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How Microsoft decided to play its poker hand at its E3 press event

Microsoft has a solid line-up of games and hardware coming in the next 18 months, but it’s going to have a tough time competing against Sony, which had a stellar showing at its press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big game tradeshow in Los Angeles this week.

David McCarthy is head of Xbox operations in charge of making sure that Microsoft plans its game operations properly and provides the proper resources to execute on those plans. GamesBeat caught up with him on Tuesday, a day after Microsoft’s press event at E3.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.