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Yeah, there was a lot of stuff at the Microsoft E3 press conference that will appeal to a LOT of people. I know this. Gears 3, Halo: Reach, Metal Gear, Crytek's new game... those are going to move a lot of copies. More power to all of you who want those games. For the core CoN audience, though, well, there wasn't all that much. The things I saw that were closest to RPGs were Fable III and possibly the Star Wars Kinect game if they include some good Knights of the Old Republic bits in there. (Don't forget, it was announced last night that Kinect is the real name for Natal.)

Other than that, though, not much for the Square-Enix fan to get excited over, I don't think. I think the best we could have hoped for was that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would break exclusivity the way that Final Fantasy XIII did, but there was no hide nor hair of Squenix anywhere to be seen. Not shocking, but still disappointing, no?

So, that said, feel free to discuss your favorite and least favorite bits of that conference. I'll circle back with mine in a moment since that's hardly front page news.

Nearly forgot, the best CoN user quote from this press conference has to go to Olly from chat. I had to clean it up a bit, because after all, it was from chat, but here's the paraphrase: "It's only a matter of time before there's an achievement for fondling yourself on Kinect for five or more people." Kudos, Olly, I guess.

I'm rather disappointed by the Microsoft press conference. Yeah, Gears of War 3 has me geeked, and Fable 3 might be a game I get used, but other than that, it seemed pretty lackluster. They were missing that BIG story from the past few years: FF13, Natal [Kinect], MGS.

I am happy with my model of 360, and don't look to buy a slimmer version.

Even though I don't own the systems, I look forward to Nintendo and Sony's presentations. It is always nice to see the developments that will push the gaming community to the next level.

For me the best, it was ESPN on 360. ESPN streams SO many sports that I would watch, and having them available in HD over my Eggbox is pretty exciting. I have to admit that I'm a little interested in Harmonix' dance game for Kinect too. Nothing I'd spend money on, I don't think, but I'd be interested to give it a good few hours' play time, for sure. I also liked the smaller version of the console - it's pretty and small and if it is as quiet as they claim, I might have to pick one up in a year or so. I have to say my least favorite part was the raw focus on Kinect. Do you guys remember when everyone who was a MS or Sony fanboy mocked the Wii launch lineup? Funny, didn't you see most of the same games, just in HD, in this conference a couple years later?

Oh, yeah, and don't forget. If you want to discuss these press conferences live, there are three ways to do it: Chat, our Facebook Fan Page, and also the CoN Twitter. We're updating them live(-ish) during the big conferences.

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I missed the whole Kinect thing. Was there any reason why it was changed from Natal? Postpartum Depression would've been a better name to go with their birth theme.

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Quote (sweetdude @ 14th June 2010 16:42)

I missed the whole Kinect thing. Was there any reason why it was changed from Natal? Postpartum Depression would've been a better name to go with their birth theme.

Natal was just the project name - similar to the Revolution instead of Wii or Dolphin instead of Gamecube.

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