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| quote: | Originally posted by DaveT
E3 was ROUGH this year to work at....I was up for 68 hours at one point. Between last thursday and wednesday night I had 12 hours sleep TOTAL!
Anyhow, I setup webcasts for all three of the major press conferences...here's how I saw them..
1. Microsoft: Microsoft's conference was w/o a doubt the most unorganized I've ever attended. And it was so un-energetic...most peeps were falling asleep.
Order of events at the MS briefing: Gears of War 2 & Fable 2 --> Let's show the world how much we are willing to blatantly take Nintendo's idea...down to the art style of our characters --> Final Fatnasy XIII ... capping off a press conference with a multi-platform game, even if it's FF13, and now announcing anything special for X360 with it...not a good way to leave a good impression!
2. Nintendo: It's obvious their direction has shifted majorly....focus is moving onto casual gamers. A real, real smart business decision as the casual gaming market...a market which gets little press is EXPLODING and the market range is IMMENSE. So much potential business wise...even if I'm not a fan of it....they are gonna capture the casual gamers market and the regular gaming market (party games have already proven successful with hardcore gamers)
3. Sony: Sony is doing it's own thing and focusing on its own properties. I think Nintendo is going continue to lead because of the direction it's going leaving them in one market, and the other market being a war with Sony vs. MS. MS is in the lead now, but Sony has the future titles. There's zero doubt about it. So many exclusives coming up...so many of them look amazing. X360 is already starting to see a lot of rehashed properties and unless they get some new IPs, Sony is gonna be storming after them in the next couple years.
Once those exclusives start coming out...and once Sony drops the price of the PS3 one more time, I think we are gonna see a HUGE shift...Sony is real real smart on when it's pulls the switch on business moves. I think they are waiting for the right time for that price drop to lay the smack down.
That all said, each system has its own advantages and disadvantages. X360 for things like Xbox Live (Marketplace) and other thing. PS3 for the extra entertainment in Blue Ray movies and the new movie/tv show services it has. Wii for it's interactivity and family focus....just saying that in terms of numbers, I think Nintendo will be on its own in one area while Sony is really gonna start hurting MS and overtake them at some point unless MS changes direction.
If you were at the press conference at E3, you will see how lost MS is...how worried they are. I think they are trying to do too much and it's just going to hurt them in the end.
The changes at executive levels at MS are becoming really appartent..... |
Very cool to hear from a person who was actually there.
Nintendo's E3 was awful from my point of few. Maybe kids and casual gamers will dig Wii Music and all that party game shit, but me, I get tired of that within 20 minutes. I still haven't bought a Wii and probably won't, mainly because the system is infested with non-hardcore crap that wares off in value within 1 or 2 play sessions. Not my cup of tea. I know many who own Wii's and barely touch it, if only for the occasional Wii Sports session when friends are over. Thats the problem...the system is aimed TOO much at the "Everyone" crowd, and not at the 25 year old male who has some time time to blow on a Saturday afternoon. Who plays Wii Bowling by themselves?
Microsoft didn't have much new to say. Sure, the FFXIII announcement was big, but like you said, its a multi-platform title. They are getting something the PS3 is getting too. No bragging rights there. Fable 2 and Gears of War 2 are both sequels to games I didn't dig much in the first place, plus they were announced a while back, so I didn't go crazy over those. The NetFlix partnership is irrelevant if you ask me; movies were available on Live already, so this isn't some revolutionary new thing that'll change the 360.
Sony impressed me the most. They introduced new properties and new features on the PSN. Maybe some of those features are already passe on Live, still, they are NEW things that got people excited. I felt like Nintendo and MS didn't have much new to say, just a lot of reiteration and reannouncing of things we already knew about. None of the big three had a truly, all-out impressive E3 showing, but Sony had me the most excited, especially with both inFamous and MAG.
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