I’ve been starting to watch the press conferences for E3.
The Nintendo E3 presentation was excellent. However, Nintendo is really treading on thin ice, as the *only* thing it seems to be relying on for its success is the gaming experience brought forth by its new controller. The graphics on the Revolution are not spectacular, but nonetheless workable. Equivalent to 2003-2004 PC graphics.
They showed their controller in action as a baton managing an orchestra, as a sword in a fight, as a gun in an FPS, and as a quasi-racing wheel. I’m completely in love with the concept, but nonetheless this overreliance on the controller is foolish. With the exception of a game where you conducted an orchestra, there was really nothing innovative on the gaming front by nintendo.
I also saw the Sony PS3 presentation. I was quite dissapointed. Unlike Nintendo, who displayed alot in terms of gameplay footage, all Sony had was “Gran Turismo HD.” It’s essentially GT4, but in HD resolution. And they talked about the resolution on and on. They also showed trailers for a few games, such as MGS4 and Gundam Mobile Suit. Things that we already saw to some extent or weren’t impressed much with.
They had nothing to really show off the graphics capabilities of the PS3, which I found quite dissapointing. And much of the 2 hour presentation was actually quite worthless – they had videos of people saying why they liked the PS2, they explained the online model for far too long, and the main host of the presentation simply talked his BS for too long. The whole presentation should have been 1 hour long – not 2.
Apart from that, I watched the Halo3 and Gundam Trailers. Halo3 was a cinematic, no gameplay footage. Think Halo2 trailer. And the Gundam game? Looked like a fairly poor game.
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4 responses to “Goods on E3 Presentations…”
So were you there?
— Mr. DOS
No, I’d like to pretend I was though :p
I started downloading all the press conference talks I could, and get some insight. 🙂
You did a good job, and had me fooled… until I remembered student = lack of money (steriotypically) = how did he get to E3? 😀
— Mr. DOS
Good article. It is nice to hear someone rationally approaching Nintendo’s controller for once. While I hope it is a genuine success, there are two things we know about the games industry:
1) People like the same old. Madden wouldn’t be the best selling title every year otherwise.
2) Nintendo has a history of crappy periphrels and weak consumer design. Virtual boy, the N64 controller design, and the GBA micro are just a few of their misses. Hopefully this is more.
That said, the Halo 3 trailer is actually all in game engine! Check out bungie’s site for the full scoop…