Considering that GamePass is the best value for money service in gaming, and only getting better, this isn't exactly the diss that you think it is

Yep one thing I find interesting is a friend of mine bought 3 of the games day one that are 6 months or less old that just dropped/coming in the Holiday and I got 3 years of Gamepass Ultimate for less than he paid. I keep telling him Gamepass would be amazing value for him and his playing habbits to save him a ton of cash per year.

Definitely. I wish I had game pass for Outer Worlds cause I paid the full monty, but oh well. Learned the hard way On to Gamepass.

Never got into the Kingdom Hearts games but since they are all heading to X1 I might give them another try.  The Yakuza games and all the Final Fantasy games heading to gamepass where the highlights for me.  I was planning to buy FFXII the next time it went on sale now I can buy something else instead.  I was also thinking of buying some of the Yakuza games on PS4 don't have to do that now either.

I just finished watching. It was a good show 8/10.

I think, when ranking conferences, you need to consider context.

People giving the conference a 7, or even an 8 - what would a 10 look like? 4 brand new exclusives? 5?

Sometimes our expectations are a little unreasonable

I'm really looking forward to playing the new Wasteland, it's definitely right up my alley

I wouldn't be mad at all if Playground are making a new IP instead of Fable, Compulsion or Rare are capable of reviving it IMO if they were willing to take it on. Speaking of Rare I hope that EverWild can be played solo and not have forced co-op.

I rated the Conference a 8/10.

Matt Booty did say a bunch of times how that many of their studios are multiple teams and growing though so setting up more dev teams in current studios is also a good thing. Whilst MS now have 15 studios it's anywhere from 25-30 actual development teams since many studios are 2-3(some possible more) team studios which is quite the difference than the 5-6 they had before the acquisitions started.

I thought the pacing was a a lot better than last year with only the eSports players section letting it down and the Fortnite ads been stuffed in but it's a solid 8/10 for the announcements we got and the new info/release dates on the upcoming games we already knew about. It was interesting at the end how Phil spoke about this been a standard to what we should expect from each X0 with the studios they now have announcing 5-6 games per year across E3/X0 is quite an exciting prospect.

I'm very interested in seeing how uh, accessible they're making Wasteland 3. It's clearly benefiting from a larger budget, but for it to reach a bigger audience it really needs to be less hardcore. I hope games like XCom and Mutant Year Zero have opened people up to playing these types of games more.