I don't care if Microsoft "win" E3 or not.
I just want to hear about some cool stuff thats coming for 360.
Sony's going to have a great E3 as well as Nintendo and Microsoft.
I don't think anybody here has anything to worry about.
From Microsoft I would like to see...
Xbox360 "slim" with price drop.
New IP from Rare and Lionhead.
PGR from Turn 10.
More Xbox live features for both silver and gold members
And some new info on Fable 3 and Halo Reach single player.
I did not know that Mirosoft owned the Alan Wake IP?
I'm not calling you a lier, but do you have some proof?
It would be good to settle it before this tread gets out if hand.
Oh.
This didn't take long.
Can we at least wait and see if the game is a success before we start hearing about sequels on the PS3?
Great comment.
I love the positive energy.
+ bubble.
I’m also interested in what Natal could do outside of the games space.
I wonder if Microsoft could possibly build a web browser interface around it.
The voice command aspect of it is also exiting. I can imagine games for the next gen full of NPC interactions like the Milo demo at last years E3.
But as it stands I don’t expect too much from Natal at launch. Mostly casual games to introduce the tech to the masses.
I agree.
I think Nintendo will have a very strong E3 this year.
A lot of people will be interested in the 3-DS.
The idea of a Halo film has always appealed to me and I’m sure to many others as well.
But I think that the only way to make a successful Halo movie would be to focus on another character as the main protagonist instead of the Master Chief.
I think a Halo movie would be better served if we were to follow a squad of ODST. (Think Band of Brothers in space).
A cast of new characters can then be introduced to us. And as they learn more about the ...
Remedy is only a small team.
I think they should be very proud of what they have done with this title.
I'm a little offended that you would write off so much hard work and creativity just because of a Metacritic score.
^ I don't think it's out yet.
I hope Remedy find huge sucess with Alan Wake.
You just don't see enough good single player games out there.
I love the Fable games to bits and am really looking forward to Fable 3.
There are a lot of really strong ideas coming out of this game that I like the sound of.
Say what you want about Lionhead and Peter Molyneux over promising and under delivering. But for me every one of their games have been fun, beautiful and interesting.
I’m looking forward to hearing more details come E3.
I'm with you.
I can't wait to see what Rare's been working on.
I think however we may see only new IP's from them at E3 with the old favourites getting the XBLA treatment.
+ bubble.
I just want to see what Rare has been working on.
I'm also inerested in the 3DS and Natal.
E3 is going to be great. I expect all three console providers will have very strong offerings this year.
Edit: @ Bathyj. I also had 9 bubbles. I'm not too happy about being busted back to three. I think I got 4 to start with when I joined up.
I would love to see a new Viva Piñata game for E3.
More garden space would be a must however, as my garden just never seems to be big enough for my grand landscaping ideas.
As much as I respect Bungie as developers I just can't shake the feeling that Activision will somehow gain ownership of the studio.
Or that Bungie just gets used to doing things the 'Activision' way.
I feel really odd about this deal. On the one hand I wish Bungie the best of luck, but at the same time I just want to shake some sense into them as well.
If you feel that you cannot support this game because of Activision’s involvement then I can understand why you won’t support this new IP.
But personally I applaud Bungie for taking such a bold risk in going multiplatfom.
It would have been easy to just let Microsoft publish these games exclusively and have guaranteed success. But what they have done here is quite brave of them.
As a third party developer you open your self to a wider user base and that...
I'm not sure either.
I don't see how the relationship between bungie and Microsoft could have been soured? They were both making each other plenty of money with Halo. And both parties were clearly respectful when Bungie spilt.
The only thing that I can think of is Bungie really wants to be a multiplatform developer. End of story.
If thats the case then I have no issues with this deal.
This article states that Microsoft kept a large amount of shares in the company.
I'm surprised that Microsoft did not get first crack at publishing this?
perhaps they did and decided to pass on it?
So many questions.
Microsoft are quietly building there 1st party studios.
Rare has opened a second studio so I would expect their output to increase over the next 2 - 3 years.
They got Bigpark last year to handle casual titles for Natal I expect.
and they created Spawnpoint and Firebird studios to very little fanfare.
As for PGR? I think that Turn 10 could more than handle it as well as Forza.
Just because Microsoft are not buying up high profile...
^ Yep that would pretty much do it.