Keanu, comebacks and a new console: the 10 biggest stories of E3 2019

Keanu, comebacks and a new console: the 10 biggest stories of E3 2019

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jun/14/10-biggest-stories-e3-2019-cyberpunk-2077-final-fantasy-vii-project-scarlett

Keanu Reeves lent Hollywood glamour to Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII wowed everyone and Microsoft revealed (limited) details about Xbox One successor Project Scarlett

Next to some of the games console announcements of E3s past – such as Sony’s $599 PlayStation 3, or the Wii U’s confusing reveal, which left attendees wondering whether it actually was a new console – Microsoft’s Project Scarlett announcement went pretty well. It’s coming late next year, it’s a new Xbox with four times the power of the current one, and it’ll launch with Halo Infinite. But the absence of a name for the thing, or a fancy box to look at, felt strange. Instead, we got a lot of tech specs and a video of the product team talking up the machine’s capabilities. It’s good to know a new console is coming, but what we really want to know is how much it will cost and what it can do.