Given the disdain many have for Windows 10 it seems the only way for those gamers to play any of the Microsoft exclusives would be on the XB1. If they don't have an XB1 then they will need to upgrade to W10 in order to play. MS gets their $$ either way.

Now the only other option to either of those would be to abstain from MS exclusives all together. I don't know about others but I can't bring myself to deny what I like and I like video games. I've never held onto animosity to a point where it kept me from picking up a platform simply because i did not care for the company that made it.

As to who won... I'm going to say the neutral response, the gamers won with their wallets losing. It makes the most rational sense.

I have to agree on the overall quality of content shown, but think it was some of the way it was presented that brought it down. Minecraft was a bore, SoT had one of the worst game play reveals I've ever seen, and they showed a lot of games that were shown at last years E3.

Their biggest hitter, GeOW, fell kind of flat IMO. I just hope they put more thought into other segments of the game, and I'm going to take this oppurtunity to suggest to developers to find game play segments which don't include excessive banter...either from the players, or the avatars. Scalebound, for instance, I think had the best game play shown at the conference. But damn if that avatar wasn't annoying.

I felt Recores game play reveal was a bit disappointing. A montage isn't bad for a trailer, but I was hoping for something a little more focused on a single segment which showed the game play in full.

Then of course, all the leaks, and expected games/other stuff, didn't help in building the excitement, and kind of diminished the impact of any single reveal that did come.

But I think it'd be a good year where both sides of the console war just say that they both had great conferences, and leave it at that.

@darth

The people you're talking about have more disdain for MS, so it won't really matter if it's on the console or Win10 itself. Otherwise, it's just an excuse to justify one's dislike of Xbox. I dislike Win10 personally, but I have it, but I'm not going to lock myself into purchasing PC games, and that's more because I'm not a fan of digital content, which is why I primarily play on consoles. Unfortunately, having an Xbox and PS4 is redundant for 99% of the games out there, and if the 1st/2nd party exclusives aren't appealing enough, or have enough quantity to attract customers, that won't really bring in a sale to MS. At best, I think the move, for the type of people that just don't want a Xbox console, will allow them to buy the occasional 1st/2nd party game that they're attracted to, which is good for MS/publisher. It will obviously also potentially bring in the PC gamer, which is probably a more substantial market....but many of them are very much against Win10(or at least the store), and that has nothing to do with MS exclusives, or consoles.

i didnt say microsoft....i said xbox.
and yes the xbox lost exclusives to pc....how didnt it??
you xbots spin everything.
exclusives sell consoles....period. MS is in the PC software and console hardware. seeing that consoles sell based on its exclusives....the xbox has taken a blow. even more so becuse in such a short life. the xboxone will end in 2017...started in 2014. the scorpio will be essintially a steam machine without steam. nobody wants to talk pricing but with what power the scorpio will have will come at a cost...like the cost to build your own pc. i get that people would want the simplicity of a console, but if the scorpio is upgradable whats simple about it? ....y'know what...spin all you want. i cant see how people still stand behind a company that has fucked them time and time again. do you think gears footage was from pc or xbox? what about scalebound?...no matter what the xbox will be the place to play the lesser versions of games. they set out to beat playstation...not in bringing more game..but in power...but at that same moment lost to pc. why? smdh...now its competitors will be the psneo and pc. pc will beat it in power, ps4 neo will beat it in games...and in like 2019 ps5 will come out and beat it in power as well. lol...just wow
the scorpio is releasing too soon and the pc will have the defenitive versions of all its games....lol all ms will do is charge you for parts every 6 months give you the same games and innovate absolutly 0 times...just like it did this generation.

Thrash... maybe its growing up in a different generation but to me exclusives are less of a selling point than just simply having a diverse library of games in general.

Look at any of the successful platforms previously like the NES or PS1 and PS2 and even the 360 and you will find the ratio of exclusives to every other game within those libraries is considerably low.

They have their place, dont get me wrong but "games" in general sell systems. If exclusives alone were the key then even the wiiu should be selling better because its whole existance is mostly exclusives.

The appeal of games in general is the key to success. Some prefer what sony systems offer, others prefer nintendo systems and others prefer just gaming in general with no loyalties.

We come to E3 to see games that are being worked on. We aren't expecting games that are close or near to release to be announce. It's all about the future software. Even the games that we had already known about trounced what Microsoft showed.

@Guy I feel like that's another goal post because ppl here kept saying how long does Xbox fans have to wait for its games. Plus if this was vice verse the argument would be way different. Btw and I guess you're fine with waiting...again Shenmue, Final Fantasy 7 remake last year, the games Sony showed off all TBA again this year. Kojima's game won't release for 2 maybe 3 years. Sony has a slew of games and AAA's take time but this is the second year we're all waiting. Impulse reactions Sony's very good at but soon realize all the these great looking games put us on the waiting list.

Yall may not like what I'm saying I have a knack for saying stuff nobody likes or wants to hear but I really, really don't care but absolutely nobody can come up with a logical argument against me. Sony won on impulse reactions. MS wasn't a "loss" because MS has a allot of games to in which they're spreading out the very thing everybody on here complained just none stop about.

Release dates don't matter for E3. We want to see what's cooking for the next year or 2. The games shown by sony were much better than by MS but it's a draw because the MS ones have release dates?? Right.

he he you dont trust this website!!

Can't believe we conceded an own goal for that draw. Ugh lol

Yup! First goal was phenomenal.

you must talk about this on 11*2. i'll join you up their !

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP