Microsoft:
- Xbox 360 price drops: $249 Core Pack, $349 Premium Pack, $399 Elite Pack - won’t be until a few months, but is clearly a response to Sony’s PS3 price-drop, and due to much cheaper chips (to keep the 360 from overheating and save manufacturing costs).
- Rock Band becomes a timed-exclusive for the Xbox 360 - a first for Electronic Arts as a publisher.
- Huge change for Xbox Live memberships. Possibility of free online play, or huge upgrades for Xbox Live Gold subscribers.
- Halo 3: Game is presented in fine fashion with outstanding music arrangement by the Video Games Live crew and Marty O’Donnell.
- Microsoft bores people to death with showing Xbox 360 compatibility with Windows Vista
- Square Enix shows commital to Xbox 360 platform.
- Too Human and Saints Row 2 shown in fine form.
- A downloadable demo for one of Microsoft’s biggest game is available for free directly after their keynote (Prediction: Mass Effect?)
- Gears of War 2 mentioned and possibly shown in trailer form.
- Revealed that GTA4 will have specific content only found on the Xbox 360, and not on the PS3.
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