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so thankfully every press conference we've gotten since ei has been getting better and better and Microsoft's this year is one of their best they've ever done there was a lot of great information this year and there's really two main fronts that I think they really knocked it out of the park with first off just like last year's e3 they did an excellent job of focusing on games games and games we saw a lot of gameplay for a lot of titles we already know about but was much more extensive and in-depth than we've seen at a lot of other conferences this year so far we finally got some gameplay for record that looked amazing we got to see that same trailer for battlefield one again filefast c15 looked awesome but at the same time was kind of about the best gameplay demo ever live Tekken 7 looks fantastic sia thieves was this great montage of lots of people experiencing it for the first time and actually made it look like legit a bunch of fun and the game played for scalebound was incredible showing four players riding dragons tackling a huge boss to top this off we got a lot of new game announcements as well Forza horizon 3 which looks beautiful Dead Rising 4 which was leaked ahead of time but still looks fantastic we also got the state of decay - a dedicated went card game from CD Projekt RED and a new indie title by the name we happy few which looks really interesting but what really made this a successful and very strong press conference for Xbox is how they spun the news about the fact that pretty much every game that comes out from now on isn't going to be just on the Xbox one it's now going to be Xbox one and Windows 10 exclusive which when this was first announced a lot of people were pissed because it basically means why should I on Xbox one if I could just get a high end gaming PC and the way they countered it was by really focusing on this idea of play anywhere this very optimistic viewpoint of you can just get games you want and play them on whatever platform you like the idea being that if you get a game on Xbox one you can also play it on your PC or vice versa sharing save data achievements all that information as long as that game is exclusive to Xbox one and Windows 10 which is really genius because it's basically saying yes we understand that the Xbox one is no longer going to be an exclusive system for any games but if you still like the simplicity of a front room home call you can still do that and games you're gonna run both that and your PC if you have a dedicated setup we also got a handful of other announcements that weren't directly related to just hardware or games I think my personal favorite being the announcement of the design lab where you now have the ability to customize your own Xbox one controller for 80 bucks or 90 bucks if you want to give it h with your name on it now one thing I did find a little odd about this conference though is how much competition Microsoft was kind of giving itself we got two new hardware announcements which we all basically saw going in which was the Xbox one slim which is already up for pre-order and project Scorpio which basically just gave us a lot of hype talked and promised it's going to be a more powerful Xbox one and will be due out this holiday 2017 and what's so weird about this idea to me is that since they focused so much on the idea of games being on Windows 10 and Xbox one they basically simultaneously said to us hey there's a new Xbox one you can buy now there's a more powerful Xbox one that you can buy a year and a half from now or you can just focus on PC gaming and leave the entire economy alone so they're giving people a lot of choices all at once which I'm just curious how it's gonna affect sales of each individual platform which really isn't by any means a bad thing it's just that Microsoft is giving us a lot of options which it's kind of awesome so all in all it was an excellent conference easily one of the best ones they've had definitely on par with last year and it's been really interesting to see what Sony does later today to try and counteract this height