We've still gotten a handful of real games during the show from them, but it seems to decrease every year, and no, I don't count the annual showing of yet another iteration on the already-tired Call of Duty series. That's multi-platform and about as surprising as a bowel movement.
This year, I am glad that we're all but certainly seeing Gears of War 3 and Forza Motorsport 4, but I'm a little concerned that the show will go like past years, which is like this:
- Don Mattrick comes out, nervously says some shit, and then we all remember when Peter Moore used to do this, only WAAAY better
- Obligatory Call of Duty snorefest; generic dumbfucks get very excited
- Gaming for Babies, round one
- Forza of Gears
- Gaming for Babies, round two
- Forza or Gears
- new expensive non-gaming peripheral
- free expensive bribe to gaming press, again
Bear in mind, too, that Microsoft just got done reassuring us that the XBox brand is NOT a gaming brand. This year's Microsoft presser is going to make Nintendo look like a hardcore gamer's champion.
Microsoft can't flee the gamer's clutches fast enough. Once this is done, it'll have wriggled out of PC gaming to go to console gaming, only to have dropped that jilted lover, as well.
Microsoft wants the XBox to be the set-top box that we all talked about 10 years ago. They don't love you anymore. You can ask the fat 35-year old virgins who still cry for a new Kid Icarus how this process goes.
I actually like Microsoft and hope they blow our minds, but the 'rebranding' announcement, combined with the way their shows have trended the last few years tells me everything I need to know.
So, what do you think? Are you okay with Microsoft shunning gamers in favor of a set-top box?
What do you hope to see?
Either way, you can watch the show from 1130-1300 on 6/6 here.
-Blaine
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