Official Microsoft Conference Thread

[D3adcell]

This is terrible, what are you watching? It's all fucking kinect, entertainment shit/fitness. It's not for gamers. They showed Resident Evil 6 and Tomb Raider, but those are third party games. It's bad, real bad. It's bad because microsoft has nothing new to offer. They had nothing last year, and have nothing this year. This does not make me feel too good about the future of this company, at least as far as the interests of hardcore gamers go.

[Crazybone126]

Personally, I like the entertainment apps, use them quite a bit and I'm quite excited to see the new apps coming. Kinect is rather minimal in this conference to me. They're doing quick 2 min showcases then it's gone. The only thing they should have done without was Usher.

Splinter Cell looked cool, Resident Evil 6 looked awesome, Halo 4 looked great, Tomb Raider looked good as well.

And let's be honest, E3 presentations stopped being about the gamers when in 2007, they decided to reformat it as a business venture. Sure they opened it back to the public and stuff, but it stayed as a conference to grab investors' attention. What's for the gamers when it comes to E3 is the actual exposition with the show-floor demos. The conferences are for shareholders and investors. That's the unfortunate truth now.

[D3adcell]

Those are all 3rd party games and also on PS3 though. Except for Halo. E3 used to be about the games. Even if this is just for the investors, Microsoft has nothing ot offer core gamers. Nothing. They won't announce new franchises anywhere else. They got rid of all their talent. They are doneso for me basically. I will get a few third party multiplayer games on xbox, but I will be doing more gaming on PC and PS3.

[Segitz]

One word... BORING...

Really... it's hard but they managed to even underwhelm my disanticipation... it's really strange^^

[solidsnakejej]

Can't believe they really copied BF3 like that.

[Crazybone126]

Well I guess now Xbox fans know what Nintendo fans were feeling like.

"It's all third party games! It's all casual! Where's the interesting new IP first party games? Nintendo's done for if they don't change!"

Sounds all too familiar to me.

[Segitz]

Nintendo did however show a lot more games... this wasn't about games, it was about watching tv shows on your fucking console...

[masteratt]

SC was SO disappointing, I thought after the cold reception of the last one they'll redesign it back to the roots. Not the case. Really REALLY disappointed. And Tomb Raider as well...Everyone is going the epic cinematic root, losing their own unique touch of what made them them in the first place.


Was hoping to see more Gears but other than that, exactly what I expected pretty much. Looks like they renewed the Blops2 DLC deal as well which is fine by me as for the first time I'll be playing CoD on 360 (mw3 doesnt count because i got fed up of it in 2 weeks).

[Crazybone126]

I will agree with that, Segitz.

Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to see much more in the way of games, especially games that are exclusive to Xbox, but oh well.

[masteratt]

Oh and the opening joke by the South Park creators was fantastic Would be more epic if they didn't run that by MS.

[venomv]

Oh and the opening joke by the South Park creators was fantastic Would be more epic if they didn't run that by MS.

Yeah, that was good.

[D3adcell]

Oh and the opening joke by the South Park creators was fantastic Would be more epic if they didn't run that by MS.

Yeah i thought it was kind of funny, making fun of MS at their own conference in a way.

[solidsnakejej]

Gametrailers poll

[Domination]

Well I guess now Xbox fans know what Nintendo fans were feeling like.

"It's all third party games! It's all casual! Where's the interesting new IP first party games? Nintendo's done for if they don't change!"

Sounds all too familiar to me.

Ok..... other than smart glass, the web browser, this conference blowed ass. They seem to be surviving on apps and the same ol' shooters year in and year out. I gave this conference a C as they really didnt have anything to really drill it to gamers or devs for that matter. Damn near all the good games or experiences they showed off was and is also for their competitors' systems too.

[solidsnakejej]

Something about this guy


peter molyneux fist bump

[D3adcell]

I can't believe Microsoft had that many employees voting.

[FantasyGhost]

At the beginning they said xbox became from best selling console in US to best selling console of the world?
Any stats on that?

I kinda liked the smartglass and IE feature on TV, if they had firefox or any other browser it'd be way cool. The only problem is you need an xbox 360 for all that, which i don't own

[solidsnakejej]

More TV and entertainment. Today, Microsoft announced more than 35 new content partners launching on Xbox over the next 12 months, including:

Absolute Radio –U.K.
Ameba TV – Canada, U.S.
BreakMedia – Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, U.K., U.S.
Comedy Central Stand Up – U.S.
Comoyo – Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Corus Entertainment’s Franklin the Turtle – Canada
GameSpot TV – Australia, Canada, U.K., U.S.
Headweb – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
Indie Flix – U.S.
Machinima – All Xbox LIVE markets
Napster – Germany, U.K.
Nickelodeon – U.S.
Paramount Movies – U.S.
Picturebox – U.K.
Quickflix – Australia, New Zealand
Rakuten ShowTime – Japan
Revision3 – Canada, U.K., U.S.
Rhapsody – U.S.
RTL XL – Netherlands
Slacker Radio – Canada, U.S.
SnagFilms – U.S.
Terra (Sunday TV) – Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico
The AOL On Network – Australia, Canada, Netherlands, U.K., U.S.
The Weather Channel – U.S.
The Whistle – U.S.
TOU.TV – Canada
TV3 – Spain
Twitch TV – U.S.
Univision – U.S.
Wuaki – Spain
Youzee – Spain

http://majornelson.com/2012/06/04/xb...tablet-and-tv/

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Kojima got a pretty shitty seat

[D3adcell]

They didn't want anyone to think he might be there to talk about games.

[Chris Metal]

his sneaking skills were not up to par this year