Today was a sad day in the history of gaming, very few game announcements, sub par shows, and just a complete lack of the wooing that gaming does for me.
This afternoon, the Microsoft Conference - All started out well with videos showing gameplay of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Metal Gear Rising. a bit of Halo:Reach.. Then... Microsoft couldn't keep away from Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal, about 80-90% of their entire conference was showing what it could do, but in the process, it revealed Kinects flaws, lag of around half a second, lots of the Kinetic demonstrations seemed to be prerecorded, such as the Joyride gameplay footage where the woman would be swinging her arms back and forth but the car stayed on a perfect straight line, the Forza 4 footage, where the man stepped back but the camera angle went to the right, he quickly corrected himself to follow the camera. Eventually the conference came to an end, and Microsoft announced the new redesigned Xbox 360, obviously to try and steal some of the PS3s momentum. This conference was so terrible, I felt ripped off and I don't even own an Xbox 360 This gets my FAIL rating on the E3 2010 Report Card.
Electronic Arts - Ah Yes, Good Ol' EA, Never letting us down to give us a few games to look forward to. They have announced a nice Medal of Honor with amazing looking multiplayer, Bulletstorm, Gun Club, Kinect StarWars, and my favorite, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, which goes back to the NFS roots with police chases. For this, the EA conference gets a B+ on the E3 2010 Report Card
Ubisoft - Ubisoft, Ubisoft, Oh what can thy offer us in epic proportions? A wii vitality sensor knock off? YES! A Laser Tag knock off? YES! A game that failed long ago and getting a revival even though no one really cares about(Driver)? YES! How about a fitness game for Kinect that was also shown during the Microsoft conference and using the exact same script? OH GOD YES! But AuTo! What about the good? Well my dear readers, how about some Ghost Recon, some Rayman AND ASSASSINS CREED BROTHERHOOD???? YES YES OH YES! *ahem* Even though these three games are beautiful, they just cannot make up for the lackluster performance and boring conference, Ubisoft, I am sorry to say, but you didnt hold my attention after the Assassins Creed gameplay, and for that, you get a D+ on the E3 2010 Report Card.
Stay Tuned For Day 2! Can Sony and Nintendo turn this mess around into something spectacular? Well, if they dont.. I can officially say there will be a game market crash, all thanks to novelty control schemes
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
that tomorrow is better than today...It can't get any worst tomorrow right? Wait a second, Nintendo is tomorrow...sh1t. I was very disappointed in MS press conference today.
time for sony to jack e3 away
This years E3 is exactly as underwhelming as every other E3 in history.
It seems that Microsoft really is just running out of steam. Every year their E3 gets worse.