You’ve read our Live Blog of Microsoft’s CES Keynote, now here’s the impressions. What a waste of time. No product announcements, no talk of what we can expect over the next year. It was an hour long boast session. “Look what we did”.
I don’t know if the HD-DVD cancellation cut out any announcements or what, but this was pathetic and boring. I’m going to go on record as to say it was the worst keynote from Microsoft ever.
Here’s what happening, in a nutshell. They showed off Windows Live and all it’s components, then bragged about how cool it is. Said how cool Xbox 360 is and how many consoles and Live subscriptions they’ve sold. Talked about how cool Mediaroom and Zune are. Showed off the Zune Social website. Showed off Sync in cars, then Windows Mobile (followed by bragging about how it’s the best). Gates shows one thing that could happen in the future, but it’s very far off and not extremely interesting. Robbie Bach challenges Bill Gates to a game of Guitar Hero 3, but they never play. Show ends.
Yeah, waste of an hour. Thanks guys. I’m going to go back to waiting for Live to work.
[Update] For the record, since I’m already hearing people (via other means) telling me I should look at the whole perspective and not just gaming, that’s what I did. I expected a lot more in terms of Windows Mobile, Windows Home Server, etc on what we can expect in the next year or so. Did I expect any major 360 announcements? No. I knew Ultimate would never happen and I know this isn’t the platform for major gaming news releases. From a complete perspective, I was very underwhelmed.
u are utterly gay asshole
Gates was on stage with Slash and Robbie Back, not Balmer.
@Action Bastard – thanks for catching that. It’s been a long day and I did a lot of typing
No prob. The keynote pretty much summed up my feelings on the 360’s ‘08…meh.
I think the 360 will have a solid year. Best year in video game history like Robbie Bach said? Not really. But still very solid.
I didn’t expect much of anything in terms of gaming from the keynote. I expected a HELL of a lot more in other tech devices, but they didn’t give much information about anything coming soon.
GDC will bring the game/360 announcements, but from all we’ve seen there is no indication they will meet or exceed ‘07. Just my 2 cents.
sucks that nothing has really been announced.
@ John:
Its fun to type curses on Dad’s computer isn’t it?
It sounded like Gates was giving lip service to his company rather than making any ground-breaking announcements.
Did he announce how the city he was in rocks?!
I just want to give a shout to ….. Springfield!! Yeah!!!
LOL
@nostars – It really was. IGN has an article strikingly similar to mine where they used the word “infomercial” to describe the keynote. I found it very fitting.
I HAS TEH COOKIES
Why people like John and Mister Needles feel the need to post useless garbage is beyond me, but their parents should kick them off the computer. stop cluttering the comments section.
On topic: I was thinking infomercial too. CES isn’t really where they’d announce a new Xbox 360, even if it was coming. But I expected more in other areas
Mr Nobody – exactly how I feel. With all the leaks of Windows Mobile 7 into, I expected a lot more in that area in particular. Windows Home Server info as well. But alas, nothing