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What's Coming From Microsoft At E3?

E3 2008 is less than a week away, and come Monday morning the internets will be buzzing with the latest news from Xbox 360 producer Microsoft. While we know they'll be plugging their biggest titles - Gears of War 2, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Fable II, and Viva Pinata - what big announcements could we see from the latest of the big 3?
Sevenfeetunder - contributor
Published: 509 days 16 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360
 
 

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sonanus - 509 days 15 hours ago
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Microsoft will dominate E3!
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chaosatom - 509 days 15 hours ago
1.1 - coming from Kotaku so expected. P.S.- you're not sonarus, so i am not going to agree with you without thinking.
I don't get how gears 2 or Halo, going to attract a bigger audience than before?

Banjo and the remote aren't going to grab the wii market.

They are going to keep the xbox fans happy but outsite of that demographic is going to be pretty hard.
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Sevenfeetunder - 509 days 15 hours ago
1.2 - Kinda agree
But Fable 2 and Banjo might attract new customers.
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GiantEnemyCrab - 509 days 15 hours ago
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Agreed. With the 360 momentum slowing down and the PS3 picking up a bit I do believe they will respond big at E3.

They've been too quiet lately.
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Monchichi025 - 509 days 15 hours ago
1.4 - @ Chaosatom
Stop Hating!!! Just show how jealous you are. Go Troll somewhere else...

Anyhoo, I'm expecting a whole LOT of AWESOMENESS from MS this year!

Looking forward to:

1. Gears, Gears and more Gears!
2. The motion control! Getting it the first day!
3. The new dashboard
4. Fable 2!
5. 3rd party games galore! Resident Evil, Fallout, etc...
6. KILLER INSTINCTS!!!
7. Halo Wars, Halo Chronicals and anything Halo related!
8. And any other special surprises coming our way!

P.S. Looking forward to what Nintendo and Sony are showing as well. As long as it's real this time tho.... *Cough*cough* Killzone...
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chaosatom - 509 days 15 hours ago
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you fell into the demographic region i was talking about.
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Lifendz - 509 days 15 hours ago
1.6 - Think so?
It'd be interesting to see. I know Nintendo isn't going to blow any of us away but MS and Sony could really surprise. If MS announces a price cut and some new software/IP then they very well could take the show.

Sony, as usual, has set the bar pretty high for themselves. But with some great looking games set to come and MGS4 already holding a special place in my heart forever, Sony also could take the show.

Can't wait.

PSN: Lifendz
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Kigmal - 509 days 15 hours ago
1.7 - @chaosatom
Why the hell should we care if attracts a bigger audience or not? If it attracts me, then that's all that matters. "Halo 4" isn't going to attract anyone from PS3 or Wii, but its going to attract the millions of Halo fans. Give me one reason why they shouldn't it then?
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chaosatom - 509 days 14 hours ago
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they need to attract bigger audience because their hardware sales are slowing down.

But they can recover that with halo 4 for only short-term.
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Kigmal - 509 days 14 hours ago
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So basically, you just proved my point.
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Monchichi025 - 509 days 14 hours ago
1.10 - Price Drop!!!!!!!
That's what the pricedrop is for. Nothing attracts people like a good value. And I totally disagree with those games not attracting new audiences. They just add to the largest and best library of games out right now, which can't be reasonably argued against.

And yes, Banjo and the new control will actually grab some of the Wii's market, especially at that new price point. Especially after all the buzz the market will have going on about the new 3D dashboard. People always want the new "It" thing and the dashboard will definitily be a "It" thing!
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chaosatom - 509 days 14 hours ago
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what i am saying is that saying "Microsoft will dominate E3" is subjective and not entirely true for everyone.
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Monchichi025 - 509 days 14 hours ago
1.12 - I'll agree with that...
To each his own as they say. Shoot some PC fans might even come out saying PC dominated if they show there favorite game. LOL
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silverchode - 509 days 7 hours ago
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isnt the halo4 rumor false?
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Mr_Showtime1 - 509 days 15 hours ago
2 - I Hope they have something good planned
But if they do call upon the Halo franchise again, I will be bitterely dissapointed and to me it would confirm they are desperate.
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Kigmal - 509 days 15 hours ago
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You'll be disappointed, 10 million+ halo fans won't.
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Sevenfeetunder - 509 days 14 hours ago
2.2 - It depends
If its a different type of Halo game I will be happy. I don't want a straight up Halo 4 unless it changes up the formula.
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AllroundGamer - 509 days 14 hours ago
2.3 - Kigmal
so are you saying, that all the people, that bought Halo games (10 million+) are also automatically Halo fans? because not everyone of those people would give the game an unrealistic score of 10/10...
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Monchichi025 - 509 days 14 hours ago
2.4 - I'll be VERY happy with Halo 4
Not happy, THRILLED!!! So will the other 10 million Halo fans out there. But most Halo fans are casual gamers so they won't be on this site voicing there opions so I gues I'll do it for them.

WE WANT MORE HALO!!!
WE WANT MORE HALO!!!
WE WANT MORE HALO!!!
WE WANT MORE HALO!!!
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kingme71 - 509 days 14 hours ago
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Ah, my balls haven't dropped yet and I'm way past 15 :(
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DJ - 509 days 13 hours ago
2.7 - Yeah
Halo 3 was really disappointing. Sure, a lot of people bought it. But I don't know anyone that actually likes it. We still stand by Halo 2 as the best in the franchise.

Just think of it this way. More than twice the number of people bought Halo 3 vs. COD4 on the 360, but COD4 is the most played online title on XBL by a very big margin.
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Sevenfeetunder - 509 days 13 hours ago
2.8 - I like it
And Halo 3 sold 8 million and COD4 sold 6. And how are you getting the numbers for XBL? All we know is that COD4 is the most played game on XBL. For all we know there are a million people playing Halo 3 and a million and one playing COD4.
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maasman - 509 days 14 hours ago
3 - motion control
I love how everyone was bashing the wii's motion controls when it came out, but now they are praising ms for bringing it to the 360.
just saying its kind of ironic.
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Larry Fine - 509 days 14 hours ago
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from what i'm getting it will be much more of the same. You'll get some gears and fable, expect to hear something about alan wake and my gamerpad. Expext Sony and Microsoft to be valid at E3, Nintendo will be there but not in force this year. Sony hadn't said much, so look for something different out of their camp.
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kewlkat007 - 509 days 14 hours ago
5 - Looking at MS and this years E3, I think they have more oppotunities for surprises
given them rumors(some kinda far fetched) hold up. Certainly more BUZZ!! about what they might possibly cook up.

Besides the games and we all know which ones. But I think only half of these Rumors will come into light. It sounds, too good to be true. Then again, we'll see.
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Freak of Nature - 509 days 14 hours ago
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If a motion control is indeed a fact,I think not only Banjo but a couple party games will be shown to work with this new controller.If this is actually going to come true,that would go a long way for the "casual crowd"...And Microsoft will grab the attention of the casual gamers.

As for halo,I think a Peter Jackson version will be shown first,then later this year or early next year a Bungie Halo 4 game will be shown afterwards.

I sure hope we get to see a new AAA IP,something that creates a great buzz.Perhaps the Bungie "rumored" other game? A platformer? (superintendent?) Since we will already be getting a Peter Jackson Halo and a Halo 4 game down the road,it would be nice to see something along the lines of a Ratchet and Clank,Jax and daxter game that comes from Bungie...
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DJ - 509 days 13 hours ago
7 - Halo Chronicles, Halo Wars, and probably Halo 4.
I heard Gearbox is working on part 4 right now, but I'm not sure if that's true (help me out here guys).
7.1 thenickel | 509 days 12 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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arakouftaian - 509 days 12 hours ago
8 - xbox people talk 2 much
I see the xbox whit a price drop for the us, I see them showing halo wars, banjo, alan awake, huxley, viva p. N gears 2 but nothing more. N then they r going 2 star talking about how great. The 3rd party games sales on the xbox360 n all the same b'.?shi7. Meybe a new halo meybe the new controlers n meybe the dash bord thing but nothing more all boring, but the ps3 is going big many great games 2 talk abouth. N few sorprices like allways the ps3 wins :)
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Sevenfeetunder - 509 days 12 hours ago
8.1 - Hurts my eyes
Please spell and grammar check before posting.
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Mr Marbles - 509 days 11 hours ago
8.2 - Wow
Your not to bright are you?
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kewlkat007 - 509 days 10 hours ago
8.3 - What is this guy trying to say?....
it could of been easier if he just type PS3FTW like most.

Could of save ya some time, instead of that Jibber Jabber..
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arakouftaian - 509 days 12 hours ago
9 - im sorry
Not just my gramatic hurt u, the true hurt u more, the ps3 wins!!! but hey atlease they r not as boring as the wii
9.1 thenickel | 509 days 12 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Sevenfeetunder - 509 days 12 hours ago
9.2 - What did he say?
Seriously I couldn't read his first post. I really tried too.
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Xi - 509 days 11 hours ago
10 - well I'm excited.
to me Microsoft seems to have the most diverse line up of games to be shown at e3.

maybe not the 'best' (that wont be decided till after the show), but they defiantly have the most diverse, everything from rts to racing to action adventure, to fps/tps.
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