It's personal frustration of course.
I won't blame them if they gain the success they'll aim for with Kinect, but compared to the lineup within the first years, the plattform just offered nearly nothing for me in the end.
Whenever I see Mattrick I'll see the strategy shift that threw me off my favorite plattform.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to it and hope they worked on their 1st party front and finally offer a decent diversity of genres.
Kinect isn't going to be a big focus for first and second year. Even when kinect ramps up, as long as the system is generating profit (substantial, hopefully) then Microsoft will continue investing big money into the portfolio. Xbox 360 did jump off a cliff in terms of 1st party offerings. They basically only made big AAA games and that was it. But do note how quickly every thing changed after RROD.
Cliff is gone, but the team is obviously still there.
It's been 2 years since Gears 3. So they've had plenty of time to be working on SOMETHING.
Microsoft probably has them locked up for a new IP, if I were to guess.
I hope it looks as good as their infiltrator demo...that looked superb
Epic are wizards, but you can't be 100% sure what they will do. If I were them, id be branching out... Have a big multi plat IP and a big exclusive. Unreal Tournament 3 for PS3 was such a big disaster- so they need to set their mark early