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Neodegenerate said:
Faelco said:

And yet did I say anything wrong? All on PC, almost no new announcements, cool new Slim version but please wait next year for our awesome next console. What's wrong in this? That's their new strategy with PC gaming in mind, they just screwed up their Scorpio announcement by announcing it a year too early, wich kills the current XBox One (and sadly the Slim too) even faster than the PC focus does. A Scorpio announcement at E3 2017 would have been a lot better.

I feel like you, and others, look at the "all on PC" thing with far too hardcore of a video game players mindset.  The casual fan who plays an XB1, the majority of the people who play on it, are not giving even one shit about whether the games are available on PC or anywhere else.  Those of us who are on the boards, sure they are losing some sales perhaps with us.  The people who just walk into Target to buy themselves/their kids the latest system their friends have, nope.

I agree with you on this, but looking at the global announcements, "Wow" factors and other megatons, this conference was lacking, almost everything was already announced last year, except for the annual Forza (Fifa-like level of surprise...), Dead Rising (not exclusive), Gwent (multiplat) and State of Decay 2. The huge announcements were the hardware ones, and I think the second one (Scorpio) was poorly handled and killed the first one (Slim). And of course leaked, but that's another issue. The major announcement is clearly the "all games are for PC too", which is cool for PC gamers. But for a E3 conference, it really lacks some impact from a games perspective. 

No big E3 classic communication megaton game we'll talk about in the next few weeks/months, that's what's laking the most IMO. Not a bad conference if you take out the Scorpio segment, but no exciting segment either. I like to read mainstream newssites the day after the E3 conferences (some of the big french newssites like to speak about it), they were until now pretty disappointed about this E3, and I'm not sure this E3 conference will be better than the rest...



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Faelco said:
Neodegenerate said:

I feel like you, and others, look at the "all on PC" thing with far too hardcore of a video game players mindset.  The casual fan who plays an XB1, the majority of the people who play on it, are not giving even one shit about whether the games are available on PC or anywhere else.  Those of us who are on the boards, sure they are losing some sales perhaps with us.  The people who just walk into Target to buy themselves/their kids the latest system their friends have, nope.

I agree with you on this, but looking at the global announcements, "Wow" factors and other megatons, this conference was lacking, almost everything was already announced last year, except for the annual Forza (Fifa-like level of surprise...), Dead Rising (not exclusive), Gwent (multiplat) and State of Decay 2. The huge announcements were the hardware ones, and I think the second one (Scorpio) was poorly handled and killed the first one (Slim). And of course leaked, but that's another issue. The major announcement is clearly the "all games are for PC too", which is cool for PC gamers. But for a E3 conference, it really lacks some impact from a games perspective. 

No big E3 classic communication megaton game we'll talk about in the next few weeks/months, that's what's laking the most IMO. Not a bad conference if you take out the Scorpio segment, but no exciting segment either. I like to read mainstream newssites the day after the E3 conferences (some of the big french newssites like to speak about it), they were until now pretty disappointed about this E3, and I'm not sure this E3 conference will be better than the rest...

Xbox has lacked "wow" factor quantity on a global scale since they went to churning out the big 3 (Halo, Forza, and Gears) and relied solely on the success of the 360 to pull in the "better" version of the multiplats last gen.  Now they lack that advantage and are struggling to push out any unique new content not tied to their big 3.  Also couple that with the leaks, which are becoming more prevalent these days, and it is really hard to be surprised by a news conference these days.



Faelco said:
darkenergy said:

The downplay is strong in you.

And yet did I say anything wrong? All on PC, almost no new announcements, cool new Slim version but please wait next year for our awesome next console. What's wrong in this? That's their new strategy with PC gaming in mind, they just screwed up their Scorpio announcement by announcing it a year too early, wich kills the current XBox One (and sadly the Slim too) even faster than the PC focus does. A Scorpio announcement at E3 2017 would have been a lot better.

When you say kill. What exactly do you mean? It won't sale now? Like incredibly low sales because of the announcement? 



TheSting said:
Faelco said:

And yet did I say anything wrong? All on PC, almost no new announcements, cool new Slim version but please wait next year for our awesome next console. What's wrong in this? That's their new strategy with PC gaming in mind, they just screwed up their Scorpio announcement by announcing it a year too early, wich kills the current XBox One (and sadly the Slim too) even faster than the PC focus does. A Scorpio announcement at E3 2017 would have been a lot better.

When you say kill. What exactly do you mean? It won't sale now? Like incredibly low sales because of the announcement? 

Yes, I think that the Scorpio announcement will lower the Slim sales, and the Xbox One sales are already not that good. Why buy an Xbox console now when the "most powerful console ever" will release next year? At least everyone should wait for more informations about the Scorpio before buying anything else... A new console should be announced as close as possible to the release!



It's at least a year and a half away though. The Slim line consoles usually have a better design and something newish in the systems. I don't see a huge problem with it. Maybe a minor one



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Ms who officialy annonce the scorpion after talking about the Xbox one slim.

MARKETING/10. What a way to kill sales of Xone.



Namiirei said:
Ms who officialy annonce the scorpion after talking about the Xbox one slim.

MARKETING/10. What a way to kill sales of Xone.

Not everyone is going to upgrade, plus a $299 a good price for a second console with a specific library.



How does the concept of Play Anywhere work? How did it work with Quantum Break? You get a piece of paper inside your Xbox game box with a redeem code for the Windows store or do you have to validate some ish via Xbox before u get a Windows code?



JRPGfan said:
6 Tflops, and 320 gb/s memory bandwidth... its going to be 599$ isnt it? 

I wouldn't be surprised if it were more. 



Well, one thing this conference definitely did was prove that there is no reason to get an xbox one over a PC at this point.