Microsoft's press conference will be presented Monday, June 10, at 9:30am PDT (12:30pm EDT). Post all your predictions, impressions, and thoughts before, during, and after the conference in this thread! This is meant to serve as a general discussion thread. Please feel free to make new threads for game announcements, other major announcements, or anything else you'd like to discuss! All our E3 news posts will be posted to this forum for commenting as well.
Given the negative feedback towards the XBox One, Microsoft is definitely going to have to step it up and impress.
inb4 dozens of Kinect games, that CoD they already showed off, and a vague announcement of more Gears and Halo.
From what has been rumored in a photo, it shows that Rare is making a new game for the Xbox called "Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty Land", and if this turns out to be true... then let's just hope that the game will be much better than the previous one, but it'll be disapointing that it won't be on some other console like the Wii U since Microsoft owns Rare since 2002. I just hope it's not real, otherwise it's still not going to tempt me into buying the Xbox One. :P But we'll see what is revealed at E3 this year for Xbox One, I'll be watching it live anyways.
I think it'll be like the game TRI89 was talking about. Banjo-Kazooie: Gruntyland will most likely be Microsoft's version of Nintendoland: a Banjo-Kazooie themed amusement park featuring several mini-games showcasing what the new Kinect can do. It's so infuriating what they're doing with the Banjo-Kazooie license. They've made one game since they purchased the rights from Nintendo and it wasn't really a BK game! Now this game is coming (supposedly, nothing's been confirmed but what else could that title mean?), what can't they just make Banjo-Threeie?!?
The photo with the Grunty Land logo on it also had a logo for Halo: Spartan Assault, but it was different from the logo that Microsoft released when they actually announced the game. I wouldn't put too much faith into that photo.
I don't think that Microsoft is going to be able to do enough damage control to make the Xbox One palatable to most gamers at E3. After the DRM megaton this week, I'm not sure any announcement they make could bring them back into gamers' good graces. The only thing that could happen is if Sony announces similar DRM. Sony is in a much stronger position this E3. Microsoft is getting brutalized right now by the public and Sony is seen in a much better light with the PS4. Plus, Microsoft goes first - so Sony can sweep in eight hours later and take back any advantage MS could have gained at their conference. I just don't see things working out well for the Xbox One at E3.
Honestly, now that they've laid out the sharing rules for the Xbone, I'm pretty impressed. I mean, the checking every 24 hours thing is rather invasive but besides that, the rules are very generous. o.o With more and more products going digital, very few have licensing rules that allow borrowing/lending like that... and the fact that you can connect 10 accounts and you don't even have to be family? I'm actually impressed by that. It's not exactly like lending a disc out but I think it's the closest we are going to get nowadays. For people who keep their collections entirely digital--and there are a lot of people heading in that direction these days--I think what MS has done is great. I just wish they had another way to insure all of it than connecting to the internet so often. My internet went down for ~6 hours last night. To deal with the boredom, my roommate and I played games all night. If we couldn't have done that? I would not have been pleased. I really hope they rethink that aspect. Maybe only keep it turned on if you've actually lent out or borrowed a game or something. There has to be some other way, right? :(
