I actually walked past my wife and told her I'd be getting a Bone seconds after they announced BC.
Then I watched the rest of the conference, and I'm thinking i'll save a few quid and not bother.
Rare's game looked interesting, but nothing about it screamed I need it in my life or I'm missing out. Ashen was intriguing too. But that's it for me.
I know the old joke is MS just regurgitating Halo, Fable, Gears & Forza, but it's not a joke anymore. I absolutely have no problem with anyone buying and enjoying these, but I'm 35, a bit jaded, and need something extra out of these genres now. I've played these things too many times.
I think the 360 might be my favourite console of all time; I still have about 35 discs I bought for it that I've not got around to playing, so BC would be appealing, but I remain unconvinced by the One's exclusives.
Halo is looking tired, Gears looked boring (devs still going with cover shooting when Vanquish told them how to move the genre forward strawberry floating ages ago), Tomb Raider had all the spectacle to hoodwink people they are merely imputing a few button presses every few seconds, and Fable has gone into a rather strange place indeed. Trading on the name, surely? Give that game a different name, with the same FTP concept, and I expect it will do half the downloads.
And Forza? Driveclub was a strawberry floating mess at launch. An embarrassment. But I preordered it, stuck with it, and by Christ it's a thing of beauty now. No excuse for a piss-poor launch product, but it's at a level now where I really don't need to buy a XBone to get Forza 6 involved.
I guess I'm a little gutted. I really wanted to see something in the conference to get me to rush out and get an Xbox One for Xmas, but I think Bloodborne has done something to me. I'm not prepared to accept a lack of innovation now. It's why multi format Dishonored 2 is more exciting to me than multi format Fallout 4. And No Man's Sky is the most exciting thing I want to play ever. I want new ideas and things to do, not the same gameplay mechanics, but prettier.
A very solid show from MS, but not a show that makes me grab their newest console without hesitation.
And that's my essay