Why did everyone say M$ sucked at E3?
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Did Sony have anything of interest at e3 at all? All that springs to mind is uncharted, and I loathe uncharted in pretty much every way and think its only redeeming feature is the fact its quite pretty.
I don't see how MS's was any worse than theirs.
I don't see how MS's was any worse than theirs.
At least with M$ they stick with kinect...Hell sony seems to have barely covered the move in their E3
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So...sticking with something that doesn't work is better than phasing it out and moving on to something else?Luthir Fontaine said:
In a sense yes....Why bother with Sonys next project if their so quick to abandon ship on this oneDirty Hipsters said:
I really don't want more Halo, though the Kinect lineup was interesting, I'm still probably not going to buy one.
Because the Kinect is evil and casual!
Honestly, I think it was just the lack of big announcements. We all knew more Halo was coming, and other than that it was pretty much just trailers for stuff we already knew about.
Honestly, I think it was just the lack of big announcements. We all knew more Halo was coming, and other than that it was pretty much just trailers for stuff we already knew about.
Because it did.
E3's audience isn't families and kids, it's gamers who play games for entertainment more than they do almost anything else, you know, people who would sit around and watch a bunch of game trailers.
We don't give a shit about a Disneyland game. Save that crap for the Kinect commercials. Give us more hardcore shit. We're fiending out here. Sesame Street ain't my fix. More Ghost Recon is.
E3's audience isn't families and kids, it's gamers who play games for entertainment more than they do almost anything else, you know, people who would sit around and watch a bunch of game trailers.
We don't give a shit about a Disneyland game. Save that crap for the Kinect commercials. Give us more hardcore shit. We're fiending out here. Sesame Street ain't my fix. More Ghost Recon is.
It sucked because M$ completely forgot who the target consumer of the xbox is while promising all this content for kinect (which about less then 25% of 360 owners have) I mean is there really anybody who didn't predict that there was going to be another halo? Not a single new IP was released, oh and they give use fable on kinect, yay
Well I didn't think it was as bad as people made out to be but in wasn't that good either mostly because it was almost entirely Kinect stuff that was for younger kids and the somewhat boring addition of it in mass effect and ghost recon which most who buy the games probably aren't going to use.
From a company standpoint, no. Microsoft's E3 2011 conference didn't suck. But the thing is, almost every Xbox 360 owner who pays attention to E3 is a gamer that plays games every week and doesn't care about the Kinect. Microsoft played to an audience that wasn't there.
I felt that it sucked because not only were they shoving Kinect down our throats and that was really annoying, but I got the feeling that they were doing a disservice to the games that were shown. The one that got me was Fable-Journey, from what I gathered it looked like a rail based game, but then I heard later that it's not.
To me, MS had this plastic persona the entire time, and then, "Oh, by the way, we have Halo 4." I'm not a MS fan, but I watched it wondering what the hell was going on with them. I will say it was better than last years', but not by much.
To me, MS had this plastic persona the entire time, and then, "Oh, by the way, we have Halo 4." I'm not a MS fan, but I watched it wondering what the hell was going on with them. I will say it was better than last years', but not by much.
It sucked because of the massive Kinect focus. I don't have a Kinect but I was interested to see if they'd come up with something other than a rail shooter or a mini game collection.
Apart from that al we got were voice commands in ME3 which could have been done with a headset and the gun customisation in ghot recon. It didn't even look that good because it wasn't anything a controller couldn't do.
Apart from that al we got were voice commands in ME3 which could have been done with a headset and the gun customisation in ghot recon. It didn't even look that good because it wasn't anything a controller couldn't do.
At least Microsoft care about their consumers.
Yes, as bizarre as that sounds, they are trying to impress you, and entice you to buy their products with good market research, and promises of third-party dev support. Obviously the Kinect has been a failure, but at least they're trying something new on a grand scale! (No controller! That's fairly radical.)
I work for a neutral tech support company, and Microsoft are taken for granted, and somehow hated, by almost everyone who doesn't follow the computing industry too closely. Look at Apple, the apparent paragon of anti-monopoly in the computing world, whose latest OS update will brick your iPhone if jailbroken. Why do people jailbreak? Why, for third-party programs not licensed by Apple! They punish you for wanting what you want, instead of studying the trends, and improving their service. Not to mention their prices!
You guys remember the original Xbox right? That absolute powerhorse of a console (at the time)? Yeah yeah, 'big enough to house a family of four' har-dee-har-harr. But the amount of research and development that went into making the controller! It was in the hundreds of thousands of hours, and people still hated it! Too big, they said! What did Microsoft do? Made a smaller, more user-friendly size controller, within a matter of months. And the graphics on the console were incredible, for a mere £100 price-tag.
Anyway, I digress. I can safely assume that 95% of you are reading this on a pc, or laptop, or even netbook. I'm not saying that, because they're the dominant OS that they're the best, but there's a reason why they are at the top, and will stay at the top, for the foreseeable future. They listen, and they evolve. And they have enough money that, when one of their experiments fails to take off (like the kinect will surely flop), they can fall back, regroup, and try a different approach to make you part with your hard earned cash. Something you -will- like, and want to purchase.
Sorry for the rant fellas (and fella-etts), but I do believe in credit where credit is due.
Yes, as bizarre as that sounds, they are trying to impress you, and entice you to buy their products with good market research, and promises of third-party dev support. Obviously the Kinect has been a failure, but at least they're trying something new on a grand scale! (No controller! That's fairly radical.)
I work for a neutral tech support company, and Microsoft are taken for granted, and somehow hated, by almost everyone who doesn't follow the computing industry too closely. Look at Apple, the apparent paragon of anti-monopoly in the computing world, whose latest OS update will brick your iPhone if jailbroken. Why do people jailbreak? Why, for third-party programs not licensed by Apple! They punish you for wanting what you want, instead of studying the trends, and improving their service. Not to mention their prices!
You guys remember the original Xbox right? That absolute powerhorse of a console (at the time)? Yeah yeah, 'big enough to house a family of four' har-dee-har-harr. But the amount of research and development that went into making the controller! It was in the hundreds of thousands of hours, and people still hated it! Too big, they said! What did Microsoft do? Made a smaller, more user-friendly size controller, within a matter of months. And the graphics on the console were incredible, for a mere £100 price-tag.
Anyway, I digress. I can safely assume that 95% of you are reading this on a pc, or laptop, or even netbook. I'm not saying that, because they're the dominant OS that they're the best, but there's a reason why they are at the top, and will stay at the top, for the foreseeable future. They listen, and they evolve. And they have enough money that, when one of their experiments fails to take off (like the kinect will surely flop), they can fall back, regroup, and try a different approach to make you part with your hard earned cash. Something you -will- like, and want to purchase.
Sorry for the rant fellas (and fella-etts), but I do believe in credit where credit is due.
Halo is Bungie, which is large enough to no longer need funding or aiding by MS now. Surprised no-one has pointed this out yet.Dryaxx said: