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Reggie talking to Geoff Keighley on YouTube@E3 earlier today makes for an interesting watch.

My bad, was thinking Wednesday because I've got an exam that day apologies @Goron3 and thanks @drahkon for the correction

17:00 [on Wednesday Tuesday]

Should have played into XBone with the Xbox One R. No doubt the marketing team have missed a trick here.

Reggie has confirmed that Spotlight will be 25 minutes long, with more news to break during the first hour of the Treehouse Livestream. Even more confident now that Spotlight will be focused mainly on Nintendo's first and second party games, with third party games to take centre stage during he first hour of Treehouse (which would also be a great show of solidarity between Nintendo and third party publishers). The promise of Spotlight reveals and first looks could not excite me more.

Huh. Well, I guess that's one hour less of sleep I'm getting tonight. Can't help but wonder why this is; any ideas, anyone?

Considering the success of BOTW last year, and with Odyssey coming this year, this was always going to be Nintendo's -- in terms of software -- E3 to lose, especially factoring in the success of the Switch so far. They've been sending mixed messages since the start of the year, but have started to clear those up and seemingly anticipate, and react to, consumer feedback. This would send the most crystalline of messages, in my opinion, and would be interesting to see simply because of the dichotomy between the Xbox One X's reveal and a potential VC shadow drop: here's the most technically impressive gaming console compared with we love gaming - as you know we're all about gaming software at our core - and we know you do too. I know which message puts a smile on my face, at least...

But seriously, the name: Always a great thing when your newest and most powerful console is compared to the Wii U... I'm half expecting Sony to do what they typically do whenever a new console is revealed before their E3 show: react; a £50 price cut to the Pro - and a £20-£30 price cut to the Slim - could easily sink MS's One X ship upon launch. I'm all for pushing technology and the boundaries of what a game console can do, but I'm in agreement with all of you that the time for a console like this - perhaps not in terms of graphics or processing, but in terms of statements such as "the most powerful console ever" - should have come years back when the original One was revealed. I fail to see how this puts Sony in anything other than a better position than they were before: the One X simply being in production will likely drive down costs for the components of the next generation of consoles in some way, and the technological leap from this generation to the next will be much greater from the Pro to the PS5 than the One X to the Xbox Two (especially so if they plan on selling effectively the same hardware again). It's Sony's reaction that will again define a new set of consoles, and how no-one has made a move to get themselves out of such a position yet (looking at you as an early example of this, SEGA) to allow for themselves to take centre stage - and keep it from Sony - is perplexing to me. I'm a PS4 player, yes, but I hold no bias here: I want the One X to be successful so that it drives future innovation in the industry, and yet, at this price point - despite what the specs say - I don't see how they can compete with Sony at all. They were already losing, and instead of trying to catch up (they'll likely cut the One S price to make the Xbox family still accessible to a large audience, but an Xbox iteration of the Pro at a lower price point - aggressive pricing similar to the tactic used in many of their older consoles launches - would have made more sense to me in such a case as this) they've instead tried to pave the way to the next big technological leap which isn't required - for us as fans and gamers; for developers; or for themselves - at this stage of the console generation. Over to you, Sony.

Probably saving that for Nintendo's Treehouse. Would make sense considering everything shown early on - especially ports like this - are at risk of being buried by the tidal wave that will be PlayStation's briefing, as well as Ubisoft's too.

I'm very interested in this. Never got into Destiny, but this looks a lot like Avatar's Pandora being scouted by Iron Man. Probably my second most anticipated new E3 game so far (still got the rest of the week to go though!).

Bethesda countdown featured a starry sky and a "jump to hyperspace" style cut. Also has the same starry background going on in the background and during the walk through 'Bethesdaland', huh... Starfield confirmed?* :P And that Link skin for Skyrim on the Switch (accessed with a Link amiibo no less!) looks swell, as does the Master Sword! Also appears as though there may be some motion controls available. *Everything shown was due for release this year, which is a great move by Bethesda. They teased Starfield throughout their entire show in a number of ways; I'm 99% confident that it will be revealed to us at E3 2018 and will release in Q4 2018.

Woah, that's pretty big. 22:42 exclusive games:total games is a pretty good number for a briefing like this.

I guessed this name tongue-in-cheek a while ago, and while it sounds cool, I agree, it's not the most practical name (I mean XBOX One X can be used to spell out XBOX, which is also pretty nifty), especially given how such poor naming constructs had massive ramifications for the successor to the most recent console to cross 100 million units sold (the Wii U). I think it's an odd move overall in terms of naming, so they need to find some other ways to differentiate it (besides simply specs, size and colour) to the rest of the One family.

Well, no-one ever said size matters (when it comes to game consoles at least), but it being the smallest Xbox to date is rather nifty.

If this isn't used in advertising, this entire thing is sunk.

Yeah, the Scorpio coming out at that price seriously puts PlayStation and Nintendo in a better position to push their preferred consoles (the Switch and PS4 Pro, respectively) this Christmas season than it does Microsoft, in terms of numbers; if Switch production gets kicked up, both it and the Slim could be knocked back to $250, and the Pro could be kicked back to $300 (I actually expect PlayStation to announce such a price cut coming into effect in response on Tuesday morning, or later in the year at TGS). Likewise, of course, the Xbox One S could receive a permanent drop too. From my point of view, the Scorpio's tech is coming a bit too early for it to be a major success, with 4K TVs/monitors unlikely to have a justifiable price tag to more casual gamers and TV users, at least, for a few more years, and Xbox could be facing an uphill battle for a while. However, I do think there's a long-term plan regarding the Scorpio and the next generation of consoles (pure speculation) as the technological leap from generation to generation narrows: very simply, the Scorpio could be future proof with such processing power available, and, with the next generation of consoles expected in 2019/2020, could, technically speaking, be capable of playing next-genartion games (obviously at a lower fidelity compared to the PS5 and Xbox Two, but more likely similar to the difference in fidelity between the Xbox One and Scorpio, with processing and visual capabilities being upgraded). Just my speculation, and of course we'll have to see how it pays off in the years to come, but it would then put them in a position to launch a new console later on than the PS5, meaning that we could then see them return the favour to Sony by undercutting their launch price substantially. It would have been relatively easy to go head-on with the Pro with a similar console, put the time, research and development put into Project Scorpio fills me with some confidence that this isn't at all a "mid-generation refresh" and part of a longer and larger strategy to pass PlayStation in the years to come. And, of course, great titles, with marketing, if not console, exclusivity is required for this all to start off, so I'm very intrigued by what we'll see later, that's for sure.

Probably the only panel I'll be skipping out on this year (I have college first thing tomorrow morning and I don't own an Xbox One). My current plan is to wake up half an hour ahead of the Bethesda panel tomorrow morning to catch up on Scorpio/Xbox news, and this is actually the most excited I've been for an Xbox E3 panel in quite a while. They're exuding a confidence I don't think we've seen from them since the start of this generation of gaming hardware almost 4 years ago, so I hope that means there's a lot of great news and surprises in store for tonight!

Looks like Bethesda's The Evil Within 2 may have just been confirmed in a Reddit advert; Typical grain of salt applied; results may vary.

Thanks kindly (tried sharing the app link) Still nothing on the Deluxe Edition coming to Amazon UK... :/

[TWEET]857582795748757504[/TWEET] For those unaware, Burton has previously voiced Cloud in projects such as Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, World of Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts, and I believe that it's likely that this tweet is in reference to VO work for Remake. Now, I don't want to say "yes, Remake is 100% coming this year", because I'm not that confident, but in regards to the first episode being released this year, I believe it's still on the cards. It's the 20th Anniversary of the original, and the 30th Anniversary of the franchise. Whilst many involved have been quoted as saying that the game will not be releasing for years to come, and that the studio is changing hands for this particular project, I find it hard to believe that the game got far along enough to warrant bringing in voice actors with the game's release not on the cards for a few more years; but then again, this raises the question as to whether or not comments were made regarding studios involved and a release period were in reference to the first episode of the game or the final, complete form of the game. It's possible that SE wanted to take future episodes further than the first episode, hence bringing it in-house as reported, and I find it hard to believe that a game like this, after 2+ years of development, is going to have its first episode - probably a 20-hour slice of the full cake that is the game - canned and started over again. It's possible that his VO presence was in reference to KH3, mind, but I just wanted to throw my two cents out there. There's no doubt we'll be getting something regarding FF this year - simply due to it being the 30th Anniversary - whether Remake is present or not. A collection, perhaps?

That looks a lot further along than they've been letting on. I guess this means no KH3 at E3 this year, so perhaps their D23 content opens up a bit more on just how far along this game is, and possibly -- possibly -- even start to narrow their sights on a year of release (taking into account what they've said/we've seen regarding a release date, I don't think they're ready to narrow it down that far this yet).

My bad. My eyes scanned straight over to Mario World and I never thought to look west of there, apparently.

Interesting read on the behind-closed-doors demo by IGN (minor spoilers ahead).