Microsoft press conference wrapup: So much Kinect, with a splash of Halo 4

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 6th 2011 2:50PM

If only our Microsoft press conference Bingo card could have been written this morning! The games list leaked earlier this morning was right on the money, revealing all of the presentation's potentially huge surprises.

Thoughts about the first of the Big Three's press conferences? Sound off in the comments!

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

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Only good thing was Halo: CE Anniversary and Halo 4 (Don't know how I feel about that yet)

Too much Kinect.

@Hi iTs SlayeR

Not for people that own a Kinect(like me and about 1/5 of all 360 owners worldwide). It was a great showing for Kinect.

@ItsameMatt03 I too own a Kinect, it just seemed overwhelming with it. Kinect here, Kinect there, Kinect Demo here and there, etc..

@ItsameMatt03

All aboard the Kinect hate train!

@Hi iTs SlayeR

C'mon, Gears of War always looks great. Even a PS3 fan like me will readily admit that.

The funny thing is that the only two new Kinect games I'm interested in that they revealed are sequels to existing Kinect games: Kinect Sports and Dance Central.

@Hi iTs SlayeR -- I liked the new Tomb Raider game. That looked amazing! Other than that, I wasn't impressed with anything else. Even the Gears 3 demo was boring.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

The CE remake won't be full price according to an interview segment on gametrailers/spike after the conference.

Personally I'm very disappointed that the new trilogy had to be a Halo trilogy, would far prefer a new IP, what with Gears and ME coming to their current trilogy ends in the coming year.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

They said it will most likely go for $40. Which isn't that bad. Basically paying the price of a 3DS game.

@ItsameMatt03

@Hi iTs SlayeR - I'm down on the Halos, but the Kinect support in Future Soldier, and all future TC games? The weapon customization looks absolutely amazing. The integration in the new Fable game looks shaky, but promising. Ryse looks very promising as well.

@Truant

Double-post, sorry.

If MS didn't promote Kinect they would have been lambasted for not supporting a popular peripheral. I don't think the hardcore audience is being left out in the dark with Gears, Halo, Forza, MW etc.

MS does need to explore some new IPs though.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my - It was confirmed as a budget title on Spike TV. Whether budget means $40, or $50, I couldn't say.

This press conference was definitely a disappointment. I have a Kinect, and I'm excited for the tech demo channel, and the Mass Effect integration, but I don't want a fully Kinect Fable or other hardcore game.

I don't understand who they think is watching the E3 press conference. Kids? Moms? Does anyone in that consumer group even know E3 exists? There were such incredible demos for Skyrim and Arkham City right after the show on Spike, and I think Microsoft should have highlighted those games in the press conference instead.

@Hi iTs SlayeR

I dunno man, the Kinect support for Minecraft, how they use it in the new Ghost Recon and how it's used in Mass Effect 3 were really exciting. Though they totally ruined the momentum they had with making Kinect seem like a worthwhile device by showing that awful arm flailing Disney game >.>

@ItsameMatt03

1/5 own a Kinect...Doubt itif there's 1 million Kinects out there.. your saying there's only 5 million 360 owners... I smell BS

@Hi iTs SlayeR Considering we get HD trilogy remakes for 40 bucks that is not a terribly great deal. Look at the upcoming MGS HD bundle, bet it will be 40 bucks and it features transfarring! (lol)

@Hi iTs SlayeR

WAY too much Kinect, and mostly for solving problems that don't exist. Saying the names of menu items instead of picking them with buttons? Taking a picture of my face to paste on my avatar? How much value to these features actually add? $150 of value?

And I can't help but feel that most Kinect games are games that would've been considered low-tech, simplistic and just plain terrible even a decade ago, but are now innovative and exciting because they're played by spastic flailing instead of button presses. I hope everyone likes on-rail shooters, because it looks like we'll be playing lots of those.

The canned, pre-recorded demos (like that "oh so perfect" roll in birdie in Kinect Golf) also don't inspire much confidence if they can't even depend on Kinect to work reliably enough to show in real time.

Let's not forget Mass Effect, which uses state-of-the-art voice recognition to select menu options. This is only possible with Kinect, folks, definitely not the free microphone you got with your IBM Aptiva in 1995. I'm looking forward to when Kinect mistakes my saying "don't kill anyone" for "KILL EVERYONE."

This whole conference was embarrassingly out of touch. Microsoft is the Nintendo of 2007.

@Mazrael

I said 1/5 of 360 owners. There are 55 million 360s out there, and Kinect has sold over 10 million units. Do the math.

@Hi iTs SlayeR : The whole conference was mostly shooters and Kinect stuff. 1 platform, no RPGs, very little sports, no fighting games. Not enough variety.

@Hi iTs SlayeR

After the Microsoft conference, Nintendo is secretly laughing in a corner, evil laugh on top of that.

@Mrguy you know that guy

" don't think the hardcore audience is being left out in the dark with Gears, Halo, Forza, MW etc. "

i think your idea that hardcore gamers like the most cliche games is laughable...

i'd be pissed if all i had coming to my system was ANOTHER Gears, ANOTHER Halo, ANOTHER Forza and ANOTHER Call of Duty. Not even 1 new IP. Not even 1!!

@Hi iTs SlayeR

I dunno, squad voice commands in two different games (Ghost Recon and Mass Effect) sort of blew me away. That is pretty tight right there.

@Hi iTs SlayeR
Old McDonald had a Kinnect...?

@PROF3TA: What idea?

@PR0F3TA
AGREEEEEEEEEEED!!! 200%

@ItsameMatt03
just because a lot of Kinect units have moved doesn't mean that everybody wants to hear about Kinect over other things. I own a Kinect. Yes it's fun, but I would much rather hear about real games than Kinect games

It's just like the Wii. lots of people own them, but I know very few people between the ages of 8 and 50 who use their Wii on any type of a regular basis

Fable 4? I don't remember that being shown. >___>

@Shugoi It was an on-rails shooter, thats why you forgot

@Drew327 Spin-off probably. Since it's on-rails...Albion in the future :/

Here's what Fable could have been: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/362/362241p1.html

@Noksukow
I chuckled.

That was turrible.

@Muscle Rider A goddamn trainwreck.

@Muscle Rider

indeed was! I just hope thats only ONE terrible keynote and that E3 doesnt begin to fall again, which I was scared already given the absence of hype(s) this year!

@Muscle Rider

Shit. The downvoters are at it again. Evasive manauvers everyone!

@JohnAHD -- I think it will be. It would be impossible for Sony and Nintendo to do any worse than that with the revealing of a new handheld and console.

@Muscle Rider

Mr. Barkley?

no bingo :(

I want a new Conker so bad :(

@Nap

Unzips space suit....

OOPS! Misread your post.

I don't think Fable: The Journey counts as Fable 4... it's obviously just an on rails shooter and not a proper Fable sequel.

Its the first annual Kinect Press Conference

When is Xbox's?

@CleanUndies Second annual...

@CleanUndies Correction: Second Annual. Last year counts.

Great show for me. I can't really pick anything out that I didn't like the looks of, other than the UFC Fights on XBL, but that's only because I don't watch UFC.

My highlights were:

Halo CE remake
Halo 4
Ryse
Ghost Recon with Kinect
Live TV

@ItsameMatt03

I won't be excited about LiveTV until they show what content they will have and how it will be implemented.

Fable 4 doesn't count and this Bingo chart was so gimped. Seriously, Exclusive Rising? 3D Talk? Come on.

Also, I actually was fine with this conference.

@Acosta02 Frankly all the cards are gimped. There isnt a single one that will get Bingo.

And there was so much Kinect :|

I believe MS could benefit from another first party dev studio that focuses on more core games. Multiplat titles pick up the slack well, but in-house balance wouldn't hurt.

I wish I didn't see the leaks... took some of the fun out of it.

The Kinect hate is out of control. Gears, Forza, Halo remake all this fall. That's pretty good. Toss in MW:3 and plenty others to keep people happy.

@Truant

Plenty to keep people happy? Tons of mini-game Kinect games, 3 shooters and a racing game? Wow.. now that's variety! I should be so happy!

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