Lord_Byron28
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Yeah it worked out for them this year just like it worked out for Nintendo in 2006-2009. Then Nintendo realized they lost the core gamers.elrechazao said:MS had a terrible e3 last year, was laughed at roundly by everyone, and dominated this year in the US market in sales. When that happens again this year after this terrible conference, they'll laugh all the way to the bank again I would imagine.
What we all think is great on GAF isn't what is commercially successful, and that's what a company cares about.
Most people aren't complaining about what was anounced so much as what was focused on. The majority of press and people paying attention to E3 aren't interested and could care less about casual games. If the company wants to anounce and make them that's fine but when you're anouncing, advertising, marketing, etc. 85% of the time casual games to a hardcore market it's not going to be received well. There are better places and times suited for showcasing casual games and E3 isn't one of them. The way Nintendo's E3 2009/2010 conference worked out well. They anounced some casual games, talked about them a little and had demoes for them but their main focus and anouncements were geared to the typical E3 audience.
Nintendo was rightfully so ripped to shreds so should Microsoft for doing the same thing. The conference was pretty underwhelming but the anounced lineup isn't bad. I'd give their anounced lineup a C it appeals to both core gamers and casual gamers. However, it's main flaws are that the lineup only appeals to two main demographs. Where are the action games, RPGs, adventure, survival horror, and platformers? That's a huge chunk of audience missing in between.