I guess, as you point out, maybe you're just using very different criteria. But I think when most people speak about "winning E3," what they're referring to is overall how positively their presentations were received by the public. By that standard, Microsoft's E3 last year was a disaster. There's just no two ways about it. The policies may be gone, and they've done a laudable job of improving the experience for their users across the board since then. But they got so much bad press from that, it's still haunting them a little bit. The hardcore crowd remembers what they almost did, and some of the casuals don't even know all that stuff went away. I got a co-worker who'd only had a 360 before (well, also a Wii, but different demographic from Sony-MS), was going to get an XBO eventually, but just about a month ago he bought a PS4 instead for his kids because he "heard a bunch of bad stuff about XBO awhile back, like an always-online requirement." I told him that went away, but that doesn't matter to MS now. He's already got his PS4. They already lost him.
Dude, opinions are fine, but when 99% of people disagree with you, it may be time to wake up and smell the coffee. Microsoft's E3 last year was universally considered a disaster. So when you say that you think Microsoft "won" last year, I don't think you can reasonably expect other people to refrain from calling you insane.
Bloodborne > everything else announced. Thank god I chose PS4 and LOL at the notion that Microsoft's E3 last year was anything but a disaster
Yeah, this. Microsoft continues to suffer from the epic farce that was last year's show. They could hardly have gotten worse PR if they had clubbed baby seals up on stage. The customers that they lost and continue to lose because of all that far outweighs the games they presented last year. They're in a hole on consoles sold because of it. And heck, they've only just now decided to cut the anchor of the Kinect.
No Halo on current gen Xbox is the reason the console is suffering.... Things will change very quickly come November.....
Um, no, that is definitely not the only reason. Drex just laid out a concrete, real-world example of a guy who didn't buy an XB1 because of their old policies. The Xbots claimed the same thing about Titanfall, and it didn't happen. A new Halo will certainly help, but even if it does, I think the change will have as much to do with the now-lower price tag, and increasing awareness that Microsoft's policies don't completely suck anymore.
I'm still having trouble processing the fact that I'll be able to play all 4 graphically updated Halo games with full multiplayer for 60 bucks. My childhood is thrilled!
Always fun when they do that stuff, although I wonder in practice how much the old games will be played. I guess if nothing else I'd enjoy playing the campaign in the first game, which was truly excellent.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it..(The guy who bought the PS4 over One because of Negative Response) ... Policies are policies and anyone who has lived longer than 20 yrs should realize that policies are not set in stone and that they can change. Lets be real here.... He used the excuse that Xbox One had bad policies in order to save $100........... Comparing Titanfall to Halo is ridiculous.... Halo is the sole reason why Xbox has been successful and competed against the giant that PS was when the original Xbox was released. Not only did Halo make Xbox what it is today but it also revolutionized online console gaming. Without a doubt it is probably the strongest franchise on any console today. Titanfall is nowhere near the spectrum of Halo.... Like I said.... I would love to see Sony release the best they have in November on the same week Halo releases..... It will get destroyed because I can almost guarantee you almost everybody and everybody's momma is going to be on Halo..... What Halo did yesterday at E3 was give the Xbox One a powerup that will allow it spike up huge amounts Christmas 2014..... It wont be close man...... It just wont..
I'll say the policies definitely changed my mind. I could be called a Sony fan boy. From the day I found out FF7 would be release on PS1 instead of N64 I jumped on board the Sony bandwagon and never looked back. But they had some rough years with the PS3 and I could see 360 was killing it. I had made the decision to get an Xbone since most of my friends would probably get one, but I was so disgusted by their initial policies and even though they reversed they could just as easily put those policies back on later. Sony's conference last year made me a believer again, and let's be real....Naughty Dog is arguably the top developer of this generation and all their games are going to be released for Playstation platforms. So I had to go PS4
A playthrough of X (I'm still calling it that for now): <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JKkBLBtJYWM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Looks better...I think. I was a little amused by the presenter constantly saying "I'll skip ahead, past these cutscenes, so we can see some gameplay." Yep, it's a JRPG. Haha.
I hope you like "Regret Nothing" quote... Because you are going to have to repeat it several times during the current gen...
That's probably because you were not using the pistol..... Give it another go.... Don't miss out on something this epic brah..... Do the right thing...
Not really though. The guy's in his late 40s, he buys the game systems primarily for his kids (he bought a 360 and a Wii last gen, told me it's mostly for the kids, but he jumped in on some Forza and Wii Sports on occasion). He noticed all the coverage about those bad policies because it was hard to miss. There was an explosion of press about it. He also caught the the articles about targeted marketing based on feedback from Kinect. Those kinds of things were/are big stories that reached a larger audience. MS's various reversals, less so to the general public. You're making an assumption that everyone keeps up with gaming news as much as we do. They don't. And I can specifically tell you he didn't care about the $100 much. But, I definitely acknowledge it's anecdotal evidence... I don't doubt that $500 price point did drive some people away, especially when the cheaper competition has better specs. I'm just illustrating it's not the only thing that drove people away. Yes, Halo is a tremendously big franchise. I'm still just not convinced that it will remain a system-seller into perpetuity. There's a difference between a game that everyone who already owns the platform is going to buy, and a game that will get people who don't already own the platform to pick it up. Case in point, I did eventually buy pretty much all the Halo games on 360... when they were cheap. And I bought most of them new on Black Friday deals and such. So my purchases are included in those Halo sales numbers. That doesn't mean I would've bought a platform I didn't already own just to play Halo. Yes, it will pull in some casuals on pure name recognition alone. But I don't think it's going to close the sales gap all the way. Well, a little encouraging at least. That definitely gets back to the Xenoblade look-and-feel. I guess I can hold out hope that the trailer from this E3 just horrendously misrepresented the game. Crossing my fingers.
