Full List of Microsoft's Announcements at Gamescom '09

Koku Gamer writes: 'We brought you the full list of Sony's announcements yesterday, and now here's the Microsoft version. Enjoy!'

[Ninver]

weak ass conference.

[A HiFi]

I want to defend them but...underwhelming. I said it yesterday - showed most of their cards at E3. While Fable III does look wonderful, it was all Lionhead.

[WengYong]

Unfortunate. Fable 3 will appeal to fans of the series, and I think that is news. No price cut announced? That sucks. We know its coming though

[A HiFi]

No price cut was a big bummer. I mean, just that would have been okay. But...not even that. =/

[PirateThom]

I'm not sure what you were expecting, Microsoft already said they weren't having a big conference. The was basically Lionhead showing off their new game.

I'm thrilled at the prospect of Fable III.

[A HiFi]

A price cut or something. Some sort of Microsoft presence other than Lionhead. I don't think that's too much to expect considering Sony's presentation, regardless of how small they say it was going to be.

[PirateThom]

Microsoft just see Gamecom in a different light from Sony. Microsoft were never a big presence at Leipzeig either.

TGS is only a month away.

[A HiFi]

I guess that's true, as they didn't have one last year at Leipzig. But this is Cologne, and they surely would have had wind of Sony's announcements...

[Zedux]

MS please don't fight just keep quiet and go back home! Get your acts together and wait till the next event to try showing a better ground game and form! Sony just won the UFC heavy weight title but you'll have your turn again (or maybe you will)!

[phosphor112]

Thinks he knows everything about RPGs. That's why none of his games are good. He over promises and under delivers. EVERY TIME.

[Guido]

The last conference I saw that was that pathetic was E3 '08 when Nintendo sot us all in the face with their crazy antics on stage. This one, might just be a bit more pathetic.

[II Necroplasm II]

Hey Guido, take some more heroin and calm down.

[callahan09]

Fable 2 episodic is cool, but I already have Fable 2 so I won't be participating. But I like ideas like that. Fable 3 is a great announcement, because I'm always in favor of more Fable. But it wasn't even really a Microsoft press conference. It was more like a Lionhead press conference. I mean, you'd have thought Microsoft would have said something about the Elite replacing the Pro, and show off more Natal, o something. Oh well. I wonder if they'll make more of an appearance at TGS, because we already know that Sony is going to bring the heat to TGS.

[Game13a13y]

once again, Sony wins

[AAACE5]

They probably won't do a price drop until they see what kind of impact the Ps3 slim has. If they notice their sales have dropped significantly... they will drop it soon! If not, you can almost guarantee that there will be a price drop for the holiday season.

[Rock Bottom]

That was pathetic, not showing up would probably have been better.

[Beast_Master]

I have yet to meet someone that is waiting for a 360 price cut before they buy one. Most people I know seem to be ok with the 360 price point. Sony needed a price cut badly. even if PS3 doubles 360 sales it will take at least 10 months for Sony to catch up.

I understand everyone would pefer a lower price but I have yet to hear a community out cry for one is all.

[randomwiz]

Fable 3 was a pretty big announcement.

I think they knew Sony was going to make their conference look bad anyway with all they would announce, so they're saving their stuff for TGS. There's a lot of stuff that could've been shown from Microsoft's side.

[Guido]

Heroin and calm down are not good together. Maybe a blunt to keep my edge yet calm my nerves. That's what keeps it poppin'!

[beardpapa]

Maybe that's why they had their conference at a time when the majority of the US viewers would be sleeping.

[FamilyGuy]

M$ really did blow their load at E3, premature, just like the launch of their console.

I knew they had a "shorter" conference but DAMN! I expected SOMETHING more. Is this a joke, were they joking on this site and there was more they just didn't mention? M$ could've at least reiterated some things from E3.

Is anyone excited about this fable news, I hear it's a good series and whatnot and the first of these upcoming DLCs is free. I was really interested when the first game was being described (before it's release) during the original xbox days. Growing up and choosing paths that later effect your characters life and how people see you. It was an awesome concept but I never followed up on that as that's around the time i stopped gaming.

I wonder how big these packs will be content wise.

M$ really REALLY wants to get their feet planted in Japan so I expect TGS to be huge for them. Not as big as E3 obviously but still big. I guess sony just care more about each event (saving announcements for each) then having a preference of where to devote all their energy/budget

[NickIni]

Fable 3 is nice, but overall kind of disappointing :(

Now where's that person who was mouthing off about how Microsoft's conference would be shocking and reveal tones of new stuff?

[red5ive]

O.............K?

[Marquis_de_Sade]

To be fair to MS, they're in a good position at the moment, their year on year sales are up, Sony on the other hand have ground to make up, so you would expect more announcements and a bigger showing.

[Tony P]

To be fair, even though MS is in a good position, it can always be better especially when your competition is constantly trying so hard to outdo you.

Colour me a bit miffed that this was really all they had to offer their fans. Leipzig may not be E3 or TGS, but Sony sure put a good deal of importance on it and rest assured they will put even more emphasis on TGS since it's in their home territory. I can't play defender to this, it's just sad.

[glennc]

i'm not sure why they have to have a big presence at every event. is it because fanboys will carry on like the babies they are if they don't. N4G is just a pile of fanboy sh!t these days. it's a shame

if it was sony you would be saying the exact same thing i just did. i am not defending anything here, just asking WTF is wrong with people these days? idiots.

[pixelsword]

Fixed.

[MGOelite]

somebody please spin this into a positive conference please lol good luck

[Kill Crow]

some droids to spin this one like they spun Sony's E3 when they got completetly trumped by M$ ....

[ShadowCK]

Yes, because Sony's Announcements were so much better. *Rolls Eyes*

A worse version of the Playstation 3 which is cheaper, informed people of their stats which no one cares about, playstation home announcements which again no one cares about considering Home is Sims without the fun factor and iplayer which you can easily use on your PC instead.

*Yawn*

I'd rather have an exclusive which am I looking forward to thanks.

[dustgavin]

I know you are angry that Microsoft had a weak show but try not to take it out on Sony. It is not their fault you own a generic 360 console.

[Etseix]

X what?

...mm.... strange, i dont remember something being called X aside X-men
:/ must be my imagination.

[talltony]

Yes that is absolutley weak compared to sony's conference. Your a fanboy if you cant admit that to ur self.

[-MD-]

New exclusive > Console remodel

Great conference for me as I just finished Fable 2 days ago and I want more.

[MorganX]

Shadow Complex + Netflix + Magic The Gathering > ALL except women

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Is this a joke? Underwhelming at best.

[sugard0]

Wow! Is that it? I log on this morning all syched up to get updated on the latest confrence which happens to be MICROSOFT, to be so underwhelmed by what I am reading.
I guess it truly is time to buy a PS3.

[MorganX]

The only announcement I needed was that Shadow Complex was available today. Went online from work to xbox.com, bought it. Will be there ready to play when I get home.

Edit: And Netflix rocks! Only thing I can't figure out ... who are these people spending money on Avatars? OK, I bought a pair of dumbells to see what it felt like. Who needs an announcement when Avatar gear is selling.

[TheTruth89]

hahaha they even wrote ENJOY.

ROTFL
LOL
ASD
LMAO

[Chubear]

lol, that's what I thought too XD

[theEnemy]

"'We brought you the full list of Sony's announcements yesterday, and now here's the Microsoft version. Enjoy!'"

"And that’s it!"

[mrv321]

Europe is Microsoft biggest new markets after all Japan belongs to the PS3(and Wii actually quite allot of Wii) but in Europe it's a place to maake some ground.

I hope this is a joke Microsoft probably has big announcements.

Also... after E3 everyone was saying how bad Sony's was(I though both Sony and MS had equal shows) where are they now?

[hakis86]

Well I heard a lot of "equally good shows", but Microsoft "won" because of a bit more celebs and Natal created a lot of buzz that lasted a while.

[Flawza Motorputt 3]

So I went to take a sh*t, I came back and their conference was over...

[The_Beast]

that was a good one

[ultimolu]

Rofl.

[nightelfmohawk]

Your **** was probably more exciting than M$' conference, tbqh.

[hakis86]

What about Natal? Or the rumored 360 price cut? Or any other games?

Only Fable 3?

For real??

Thumbs down :-(

[PureGamer]

what was they supposed to show a slim 360? Nothing really interested me from any conference to be fair.

[darx]

All Sony did was announce a pric cut/slim. Big deal!

[Panipal2005]

And still it was waaaaaaaay more exciting than whatever the heck Microsoft were playing at. You had an announcement of ONE GAME. Not even a new IP. WEAK.

[darx]

MS wasn't hinting at anything.

[nostalgic_noob]

The PS3 is dominating on every level now.

[AngryTypingGuy]

If by "dominating" you mean "lacking behind", well then you sir are correct.

[dustgavin]

The Ps3 is lacking behind 360, If by "lacking behind" you mean heating issues and failure rates.

[AngryTypingGuy]

No, I mean great games, and Live service, as well as a controller that actually fits in your hands.

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

...Milo be in Fable III??? ;-D

[TheTruth89]

Noooooo poor MIlo, if it happen he will get abuse/rape by tons of monsters.

[kaz-hirai]

Milo a Priests best friend ;-D

[ultimolu]

...That was it?

There has to be surprises in this one because if that was it...well idek.

[d0nT wOrrY]

hahahahaha the comments above is so funny.

PS3 is unstoppable now.
GO SONY.

[nostalgic_noob]

More Hardcore than the Xbox now.

[Numark]

just you

[Aceluffy]

But I can't resist this time, this so called joint conference between M$ & Lionhead is very very very very weak beyond all comparison. Fable 2 being split into segments and announcement of Fable 3......that's it ? WTF ? Just like Ludacris' song....Move Bit%h ! Get out the way ! Get out the way ! It's all over

[mratcliffe22]

Would have though that at least someone would of turned up. No announcements of anything playable on the game floor.

Are Microsoft turning into EA. Year 1 announce Halo game year 2 announce Fable game. Rinse and repeat.

[kaz-hirai]

Oh dear i hope you enjoy this dull conference chatboxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-D

[Karum]

If that's all MS has to show then it's pretty sad.

They own the US in terms of sales/install base etc. right now and their best bet of growing is in Europe, they should be paying much more attention to the region.

Pretty fail MS.

[tripewire]

The Sorce is Weak with this one...

[Nelson M]

That was the Crappiest 3Shitsty Conference i have ever had the Displeasure of turning off after a minute

[Ninjamonkey82]

Can't believe you are all sitting there waiting for a price drop from MS come on how much have they already dropped the console looks like you lot want it for under £100. I think you have seen the end of price drops MS ways for some time esp with Natal and that on the horizon. Get over your punk asses look forward to Fable and stop moaning.

PS3 is now in prime position to do the U-Turn that was always expected off it. Sony did not win the last couple of generation for nothing nor for the lack of competition. People know they they know the quality that will be on the way.

There's an option for alot of the fanboys out there get on the train and move to one side cause its coming threw.

[Fiona]

Maybe MS does not see gamecom as important for them as E3 is. But their conference was never really hyped so doesnt surprise me.

[user1337]

i guess they only put a good show at E3 :-/

[II Necroplasm II]

Probably won't be hearing anything til GDC next year from Microsoft. Apparently, Rare is either being lazy or just being too quiet.

[josephayal]

I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING!

[Socomer 1979]

halo, gears, fable, mass effect, left 4 dead every year.
nothing new.

avatars, natal, paying for facebook, paying for twitter, paying for netflix.
nothing new but pretend like it is.

its a formula thats going to breakdown very rapidly.
next year, you will have the opportunity to buy a yahoo.com music video.

Everybody, watch out!

Dead Console Walking.

[Panipal2005]

Hey at least it's not as stale as Nintendo's offerings. MarioMarioMarioZeldaMarioMario ZeldaMario.

Now with added WiiFluff.

[Socomer 1979]

Im not surprised. what the fck else were they gonna do?
Not a goddam thing from where im standing.
Eat sh!t and die Microsoft. The rug has been pulled from under your feet, wooops!

[Marceles]

Lets see how the media flips this into MS having the best conference.

[MaximusPrime]

i predicted correctly that it would be a dull announcement. Thats why MS has been so quiet lately, trying to figure whats the next step to keep on top of Sony.

[Bathyj]

The words "full list" are a bit misleading.

[The Wood]

lol

[NaViTo]

Yeah, hahahaha

[RockmanII7]

wheres Rares unannounced game?

[gambare]

TGS

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

People are acting like this was supposed to be like E3 with a huge amount of announcements. Well it wasn't. So stop. The announcement of Fable 3 was pretty big in my opinion.

[NaViTo]

Well, compared to all the announcements for the PSP and PS3 of the yesterday's Sony conference...

Yes I think this sucks.

[Mindsucker]

This is as big as E3 but t is in Europe...

[Mindsucker]

BTW I am not knocking you I did not give you a negative just making the point America is a huge industry in he long run it dose not compare to all of Europe.

[JonnyBigBoss]

Nice try on spinning a failure. Really though, Microsoft's Xbox 360 is only going downhill from here on out.

[TruthSeeker]

Not too much to deliever

[Socomer 1979]

Euro gamer is printing a article as we speak about how this microsoft press conference was the best EVAR! E3 was good with yoko ono but now they have petey "Used car salesman" molyneux talking for 5 minutes to everyone and it "warmed" Euro gamers heart.

Sad day for 360 fans. sad sad sad day.
there are more people who didnt like fable 2 at all in the world than the few that did. People were sold magic beans by old pete and playing that game ruined fable 3 for alot of people. over promising and under delivering.

[Pizzagaki]

MS their conference was small, but at least it was about games.

[dustgavin]

You are delusional if you think Microsoft had a better show. Sony announced much more stuff.

[Sunny_D]

Nice spin... I remember when Sony actually showed games at E3 08 and tons of them, it was bu bu bu NETFLIX?!! Now, Microsoft shows ONE game and it GAMES, take the s out buddy.

[devilhunterx]

M$ just came too quickly. They fired all their big guns at E3. Now all they had was a limp performance.

[Pizzagaki]

How many awesome games did sony unveil at this event?

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

I remember sony fans used to boast that Sony did a better job at e3 because it showed more games. I guess it's different now. LOL.

[The Wood]

sony did show more games and services. My issue is when Aaron G said that they like to under promise and overachieve when maybe theres just not a lot in the pipeline. Remember....

"I can safely say that if you're an Xbox 360 owner today, you will end 2009 with a whole slew of new features, new content, new partners, new games that today you don't know about."

He said earlier this year.......people are expecting him to deliver....the year is almost done. The only real difference between this event and the previous ones is that there was no title steal/share to paper over the cracks of the obvious lack of 1st/2nd party studios

The difference about the games sony showed is that they will be out a lot sooner than many of MS's...Both have suffered delays but it seems those have affected MS more than sony's

Im sure there were more playable games on sonys side. An announcement could be for a game that comes out in 2011 so those are kinda irrelevant here. The real announcement will probably be at TGS for ALL consoles

[Esco_Mafia]

umm how's miniS multiple psp games to compete with apple apps , they presented a few games for it's motion tech as well as trailers games we love to see. and before u go all "I DON't CARE ABOUT THAT" remember u asked what games not what's relevant to u

[Pizzagaki]

Its not relevant, its for psp.

[sugard0]

Somebody above me just said atleast Microsofts confrence was about games......? WTF
It was Lionheads confrence and it only had 1 game and some downloadable content.

[Pizzagaki]

Lionhead is property of MS.

[Socomer 1979]

Dont you mean game? as in 1 game. as in 1 game everyone knew was coming. you guys just didnt know it would be announce at germany thats all. fable 3 is not original. its not new. its not innovative.

its stale crackers for the homeless pizza face and you know it. your xbox live gold membership is a fuse thats burning down to the realization that you wasted a entire summer and fall doing nothing and your 1 day closer to the 54% rrod scandal.

P.S.
I cant wait for ninja gaiden sigma 2. Co-op FTW! Blood and purple mist and dismemberment. WIN WIN WIN! ugh!

we be dancing in ps home!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Pizzagaki]

It was never announced, at Gamescon it was.

[clintos59]

I mean come on, u guys act like its the end of the world because of one bad conference. TGS is right around the corner and im sure MS has some jrpg goodness to show us under their sleeves.

[Godmars290]

MS's was uncharacteristically weak.

[Rockstar]

Didn't fable 2 just come out not that long ago?

Seems like this gen, everyone is in a rush.

I feel like gamers ("Journalists" anyways) have some form of ADD.
A game like gears 2 will come out and the next day there will be an article speculating on the release date of Gears 3.

No price cut on the Elite?

Oh well, now whenever I buy a 360 I'll just have to grab 2 Fable games.

I wonder what Nintys got up their sleeves.

[ukilnme]

I must say I was expecting more.

[nex]

PS3 IS the Best

[Half-Mafia]

as good as fable is where the hell r the new IPs MS. stop making halo's, gears, fable, forza and and start making some new IPs.

[Gamer1111]

yeah they should stop gow, gt, final fantasy and socom while they are at it..

ignorance

[Half-Mafia]

i dont see the games u listed coming out ever 2 years.

i just want new IPs

[Gamer1111]

better new for me than a ps3 price drop....since yeah know i allreadsy own a ps3....glad to here about a new game at least..
.im very excited for fable 3.

SDF go to hell

[Serrimnon]

The microsoft conference was very underwhelming, even if you don't compare it to Sony's. Although I am a Fable fan, so hearing about the next installment was nice.

[resistance022]

I like Fable and I am excited for this one, but, err, that's one game.

[Cajun Chicken]

LMAO!

I mean come on, surely they could of shown some Crackdown 2 or something.

[ArcticWolfUK]

that was the best conference ever!!!!!!!!!!

[Saaking]

Very disappointing indeed.

[Saaking]

Horrible, horrible conference. Only ONE game and that's it. Ridiculous. I can't believe the bots actually though MS would "win"

[silverchode]

so milo and kate. i wonder what you can make them do together.

[Henry Cain]

That was a weak a$$ conference. The only people excited about milo are priest.

[xboxlover]

and want $299 so I can buy to play games like imfamous, and while my 360 is in the shop. I still like the 360 more, and they will have announcements at TGS.

Also, this should have been billed as the lionhead confrence, not MS. Weak as F*ck!

[rawd]

I wanna sh1t in Milo's mouth

[Mc187]

that's nasty,lol

[Agent_S]

i appluad sony on thier efforts, and i've been following the hype for the past few weeks and i knew Microsoft didnt have a proper answer for sony's conference, im a little surprised about Fable 3 but i didnt care for the last one so idk its cool, i know i still have plenty to look forward to, im amped up for the coming X360 games, and we all know the dark side will not prevail haha

[keysy420]

m$ needs more games and you are starting to see their system repeat games a years after they come out to keep people into them. dony be surprised if natal moves up their list because of what is been happening with sony.

[Thoreau]

de-bubble me if you desire. fable 2 was weak. fable 1 was awesome. fable 1 had a better story line and combat system, so hopefully lionhead will return to its' fable roots with fable 3.

[bjornbear]

Maybe one up the sleeve?

[KingKionic]

The conference was very dull.

[CherryLu-Chan]

I thought might be announced today. :/

[Pizzagaki]

Expect that one at the Tokyo based game show.

[hill71]

oh dear epic fail from microshaft

[farsided]

"CUPPING"

[SgtBlake]

I don't usually bash MS as much as the other Playstation veterans of which I am one, but this conference blew balls. We knew about the ps3 slim and the price drop before hand and the sad thing is that we had no idea of what MS was cooking up and it turned out to be this sad display of nothingness. And on a side note I feel really bad for you if your looking forward to fable 3 as fable 2 was a horrible game in comparison to the first. Before you start bashing me I did play both fable 1 and 2 to completion and I feel fable 2 was the biggest waste of my money ever. Worst than mercs 2 enough said.

[Knightofelemia]

I saw the news about what Sony had braught to the table I almost cried with happiness and now I look at Microsofts and I am like wow its weak.

[patterson]

*holds back laughter*

[-Mezzo-]

M$ presence was next to non.

[-Mezzo-]

Since when did Lionshead started to book their own conference,

[Mindsucker]

I think Ms is going to be concentrating more on the American market but still they have allot going on. Natal for one sounds cool if they can pull it off

[Xtremist]

...and probably the best lineup in Xbox brand's history !

Mass Effect 2
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Alan Wake
Crackdown 2
Fable 3
Halo Reach

My only concern is that i was expecting to see some Crackdown2 footage.
Now i m afraid that it may not come out in 2010... :/

[360_Rules]

F@ck Germany and you PS3 droids! MS doesn't cared about those in Germany that banned Gears 1+2. They are saving their stuff for TGS and X09.

[GiantEnemyBOT]

Gamescom is meant for all of Europe, not just Germany you Xbot tard. And I'm pretty sure Japan doesn't give two sh*ts about the 360 either.

[christos]

xbox 360 sucks asssssss the ps3 is the ultimate console

[Droid Control]

pathetic M$