Why does Microsoft get a pass on drawing this artificial line on when games are released?

They release almost NOTHING all year until the holidays, release a handful of things... then release NOTHING all first half of next year.

Sony on the other hand had a decent line up until now, has a strong lineup this fall, and has an amazing lineup early next year.

But most importantly -- E3 is an annual event... almost all of the games demoed at 2016 E3 -- will be launched prior to 2017 E3. (Exclude Kojima's game ... that won't come until Holiday 2018 at earliest)

"When I think about Gears, Forza Horizon, ReCore, Dead Rising 4 "

I think about seuelitis, save for ReCore, which doesn't have me hyped anyway.

I look at Sony's press conference and I get all I want: narrative-driven games with a singleplayer focus.

Also Sony has been pumping out exclusives all year long, where MS at?

They showed games with release dates. Sony showed some games with release dates and future titles BUT they've already shown so many more besides their e3 confe, games with release dates, games that are releasing this year. So...yeah.

I like how Microsoft talks crap recently but as for Nintendo and Sony they don't because they're respectful.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=217489&page=1

I made a thread about this the other day. I'd much rather have them hold off on giving us dates or windows until they are confident they can hit them.

Someone want to ask Phil why Halo Wars 2, and Crackdown 3, and Scalebound, and Cuphead, and Recore, and Quantum Break, all failed to hit their launch windows? Someone want to ask him where Phantom Dust is?

Give us a break Phil.

He's playing to the Xbox fans in forums like this and fanboy youtubers. He knows they will repeat whatever he says ( remember MS or Phil trying to convince people that Sony had no exclusives because Sony spread theirs out over the year). It's only recently that conferences have started to be downplayed if games are shown without release. E3 is about showing future projects when did it become about showing games being released in the next 6 months.

He knows that Xbox Fanboy have been downplaying Sony's conferences and he's just fanning the flames. This guy mentions Sony and rights off Sony's projects to much (VR). If Sony start to get more third party deals, he downplays that. Rumours of the Neo, downplays that. The best thing is he always lies, to make MS look better only to backtrack and pretend nothing was ever said.

Phil, concentrate on your own product, do your own thing, stop worrying about Sony and stop bitching about the competitors that are doing a better job.

This.  Not to mention the fact that PS actually has exclusives you can only play on the PS4.  MS is obviously giving up on Xbox, at least where HW is concerned.  If the Scorpio doesn't move much, I'd say they will be done completely and will focus more on Windows 10.

Aye seeing something like CupHead for the second (at least) year in a row's E3 kinda makes me think, how long does that kinda game take to make really, is there like >5 guys working on it?

Yes, IIRC from E3 last year it was 2 guys doing animation for every boss, frame by frame.

Also, No Man's Sky opened a precedent.

CupHead has one more year to beat Hello Games.

Serious amounts of salt. 

Sure, MS games shown have release dates. But 95% of the games were announced a while ago. So.....you just show them again when the release date is finally around the corner, and then say "hey, our conference is fine. At least our games are coming out soon"?

Yea, because you have nothing new to show. Sony, on the other hand, showed us future games, because they had no need to show us current games that are coming out this year, because they're with the program. They already showed No Man's Sky, GT Sport, Gravity Rush 2, Persona 5, Paragon, Star Ocean 5, King of Fighters XIV, World of Final Fantasy, etc. and they all have release dates. They showed that last year to let us know what to look forward to this year. What would have been the point of showing them again, unless they didn't have a release date prior (ala TLG)? What did MS show to get us interested in them for the future, since we already knew games like Gears 4 were coming this year? *crickets*. Oh, and not to mention, SFV, R&C, and Uncharted have already released this year. So they've already released 3 big games for 2016. What has MS released? *crickets*

The bludgeoning that Sony doled out, in comparison to MS, would have been even worse had they included all those games, if we're playing by the MS rules of "show games we've already announced years ago, but glorify that they have a release date that's soon"