I thought it was great. Not amazing, but great.

Sorry but Microsoft needs 1st party investment and acquiring new studios give some hope to all Xbox fans, sure it'll take time for those studios to develop games but still, it's a great move.

They lack 1st party games still.

Very solid conference, I'd give it an 8.5/10. Definitely one of their best in recent memory, showing a ton of games, though most 3rd party games but still nice to see. Also basically (and again) confirming that Microsoft is still serious about gaming, yes even with consoles. Now if they price of the X drops to the $350-400 mark by christmas, I'll definitely pick one up.

It was another "wait for the future" conference. Nothing major besides buying Ninja Theory. It's all just Halo, Gears and Forza again in terms of proper exclusives

I thought it was a great conference. Alot of games I super hyped for. Solid 8/10 in terms of pure games. They are certainly getting better at this now compared to a few years ago.

I was dying when I saw the demo guy for Forza playing with a wiimote. XD

Bollocks. They did everyone was asking of them and more. This shows how this site is more "anti Xbox" than "pro gaming". The opening/creation of 5 new 1st party studios is unprecedented, and everything ppl on this site said they should do and more. And btw, none of you know when these deals were signed. Also, how long have ppl on n4g said kh3 was exclusive? Or Nier? The cognitive dissonance on display by Sony fanboys here could be studied at university level.

Solid conference IMO but that's mostly due to the fact they showed so many games I will be able to play on my Ps4 but I do applaud MS for adding 3 more studios to their team(Playground & Underlabs have always made xbox games so it was inevitable). While solid overall, I still don't care for a new Halo and Gears(Fh4 looks sick though). The highlights for me in that whole conference was Shadow dies twice, Cyberpunk 2077, Devil may cry 5, KH3, and Metro Exodus. As you can see none is exclusive.

I was expecting a slightly more compelling show. I was slightly underwhelmed... the best showing were multiplats like Metro Exodus

It was great if you're an Xbox fan. As a Playstation Fan it was still a good conference, but it didn't do anything in my eyes to run out and buy an Xbox.

Why is MS still in the video game and console business? Are they really going to commit to this for the long term?

Great conference overall but I don't see why there was so much time dedicated to Forza Horizon 4 game play.

Overall a better conference than last years, I enjoyed all of the multi-plat reveals which most I will buy but far as getting me to buy an XBO the conference didn't sway me one bit seeing it was the typical announcements of a new Halo,Forza & Gears,no showing of new unique AAA exclusives. The only stunning moment for me was the acquisition of Ninja Theory,wasn't expecting that!

1 - Forza, Halo, Gears
2 - Multiplatform games
3 - New studios acquisition.

The last one is great and will be important for MS in the future. And i think those trash talk about streaming games will change soon.

I'd put Microsoft's conference solidly in the "Much better than most people expected it to be" category.

It wasn't mind-blowing for any but the hardcore Microsoft fans, but there were DEFINITELY a few head-turners in it that Microsoft can be proud to have had as announcements at their conference first.
It was nice to see a new Ori, especially. That was a sleeper hit and I'm glad it's getting a sequel.

I think it was great as far as saying we knew some of the games where coming like forza and gears. Sony is the same, the last of us and spiderman how many times have we seen spiderman?

I look at it like this, if you have an Xbox one X, and a PS4 Pro, you get your exclusives for both (ps4 has way more) and get any enhanced third party games for the X.
Chances are the third party enhanced titles will play better on the X

Now if its multiplayer, game were your friends are.

If you can only afford on, the ps4 is the best to get.. unless you like racers.

It was all multiplats, and gears halo forza.....not good, if people are happy with this you have very low standards for a platform holder.

bs. it was great.

bold ,solid ,but not great, no INCREDIBLE <3 great job !

It was pretty solid. It had the usual PR noise, but I enjoyed the games they showed off, and pretty excited to get to play quite a few of them.

It was a great conference but it was great for both Xbox and PS4 gamers. There wasn’t really much that made you choose Xbox over PS4. Gears and Forza looked great but Halo was an engine tech demo that didn’t show much.

It was a good conference for sure and MS did well to please its current fanbase as well as turn heads of future customers.

HOWEVER if you look at it closely this is MS pretty much telling you to wait to next gen for exclusives. They also proved everyone who calls xbox the halo, gears, forza box true. Most of the games shown were in fact multiplates. And the only game to look forward too on xbox exclusive wise this fall is forza. So no xbox fanboys complaining about sonys holiday line up thats for sure

So I find this title to be accurate a solid show but not something to praise heaven about

IDGAF!! For a person who is not too fond of the XBOX!! They did a damn bang up job. They showed their audience what are the hits and diversity that's out there to play.

Great to finally see Cyberpunk 2077, Metro and DMC5. I liked it. I assume this means Sony gets to show Resident Evil 2 tomorrow night?

So, Cuphead must've been announced for PS4 and maybe Switch. Unless I saw it wrong, it stated with the newest Cuphead content it was debuted as a console launch exclusive which means it's timed. I think Cuphead is coming to PS4 but good to see some reasons to keep my Xbox One, no Sunset Overdrive 2 though but, figures, another Halo and Gears of War to play later on. Should've shown footage for Battletoads, not just announce the title, lame. Also, what the frick? Microsoft are suddenly launching their games in spring, another thing to imitate Sony on because Microsoft have no idea what they're doing, desperate attempt after desperate attempt to keep up with Sony, Microsoft really have no idea what they're doing watch Sony and imitate them, Steve Ballmer mentality.

Average at best. Only 5 exclusives: ori, halo, gears, forza, crackdown. If this is their best then the future is bleek for Xbox and their fans.

I though it was pretty good. A lot of good games were shown plus Ninja Theory is a great pickup, so it was better then I thought it was going to be.

The show had some nice reveals but there wasn't any exclusives. All the games shown as "world premieres" Ill be buying on PS4. Same old gears, Halo, and Forza. Not a fan of any of those so it was pretty underwhelming for me I wanted to see if they had something new cooking up. Guess I'll stick with switch and PS4 for now, we'll try again next year

a new gta game will be announced at sonys conference.

6.5/7 to be honest, nothing exciting about it for me.

I thought it was a really good conference for gaming, but an awful conference if their intention was to get people to buy into the XBox brand. Every great looking game was multiplatform, and every Xbox "exclusive" game will be available on PC. The only reason I can think of why anyone would ever buy an XBox is if they're a Mac user, but most of them are too busy mixing Dubstep on Garage Band.

Sure they didn't show more true exclusives and they couldn't because they don't have many 1st party. They acquired 5 so they seem to be making good moves. It was still a great show. 9/10 for me because amazing games was shown. DMC5, Cyberpunk 2077, Sekiro Shadows Die Twice....yeah they are mutiplats but still was shown and they look amazing.

MS's low number of exclusives/ console exclusives will continue into 2019,however, I see improvement with Crackdown 3 (not too confident in this title) Gears 5, Battletoads, Ori 2 and maybe Halo Infinite launching next year. Provided their studios are well managed, MS should be able to produce quality games with much higher frequency now due to their larger number of studios. However, I still think Rare and Undead Labs need some restructuring to live up to their potential.

It was a solid 8/10, and that is with barely any true exclusives. They had an enjoyable conference, even for someone like me who doesn't play Forza or Gears or sports games. They needed this one, and I'm glad they got 5 studios.

Next gen is now most likely November 2020 after the mention of the next XBOX and Bethesda mentioning next-gen for Starfield, which makes sense to come out 2 years after Fallout 76.

Have to say it's their best in several years, they have had some serious missteps before.

But glad they are boosting their 1st party lineup and showing lots of games.

It's BIG improvement compare to their last E3's. The only new game im really looking forward is from NT and thats next box. Only time will tell if it's good or not.

The headline is what I was thinking but couldn't put it into words. Imo the best they showed was cyberpunk and I'll be playing that on my ps4. Tunic and battletoads(even without a trailer ) is something else I'm excited to see. Cuphead looks cool as hell but no physical release, that's OK though as steamboat Billy has that covered with coming out with a physical release

Basically this gen, for new exclusives is over. I thought 2 of five studios was Microsofts anyway.
Its sonys for the take

Microsoft after having touted the availability of Xbox One to mobile and PC Devs for the past years and highlighting the ease at which mobile and PC games can be brought to Xbox One... well they choose to bring 3 new Gears exclusive games and 2 of those games will NOT support Xbox One.

That is right... Gears an exclusive AAA series will launch 3 new exclusive games of which 2 of those new games will not be playable on Xbox One. How can you entice mobile and PC developers to bring their games to your console when you very own team with a Microsoft IP does not support its own console?

How are people not running with this? How can Microsoft at one turn be talking up exclusives and then nonchalantly toss out the fact that their own Dev team and IP will EXCLUDE Xbox One from 2 of their new exclusive games?

Talking about exclusives they are weak, gears looks the same, ori 2 and fh4 are nice tough, oh god why in the world did they invest time and money on that abomination called Crackdown 3?!? overall they were ok, i was expecting Fable 4 but oh well...

Great conference but they pretty much admitted their POWER OF TEH CLOUD rubbish was complete bullshit by showing the latest Crackdown 3 gameplay with its CLOUD POW3R completely removed.

So all in all, it was a great gaming conference but further proof that you need a pinch of salt with anything that Microsoft says. It was still great entertainment though.

Every game available on PS4 and many others also on PC how many are Xbox console only?

This felt like an opener for Sony's E3

It's a better E3 but nothing to shout about.

They have said another console in the works and some games coming

Does this mean Microsoft has the most first party studios out of any publisher?

For Xbox only gamers I think it was great and showed a lot to get excited for whether it be 3rd party or 1st. However in terms of judging it as conference that has to compete with others and whether it did a good job to convince newcomers it becomes less great due to most of it being available on other platforms.

Announcing 5 new studios bumps it from a 7.5 to a 9 for me. They had holes they needed to fill and game franchises they needed to protect. This is what they should have done with Bioware and Bizarre Studios

Auto the press conference was bad it didn’t give me a reason to buy Xbox most of the exclusive games is on PlayStation and Microsoft is already talking about bringing a new Xbox out what happened to the Xbox one x they remind me of sega with these system

Agreed.

Buying studios is the way to go. So that has to be a positive. 1st party titles adapted to mobile is a worry but it's the mine craft formula make as much money as possible. Strange to have exclusive content on pc and not xbox on 1st party. Heavy on the 3rd party showing especially ending on one but loads better than I assumed. I think curent fans will be happy.

As an Xbox fan their showing wasn't good it was mediocre hey look Dying Light 2, Devil May Cry and many others are coming to Xbox One that was a given of course they're coming however they're coming to PS4 also. If they were exclusive I'd say wow great show and another console in the works and it won't have many console sales PS5 is going to beat it no matter what their exclusives are better.

I think the assessment set out in this article is spot on. It was a very good conference, well paced, great looking and loaded with exciting games but, it didn't have the megaton announcements that might have caused a reaction from Sony.

Getting From Software at their conference raised a few eyebrows and Ninja Theory was quite a big deal but otherwise, there was nothing to suggest a true change of direction from MS in my opinion.

A lot of solid announcements but the problem was the same as EA's, not really any gameplay shown. I thought the point of doing the live conference was to premiere gameplay to a large audience.

I'm a ps4 owner and that conference was great. No rock shows, no dance numbers, minimal bad jokes. Just a bunch of games. Yes, most of the excitement comes from multiplats, but the conference itself was as good as they come

Weak conference, waiting for Sony and Nintendo to rise the bar

And knowing that the XBOX4 is in production is good as well.
I downer is that this felt like a conference that should have happened in 2019.
I think the conference itself was great.
But the content was only good.
It almost felt like an Xbox 4 teaser reveal.
Easily a strong 8/10 for

Maybe I’m from a diferent mindset, but MS just released its 3rd console in 4 years and guys are saying stuff like “Its good to know the 4th console is in production” Guys are excited that MS is now pumping out a console every 1.5 years at $400+ a pop. Like this exciting ? Yes I understand that daddy or nana has to buy you the console so its no big deal to you junior but if I wanted to buy a new consoie that often I’d just play in PC and drop $300 every 2 years for a new video card. Like is this MS’s new business model ? Dont make new games, make new consoles and get that $400 each time.

Still no cloud-powah'd Crackdown 3 online gameplay. Is anyone still holding out hope that that aspect of it has not been abandoned?

7/10

Let’s see if any of it is true

Some people are just unpleasable as you can see in the comments Any way good job xbox

Yeah, it was solid. Alot of good looking things, from cool studios. Its just, not many of them were my cup of milk.

Battletoads though!

I walked away from it feeling like they did good on their acquisitions and their forming of that new Studio... That above everything else was great for setting them up for a stronger business for next generation.

The conference had more games I was willing to play on my PS4...

That said once MS's conference ended, it got me hyped for Sony's E3 Presser

Seems like xbox is giving up on this gen but investing in the future. Bold strategy cotton, let's see how it plays out.

Excited for the next gen xbox but kinda regret getting my one s.

It was a great show to see good PS4 games to play mainly...not a single new Ip from Ms first party still... Nothing Bold about it.

Xbox E3 summary...

Better than their previous E3 but still lacking.

And after watching Sony's conference, you can see that Playstation is on a whole new level with their True exclusive games. Microsoft cannot compete against that.