June 11th 2010 8:56 pm PT

Sweet!! Looking forward to it!!

so what’s the difference between THIS Natal Presentation and all the previous ones?

We need a Xbox Live stream. I want to watch this from my couch. Show us what Silverlight can really do. And I don’t get why you don’t put this up on Xbox Live after the show is over. Give us both shows in HD and not just a ‘best of’. I mean, it is possible, it is promotion, there is demand, so why not?

Are you going to be live blogging the Project Natal evet Sunday night or do we have to wait til its on TV Tuesday to see it

Geoff Knightly? Do you mean Geoff Keighley, or is this someone else completely? Also super excited for the cirque show!

Geoff Keighley is your host for the show.

Major, what about the rest of the EU? Where do we go to watch the World Premier of the “Project Natal Experience”?

Having 2 press conferences is confusing. I thought the Natal event would be first so that we would see the “hardcore” Natal games in the Xbox briefing. Interesting to see what you do. I’m expecting most focus to be on families for the Natal event. Sad thing is that it’s mostly going to be core gamers that watch it. Hopefully not in horror!

This will be on the same time as the world cup game, thank god for DVR!

For those in Australia(yes we do have 360′s down under) MS E3 confrence will be live on Fox8 tues 3:30am. Encore screaning at 3:30pm.

I dont really like MTV, so i will pass on that or just watch a recorded version of it.

It used to be nice when all of the press conferences and presentations were all on one channel, like G4, and it’s sad to see now that they’re all being split up and exclusive rights are being sold off to other channels now that they realize how popular they are and how much money can be made off them. But as long as I can still get live, uninterrupted access to watching them for free on the channels I already have, I don’t mind it too much.

wow Can’t i get it on Australian MTV WTF imm awatch it on IGN.com.au there gonna have it

I think xbox.com will also have a live stream of the conference, they did last year..

I’ll rmember these locations, ofcourse I’ll just get a better one somehow anyway

YouTube is covering it as well.

http://www.youtube.com/E3

Cirque du Solei??? Are your serious??? What junk, well i DO plan on watching everything BUT that now

2 days…6 hours…:S Freeze me, plz!

So…what do those of us without cable do for the MTV one? I hope a site posts the full video is decent quality, or even better Xbox Live, since they always seem to stream live while im driving all over town for work lol. I did just get the HTC EVO…with 4g and flash video maybe I should be dangerous and watch it while I drive? No, lets not be silly Major, just process the video with your ultra insane Microsoft servers with the quickness and shoot it out to my 360!

But really, I paid for Gamespot total access a few years and usually end up waiting until a week after the conferences for the HD video downloads. I dont see why theres not a site or service that can pump these videos out within a timely manner.

ALL the coverage wiill be here: http://e3.ign.com/
including the sundays evening move & natal demos and the “EXLUSIVE” moday press conference will all be streamed live on IGN.

Ugh, I hate Geoff Keighley….is it on G4 at 3? I see on my guide some press confrence is on Monday at 3, but it dont say which…

Geoff Keighley is the Ryan Seacrest of gaming. He’s EVERYWHERE!

Major, so what exactly is on sunday for “project natal”?

Awesome. What’s even more awesome is that I get to go to the project natal event. Woo hoo!

This feels like some kind of deal making debacle. Why produce a 2 hour show for 3,000 “influencers,” but only release a half hour show 2 days later to the public? Sure, go to MTV and get that broader market exposure, but why not also “influence” the millions of gamers already actively interested in Natal by providing a live stream?

And why is the press conference exclusive to Spike, which is interrupting its daily CSI marathon to show the presser and then has no other E3 coverage the rest of the week?

Why do I have to flip away from E3 coverage to find the MS E3 coverage? Makes no sense. Guess I’ll be on the Gamespot stream for that one.

Major, I don’t know what you guys are planning for NATAL but it better be fucking amazing. I’ve heard that the price could be $150 or even as high as $200. Unless you guys show something that just completely blows away anything we could have imagined… you guys are screwed.

I agree, who has cable anymore? With netflix, hulu, and NZB/torrents why pay for something you dont use… Come on MS, get with the current time, stream live or just wind up never really knowing how many viewers your REALLY having since your focing others to d/l it elsewhere… Nice marketing dept!

Really confused, will the Project Natal Experience be broadcasted live? According to VG247 it will be, but my tv guide say different.

I can’t believe how many complaints there are over a rumored price point. you seriously can’t expect it to cost the same as the vision camera did… can you?

@stophJ
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doesn’t mean we have to expect it to be the same price as the 360 itself!!!
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so the Circus thing been delayed until Tuesday now?

What about UK, pls major dont leave your biggest european gaming country out…

I just can’t get interested in project natal. NOBODY will EVER look like anything but a spastic fool while playing it. But here’s hoping they do a Bringing it Home this year so we get some of the demos for REAL games premiering at E3.

MTV, Cirque de Soliel and Justin Beiber. Does anyone really need ANY MORE proof that Microsoft doesn’t even know the audience they’re trying to reach and that Natal is dead before it even hits the shelves? This is going to be another case of Microsoft throwing good money at bad and taking massive losses to try to push a hardware device. Look how successful (/sarcasm) expensive console addons were for Sega (see: Sega CD, Sega 32X, Dreamcast Broadband Adapter) and where Sega is today.

@Lockload
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Major does actually say they have the Xbox.com page for UK,France,Spain and Italy..if you didn’t get the xbox email like i did,then its this page(which i got from that email)
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http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/E3/default.htm
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The Wee Bear on page 1 of comments on this topic gave this link to the Youtube IGN page(it will be live)which looks like it will be a good show,they also have the schedule on that page
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http://www.youtube.com/E3

i’m so pumped. hope to hear about new IPs and VR tracking for Natal.

Can’t wait, wish I was back in New York City.

Super excited to see this. I have personally gone to two Cirque shows, “La Nouba” in Orlando and “Kooza” in Denver, and both were incredible! Their shows are top-notch, and if you’ve never been to one or never seen one before, my opinion is that you’ll be in for a real treat. I’ve got my laptop set to record them on my Windows Media Center while I am at work. Totally looking forward to this!!!

Don’t forget about http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/

According to USA Today Online Project Natal will be called Kinect and it even has a very short list of games. After reading the article it looks like it was meant to come out tomorrow. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2010-06-14-vidgame14_ST_N.htm

Rumours are that the Kinect Star Wars demo was faked and the actor was reacting to NOT actually controlling the game.. http://i48.tinypic.com/wh0ah1.gif

Any comments major?

Also in the vidoes the rooms used are massive. Can you say that Kinect would be “useable” in smaller rooms that have been shown so far?

What a massive fail the show was.

This is on a Wii Music, Giant Enemy Crab and Riiiiiidge Racer level of fail.

I hope that there will be something vaguely excite worthy in the works for the 360… and no, I don’t mean Kinect. I’m talking about new features on the dashboard and/or an actual good free MMO type game using avatars that will actually be free to play (and give the avatars and their expensive clothing a little more value to the account holder).. etc.

Still, looking forward to seeing what’s in store gamewise.

@scouser it did look fake to me,the onscreen stuff was happening before the guy okay by a millisecond or so,but it still shouldn’t of been…especially when the Jedi stood all heroic like,the Jedi on screen did it before the actor
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you can see the video here and see what i mean
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=250929

sorry scouser i clicked on Iron Nomads link instead of yours,your link was better than mine

The link http://www.xbox.com/E3inHD goes to a outlook webmail client…

Wait, so will Xbox.com have a Live Stream of the event?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/e3/briefing.htm

Link from Major Nelson’s Twitter.

“Hey is that Avatar?”
“Yeah my friends played that to boost their gamerscore”

Laura is so win!

It was just 1hr 30mins of Wii games without the Nunchucks.

“watching” the IGN live blog of the conference… I thought it was actually a let down. No big surprises, EPSN had been leaked already… Call of Duty Black Ops to lead it off??! Halo Reach… been there done that. Gears3… Fable 3? No big surprises. Natal/Kinectic or whatever its called… just hasn’t convinced me… and how much is it going to cost?

I’m not convinced.

And Sony and Nintendo won’t have to pull out too many tricks to outdo MS this year, IMO.

Hopefully there is still some big announcements for 360 in store, the rest of the week.

Most disappointing E3/XBox Media breifing in recent memory.

I agree with Lex. Did you guys even try this year? That was absolutely horrible.

I went to the Times SQ one during lunch – Got some pics here:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v515/jimcush/Assorted/Xbox%20E3%20Times%20Sq/

There was no sound from the tv (obviously) but here’s some videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS7mapqPzmQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=267d3qacFeg

Wish I was @ the REAL E3 launch to get that new 360!!!!!

I Saw some cool stuff on the conference but I don’t think it’s that revolutionary, Kinect I mean. My girlfriend is going to love all those fitness games

Worst E3 conference ever (maybe even worse than Nintendo 2008). Shame on you, M$.

ESPN interests me…but I doubt it will be available outside the US anyway. Other than that the whole show was Kinect without revealing the determining factor of its success – the price.

I agree NaturlBrnKlr it’s unlikely that we will get the ESPN “App” and again makes our subs outside the US less and less value for money. The Kinect stuff bored me to tears and was even Cringeworthy in places.

As for the free giveaway that was just shameless

Pure fact is that the company has never made it this far into a generation. Massive failure, hope all land on there feet in the coming years.

No comment on the about turn of Joyride going from free XBLA to Kinect retail, just some rather enthusiastic woman spinning in front of the gaming world!

Most of it was either predicted (Halo, GoW, CoD) or a mass of Kinect blah. ESPN was a pretty smart move, shame I don’t have much interest in sports… or live in the US. The only notes of interest for myself was the MGS Rising and the unveiling of the new 360, despite the Italian MS site jumping the gun and letting it out of the bag!

Too much focus on games where women and children can move about a bit, not enough for manly men like me. Stop trying to poach the Wii market and start giving a toss about the proper games that got the Xbox to where it is today in the first place.

I meant to say “proper gamers”, but what I typed before holds true too.

I’d like the hour I wasted back. The only parts worth watching was the beginning and the last 5 minutes.
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Kinect made me want to vomit, especially Kinectimals. Before anyone calls me a cold-hearted bastard, know that I have a real cat so I don’t need a virtual one, and I thought the Tamagachi craze died years ago. Everything else was a pure Wii knockoff. Kinect Sports? Kinect Adventure could be named Kinect Sports Resort. Not only that, but watching what is obviously close to a final build of Ubi’s YourShape fitness program revealed Kinect has an input delay (hey, just like the EyeToy did) which doesn’t bode well when you’re talking about games that judge you based on synchronization. Kinect is absolutely embarassing and, judging by the PPT slide of launch titles, I have zero interest in it.
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Nothing about the future of Xbox Live Arcade. Nothing about Summer of Arcade 2010. Nothing about last year’s big “arcade” announcement, that has, so far, fallen flat on its face, Game Room. Not enough details on the new system. If it’s shipping today, I’d like to know what’s under the hood and why I should consider it.
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This press conference was so bad, all Nintendo and Sony have to do is show up and unveil at least one solid new title, and they beat Microsoft by a mile.

Having to say ‘Xbox do this, Xbox do that’ is going to get old fast. The man who said it’s easier than a remote control because “you don’t know which is the pause button and which is the fast forward button” put me off instantly! Give me a remote control every time; it’s so much more precise for playback control.

The tiger petting ‘game’ was appauling, it belongs in a zoo or natural history museum to keep kids entertained for the two minutes that they’re waiting in line. Everything else was classic Wii fare. I didn’t have a clue what was going on in the GoW demo. The only good thing was the Halo first person footage.

looks sexy…but ill stick with my launch console,hasnt messed up on me yet(cause i take really good care of it) and its going strong

So was the thing at Galen Center with Cirque Du Soleil on the 13th because I got an invitation but it says on the 14th at 7:00.

@Jonners117
Wait for the update which will allow you to specify your own name for your console!

I set my DVR to record it and got 90 minutes of CSI.