This conferences saving grace was the end.

All the live stuff, and everything in the middle could have been cut out. The first fifteen minutes, and the last two minutes were the only good parts.

This was the funnies part of it. 

They used NPD to show that the Wii was only 100k behind them in america, but they were 5 million ahead of the PS3.  Then they said that they'd beat the PS3 this generation (they had to have meant America, cause WW it will surely not).  While not even mentioning the Wii. 

I lol'd hard at that.

Yeah, they should have cut out all the stuff in the middle where they talk about a massive overhaul to their interface and an exclusive deal with Netflix.

You're kidding right?  I don't get Sony fanboys.  Well, yes I do.  They're in damage control mode.  Why would MS leave anything new out?  It's E3.  This is when the gaming companies are supposed to announce stuff.

The conference was boring, awkward, and poorly executed.

The only thing of interest to me was the FF13 announcement.

And the EyeToy has been out for about 10 years....

Still my damage control is better as i have real information behind it. =P

Ah Microsoft must feel pretty good about themselves now.

till tomorrow

not 10 years, more like 5.

He made it sound like it (live vision camera) was JUST announced.

They've been using the term "My Xbox" for all the Xbox.com content for at least a couple years.  It's your homepage on xbox.com.  All they did was give it the same name.  Just like every other online entity as "My...."  Look at the left of your screen.  "My profile" "MyMailbox" "MyGames"  etc. etc.

Can you really get that worked up about it?  Please.  

Everyone borrows ideas from everyone else in every industry.  Why would gaming be any different?  Starbucks mass marketed Frappucinos.  Now you can et the equivalent in every coffee shop, convenience store etc. in the world.   Every fastfood hamburger place in the world is modeled after McDonalds.

It all comes down to execution and how well integrated all the material is.  I mean Wii has Mii's.  So?  You need to be a rocket scientist to connect to anybody on their crap service and do anything with them.  Think about this:  all the new content is going to immediately work with every game since launch.  Sony introduces trophies (achievements) and might get three or four games using them five months from now.

 So yah, they have a lot of the same crap - just like every competitive industry.  But there's a reason why some clothing stores turn into the Gap or Abercrombie or Old Navy and are hugely successful and the others go out of business.  They all sell the same crap, basically.  But they carve out a niche in the whole package.

I'll just never understand how fans of a one system or the other can get so upset at a corporation for such trivial things.  Quick.  Name 2 console makers to get sued over patent infringements this year.  Oh wait.  MS wasn't one of them?  Well that's odd. All they do is steal crap, remember?  Hmmm.

i could not have said it better myself to be honest