Microsoft's E3 Conference Displays Company Confidence

The tone from Microsoft tonight was one of celebration and anticipation, as they ran down their successes since the 360 launched and hyped their lineup between now and the end of the year. Peter Moore framed the discussing by recalling the blockbuster holiday season of 2004, which was driven by the Grand Theft Auto, Madden, and Halo franchises. Moore stated that 'the only place to play all three games' this year is the 360. In addition to showing off other heavyweight titles like Mass Effect (which is due in November), the company had a few new announcements: They'll be releasing a version of the movie trivia game Scene-It with a quartet of special controllers, for a standard game price. They've partnered with Walt Disney and its associated companies to bring their family of movies to the Xbox Live service, with many titles already available tonight. CliffyB officially revealed Gears of War for the PC; it'll have additional content as well as co-op gaming via Live for Windows. Resident Evil 5 will be coming to the system (the only game from their conference not releasing this year). The event was capped by a live-action short piece meant to show what a Halo movie might look like, the announcement of a Halo 3 special edition 360 sku set to launch alongside the game, and a new trailer showing a bunch of Halo 3 in-game footage. For further details on the event, click below for other sites' liveblog coverage.

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Confidence?

[Seumas]

Speaking of MS Company Confidence...

I just got back from the store where I had to buy a new XBOX 360, because my 18 month old XBOX 360 (with less than 200 hours of play on it) stopped recognizing 34 out of 40 of my games. Instead, it would pop up and say "Please put this disc in an XBOX 360".

I guess their confidence comes from the fact that people would rather spend the money for another machine than let a few thousand dollars worth of *games* go to waste.

Company confidence, indeed.

Re:Call of Duty

[aichpvee]

They don't want your money. They want you running microsoft software on every device in every room in your house, forever. xbox is and always will be about lock-in. Don't be mistaken. It's the same reason that bungie.net uses proprietary microsoft video plugin bullshit instead of something even passingly cross-platform.

It just might work, too, if Sony keeps fucking up. Sad.