I think Microsoft is quite content with abandoning the PC in favor of the 360. The ability to watch TV and movies, play retail and downloadable games, listen to music, and interact with your friends via social networks all point to MS wanting to shift the PC experience into the living room.

But, can you blame them? With the fear of piracy, failure of GFW and rise of Steam as the near-standard for centralized content distribution, why would MS want to invest in could easily be a losing battle?

Actually MS did create montages of both regular and xbla games, however they were both available from Live. I wondered myself why they opted not to present them during the conference, but I guess tehy wanted something that was a bit more focused I guess.

I’m just a gamer, don’t care about strategies or sales figures but only GAMES and I didn’t see anything there that makes me re-pick up a X360 this year… only real game coming out this year is Forza 3…a racing game!?!

Good for them to focus on the Wii audience but just don’t forget about original X360 owners that bought the console touted as the one for the “hardocore” gamer… a buddy of mine said it was silly of SONY to release Killzone 2 and inFAMOUS early during the year… I don’t feel at all in the same way, I’m really happy can get to play those games.. 2 of the few games I’ve bought this year actually.

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Joy Ride would have interested more people if Microsoft had spoken briefly about it’s Mario Kart-style weapons and the open world mode.

Microsoft should have made a video montage of its already known, imminent titles: FUEL, Prototype, Batman: Arkham Asylum, NCAA Football 10, etc. I’d keep the montage separate from distant games, but playing both side-by-side would demonstrate what an impressive line-up the 360 has. Exclusives are important, but an extensive library of quality games is equally impressive even when most of the games are multi-platform.

The 360 already sells an impressive amount of software and doesn’t need to focus on the Wii before Natal is released.

Next E3 will be exciting as Microsoft and Sony try to best each other with presentations of non-prototype motion control demos. They might even show vertical slices of AAA motion titles.

As far as I can tell Sony has 1 game more for the PS3 for the back half of 09. Uncharted 2, MAG, Ratchet And Clank. So by definition is Sony in the same drought or do the 1 extra game turns their first party lineup into an ocean?? Not saying that anything is wrong with their lineup just curious if it’s classified the same way.

Now this fall MS doesn’t have to drop tons of first party because they have exclusive first party and third party support with 4 games exclsuive on the console side. I would put up the likes of Splinter Cell Conviction, Halo ODST, Left 4 Dead 2 and Forza 3 to UC2, R&C and what maybe MAG this year any day of the week. Considering Sony had been touting Heavy Rain and GOW III as hitting this year and to have them slip is just more of the same old delay tactics. So going into this fall MS has a very strong lineup again like last fall and the one before it. Also Shane Kim has already stated they haven’t shown all their games for 09 just yet. GC would be a perfect place for that.

And for the record Milo was the perfect ending to the show since between Natel+Milo that is pretty much got all the main stream buzz right now. Jimmy Fallon show I mean cmon.

Any measure you use between GAF, Buzz Study or MM that pretty much took the cake.

And, if I remember correctly, the EA video of ME2 didn’t include either a 360 or PCDVD logo at the end (again iirc, none of the ME2 videos had them), which I found odd too…

But, even to me, as a PS3 guy, I admit, MSs presser was good. I am just at odds, how the press can hail Natal as the next best thing, when most of what they showed either had massive lag (Ricochet), didn’t work (Well “BAM”) or was prerendered PR (the sizzler). Milo should work on any system with a camera too^^

But anyways… sadly E3 is over… hopefully I’ll get press tickets for GC Germany this year!