Rumour: Shigeru Miyamoto Will Be On-Stage During Microsoft’s E3 Briefing (Spoiler Alert: He Wasn't)

Can we get a stream chat then?

Yes, please a stream chat then.

Banjo-Kazooie in Smash. You’ve heard it here first.

Woohooo!! I hope so. Microsoft knows online. Let’s hope Nintendo allows MS online services (and trophies?) on the Switch.

@Yasume why would they announce that at the MS presser?

Halo on switch? One can Dream.

If that true then this will be huge. Still only expect miyamoto to show up at ubisoft

Please and thank you

...Eh, guess I'll watch since it's Microsoft. Gotta see what they're up to now.

We all know it’s just gonna be Mario + Halo: Kingdom Chaos Combat Evolved....

Azure Partnership. Everything's going cloud.

@SupaWaluigi I’d wish that would happen

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo team up to take down Google

Now @Damo these are the kind of articles I was looking for. So a thumbs up for this! Wonderful!

Well, now to the article. I dunno, if it was the Nintendo Direct I would have said Xbox Games on the Switch to give Microsoft a much desired foothold in the Japanese market. But maybe they will have a co-developed game using Xbox Azure Service that will bring in a new partnership.

I can't see Nintendo bringing their unique experiences to the Xbox..., but maybe the Online NES or datamined SNES subscription titles, so their legacy library, as trade of for Cuphead or other experiences.

You never see it coming

How cheeky would this be?
"We're announcing that Banjo-Kazooie will be in Smash Ultimate. They're the third DLC fighter."
Tuesday: "Erdrick is the second and next DLC fighter."
Sakurai would still be correct! Lol

Hopefully something big... STADIA is getting more play from 3rd party than the Switch is.

If x-cloud comes to switch, that would literally be my favorite E3 announcement.

@gimmi_c Given what we know about Google Stadia and its pricing and bandwidth requirements, its not going to do very well. They don't need to team up. Google will take down itself.

As for what this could be, I'd bet its Xbox services on Switch.

Well now. That is the only thing that could possibly make me watch a MS press conference. Well... that, or a Banjo-Kazooie sequel anouncement.

I've suspected for some time that Master Chief will be a future Smash Bros. DLC character. But of course Microsoft would want something of equal value in return from Nintendo, so perhaps this will be related to whatever Miyamoto will be onstage to talk about.

Ah, crazy rumors. Gotta love E3 hype...

It’s a rumour.....but could we get x box games on Switch via streaming? Surely not?

Well this is very interesting.

@AtlanteanMan You’ve got that backwards: Chief in Smash is a favor to Microsoft: not Nintendo.

Well maybe this way we can still get FIFA 20 the proper version?

Let's see what this is about, shall we?

#BanjoforSmash

Streaming any Xbox game on Switch ;p

We can dream....it will probably be that Miyamoto is joining Xbox and Mario is their new mascot!!! Knowing our luck!

Leading edge looks graphically a little Splatoony!!!

Ori not till February. Boo I thought that was this year. The first Ori was brilliant

New Minecrafty game. Looks very, well, Minecrafty

Phil Spencer time - let’s see what he has to bring to the party

He’s bigging it up....

“Games and gamers together can be a unifying force for the world.”
“More industry players than ever before.”
“Over 2 billion of us now play games across the globe.”

That was a Nintendo Switch tag line wasn’t it?
“We want everyone to play together whenever they want, wherever they want and with whoever they want.”

Let’s Jump in. Phil Spencer has confirmed that more details will be tracked tonight about the next Xbox console. No sign of any Nintendo links yet - well apart from that rather Nintendo Switch tag line I mentioned above.......

Star Wars Fallen Jedi - NOT coming to a Switch near you

Blair Witch! At the start the guy sounded like he was with a woman!!

Love the swear word bleeping

@electrolite77 😂😂😂

Maybe Keanu Reeves IS Miyamoto!

They are loving World Premier that’s for sure!

Rash, pimple and Zitz. There’s an old one. Proper silly game. Would work ace on Switch but any chance? NAH!

Ragtime - that looked funky. Again a game that looked perfect for Switch.

In fact a lot of Indie games on show from Xbox tonight. All at launch with Xbox game pass.
Still no sign of Shiggy though.

@Agramonte because portable specs recommended for much of this play, as long as we insist on wrapping it in the premise of the industry's graphic fluff tailchase, still cost like 4-5 Switches whereas Stadia does all the hard work in a ga- er, server room far far away? Except the implications of steaming Stadia's wall carpet offerings portably also create eye-watering expense implications (I mean, even putting the signal quality aside for a bit) that leaves the whole project nowhere in competition with Switch. Switch is more triumphantly QoL than even Remote Play, and Stadia is ultimately just Remote Play on steroids.

Head of partnerships now on. If it’s going to happen it would be now.
Box game pass is already a huge success
“Our mission is for you to play any game with any one anywhere.”

And there it is..... it’s all about PC!
Over 100 games for PC on X box game pass including the full Halo experience:
These games are available in open beta today.

They keep saying about playing “with anyone, anywhere anytime.”
Bloody teases!

@koekiemonster Because Banjo-Kazooie is a Microsoft IP. 😉

I'll take Microsoft Flight Simulator!

X Box game pass for console, PC, Xbox Gold all at no extra cost.
That’s a pretty damn fine deal there.
And here comes Shigeru Miyamoto.......
just kidding

Age of Empires 2. I still play Populous!! Anyone recall that back on the Mega Drive and SNES?

The in-house games teams at Xbox have been busy boys and girls gays for sure.
Actually to be fair they have shown a decent amount of variety. So far.

Matt Booty - great name!
Head of game developments

Double Fine Productions now part of Xbox Game Studios. Guess this rules out any chance of Psychonauts on Switch...

Psychonauts 2 does look interesting though.

Microsoft may not have won the current generation but you can’t deny just how much they are behind their consoles. Expanding the games development teams and putting in onetyvof money. Fair play.
Mind you they do have plenty of cash to splash around.

@antster1983 It would seem so. EA and Microsoft twisting the knife into Switch owners on day one!

Lego Star Wars... all nine films
In one game!!!
That should be Switch bound surely.

@Yasume I know, but why at that event? What is in it for them?

@Mordridakon I agree completely, just a bit of a tongue in cheek comment from me

But imagine if Google were the ones to unite the other platforms (against them)

No more console wars!!!

Chronic Hysteresis!

Dragon Ball z RPG.

Minecraft Dungeons confirmed for Switch. Coming 2020.

@Deadeyerobbie That game is gorgeous

Gears 5... it has Terminators!!!

New redesigned game pad now.

A finally looks really neat

What we got now? More story driven fist person stuff by any chance?
Yup.

A lot of stuff being announced for Spring next year

Here comes Forza Horizon 4.
A Lego car!!! Love that - cool!
Wasn’t expecting that!

Life Sized Lego Mcclaren Senna!!!
Great expansion pack that. Launches this week.

Gears 5 now we got Gears POP
IOS and Android game.

Does anyone else get a touch bored with the mountains of story driven first person games?
Where is the originality?

SEGA....
phantasy Star online 2 - another game no doubt not coming to Switch. Ever.

Phantasy Star Online 2 coming west in 2020.

The trailer mentioned cross-play...

@antster1983 Phil is back in the room.
Smilegate partnerhip
Only on Xbox
CrossFire X

@antster1983 Maybe. More likely to be with PC and PS4.

Have to say I’m pretty impressed with what MS have shown so far.
They’ve certainly put their weight behind it this year.

Unless Miyamoto is the big final reveal, it sounds like this rumor was just fake news, as we Americans are so fond of saying these days.

Bandai Nanco up now
Tales of Arise looking all Bayonettery

Shloot? Lol
Borderlands the handsome collection

@graysoncharles It’s all a bit samey. Great games I know

@electrolite77 yep 😍... Looks like they did a nice job.

George R R Martin bringing the Knight King back to life!
Elden Ring.

Phil is so committed to Xbox. He really is.
And now he is going into the clouds

Next console.
We heard you.
Console should be optimised for gaming.
Same team who created X Box one X are the same team creating the future of gaming.
It’s all about choice.
You should be able to play all of you’re games anywhere.
Reducing load times. Get rid of pauses.
This will be the biggest leap of any generation so far.
Four times more powerful than the X box one X.
120 frames per second.
SSD to be used as virtual RAM.
This is a lot of power.

Hee hee. I'd rather they announce Battletoads cross platforming to Switch myself. Wouldn't mind that Legend of Wright game either.

Most immersive console experience ever
Give developers power
Third party companies are making games already
HALO will be incredible
Game will load in the snap of a finger.
Project Scarlett

Release date Holiday 2020

So new Xbox and PS will be out in 18 months.
It will launch with Halo. Not on PS5 of course

@Tempestryke legend of Wright did look fun

So basically next X box will have same specs as PS5.
Priority to reduce loading times.
Prices will no doubt be announced this time next year

So it was a fake.

So was he there?

There is a lesson to be learned here people, don't fall for rumours.

Also that Xbox presentation was rubbish.

Well that didn't happen.

What an AWFUL conference:
3/10

Nintendo's primed to take home the gold.

Gears of War! All of them! Fine let Microsoft and Nintendo be friends! But I want Gears of War on my D3 P-E-T!

I had a feeling that rumor was bogus, but I watched it because my uncle works at Xbox.

HALO trailer could been shorter.

Oh well - nothing for Switch - But, A few games on my PC list.

Well there we go.
No Shiggy! Of course.
A game filled presentation from Microsoft and new console given it’s release window.
I do wonder how Nintendo will react in the coming months- they are never going to compete with MS and Sony anymore but surely in 18 months the switch will look so out of date that any ports will just big happen.
Nintendo won’t build anything at the level of PS5 it Scarlett but you would think they will produce a Switch 2 which can at least be able to handle ports like we have seen with Doom. It certainly gives the big N food for thought in the coming year!

...there was no Banjo Kazooie.

Too much water 7.8

@Yasume Sakurai said info on the next DLC fighter will be revealed in the E3 direct.

“If French site JeuxVideo is to be trusted”. They can’t, it would seem. As if the big man was gonna show up at an Xbox presentation anyway. The worlds gone mad alright, but not that mad. They are competitors at the end of the day

Dude ... RARE REPLAY, PLEASE.
Perfect Dark .... Banjo! PLEASE!

@ddowler85 Did we watch the same presenation? They announcend and showed off so many different games. They revealed their new console which sounds incredible promising. They revealed the price for Gamepass Ultimate which is completely ridiculous for how cheap it is. Like, I'm not even a fan of Microsoft and never owned a Xbox but this was really impressive.

What a boring showing. The only thing I liked out of this entire thing was Ori. Everything else was incredibly dull and boring if you ask me. But hey, I know most of these games will have their fans and that's fine.~

Just rumours watched whole thing certainly no miyamoto.

Well that was underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, there were good games shown, especially some of the indies, but overall it was way too long with too much filler. Did they honestly expect people to be excited about a Gears of War funko pop mobile game at E3? Oof. A lot of fluff with the Scarlett announcement just to tell us what was already obvious: the next Xbox is more powerful than the previous one. Whooptedoo.

I feel like Microsoft did much better last year, and the ball is in Nintendo's court this time around.

Also, I hope that if you backed Double-Fine's kickstarter, you have an X-box.

I confuse Miyamoto and Keanu all the time.

@graysoncharles

It was very different from a Nintendo Direct, mostly that it was way too long for its own good and a lot of things that aren't E3-worthy were shown. Directs are much better than traditional conferences imo

@rjejr lol, best comment of the day. I needed that laugh

@graysoncharles not unless he was hidden somewhere.
No but an interesting presentation.

Um... So the new Xbox is still called by Scarlett ?
What was rated E - E10+ new xbox games from Microsoft presentation ?
Name the titles for me.

@Anti-Matter
We don’t know the new Xbox’s name, for now we just know it’s codename, which is Scarlett. They’ll probably announce the official name at something like The Game Awards or E3 next year.

Thanks, Eurogamer, for the stupid rumor

What interested me was the Japanese games, the Tales game and the one from From.

Lolz

At least we got John Wick in Cyberpunk. Easily the hightlight of the show.

There were way too many CGI trailers in the Xbox press conference. In fact, I dont think there was a single meaningful gameplay demo. What a shame...😒

I didn't expect Miyamoto to be there, but I was at least hoping they'd announce a Banjo-Kazooie remaster or something. At least I'll get to have some fun watching the PC crowd rip them a new one over how hard they were trying to sell the power of the next Xbox as being something never seen before.

I love my backward compatibility and my Xbox one x enhanced 360 and original xbox games. I'm sorry but I don't know if I trust nintendo to do the same. I'm hopeful but doubtful.

Please append "who willingly spread falsehoods regarding 2019 E3" or something similar to any future mentions of the original source, thanks.

well...I stood over an extremely boring and pretentious conference for nothing.

By then I should learn to not listen to E3 rumors but I keep falling for them

The Xbox conference was boring to say the least. All the games shown I can buy for my PS4 besides obviously the 1st party Xbox titles which I never really cared for.

Yup, turns out that one was false.

@graysoncharles

Good thing they switched to Directs. Again, Microsoft should take a page. Traditional presentations are so stale and seem like they're more for game journalism's benefit than the actual consumer. There were a lot of cool, interesting games overwhelmed by a lot of stuff that just didn't need stage presence. I mean just go by the reaction of the audience, tons of game announcements came and went and were met with dead silence.

@electrolite77

that what actually happened according to the leaker

Jason Schreier jokingly mentioned this as his crazy hope for E3 on last week's Kotaku Splitscreen podcast (which I highly recommend if you're not already listening). I wouldn't be surprised if some yutz misunderstood that as an actual prediction, and that's how this started.

No
Instead we got his clearly biological brother Keanu Reeves

@jarvismp
SSDs aka hello 599 US dollars unless they have magical technology that allows them to have a lot of it cheaply or just use the hybrid type drive. Games on PS4/Xbone are massive nowadays even going past 100GBs so a 500GB to 1TB SSD won’t cut it and a a 2TB one cost as much as any of the current consoles. Not seeing how them or Sony can have their cake and eat it, if they dare to go to 599 US Dollars it will be a brutal launch for them and the alternative is selling at a huge loss.

@Spudtendo E3 basically IS a press event. It only recently became more consumer friendly.

@sanderev

I'm aware, I've been watching since 2004. I just feel that there's a reason these companies are doing their own thing now, and that's because the traditional conference doesn't have the same appeal that it used to. Directs are the way to go. Instead of hyping up a single event that happens once a year, these guys should just have Direct-like presentations sprinkled throughout the year.

I hope that little jape was worth your credibility buddy.

Imho not a bad conference from microsoft. Flight Simulator really impressed me, it seems beautiful. Anyway Xcloud is going to loose to Google Stadia imho. Will see. I'm very excited for Nintendo.

@Deadeyerobbie Looks so nice though

@MajinSoul The only notable announcements were Elden Ring and Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk.
AND EVEN THOSE were just CGI trailers.

Don't care about Gamepass and yes, WE KNOW the next Xbox will be a step up from the current-gen, there was nothing exciting about it.

@graysoncharles No, all they showed was vague CGI trailers for a few notable games like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk, the rest was boring and CRINGE.

Nintendo is going to DESTROY Microsoft's conference.
Pretty much every Nintendo Direct was better than this.

@Anti-Matter Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Fur Day are all excellent starting points.

Well, glad i only watched half of it then.

@graysoncharles Microsoft is promoting streaming? RIP.

It's PS4 vs XB1 all over again. PS5 will have a physical drive. Granted the criticisms over what MS was planning with the XB1 is now common and generally accepted.

I hope physical doesn't die. I like getting games for $20.

Oh yeah the old "i thought it would be Miyamoto but its Keanu instead"... happens all the time.

@graysoncharles That's true... Absolutely. But even Google is in the face of a lot of people... And no one can deny that their infrastructure is better becouse they have a large number of servers around the globe. Cannot wait to test both of them.

FYI guys, I heard nintendo-style music playing during Bethesda's vid of Rage 2

@graysoncharles idk what any of this is. I just own an OG Xbox from 2002.

Of course not. Nintendo won't bring their games to Microsoft.

@Aslanmagic "I needed that laugh"

Why, did you waste 90 minutes watching the MS press conference too?

The best part of the show was the piano black auditorium. Keanu was a close 2nd. They didn't cancel Scalebound again was 3rd.

I still have some hope. As both an Xbox One Xand Nintendo switch owner, it would be a dream come true to be able to stream my Xbox library to play in my switch. I would not have bought games like mortal kombat 11 for both consoles. Fingers crossed.

I'd love to know how the leaker confused the creator of Mario with friggin John Wick

@ddowler85 There were 60 games shown that are coming to Xbox One. I mean everyone has different interests but that is still impressive. I'd say there was more than just 2 "notable" announcments. But why I am I not surprsied that people on a Nintendo site don't care about new games

Lashings of rubble, lashings of stubble? Check. Zombies? Check, foliage? Check. Fancy lighting? Check. Guns everywhere? Check. The most interesting stuff there was the smaller titles.

No Miyamoto at Devolver Direct either.

Without Sony, all 3rd parties showed their stuff at Xbox making this the best E3 for Microsoft.

@electrolite77

Yeah seriously. They send out a tweet that someone mixed up Miyamoto with Reeves.

Would personally have gone with that they mixed up the conference of ubisoft with bethesda

@nintendolie

I missed quite a lot of them to be honest. Did not see actionvision ,koei ,capcom and Konami for example.

@nintendolie You haven't seen the Nintendo E3 Direct yet. Nintendo could also host a lot of indies or other third parties in their Direct or Treehouse.

@Damo Please can you help I am having major issues with the advertising overlaying over the top of the articles, making them impossible to read. Only have the problem on the PC, is there any settings I can change for this?

@Damo Will do, thanks.

Well, while the rumor was exciting to speculate it was a bit of a let down learning the truth. However I would need to be honest that the rumor was outlandish and while I was disappointed not seeing Shiggy stealing the show, at least I had some fun on the stream and I am more than primed come tomorrow...

Jesus. I promised my sociopath neighbor that he would be there and now he's on a rampage in the woods. Wait... where's my diabetic cat? Dangit Jimmy! Give him back!

@electrolite77

Yeah this will go down in history

I can't help but wonder if this was a "mental typo" and the source meant to say Miyamoto is going to be part of Ubisoft's presentation (Microsoft and Ubisoft share the same last part of their names, obviously). I say this because of the success of Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle two years ago. Perhaps Miyamoto will be onstage to help Ubisoft announce a sequel?

I know I'd be down for it if that's the case.