I just don't think Microsoft had anything game changing to show. They had nice fanfare content, but nothing to really pull in fence sitters. I think a conference that focused on exclusive content, features, and functionality would have been more impactful.

I was hoping for more interesting news and dates on the unified MS experience. Where is the every XBO is a dev kit? Why no news on cloud features? I just felt like they had massive opportunities that they passed on due to trying to hard to please forum goers.

Yeah it was a pretty decent conference but i'm surprised at the lack of a megaton announcement at the end unless Crackdown was the megaton reveal.

8.5 out of 10 from me. Microsoft kept to there promise and it was definately games, games and more games.

Can't wait for the Division and Assassins Creed Unity. Also new Tomb Raider

I'm actually jealous of Sunset Overdrive and platinum's new game. Both look great but not enough to buy an Xbox One 

Also not surprised to see COD there, that was expected. 

Disappointed that they didn't show halo 5 or quantum break gameplay . ID @ Xbox looks to be successful though. 

Overall, a pretty solid conference but a lack of surprises by announcing games like Forza Horizon 2 before hand and leaks of stuff like Halo collection  

Nice to see Microsoft learning from their past mistakes 

That, my dear sir, is by far the most effective synopsis I have encountered this entire day. Bravo.

Sorry, but I said you could get those games for $30. You said no. Then after that, you said "and certainly not with unchanged gameplay and updated graphics to Halo 2 and DLC"

I said "yes you can" to the idea of getting Halo CE Anniversary, Halo 3 and Halo 4 for $30, which you can. As in, you can get those physical discs for $30. I worded my statement poorly. But you're too quick to condescension if you really thought I meant "hey, you can get this for $30...for $55".

I then said, you can get all that extra content, within the confines of those 3 games, for $55 total. But let's forget about Disc Replay, I actually showed that you can go to eBay and get those games on the cheap (so no anecdotal "I saw it here for this price, but you don't live here so you'll have to take my word for it"). So no need to take pot shots at a regional business that's just trying to stay competitive. It's not a shithole just because it proves me right that you can get Halo CE, Halo 3 and 4 for cheap. "$30" wasn't an arbitrary number I made up.

Now, with that out of the way, you're saying that real value is Halo 2 being remade. I'm questioning that because there was whole bunch of excitement around Halo CE being remade, but your wallets didn't correspond with that. The goal post was indeed on Halo 2. There was no shifting. That's the only content that you can't get at this very moment. I even said "it's the only thing missing when you crunch the numbers". Since the value of this collection is really just the Halo 2 Anniversary version, I wanna know if that is really worth all the excitement. But go ahead, be snarky in order to feel "right" while completely missing the point.

And lastly, I didn't say anything about "lower standards" regarding this Halo collection, itself. I'm talking about "lowered standards" with regard to what we call "big" or "a megaton". Nobody said that about TLOU remastered, mostly because the game just came out last year. So there was no need to "poo in anyone's cereal" because their expectations were tempered, as they should have been. As opposed to going bonkers over a HD collection. Nobody went nuts over the MGS Collection with HD Peace Walker, remapped to the DS3 controller. But, anyway, here are my comments on TLOU remastered. And some more. Whatever was praised about that game, I shot it down in response. System seller? No. "Revamped" graphics? No. Sell a whole bunch on PS4? No. And the majority of people said that while it may sell some, it's mostly just a gap filler. Nobody was saying "this is HUGE". Nice attempt at a straw man, though. Guess you weren't looking hard enough.

No, I'm saying you can get all the stuff in the collection, at this very moment as I'm typing this for $55. The only "new" content you're getting is Halo 2 Anniversary. I'm not saying that that's only $5 worth of the collection. I'm saying that if that's all that's "new", is it really a "megaton" worth getting super excited for?

I saw no leaks prior to the conference, and I gave it a 7/10 - it just wasn't that exciting. I had no idea the Halo Collection was coming, and yeah that was probably the best announcement there, but it wasn't enough to make it a brilliant show

Nah, those that were going to like it were going to like it regardless. Those that wanted to hate it were going to hate it no matter what was shown.

False.

I wasn't even interested in watching their keynote and here I am - after watching it a 2nd time - thinking that they did a great job.

6/10 for me

only Platinum Games and Insomniac delivered, the rest is like fart in my face

That press conference was absolutely awful from a microsoft perspective. Some of the Multi-Plat stuff looked nice but all people are going to do is buy it on PS4. Their 2 BIG exclusive reveals for Xbox One was a Halo Collection and Crackdown 3. Absolutely terrible. Sony and Nintendo are going to slaughter Xbox One by the end of this year.