This will be a common theme for all conferences...
Ea no new ip
Bethesda no new ip apart from the re-reveal of prey
Ms no new ip only indie stuff and gameplay from they previously announced games.
Ubisoft: Most likely no new ip but show gameplay for there previously announced games.
Sony: Likely to have new ips but wont be surprised if they go all indie on us or announce little to nothing like Ms.

The main reason why is because of the emergence of the new consoles like the new Xbox and ps neo. They don't want to show anything yet because they want to save their new games for the future. So far this seems to be the only legit reason why they don't have any new announcements...its so unlikely that during E3, the main stage to announce new games, they haven't been any game or new ip announced. They want to set the stage for next year where they can fully show off the next gen of games along with everyone else. It wouldn't make sense if only one or two publishers reveals they titles for the next gen.

Pity anyone thinking the Scorpio will be native 4K

It was good 6.5/10 for me. Mainly due to the leaks ruining the show, and they have announced many games too early.

Hopefully they to plan to show more new content during Gamescom, I think they might since this conference did not have that much content for 2017.

Microspft sent a confusing message the whole PR department should have been let go long before

I wonder if the Scorpio is an actual console or just a steambox styled computer with an Xbox logo

I was very underwhelmed by the Gears demo, thought it looked nice but nothing new. Forza looked quite cool but at yhat point I started to get a touch of de ja vu. The same sequels time and again.

I think Scalebound looks promising personally, quite a leap in visuals and gameplay from its announcement. I am not much of a multiplayer gamer but thought Sea of Thieves looked cool too, loved its art design and the water effects looked fab.

Very interested to see how the Scorpio shakes out, they have my attention for sure. Overall I think mediocre is a little harsh (never thought I would be defending MS!).

Microsoft's E3 Press Conference is more proof that Microsoft lacks the savvy and know how to become a first place player in the gaming industry. Microsoft's announcement of multiple different Xbox consoles is going to confuse and alienate the already limited Xbox userbase. Their gaming lineup consisted of me-too titles and sequels to games that we have been bored with for decades. Microsoft's lack of ingenuity and forward thinking has really exposed their ineptitude at knowing what the gamers want.

Dark Sniper cannot wait for the feature presentation tonight at 6pm PST where he can learn what the future of gaming really has in store for him. Observing the reactions of the Xbox Scorpio, it looks like it is doomed for failure much like the Sega 32X in the 90's. With some luck and prayer, hopefully this spells the beginning of the end for Microsoft. It sure seems to be that way.

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B+ conference. A lot better than last years.

You're full of BS on this one. The conference was definitely solid.

As someone who only owns an Xbox, I agree it was underwhelming. The Scorpio announcement was awesome, but they really didn't announce any new games except state of decay 2. The leaks undermined a lot as well.

Sony shouldn't have much trouble trouncing this briefing.

At least it was a hell of a lot better than EA's snooze fest

I am dizzy from rolling my eyes at your goofy words.

I'm a little surprised, I thought this was a great showing. Almost all real gameplay, Gears looks awesome, Forza Horizon looks great if you're into open world racing games (Im not) Scalebound looks way better than last year. State of Decay 2 has me very excited. And getting real sea of thieves gameplay and it being pretty much exactly what I want it to be. Top it all off they announced the Scorpio which any serious console gamer should be stupid excited for

I love the fact that fan boys like to make these Opinion pieces they always have their own bias agenda.

It was sort of meh. The best thing there was a game that was already announced last year.

It's was half and half for me. Some good, some bad, nothing amazing.

Not really impressive if you ask me. I found it rather boring. They couldn't convince me to purchase their products.

Definitely was disappointing and boring. Watching ubi's show now. Hopefully sony's will be good. They seem to have their show locked up tight.

It had some groan moments namely Final Fantasy gameplay fail and I always think long game play demos are boring but I was happy overall. Most of the games looked great.

Nice trailer from Forza Horizon 3

I think it was a decent showing. With cross-buy/cross-play coming does that mean I can play co-op PC/Xbox with a friend? My PC and Xbox are in the same room and it will be a game changer, no more split screen for some games.

Scorpio is great with its reported power and finally confirmed but that in itself and holiday 2017 release date presents problems for the current x1 and x1s.

Sad part is now sony won't show much either. Last year ms set the bar high and sony demolished it

Now we will hear about 3rd party but I think sony will hold back few exclusives to be revealed later in their other conferences

This e3 so far has been the most boring one. We knew almost about every announcement beforehand

Leaks and rumors have pretty much spoiled e3 this year

They basically showed what they did last year just updated including NO new original exclusive ip's,the show was lame.

I thought it was pretty good. I thought the pacing was good. Only thing I didn't like was the minecraft and indie shit.

Agreed apart from Scorpio, it was underwhelming- not bad, but no real surprises.

All the games they showed are for 2016, early 2017 hardly a disappointing show. And, its obvious now why we saw no games for late 2017 and 2018. The Scorpio will be shown off at E3 2017 with new launch titles.

It wasnt that great, but we saw games we actually get this year with fun gameplay. Cant wait for Halo Wars 2, Forza Horizon 3, Recore and Gears 4.
We probably get a few new games at gamescom, but we will see.

abzdiine So basically you just proved my point you agreed with an article that you only watched half of, you didn't like the bits you saw yet agree with an article that's talking about over all.

Fair enough you didn't like the parts you saw, but to agree with this article is stupid them especially when you are agreeing with stuff you didn't see , and if you did see you might have had a Diffrent view from this article.

Entitled to your view by all means but rather silly to agree with something you didn't see only bits. That's like me going to see a movie half way through and saying it was shit ... Of course it's going to be shit as I missed the begging and half no idea about the story or what happened before

I was following it to see of they would sjow new IP's.

I was greeted with Minecraft cringe instead...

Even accepting the leaks it was weak sauce.

Has anyone actaully thought about the fact it was an average press conference because this site along with other sites ruined e3 this year by leaking everything ... Everything they announced maybe one or 2 things was not announced yesterday .. In view the media ruined e3 this year

Even ea stuff was leaked , even the Bethesda stuff was leaked ... What's the point in e3 now if sites like this are just going to exploit everything and then complain and say their events are dull or average

It was decent. Cant wait for Dead Rising 4, State of Decay 2, Recore, Sea of Thieves and Scalebound!
Ahh and Scorpio gotta start saving up for Scorpio.

So it's not worth watching? missed it due to being in work, and only know about the Scorpio, so should I watch it or not?

It started out great, then got really stale, and got interesting again at the end. A very hi-lo type event. Averages out to a C+ for me. Maybe a B- for the simple fact that Microsoft had the "testicular fortitude" to stand out there and say that Project Scorpio WILL be THE most powerful console EVER. That's real ballsy, and I like it.

Recore looks fun
Forza looks fun
We happy few looks very interesting
Dragon scale looked amazing (Co op!)
Sea of thieves looks fun
Cup head looks fun
Gears of War 4 looks fun
Solid A in my book

i found it to be an awesome showing. game after game being shown off and three new pieces of exciting hardware.

it wasnt bad

It was saved by the Scorpio mega bomb in a way, especially as it will run fallout 4 in VR. Otherwise they basically just showed footage on what they announced last year. However i think there's decent stuff there, and halo wars 2 open beta is out now.

Most powerful console in existence announced... "mediocre showing"...

Fanboys

Medicore? Are you F'n high? It was fantastic...literally the ONLY thing I wasn't interested in was Tekken...and that's just cause I don't care for fighting games. Every game had gameplay...most are coming out soon...if not, early 2017 ish. (yet people complain about announcing games too early. They killed it with Slim and Scorpio...esp since Slim starts at only $299 and already upreses every game to 4k with HDR, and is a 4k Blu-ray player cheaper than 4k Blu-ray players of it's caliber on the market. They killed it with making it so generations start and end when the gamer chooses...all games and hardware moving forward and backwards (obviously there will have to be SOME limit to forward). That was really my only concern with new consoels, but essentially they removed that whole "gen" barrier al together. If you WANT to upgrade great, if you don't that's ok too. MS opened up the abilitiy the play and purchase games across a wider array of gamers, making it easier for devs and gamers alike (and giving Devs a wider market to work with). As the Dead rising guys said, making the games similtaniously for PC and X1 was seamless. They've already admitted they knew this was coming and was part of the design feature behind scale-able res. Gears 4 already supports the higher res and HDR. Literally everytime MS was given a question/concern...they responded correctly. EVERY feature they presented was a welcome addition, every game looked fantastic and nearly ready to play. The ONLY thing I can possibly complain about is that Crackdown 3 wasn't there, but apparently it's cause they want to show it at gamescon. The rest of this year, there are already more MUST HAVES than since this gen launched. I have a hard time believing any true gamer would find MS's E3 anything short of fantastic...then again, there are definitely some jaded fanboys out there.

Not to mention that in one swift second, they already took over the console VR space, and just a few months ago people thought MS wasn't even in it...now suddenly THE dominant option.

The biggest indication of how well MS did is the flood of canned response complaints it's getting from people that clearly had their mind made up before the show...people that WANTED MS to fail and refuse to see otherwise. Most of the complaints make me even wonder if they person watched the show at all....cause their complaints are factually incorrect by a LONG shot. The amount of sad fanboy trolls is annoying, esp when all they want to do is be negative all the time. Pathetic. Why game if it pisses you off so much? All I know is I've been having the best time gaming of my life, and MS looks like a huge reason it's going to get a ton better.

Edit: My prediction is now that MS is making the ecosystem timeless and bridging the gap between console and PC...now that "generations" no longer mean anything to Xbox...I think we may see a new one every 3 -5 years. Esp since it's OPTIONAL to upgrade and DX12 makes developing for PC/X1 so seamless. So rather than spending tons of money to keep gaming on PC relevant, just every couple years upgrade your streamlined console if it makes a big enough difference to you.

Edit 2: This site is so toxic to the true gaming community. Fanboys clearly have no interest in progressing the gaming industry...just what label does it. Pathetic. They don't even realize all the great gaming they are missing by holding onto a hollow/thankless incorrect bias for no reason.

what a disappointment Gears 3... i was expecting to be blown away with Unreal 4 tech

Was okay better than last year not sure how announcing Xbox One Slim will work out when ending the show with Project Scorpio..In terms of games there was not really any surprises all stuff we expected only things that i enjoyed Buying a game for W10 gives me it on Xbox One, Sea Of Thieves,Horizon 3 and Recore looked great the rest for me was just average or stuff i had no interest in.

Mediocre indeed.

Forza Horizon 3 looks awesome, Sea of Thieves has potential....Halo Wars 2 could be decent to good.....Solid showing, nothing amazing but the slim XB1 & the Scorpio announcement were pretty cool as well.

I'd give it an 8/10. EA would get a 5/10 and I would give Bethesda a 7/10. Hopefully Sony can come out with a 10/10 ! (One can hope atleast XD)

Positives
- Xbox One S looks cool, affordable, Scorpio announcement might damage it's potential sales performance.
- Customization of Controller colors
-Scalebound looks good (I will likely hate the lead character)
-Gears of War 4 looks good, deceptive marketing (was XB1 only during the beta)
-ReCore looks good but crappy pop music in trailer
- Forza Horizon 3 and Dead Rising looks good for fans of the series

Negatives
-No new or revived first party IPs. Phil likes to talk about old IPs, yet seems to refuse to fund them ...
-Over focus on third party, they promote Tekken, despite MS having their own fighting game ?
-Same awful Battlefield 1 fake gameplay trailer as EA
-Trailers with stupid licensed pop music
- Minecraft promoted too much, the game literally sells itself. Stage demo was too long.
-State of Decay 2 needed more stage time. Didn't discuss new gameplay at all.
-Gwent got more stage time than several first party games.
-Indies, one had more stage time than actual first party games. Indies don't sell consoles.
-Sea of Thieves, gameplay reveal ruined by over the top gamers, revival should of been longer, at least comparable to the Indie game reveal.
-Crossplay/buy was talked about more than the games themselves.
-No Crackdown
-Halo Wars 2 needed more stage time, more gameplay, unit demonstration etc
- RAAM for Killer Instinct, had no character demonstration, Tekken got more promotion than Killer Instinct, a first party game.
-Pointless Scorpio reveal
-Hopefully Gamescon is better

- Overall grade D, would of been an F, if not for the First Party games all looking solid. Last year was B to B +, big drop in conference quality from last year.

Does the Play Anywhere deal require any MS Live membership? Will it force PC users to get one o be able to play online.?

The whole E3 has essentially been time consuming mediocrity and filler.

EDIT: I posted right after Ubisoft, so I am hoping someone, anyone, will save the show. Hashtag SaveE3.

yea it's a shame that a 3rd of their conference was leaked already and then throw in the most likely Gears/Halo/Forza, you already have 2/3rd conference gone. They really needed something amazing to show outside of those and they didn't

Specs are cool they are, but I need games man. Specs won't keep me entertained. This is gaming. SHOW ME GAMES!!!! ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY TIRED OF THESE CONSOLES COME GAMES

I feel the same about the conference. I don't consider it to be bad but it was like.. Ok. There were no new big games surprises and I felt the tone was like: we were humiliated by the weak xbox One performance so we are going to build the most spensive console in the world so no one, no one, ever say we have a weak console ever!!!

Other than that Scale bound was good but it wasn't something new. "Play everywhere" is something that Sony has done a long time ago with cross play between Vita, PS3 and PS4. Groups, is basically communities on PS4 and Forza was good but again, expected and not new.

Total lackluster showing from Microsoft.

Snap ... Told you everything has been leaked already that's why you find the comfrences dull now

Sony is the same , focus on VR and showing games that have been talked about the past 2 weeks , a new Spider-Man , new game from the developer of metal gear , crash games ... Ps4k will end the show ... Yet bloggers on this site will praise Sony.

E3 is already over before it beggings with all this leaking stuff

Gears was such a bore. Recore, Sea Of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3 looked great

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau