For me the highlight was Scarlet Nexus followed by Yakuza 7 and The Medium.

Tbh, as disappointing as it may seem but almost zero chance of it happening. You can open up the yesterday's gematsu post about Scarlet Nexus and just read tons of comments of salty Sony fanboys over the game presumably being an exclusive. Unfortunately, when it comes to Japanese games, Microsoft is in "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. A never ending loop. They can't actually buy Japanese exclusives because it will piss off the 95% of audience of these games that will result in them hating Xbox and not buying it as some sort of protest. And they can't make these people interested in Xbox if they only have Japanese games that can be played on other platforms on their system. 

Let's be honest, the best we can hope for Series X generation is Xbox having a parity with Playstation in terms of these games and not having a situation when multiplatform games skip Xbox for no reason. It's just a fact that Xbox One generation has been a total disaster throughout entire gen. Of course, the console market is very unpredictable and a lot of things can change, but still, the most likely outcome is that Xbox will still be playing catch up during next gen as well. And that it will be way behind PC, Switch and. PS5. And even more so when it comes to Japanese games. Series X should be the "Redemption arc" for Microsoft. If everything is done right, third-party Japanese support will be good enough throughout the whole gen, then MS can start thinking about buying exclusives for the next gen. Because, the first priority right now is to show the audience of Japanese games that they can feel at home at Xbox and that they won't be missing on a lot of good stuff if they choose Xbox over any other platform. Exclusives mean nothing if the parity in terms of multiplatform support isn't there.

Actually it wasn't even a demo. More like technical demo. This new, Infinite game is more like a reboot, starting from scratch thing. I think that the only thing that they are going to keep is the main character and some plot details. It's not like there was any in that tech demo actually because it was a really weird game. Just imagine modern shooter, DMC style combat, Tomb Raider and Dark Souls-like segments packed in 30 minutes. I recommend to play this game because it is really weird in a good way. Judging by the new trailer, they seem to add racing into it as well.

Ya there's a lot of great detail in there, like the environmental destruction and such. Looks really dynamic. 

Some of the background detail looks pretty amazing.

What I was referring to yesterday with an AC gameplay trailer over a 10 min demo (we got neither) is something like we have here, The trailers we got yesterday are great for the main show but then they should be followed up with a Xbox Wire article with a 10 minute pure gameplay video like this here so people can follow up on what caught their eye and that should be how all events are going forward.

Because as much as I want to see gameplay putting something like this into a show isn't feasible and would likely cause people to be bored and loose interest even if you cut it down to 5 minutes. It's need to be BAM here's a 2 minutes trailer to get peoples attention and then here check out 10 minutes of gameplay on it posted straight after the main show.

DF guys be reading my VGC rants. I'm suing.

Yes, I found it quite interesting actually how for every single game they were like "ehhh....idk if that's actually realistic."

Had me sitting there thinking....wait...so everyone, including these guys agree that these games were disappointing from the perspective of everyone wanting to get a look at some real next gen games, big boy stuff...and yet....they don't even believe these machines are capable of running these small time games at X settings. Uhmm...ok....next gen sounds lame as shit all of a sudden then.

This is very inaccurate to what the game is today, IGN should have specified that this is the early PC Demo that I think was released last year. I remember Funhaus playing it.

The new trailer definitely showed improvements and new gameplay mechanics.

Ray Tracing is stupidly demanding.
It will take more than AMD's first attempt at Ray Tracing hardware to Achieve Ray Tracing+4k+60fps.

I will repeat what I stated years ago before the 8th gen consoles released... That is, if PC isn't doing it, then console isn't doing it either.
People have unrealistic expectations of the hardware and then get let down when those expectations are not met.

In Microsoft's instance here... This trailer was pretty bad, showed us nothing of what Next-Gen is about, they have the ability to control the next-gen narrative as well with more powerful hardware, but just didn't manage to do that for whatever reason.

However, Microsoft is quick to learn from their mistakes, so I will assume they will come out guns-blazing on their next attempt.

I agree. I think they're feeling very burnt by the (not unreasonable) accusations they neglected their first party for a half decade. Hence the apparent sense they must show a million games at every event because 'we're doing things'. I don't think they should do what Sony did at that bungled E3 where they showed 4 games, but there MUST be a middle ground.

Feels like there have already been a bunch of price point polls, and most people are of the mindset that both will come in at 500 bucks.

Can't see the Series X coming in cheaper than PS5 myself, but I also don't think it'll make much of a difference, unless we're talking about a difference of like 100 bucks in either direction. If one is like 50 bucks more or less than the other...big whoop, everyone will just get what they have their mind set on, or in parents' case, what their kids have their mind set on. There's gotta be more separation than that, at least in my mind, for it to be a real factor.

And we already know that MS intends to have a much cheaper entry console on the market, for people who are really just looking for something on a budget, so.....just doesn't make sense to undercut PS5 imo. Matching it in price would be more than sufficient.