E3 2011 Prediction Bingo: Microsoft

by JC Fletcher on Jun 2nd 2011 3:20PM


Friends list increase	Handheld Zune game device	Dance Central 2	Timed exclusive LA Noire stuff	Kinect bundle price drop
Kinectimals sequel	Halo CE remake	Hello Skype!	MGS Rising goes exclusive	Fusion games
3D talk	Milo reappears	X marks the free space!	Gears Kinect game	New Conker
More Primetime	'Core' Kinect shooter	New Alan Wake	Faceplates are back!	New console
Kinect update	MW3 DLC XBL X-Clusive	Cloud saving	New bundle	Fable 4

For the fourth year in a row (one more and we get bingo-squared!) Joystiq is preceding the E3 Expo with our very own E3 Bingo. We've got one for each hardware company's press conference, loaded up with predictions likely, unlikely, and hastily conceived to fill space. Remember: if you're not playing along, you're just being marketed at!

Microsoft's E3 press event kicks off the week on Monday, June 6 at 10AM PST (1PM EST). Without a Cirque du Soleil spectabacle, you'll have to extract all your MS E3 enjoyment from this show. We suggest bingo! Download a card (JPG) and play along.

Tags: bingo, e3-2011, e3-bingo, microsoft, xbox

Reader Comments (118)

wow this looks like the worst bingo card i have seen since i came on this website. I hope their E3 is full of more newer and original stuff.

@PR0F3TA
i think it's just a good sign of many surprises to come at the conference. i'm hoping MS has just done a REALLY good job this year at keeping quiet on the fun stuff.

Agreed, I imagine we'll see a Kinect bundle price drop, but not much else on this card.

You could look at it two ways really.

A) This card is so bad because Microsoft has squat.

B) This card looks so bad because Microsoft is just so damn good at holding their cards to their chest, that their next six months and into next year are all but unknown to anyone outside of the higher Xbox group management.

I'm hoping for B, but A would surprise me ...

wouldn't* surprise me, rather.

@PR0F3TA

If they release a new system, i wonder what it will be called. My office mates said "Xbox 3" would be good. Obviously, the next Playstation is gonna be PS4; and with Nintendo you never know. But i feel like
"X-3" would be a great name.

Anyone else?

@PR0F3TA

This is an awful bingo card, period. Let's replace some of the bad ones and put in:

Halo Kinect / New Halo (Can't wait to see what 343 does with it)

Clan support on XBL/integration with Facebook

XBL Deal of the Day a la Steam

Taking shots at Sony for PSN Debacle (should be in center of card)

Dedicated Servers for MW3 on Xbox 360 only

Chrono Trigger 360

Killer Instinct 360

@HedonisticKai

How about Xbox Trinity?

Its simple, implies the third generation of the Xbox, and doesn't muck things up by confusing Xbox v 3.0 with Xbox 360 due to them both having the number 3 in the name.

X-T, XT, or Xb-T would probably be along the lines of the adopted abbreviation used by most people.

@HedonisticKai

I don't see it being X-3, the reason MS chose 360 as the name was to use the 3 as a way to make people think the 360 and PS3 were both the third consoles from their respective companies.

If the 360 had been called "Xbox 2" it implies (to the uninformed) that it is not as good as the "Playstation 3". So I reckon the have another name up their sleeve for the next console.

@Stevorino
"Chrono Trigger 360"
You're a really optimistic guy, aren't ya? Should've thrown Shenmue 3 in the mix as well

@oOWallaceOo

Hmm, thats true..

then lets see if we can come up with something with a 4?

X-Box Forever
X-Box Forward

@PolishMountainMan

ps3 is high on sherm? well that can't be true. i own a ps3, and i'm definitely not a sherm head.

@HedonisticKai

Im gonna reply to myself, and almost guarantee 95 percent maybe that it will probably and could be possibly called "Xbox Forever"

@HedonisticKai

Super Xbox Evolution..

..abbreviated to SX-E

What the? Faceplates?

I would love to see a new Conker though.

@RyanS

A new Conker would be nice, but personally, I prefer that out of nowhere a new Killer Instinct was announced. God, I miss that game! Its announcer was spectacular too, and became something legendary here in the Internet.

Come on Microsoft! Put those guys at Rare to good use! :(

I doubt Fable 4.

Alan Wake is the only thing on this sheet that gets a buzz out of me, and I don't even expect it to be mentioned at the conference (Remedy will announce it on the web, and maybe have something on the show floor).

Hopefully there are a couple surprises planned. A new Shadow Complex would be nice.

Fable 4? Already?

And I could have sworn faceplates where shot-in-the-face dead per MS's own admission.

Overall...way too much Kinect in this game for my blood.

@CaptainProtonX

God, I wish Faceplates made a comeback. I spent a ridonkeykong amount of money about 4 years ago on eBay to get one of those E3 05 "Rings" faceplates and with the consoles first going to black, then going to slim, it's all but worthless now.

@baby sea tuna

Nice novelty for those into it, but I was never one to "pimp my console".

-MGS Rising goes exclusive
-Handheld Zune game device
No and no.

Conker would be awesome but I doubt it.
Halo and Alan Wake are freebies, already been confirmed.

Even though I don't have an XBox, I'd appreciate if Microsoft adopted Blu-ray as it's only screwing over PS3 players who play games that are multi-platform. Please be kind with your hate.

How do you mean? Most of the time it just ends up with Xbox versions getting several discs like Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, LA Noire

@TheDarkWayne To my understanding, there was supposed to be a lot more content for Final Fantasy XIII but was cut due to disc limits for the XBox. If I search, I'm sure I could find the article on Joystiq.

@waterhand

Oh, so it's the 360's fault that they cut out the towns, the enemy variety, and any sort of open world nature in FFXIII? Or did we all just miss out on 8 more hours of cutscenes full of whiny androgenes and racist stereotypes?

@waterhand
It's never going to happen. Paying someone else royalties for any standard is against the Microsoft way.

You can bet on a media size increase of some kind though.

I want to see what digital media Nintendo are going to have Project Cafe using for their titles...

@waterhand

Ummm...wouldn't that require a whole new console?

@baby sea tuna and @ (Unverified)
Regardless of whether you liked FFXIII or not, it is still a problem to have to reduce content. Can you honestly tell me you are perfectly fine with having to switch out discs?

@waterhand

So, what, MS is going to screw over 6 years of 360 customers by doing a new hardware configuration of the 360 that plays larger media disks for the sake of the PS3 people? Come on.

Storage increase of some kind is a given next gen. Whether its Blu-Ray, a custom disk type, or ( my guess and hope), a type of flash media, no one knows, but DVD9 is what the 360 started with and will end with. MS didnt just beta test and roll out a new file format for their disks freeing up 1GB of space to screw over millions of customers.

@R Planteer I'm sure there are ways to change disc type without screwing over all current XBox owners. But, yes, in the future, it would be best for all those involved to accept one format. I understand business is business, but when there are differences such as these, the gamers are the ones who lose out.

@waterhand

Sure, if it means I get my Achievements, friends list, avatar awards etc. I'll continue to pick up my multiplats on 360.

It didn't bother me that FFVII, VIII, and IX were 3 discs a decade ago and it didn't bother me that Mass Effect 2 or Dead Space 2 were 2 discs last/this year. The day that I complain about getting up once in 5 or so hours of gaming to walk literally 4 feet and change a disc is the day I give up on life and buy a Rascal Scooter.

@waterhand

There isnt. Disk reading is as much a hardware thing as it is a software thing. MS cant changed to a new high capacity disk without making a hardware difference in the Xbox 360, which would render earlier Xbox 360's incapable of reading the new disks, effectively screwing them all over. It makes far more sense to bear with it for the remainder of this gen and employ a new storage solution when the new console cycle begins. This is part of the reason why MS just reworked their anti-piracy methods to squeeze a little more space out of the DVD9s.

DVD9 vs Blu-Ray was a tactical decision back in 2005. PS3 went Blu-Ray and suffered a 1/2 year delay on its launch time due to a shortage of the blue diodes used in the Blu-Ray player, as well as had drastically higher production costs and slower read times, but the extra storage has started to play in their favor. MS went DVD 9 and launched a year earlier at a lower price point, but now is having to use multiple disks and software tricks to make their games work/fit.

Larger storage would be nice but the solutions to do such a thing mid generation are unfesible, especially given how far into this console cycle we are.

@waterhand

I guess they could do another add on drive to play BD movies like they did with HD DVD. But, seeing as that was a miserable failure I don't see it happening. They'll probably do BD next gen as standard.

@TheDarkWayne

Yes, but moving forward XBOX 360 will be getting more games with multiple discs. They just announced The Witcher 2 on XBOX 360, that game will be guaranteed 2 if not 3 discs.

To be honest I am not sure if they will give users blu-ray drive, but next console must come with it. War is over blu-ray won.

@BlackedOut

If Nintendo Cafe comes with blu-ray, then you know next XBOX will have to have it. As 3D technology is expanding and XBOX is suppose to be rebranded as entertainment console, how in the world will Microsoft able to justify lack of blu-ray drive?

Nobody will be able to watch 3D movies, and sure you can download them but at current speed it will still take 1-2 hours.

@Troy Powers

No, don't you remember HD-DVD, that worked just fine by adding separate drive. But I think problem would be games, I am not sure any developer wants to sell you same game on DVDs and Blu-rays and then allow customer pick version for them.

@baby sea tuna

That is not the only limitation, you forgot about HD movies and 3D movies. I guess you don't care for those, in that case you are good to go.

@waterhand FFXIII had content cut because development was a chaotic disaster. Some people just used the 360 disc limitations as an excuse.

@SynthOno I thought I read on Joystiq it was due to differences between PS3 and XBox. I may be incorrect, though.

@baby sea tuna

I love you so much.

@waterhand

Everyone seems to be forgetting that Sony owns the Blu-Ray technology. While I wouldn't doubt Microsoft could spend the money to make a Blu-Ray add-on player for the XBox, I'm not so sure Sony wants to add that to the list of things the XBox can rival against them.

Also, the HD-DVD drive failed because HD-DVD failed. If HD-DVD won the race, it'd still be going on our XBoxes :P

@BlackedOut You're interested in Nintendo's next format? I'm putting money on 16mb Cartridges, lol.

As for the disc format for the next Xbox, it only makes sense to use Blu-Ray. MS want the Xbox to be the centerpiece of your entertainment (games, movies, music, social networking), which really only leaves the option of using whatever the current disc standard is (Blu-Ray)

I want to mark all of these, and I want them all to actually happen.

@TheDarkWayne

Being that I work for a MS Vendor alongside Microsoft Game Studios... I can straight up tell you some are yes, some are no, and at least one is a Yes, but it got cancelled :(

@Lucky48 Okay, so maybe I don't want all of them, but there aren't any I don't want to happen. Well, except Milo.

@Antilight which one got canceled? Tell me! Don't dangle the carrot right in front of me then tell my contractual obligations prevent me from eating it!

ugh...Milo i hope he never returns....

I'll have to print this out before E3 day and mark it off with...SKITTLES!

I'd be fricken shocked if MGS comes out as an exclusive on any platform.

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