Thanks, it seems to be becoming a yearly thing!

Brilliant posts there pb

Alfonse the Turtle wrote:
> No Kid Icarus? Well, that's the pits Hahhahahahahahahhaha!


Did no-one get my joke or was it just ridiulously lame?

pb wrote:
> I'd argue that Sony's wasn't too bad.  The PSP is picking up
> again, even outselling the DS in some regions, hardly a washed up
> handheld.  have you seen God of War on it?

Only because everyone's probably already bought a DS by now :-D Nope i haven't but then i absolutely hate games like God of War.


> Resistance II looked great and it was good to see DC Universe
> and inFamous.  Ratchet and Clank looked fairly good as well, if
> only more of the same.

Resistance looked like a Half Life 2 clone that was on rails which i hate. The camera also looked awkward with the guy playing it not being able to get it set up properly as he was going down the stairs. The big massive monster looked great though.

DC Universe looked terrible, like an even worse version of City of Heroes if that's possible.

I'd argue that Sony's wasn't too bad.  The PSP is picking up again, even outselling the DS in some regions, hardly a washed up handheld.  have you seen God of War on it?

Their video service actually lets you buy videos, rather than just renting.

Resistance II looked great and it was good to see DC Universe and inFamous.  Ratchet and Clank looked fairly good as well, if only more of the same.

It does depend on what games you like, really.  All three formats had something on show that I'd pick up.  None had any big surprises, but it's nice to have dates confirmed.  I've been waiting for the Wii Music game since launch and GOW2 is getting better and better every time I see it.

Utterly woeful E3 this year. Ninty's effort made Sony 2006's effort with giant crabs seem actually decent and Sony spent more time talking about a 8 year old console and a failed handheld rather than their current main system which all they seem to have for is a bunch of rubbish games and a load of media hub crap no one will use. But hey, they're bringing tv and movies into the living room, cheers Sony.

Only decent announcement in the whole thing was Microsoft getting FFXIII as well

No Kid Icarus? Well, that's the pits Hahhahahahahahahhaha!

Seriously, E3 sucks so far.

Glad that's over, my fingers hurt!  Probably some of my own personal bias in those reports, but there you go...

pb wrote:
> Biggest news: God of War 3 is coming to PS3 (Really?!)  trailer
> and everything.  Nice, but not exactly revealing anything.

Oh the shear joy in my heart! =D

Nintendo:

First thing first, get in an expanded audience mention.  Lots of pics of old, young and every demographic.  Not a surprise, really.
First title announcement is for Shaun White Snowboarding. Ah, and Shaun White turns up to demo it with a Wii balance board.
Balance Board is programmed in from the start, not a gimmick.  Suppose it gives those of us who got Wii Fit another excuse to have shelled out for the board then! “Exclusively for Wii by year end" nice.

Hello, Satoru Iwata talking handhelds, a new one perhaps?  Ah no: “really big change." In the industry.  It’s expanded audience again. “suddenly the userbase has expanded. It has [also] changed the seasonal nature of videogame hardware sales…More than 200,000 DS units sold in Europe a week, over 700,000 Wii systems sold over the last three months in the US.”  Apparently, surprising to me he says that the Wii version of Guitar Hero III is outselling all others.
Quick dig at everyone stealing their ideas.  Ho!

Animal Crossing up next.  City Folk on Wii in 2008.  Yes, this year.  Good.  Looks like old Animal Crossing, but in a city.

“ Speak microphone is a community microphone that lets every person in the room talk with another roomful of people anywhere in the world".  Should have had that one ready before Smash Bros, really, but better late than never and good for Animal Crossing I guess.
New games, at last! A Wii Clone Wars game, can’t wait to see if sabers are properly mapped to Wii Remote controls. Raving Rabbids 3 with the balance board (well, they’re certainly selling it!).

Call of Duty World at War comes next.  Looks like there’s online play with and against.  Does actually look quite nice (as long as you don’t put it right next to a PS3 or 360 version!)

Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades is coming out to upgrade the great but annoying to handle GH: On Tour for DS.
Pokemon time.  Wouldn’t be Nintendo without a little Pokemon, now!. New game is called Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Alma.  It will be launched on November 10th in the US (so probably in the UK sometime next year!)
Ooh. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.  Ah, it’s a DS game.  Still, better than nothing.  Liberty City, modern day.

Wii MotionPlus – enhances the Wii Remote precision.  Thanks to reggie for showing that one.  Maybe we should be asking why it needs an add on to be more precise?

Yey! Wii Sports sequel time.  Wii Sports Resort comes to the rescue.  It’ll come with a Motionplus so you don’t have to justify buying one seperately.  Frisbee, Jetski…er…sword fighting.  Going to "launch globally next spring

Wow!  Wii Music.  No need for additional peripherals.  Balance Board for Drum pedal, Wii Remote for drums, guitar even Sax and Violin.  Cool.  Mind you, would have to buy more remotes…

Hm, Wii music allows everyone including people who can't read music and can't play real instruments to have the feeling of playing real music.  Not sure how different that is to Guitar Hero or Rock Band, but sounds interesting.  Over 50 instruments too, together?  Apparently there will be modes for people who can’t play at all and those that teach you to play some instruments for real. Four Players at once. I’m in!  Only thing is that it mostly seems to be classical and Nintendo tunes.  Hm.

Well.  That’s it for Nintendo too.

Here we go with the other 2 main speeches:

Sony.

More sales figures: "1.7 million PS3 users worldwide (Folding@home)".  Got a Guiness World Record for that, apparently.

Resistance 2, eight-player co-op and 60-player competitive.  Bloody huge monsters too, like Cloverfield on acid. 

More sales figures, but this time presented in Little Big Planet.  Nice twist.  6.6 billion dollars of revenue in 6 months during 2008.  23 billion dollars estimated.  1.8 million PS3s sold this year, 1.6 million PSPs. 

LBP out in October 2008.  About time I say!

Single sign-on for all the PlayStation Network will be online this year, across PSP, PS2, PS3 and PC login, which will make things a bit easier.  Good idea for remembering a password.

Even more figures, over 180 million downloads since the PS3 launch, he says. 40 days to hit 5 million PSN accounts, 10 million accounts since.  Will the figures stop?

Ooh, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest For Booty on PSN this year for $14.99.  Nice.  Starts where Tools of Destruction finished.

More PSN titles: Ratchet & Clank, Crash, Fat, Pixeljunk Eden, PAIN Amusement Park, flOwer, Siren Blood Curse,Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic

Top Gear TV on GT5 Prologue from August 1st.

The PSN's video delivery service made up of: Sony Pictures, Fox Film and TV, MGM, Lion's Gate, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Turner and Funimation.  USD 1.99 per episode of TV in SD, 2.99 to 5.99 for HD rentals and up to 14.99 for HD purchases.  Yes, that’s right, you can buy stuff as well as rent.  It will also go straight on PSP if you want.  So when is it happening?  Tonight apparently. Blimey.  Mind you, that might only be in the US.

Resistance Retribution, new PSP Resistance game out Spring next year.  Nice.

Life with PlayStation out this month for news and weather (nobody point out to Sony that Nintendo have done this since day one!)

DC Universe Online.  Screens and a speech.  Looks lovely, but have to wait to see if it delivers on heady promises.  "Imagine being able to create your own superhero or supervillain and enter the DC universe.   Imagine being a villain and helping all the inmates at Arkham Asylum escape to attack the Bat-cave."

80GB PlayStation 3 is going to be the focus now – no idea if that will mean 80GB Europe PS3s though.

Biggest news: God of War 3 is coming to PS3 (Really?!)  trailer and everything.  Nice, but not exactly revealing anything.

inFamous next, another superhero game.  A bit MMo and a bit Crackdown.  Not bad.

Now a new game: MAG: Up to 256 players, lovely helicopters, airplanes mucho tank action.  Possibly like a bigger better Warhawk?

And that's it for Sony.  No really big surprises, but some nice footage and DC Universe looking interesting.

Apparently Nintendo are releasing an add-on for the Wiimote that will give a better 'motion-sensing experience.' This thing will work out the exact distance between the remote and sensor bar instead of estimating it like it does now.

Oh and Luetchy sent me this which gives you an idea of the new 360 blade design and the 'Mii' feature.

Stupid pacific time =|

Konami will be previewing Pro Evo 2009 at E3

Urgh accessories.......

Edgy wrote:
> Has the new Wiimote 3D motion sensor been mentioned yet? :)

Nope.  I'm wondering if everyone has it confused with the motion sensing they developed for the Lips microphones?

Has the new Wiimote 3D motion sensor been mentioned yet? :)

Microsoft's speech went something like a longer version of this:

MS started by talking about Guitar Hero and Rock Star, plus COD4 and GTA4 as if they are exclusives (just like their last conference then).

Video for Fallout 3 and then a playable demo being shown.  Exclusive to 360 and PC.

resi Evil 5 being demo'd for the first time. Peter Molyneux pops up for Fable 2, out in October.

Gears of War 2, looking even nicer and 5 player live co-op.  Out November 7th.

Sales figures talk "Hardware is at 10.3 million US sales compared to 10.2 million of Wii and 5 million plus ahead of PS3"  Make of that what you will, but a bit embarrassing with the Wii not so far behind.

Lots of stuff about new movies in US and Europe and TV content too. 

New Avatar system (see Mii on the Wii) incorporated in to the Dashboard.  Completely revamped dashboard seems to have split people 50/50 on whether it's good or a mess.

New version of Geometry Wars, taking bits from Galaxies and the past games.  Looks nice but more of the same really.

Portal sequel - Still Alive, going to be exclusive to 360.  Could be a good seller on Live.

Banjo and Viva Pinata 2 both looking very nice. Original Banjo game coming to Xbox Live and Pinata 2 is out in September 5th.

New version fo Scene It! with live downloads (sounds like they're trying to do a film version of Buzz) and new controllers.

Codemasters game "You're in the movies." which uses the live vision camera to create dodgy B-movie footage of you and friends doing silly stuff, then sticks it on to the backgrounds, blue screen style.  Interesting idea if it works well.

Lips is next.  It's basically a 360 singstar but with motion sensitive microphones so you can...er...wave them around and stuff.  Best bit:  You can sing to your own songs taken from your MP3 collection or ipod.

Rock Band 2, nothing we didn't know: Coming first to 360 and you can export most of the songs from Rock Band into the sequel.

Biggest news to close with:  FFXIII is coming to 360 as well as PS3.  Seems to be a shock for some, but most had heard the rumours already.

and that's it until tomorrow...

I only just caught a bit of Resident Evil 5, Fable 2, Gears of War 2 and the new interface. What did I miss?

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