Topic: Microsoft E3 Press Conference: Impressions and Ratings?

Exactly. Which is why it's going be hard to beat Nintendo at this E3. Sony's going to bring it, it's going to have quality, but there's just more that's going to come out for Nintendo tomorrow.

Microsoft's tech had the potential, if it worked well and the software was high-quality (at a good price-point), to realy clean out because it is so different than what is on the market. I'd bet Nintendo and Sony are smiling right about now.

And one thing that is not getting enough attention, and it should, is that Microsoft didn't announce a launch price. That's a biggie. If it's the $150 it's being reported to be, this is dead. I just don't see it being realy better than what I can get on the Wii and Sony, let alone for $150 bucks MORE than the core system purchase.

It's all about software. Microsoft sometimes just doesn't seem to get it sometimes. You HAVE to nail the software.

XBLA announcements were made on XBLA. I guess that's appropriate. Confirmation of the multi-player Castlevania blows their entire E3 presentation out of the water for me. XBLA needs to stop looking so tempting.

Which...kinda sucks, lol. Well, at least we'll be able to see what the other stuff the thing can pull off, lol.

About that price . . .

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_i...

hmmm

I didn't watch it yet. But the Gamespot liveblog of it certainly made it seem pretty underwhelming. None of the Kinect games seemed very impressive. That Kinectimals game.... that's just weird. Tigers? You don't play with tigers, or have them go get jump ropes. Also, to the people who were saying before how they thought the dancing game would just involve onscreen prompts...

" Harmonix took the stage to reveal Dance Central, a brand new music game that will use the Kinect technology to follow the player's body and track their motions as they follow on-screen dancing prompts."

...you were right. Source: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1097093p1.html

@warioswoods Interesting, veeeery interesting...... but that's a bundle (it's with the Arcade). Check this out: http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_i...

What?! I didn't even know about that one.

But yeah, knowing nothing, just the words "multi-player Castlevania" make it definitely the most interesting reveal.

This. D:
Will it be a XBLA exclusive? I already want it. Badly.

Nintendo has a 2-hour conference. Surely they wouldn't have that much time unless they felt there was something worth talking about.

That Halo Reach Gameplay footage put me to sleep.

IGN has a list of the 15 launch titles: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1097139p1.html

Of the 15, 5 (if the racing game counts) are sports games, 4 are workout games, 2 are dance games (Konami, makers of DDR, also have a dance game coming out for Kinect), and the other 4 are Game Part In Motion (yes, Game Party as in the one that was on the Wii), Kinect Adventures, Sonic Free Riders (uh oh), and Kinectimals.

Wow, I think Microsoft had their own version of Nintendo's E3 2008 mess this year.

I hope it's exclusive. It would be great to look at the PS3 folks gloating over GOW 3 and the Wii fans gloating about SMG2 and saying "suck it". LOL

They also almost made a Armageddon. Wii-Remote, Kinect, and PSMove in the same showroom? AHHH!!

I am sure there is more to the 3DS than just 3D.

For Example, when the DS was announced, all they said was that it had a touch screen. But boom, it ended up having 2 screens as well.

It's called Harmony of Despair (I guess they wanted to shorten it as Castlevania HD, how clever?). It's been rumored for awhile now. XBLA only at the moment at least, and I think multiplayer is online only, or so the rumor unfortunately goes. Iga is behind it.

I am disapointed! I like to see innovative new products, MS have launched more of the same. A Rehashed Eyetoy-Wii

My overall reaction was a deep breath in, holding....holding..and then "...meh". Honestly I was not impressed at all. I am a 360 fan, but the only thing where I went "Cool!" was the new 360 redesign, and that is only because I live in fear of my current 360 rrod'ing (again) or my powerbrick overheating (again).

It was an O.K presentation. Seems it needed more focus on the non-motion controlled games but that was to be expected. Halo Reach looks pretty sweet, and I'm looking for to the Castlevania title.

I have an account on my brother's 360, so I can still buy it and play it. But since the game will be stored on the Xbox, and I don't own the Xbox, I won't feel like I "own" the game. If it was a retail title it wouldn't be so bad.
Oh well, it won't bother me when I actually get the game. Here's hoping for a PSN version though.

I like the look of the new 360 model and the voice commands were cool.