Most overlooked thing of E3 thus far

Microsofts Games on Demand service. It's the same as installing a game on your HD, you just never have to put in the disc!
Starting in August, new games will be added every week starting with the big hit back catalogue titles such as Mass Effect, Bioshock, Assassins Creed. Although you couldn't install games like Halo 3, Microsoft plans on fixing them so that they can be downloaded.

This is pretty awesome, and may just justify me going out and finally buying the retartedly overpriced 120gb HD.

Yeah, but I'd like to play my disc games without my disc. :(

I am stoked by this, I'm totally gonna buy up that old shit...I  hate discs and I love the laziness of switching games from my couch.

I installed Halo 3 just fine... I still find Matchmaking games quickly, and get no problems due to the install. Anyway, I hope they don't JUST do old 360 titles, it would be cool if new titles were lauched on the system at the same time in the future.

You can install Halo 3, but it makes load times longer. I wonder if they'll actually re-engineer it, or if they'll just hope nobody notices.

the retartedly overpriced 120gb HD.

I think what was overlooked is the instant 1080p streaming, how does this work??

Seems like an awesome feature, although I will have a bitch of a time convincing my mom that putting in her credit card number to the Xbox is safe.

Its going to happen for all games in the future ... so why not start it now.

Can't stop it, only delay

Its nothing new though. Sony have been doing it for awhile so its just been overlooked i guees

@Gorillawhat:

Uhhh, no, that's not what I mean at all.

I meant that with a console tied to an account, it's much easier (and less intrusive) to setup limitations than it is on a PC. My point was that any kind of DRM present on a console will never be as intrusive and anti-consumer as a PC due to the fact the entire macine can be tied to an account and monitored much more easily.

And yeah, it is DRM, DRM is a very broad term "Digital Rights Management" any and all methods used to prevent illegal access to software/digital content can be branded DRM.

I did misread your original post and in my haste, assumed it was to do with full downloadable games. You were right, currently it would not be possible (not even with some weirdo brand of DRM, as there is no way of differentiating one copy of a game from another) but if they had set out to allow this, it would easily be possible to do that. You have a unique code printed to a location on the disc, then verify it against the network to see if the code is currently installed on someones machine. Then you simply set only XBL enabled machines to be able to use this feature, and require the machine to connect to the internet to do it. That would tie it to your account.

Still having a 20-gig hard drive, memory is a treasured commodity and I can't devote almost half that space to a single game.

Valve should just team up with MS and put Steam on the Xbox.

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN THOUGH.

Sounds interesting !

Since I have a 20 gig hard drive, this would fill things up far too quickly for me. Until memory is much cheaper this ability may as well stay in the future. Of course, im sure people with Elites love this

It's all about price. Will downloadable titles be cheaper than buying a physical copy at retail? The answer, most probably, is no. Will games that are downloaded onto my Xbox 360 come with a disk, manual and case? No. Will I be able to trade my downloaded games or resell them on Ebay? Probably, No.

The only thing going for digital distribution so far is conveniance. Price is more important to me.

Longevity is important to me as well. Nobody has yet been able to commit to their downloadable content being available in the next system generation, whenever that happens.

Let's see.  We're going to undoubtly get a new console a couple years (this gen is going to be longer than last--> we would've been hearing about new ones by now) 
       so therefore, obviously , I want to keep my disks so I can play it on that. 

Can't say I'm a fan. I really don't like Digital Distribution and yes I've bought a few arcade games and some content from the Xbox Live Marketplace but if I'm going to drop $60 on a game, I want the disk so I can play it a friends house, trade it in later, borrow it out to friends and in the case my account gets stolen or what ever, I still have my games.

Are we allowed to say the things we thought got overlooked - because for me that was Uncharted 2. Call me biased on the franchise (I absolutely am) but I think that demo they showed during Sony's E3 conference was just mind-bogglingly amazing and I've barely heard anyone mention it since.

So for me, that's my thing that got overlooked.

Battlefield : Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943

IGN BF:BC Interview & In-game footage

Gamespot BF 1943 Interview &  In-game footage

That's all the coverage this games got this far. They should have been in the limelight much more!

I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want Sony to introduce PS2 backwards compatibility for all PS3s, that would be amazing.

Demon's souls was pretty over looked it'd be nice to see that game become popular.

Wanna know why nobody cares?

We all have 20GB drives.

Most overlooking thing? I mentioned my game choice already in another thread (The Crystal Bearers) but for a "thing" I'll go with the Motion Plus. Even resident Wii haters Destructoid absolutelly love it and believe it all works as intended based on their hands-on. Yet few seem to have bothered experiencing it in-depth. Wtf? It's technology you can get your hands on next week, as opposed to some vague time frame of 2010!