the User created content.  with xna, it's nice for small developers and whatnot, but like you said 95% will be crap.

While I diasagree with Disolutes comment that the conference is more news then Sony and Nintendo combined. I do agree that MS tends to only show off games that are coming out in the near future, unlike Sony who likes to dangle carrots in front of its users.

Makingmusic - That's the point. The internet can fill my flash game addiction for free.

@ making music

Yeah, cuz they're FREE.

Would you pay to play flash games?

Yeah, Blu-ray winning is not gaming news...Im sure Sony had some news in their plasma TV division that you forgot to mention.

Resistance 2 looks cool I admit but gears of war is king.

Obviously you've never played around with user-generated content before. While most of it is crap, there will be shining examples of people really using the XNA tools creatively.

This opens up an entire new world for XB users... I think it's rampant fanboyism to act like it's nothing to be excited about. It's certainly more exciting to me than a wanna-be Second Life or another high-profile game with user-created levels.

I'll be downloading XNA myself soon, that's for sure.

Fable 2 seems to disagree, as we still don't have a date for that game.

Uncharted was shown last E3 and came out in July...

pwned?

Gebx you should have just said "Actually Yes it is" and kept it going for someone to go "Actually I think not" you ruined it =\