21 July, 2008 | 8 Comments

Thoughts post E3

Well E3 is over and done with after another year.

Microsoft’s new 360 experience, Nintendos MotionPlus and Sony’s graphs done in LittleBigPlanet.

A slightly disappointing E3 this year, as nothing really new was announced. LIVE avatars look fun in a comic sense, games should in theory reward players with specific cloths that are from the game or promote the game.

The biggest thing for me was really some of the newer games, “I AM ALIVE”,  “Deadspace” and the like. The software side of the consoles isn’t going to change much for Sony and Nintendo but for Microsoft, a whole new interface was unveiled. Making the 360 more user friendly and finally ….. FINALLY putting “play disk” closer to the start point. What could be wrong with that?

Oh of course Americans get specific content with the “NetFlix” partnership. I suppose when it “finally” comes to the U.K it will be LoveFilm. Which I have no trouble with really, i just hope it meshes with NetFlix nicely when streaming movie together with the new “party” system.

By that I mean that the 360 will now have an upto 8 player party system, consistant over all 360 games and the new dash. With your party you can watch a movie together “if” the other people are NetFlix subscribers aswell. I suppose that can be mighty fun, as watching movies with friends general is. You could voice-over the entire movie with made up dialogue.

Nintendo really and I mean really need to pull the proverbal finger out for the hardcore crowd. GTA for the ds, will be aweful. Handheld GTA’s are always terrible. They need to unveil a new Zelda game and do it with fireworks and Reggie (Reginald Fils-Aimé) dressed up as princess Zelda.

Sony need to learn that having probably the best game their system will ever have (MGS 4 : review here) does not excuse them for doing nothing. They need another AAA game and soon. Resistenance 2 “could” be that game, but it looks like their aim for an “epic” sized game may leave much to be desired. Quantity over quality is never a good thing.

So what do you lot think? Should Microsoft win the best of show? or should Sony?

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  • http://www.bigtallbill.co.uk bigtallbill

    I don’t think either of them have won my affections from this years E3. Microsoft are Vistaizing the 360 and copying ideas from Nintendo. The PS3 is so expensive, And not enough games for me to justify it, That being said the PS3 should be in its prime next year.

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Alan Hamlyn

    The PS3 was slow in production, has hardly any games to play, and costs a small fortune. Yay lets all wait around for them to start making decent games…

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk elderan

    Well they have actually started to make games that are decent-”ish” in appearance. MGS4 was really quite amazing, not so much in the MGS universe but what they heck.

    Microsoft’s “stealing” ideas is a bit meh, I don’t really think that is what they were trying to do. Even Nintendo feel flattered that Microsoft adopting the avatar system. Making a personalised avatar across all 3 major platforms.

    I doubt the PS3 will pick up sales next year, they have nothing giant planned and I can’t see anyone getting excited over Killzone 2

  • http://www.bigtallbill.co.uk bigtallbill

    Do you mean the avatar system will work cross platform from my 360 to my Wii?

    You can’t deny MS don’t copy idea’s they’ve been doing it for a long time. Vista incorporates a huge amount of Linux features and characteristics :P

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk elderan

    So what if they share features that improve the service? Who actually cares that much? :P

    The HOME avatars are too realistic, the Wii’s Miis are too doll like. The LIVE avatars are in the middle. Which is probably is the most appealing choice to make.

    All I am trying to say is that, that the 3 main consoles all share features. All ammo for the fan boy and girl crowds to fire about aimlessly.

  • http://www.bigtallbill.co.uk bigtallbill

    I don’t think it’ll improve the service, as much as provide another distraction from playing games. MS are doing the usual of “over-fixing” something. Sure the interface may be faster and use less resources (which is great) but they’ll add more features to counter it. Almost like MS has split personality’s.

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Alan Hamlyn

    Microsoft should be a trend setter, not stealer. At least it should be a very different version. As for the more features they’ll add to bloat it, when you get a company as large as microsoft, it happens, to many people, too much input, conflicting ideas.

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk elderan

    aye some of the things being put in do seem a little odd. I would of preferred that the avatar were not included, but if need be there can be avoided.

    The new UI being faster and having the closeness of the disc game selection will at least appease me.

    Ah well too many cooks do spoil the broth, but at least the broth will be good enough to eat.