Microsoft E3 Conference 2011

I don't think all of these are exclusives, in fact many are multiplatform.

 

From what I hear, this _was_ ingame.


Also:

If that wasn't a price drop announcement, I don't know what is

 

I've used italic font to distinguish them... should I use bold the next time?

 

Now they need for the games to be "stored" there so I don't need to swap discs.

And when are they going to make a Windows app where I can be logged into xbox live and get alerts when friends are online or send me a message? I don't understand what's taking them so long to integrate with the PC or phones.

 

Mr. Coffeine should be sedated, though.

LOL at everyone taking turns on Activision and its COD Elite paying service The sad truth is that they'll still get away with it and make a lot of money, though.

 

That's the impression I got. I'm not sure if you'll have to input your password each time or if the profile details automatically get stored on that box for future use.

I have no idea. I would guess that it would make business sense to require gold, and would justify the storage outlay. That's just guessing on my part though.

 

the squad based stuff in the new ghost recon is pretty damn cool

 

Was it really the first time any other motion controller was even mentioned that's not Kinect? I don't recall EA talking about any Wii or PS3 stuff.

 

Missed the events today. Slowly catching up. Love the Halo 4 announcement. Can't believe it's the start of a new trilogy. Halo: CE Anniversary was also great to see. I'll be getting that too. The news on the THIRD major dashboard overhaul came out of left field. Haven't seen all the videos or images on that so far, but color me impressed. As for the other Kinect announcements, didn't surprise me so much. Though can't wait to check out the Kinect Labs. Personally I don't get all the hate. It's an excellent device. It's something I think deserves its financial success. The first few games weren't too bad, but the newer ones look even better. Yes, I'll be buying Kinect Star Wars, Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports 2 & maybe Kinect Disneyland Adventures. I think a lot of the hate wouldn't be so bad if they actually played a few Kinect games with some real life friends. Have some fun for Christ's sake!

BTW, here's another thing that wasn't showed off: "Beacons"...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...orage-to-the-360-as-well-as-beacon-system.ars

That actually sounds cool. An offline game invite.

 

Kinect REALLY doesn't demo well in this format. The lag introduced by all of the video processing that happens between the console playing the game and the big screen and video feeds exaggerates the lag that is already present and makes it look much worse than it actually is. They need to either address that or stop doing live stage demos because they are hurting the image of the product by allowing it to show in such unfavorable conditions.

That having been said, I thought Kinect Star Wars demoed horribly even taking that into account. Very disappointed in that title. Ryse made up for it, though.

 

wow that is cool, add that to the cloud live account and the features just keep getting richer

 

Sorry but that wheel is kinda lame.
Hope fanatec can reveal a 100~200 euro range wheel tomorrow at the forza 4 event.

 

i think its meant for the kinect ?

 

For $60 I think we can safely say it's not for Kinect. Think of it as a Wii Wheel competitor. Would be a lot better than Kinect car controlling.

Tommy McClain

 

Totally agree. But the problem is that the so called 'hard core' still give it flack even with that known & without having even tried it themselves. One good thing though is Kinect won't die without them. The regular folks will continue

Star Wars looked fun to me. It's not just lightsabers & using The Force. There is podracing & X-wing flying too. It also encompasses both trilogy's. Personally I can't wait to play it. Ryse was OK, nothing extraordinary. But I'm sure as more details are made available my opinion will change.

Tommy McClain

 

So it looks like the bigger leaks that are MIA include:

Fusion: Whatever
Price drop
Gears of War: Exile/Gears of War Kinect
Full 3D Stereo support
Xbox Live Diamond

I agree with bkilian, it's interesting at what they didn't announce.

Tommy McClain

 

Given that we were shown a demo of capturing people's faces to make better avatars, I'm surprised Bioware didn't (or wasn't able to) show off something similar to create a more accurate you-as-Shepard. Maybe it's too crazy to keep within the confines of their animation or something... I don't know. I'm not the expert there. *cough* But I mean... default male shepard is based off of a real person too.

 

That avatar capturing was basically just capturing a photo of the face and applied it to the avatar, it didn't look like it actually modeled the face with much detail at all.
ME3 would look odd with that technology.