That entire conference was dogwater. They spent way too much time on Guardians of the Galaxy and the dialogue was atrocious.

No Fable, no Everwild, no thanks.

Nothing looks close to Horizon, graphics-wise. I thought the Series X was the most powerful console? NOTHING here shows it. Still gonna try these games but I might just sub to GP when it's 1 buck again or just sub when they come out. Can't justify $18 a month for Ultimate for these games.

There is nothing in this conference so far that is a "system seller" - not that MS is playing that game anymore, so I don't know what I expected. I really want to see Everwild and Fable but overall I'm not too impressed - there's nothing here that I feel that "day one" feeling. Nothing close to BOTW, GOW, Horizon. You'd think MS would see that trend and try it.

It's really interesting. Halo is supposed to be the BIG thing from MS. Free to play multiplayer and partial campaign with no ACTUAL release date?

How is this "all in" on gaming?

So far, not impressed with the conference. Give me Fable and Everwild.

Here's what I want:

• BOTW 2
• Pikmin 4
• Splatoon 3 Release Date
• Golden Sun entry
• Advance Wars entry

The last 2 are absolutely not happening, but I can dream ;)

No one thinks Returnal selling 2nd place is bad at all. It's great for the developers and encourages them that they are making a good product. It's only cows that play this sales game. It's a cow that died on the hill of Returnal sales, not the other way around. Lame and pathetic tbh. Who cares if it gets first or last place? Weak mental.

One thing is, Microsoft acquires and believes in their studios. Look at Rare, they could easily force them to make a new Banjo Kazooie or Conker. Instead, they allow them to make a new IP in Everwild, after the weird Sea of Thieves. They believe in their IP as well, with the reboot of Fable. They didn't acquire an RPG team to make it, instead they looked inwards and gave it to Playground. Sony basically gutted Japan Studio to focus on Astro, even when sales are high.

Neither approach is good or bad, but one is definitely more consumer-friendly. With Xbox, cows are still missing the point. It isn't about hardware sales for MS. MS is a software company and XGP/cloud is further proof that they are shifting focus to software and UX. Day one on Game Pass is a game-changer. Their metric for success is not console sales, Phil even said this. If you read his interviews about the market of gaming, it's beyond buying X system to play Y game. They are focused on getting the games where the players are.

Count me as one of the people that got a Series X after experiencing GP Ultimate. The EA Play inclusion is awesome too. If I had an Android I'd definitely try out the Cloud beta, hopefully it will come to iPhone.

I hope whatever it is, it's better than Days Gone. Not an amazing track record honestly. Looking forward to their Games Fest presentation. I want to see if Sony is diversifying from the third-person cinematic trope.