VARIOUS clippings from discussions I’ve had since.

I will be adding to this post over the week. Reaction to the conference is rightly negative on the whole. It was extremely badly stage-managed for one thing, not to mention the fact that it shows Microsoft heading in a overtly counter-intuitive mainstream direction, when it has done so much for gaming with the Xbox project this geneation and last. Comments mine unless noted.

Basically what you’re seeing happening is MS going from taking over the console market from PS2 with Xbox Live, to having an entire E3 presentation dedicated to how they are copying from the other consoles because they’ve lost so much ground recently.

This is not a good day to be an xbox gamer.

Jul 14, 2008 21:28

[ed: Posted right after the show, after post-show discussion @ Something Awful. ]

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I am an Xbox stalwart, but MS sucked at E3 (to put it MILDLY) and they’re conceding ground to Nintendo like nobodies business. The new dashboard could almost be a ‘photoshop what happens when Wii outsells all other consoles’.

It’s sickening to be a console gamer right now. The mainstream is the only stream, the real gaming is getting squeezed out.

I don’t think living room family gaming has the legs to progress gaming. Mainstream family entertainment isn’t going to grow the market.

PC is looking like being rejuvinanted as the leading platform in the coming years.

Posted by Harmonica at 21:44:50 14-07-2008

[ed: More spur-of-the-moment reaction posting @ Eurogamer. With titles like Spore and Diablo 3, the PC could see a resurgence in subscribers if the big three console platforms fail to cater to the passionate gamer/pro-gamer ethos over the coming years. This has been on the cards for years, practically ever since PC gaming seemed to be get squeezed out of spotlight a few years ago.]