How is E3 presented to Microsoft?

The answer to the question in the headline is clear, wrong today, but in two years things may change. I'm not at all clear on my priorities regarding the next generation, and if I were to take the plunge without knowing what's coming tomorrow, I'd most likely invest the money on a good PC.

Microsoft has moved in a direction that, as we expected, was going to be very difficult. In the eyes of the company, if the performance obtained with Xbox 360 with respect to the public is maintained, relations with other developers and distributors will improve, the numbers, which in the end is what really matters to a company, would add up.

The problem is that the public, or at least the voice that is most heard on the net, does not seem to agree too much with the initiative. DRM systems have brought many headaches to the public and the internet connection of Xbox One has been understood as one more. I won't get into whether our judgment is correct, but all changes come with these things.

In Sony, aware of this system or not, they have taken the opportunity to ensure that everything related to their new machine will go another way , thus presenting itself with a much more appealing proposal for those complaints despite the fact that we still do not know all the details of its future.

It is this lack of transparency from minute one that has led us to this point and prevents us from seeing clearly what the coming months hold for us, and everything indicates that it will be the E3 the one who just put all the cards on the table.I think it will even be much later, when the consoles start to circulate, when we will know for sure what to expect.

We already know the comings and goings that a console can give throughout a generation, in fact we constantly see it, both with platforms and with companies, and these last years have been especially prolific in this regard . The key, as I have commented on more than one occasion, is in the holy trinity of this business: quality, price and catalogue

An add-on usually appears in search of that fourth differential feature, we saw it with Wii and later with Kinect The second one didn't even work far as good as the first, but Microsoft seems to continue relying on that search, which with Xbox One has led to all aspects of entertainment that they presented at their last conference.

What reassures me, if the situation can give me a second to do so a few hours before the fair starts, is that Microsoft has already confirmed on more than one occasion that E3 time is going to Be fully dedicated to your games. I don't know if I'll do it at Christmas or much later, but I know that with gems like Crackdown or Gears of War, and without losing faith that it's time for Rare to wake up, sooner or later I'll run out zooming in on Xbox One

With limitations or not, as the main platform or as a secondary one, it will be that price, that quality and above all that catalog that decides it. To this day I am not marrying any of them, we'll talk in a few days.