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Seihyouken on 27 March 2009
mrstickball said:
Seihyouken said:

I have a feeling that people are going to be really dissappointed by Microsoft's suppossed "breaking of the bank" at E3.

I mean honestly? What new exclusive games did they announce last year?

Scene It? Box Office Smash
You're in the Movies
Lips
A handful of XBLA games

Now I should think that Microsoft can't do much worse than last year since they should at least have Forza 3 and a new Rare title to show off, but I don't see what makes people think they'll definitely show more than that and perhaps sequels to last year's revelations. Microsoft will most likely do what they do almost every year and concentrate on their exclusive games coming out in the next six months or so as well as major multiplatform games such as Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.

Final Fantasy XIII at last year's E3 rings a bell.

 

What about it? Was it a new game announcement? No. Was it an exclusive game? No. Is it a game that will move 360 hardware? No. Is it even a game that today, 7 months after the event, will be released within the next year? Almost certainly not.

In retrospect, the multiplatform FFXIII announcment was pretty pitiful. It didn't pertain to Japan, where about half the game's sales will likely come from anyway, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII still ended up 100% exclusive to PS3. Looking back on it today, I can honestly say that M.A.G. was a bigger announcment than FFXIII mulitplatform.



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 27 March 2009

i think m$ will have the best e3 showing, just like last year. :)



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Jereel Hunter on 27 March 2009
Seihyouken said:
mrstickball said:
Seihyouken said:

I have a feeling that people are going to be really dissappointed by Microsoft's suppossed "breaking of the bank" at E3.

I mean honestly? What new exclusive games did they announce last year?

Scene It? Box Office Smash
You're in the Movies
Lips
A handful of XBLA games

Now I should think that Microsoft can't do much worse than last year since they should at least have Forza 3 and a new Rare title to show off, but I don't see what makes people think they'll definitely show more than that and perhaps sequels to last year's revelations. Microsoft will most likely do what they do almost every year and concentrate on their exclusive games coming out in the next six months or so as well as major multiplatform games such as Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.

Final Fantasy XIII at last year's E3 rings a bell.

 

What about it? Was it a new game announcement? No. Was it an exclusive game? No. Is it a game that will move 360 hardware? No. Is it even a game that today, 7 months after the event, will be released within the next year? Almost certainly not.

In retrospect, the multiplatform FFXIII announcment was pretty pitiful. It didn't pertain to Japan, where about half the game's sales will likely come from anyway, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII still ended up 100% exclusive to PS3. Looking back on it today, I can honestly say that M.A.G. was a bigger announcment than FFXIII mulitplatform.

 

PS3/360 have a combined total of what, 4 million units in Japan? out of more than 50 million worldwide? Maybe that was the case in past generations, but this time around, FF will be relying on NA/Others. I doubt half the game's sales are coming from that 8% of the consoles.

 

And as much as time has allowed the wounds to heal from that announcement, MAG's had only a fraction of the impact.



Skeeuk on 27 March 2009

i think sony will have the best showing at e3, although microsoft will also have a good showing.

if no notable game is out before june thats 6 months and id count that as a dissapointment if i was a xbox gamer.

games i think will be out in second half of year, that arnt yet confirmed are.....

*forza 3
*alan wake
*new rare game
*conviction
*huxley



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CONMAN15 on 27 March 2009

E3 seems so unpredictable. There was alot of hype for nintendos E3 last year, and it was one of there worst. I actually thought MS wouldve had a bigger E3 last year, but there conference wasn't all that jaw dropping either.



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DirtyP2002 on 27 March 2009
CONMAN15 said:
E3 seems so unpredictable. There was alot of hype for nintendos E3 last year, and it was one of there worst. I actually thought MS wouldve had a bigger E3 last year, but there conference wasn't all that jaw dropping either.

 

 It was the best show though. FF XIII was the news everybody talked about



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makingmusic476 on 27 March 2009
Jereel Hunter said:
Seihyouken said:
mrstickball said:
Seihyouken said:

I have a feeling that people are going to be really dissappointed by Microsoft's suppossed "breaking of the bank" at E3.

I mean honestly? What new exclusive games did they announce last year?

Scene It? Box Office Smash
You're in the Movies
Lips
A handful of XBLA games

Now I should think that Microsoft can't do much worse than last year since they should at least have Forza 3 and a new Rare title to show off, but I don't see what makes people think they'll definitely show more than that and perhaps sequels to last year's revelations. Microsoft will most likely do what they do almost every year and concentrate on their exclusive games coming out in the next six months or so as well as major multiplatform games such as Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.

Final Fantasy XIII at last year's E3 rings a bell.

 

What about it? Was it a new game announcement? No. Was it an exclusive game? No. Is it a game that will move 360 hardware? No. Is it even a game that today, 7 months after the event, will be released within the next year? Almost certainly not.

In retrospect, the multiplatform FFXIII announcment was pretty pitiful. It didn't pertain to Japan, where about half the game's sales will likely come from anyway, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII still ended up 100% exclusive to PS3. Looking back on it today, I can honestly say that M.A.G. was a bigger announcment than FFXIII mulitplatform.

 

PS3/360 have a combined total of what, 4 million units in Japan? out of more than 50 million worldwide? Maybe that was the case in past generations, but this time around, FF will be relying on NA/Others. I doubt half the game's sales are coming from that 8% of the consoles.

 

And as much as time has allowed the wounds to heal from that announcement, MAG's had only a fraction of the impact.

 

You forget that they also announced God of War III last year.  :P



makingmusic476 on 27 March 2009
DirtyP2002 said:
CONMAN15 said:
E3 seems so unpredictable. There was alot of hype for nintendos E3 last year, and it was one of there worst. I actually thought MS wouldve had a bigger E3 last year, but there conference wasn't all that jaw dropping either.

 

 It was the best show though. FF XIII was the news everybody talked about

 

It was the most surprising thing shown.  Not really the best, seeing as the game was already coming out anyway.  Hell, they even used a trailer we had seen multiple times beforehand.

It was surprising, and thus it was talked about non-stop.



dbot on 27 March 2009
Skeeuk said:
i think sony will have the best showing at e3, although microsoft will also have a good showing.

if no notable game is out before june thats 6 months and id count that as a dissapointment if i was a xbox gamer.

games i think will be out in second half of year, that arnt yet confirmed are.....

*forza 3
*alan wake
*new rare game
*conviction
*huxley

Sony could not announce any games at E3 and still have a great 2009 lineup.  It is Microsoft that has either been holding all of their big 2009 announcements until E3, or really doesn't have anything going on.  I don't think you will hear anything about APB or Splinter Cell at E3.  I don't think Huxley on the 360 will ever happen.  I will guess that MS is going to date Alan Wake and Forza for the end of 2009.  They will also announce some casual titles, but those don't really interest me.

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

Seihyouken on 27 March 2009
Jereel Hunter said:
Seihyouken said:
mrstickball said:
Seihyouken said:

I have a feeling that people are going to be really dissappointed by Microsoft's suppossed "breaking of the bank" at E3.

I mean honestly? What new exclusive games did they announce last year?

Scene It? Box Office Smash
You're in the Movies
Lips
A handful of XBLA games

Now I should think that Microsoft can't do much worse than last year since they should at least have Forza 3 and a new Rare title to show off, but I don't see what makes people think they'll definitely show more than that and perhaps sequels to last year's revelations. Microsoft will most likely do what they do almost every year and concentrate on their exclusive games coming out in the next six months or so as well as major multiplatform games such as Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.

Final Fantasy XIII at last year's E3 rings a bell.

 

What about it? Was it a new game announcement? No. Was it an exclusive game? No. Is it a game that will move 360 hardware? No. Is it even a game that today, 7 months after the event, will be released within the next year? Almost certainly not.

In retrospect, the multiplatform FFXIII announcment was pretty pitiful. It didn't pertain to Japan, where about half the game's sales will likely come from anyway, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII still ended up 100% exclusive to PS3. Looking back on it today, I can honestly say that M.A.G. was a bigger announcment than FFXIII mulitplatform.

 

PS3/360 have a combined total of what, 4 million units in Japan? out of more than 50 million worldwide? Maybe that was the case in past generations, but this time around, FF will be relying on NA/Others. I doubt half the game's sales are coming from that 8% of the consoles.

 

And as much as time has allowed the wounds to heal from that announcement, MAG's had only a fraction of the impact.

I was generalizing by saying half of the sales. Realistically it will be more along the lines of 1/3 of the sales. Of course, sales in the west will be split down the middle so that makes the worldwide ratio likely somewhere around 3:2 in PlayStation 3's favor.