Their roots as always been the casuals. It was when the went 100% hardcore that they lost the market.

Count me underwhelmed. All it had was a bunch of trailers that I've basically already seen, some ridiculous statistics I saw through immediately, and a laughably crappy new version of the 360.

The trailers'game demos ranged from bad (Assassin's Creed) to really cool (CoD4). Overall not the tour de force for the "greatest holiday lineup of any system in history" I expected. I'm not saying the games won't turn out to be great but MS did a terrible job of showing it. The major let down for me was the too short clip of RE5. I want more for a game that we haven't seen or heard about in 2 years.

Nothing really new which is the problem with a) relying on 3rd party support (not much info you can directly control), and b) releasing info on a regular basis. I have to give MS a D here. They say "we're #1" and "look at all these awesome games" every day of the year. A major conference like this deserves something more showy. Something like a tease about some major plot twist in Halo 3, or an extended trailer for a highly anticipated game no one has heard about in 2 years, or major new 1st or 3rd party exclusive heading to the 360.

peter moore spent the whole conference talking about sales numbers.

 Not exclusive. It's PS3 and 360 and they showed very little and it looked good.

G4 tv was killing sony today... lets see them kiss ass tomorrow

Finally found the link for us late people. Laughing my ass off at: their screwing up the big finish in Rock Band, Viva Pinata ripping off Mario Party, Microsoft radical claims (Best line-up of all time, and best RPG console), Ok go music, Microsofts manipulation of sales numbers to show them in the best position, Microsofts desperate attempts to gain the casual and Japanese audiences, screwed up sound on one of their closing videos. *huff puff* What a list. Well it was ok I guess. Latecomers go to Gamespot to view the Microsoft video.

Oh found the link again, http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6174084/videoplayerpop?

All latecomers enjoy.

Where were the Jap. Dev's ???
Other than Lost Odyssey and Resident Evil 5, there was no major Jap. announcement.
Where was Lost Planet Wars, Dead Rising 2 ???
Mistwalkers new MMORPG ???
Square Enix , Last Remnant, Final Fantasy XI expansion, ???
Treasures new X360 game ??