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Prognosticating E3
With E306 getting underway, basically tomorrow, Game|Life has some predictions of what we'll see from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. From the Nintendo piece: "Remember the amazing surprise when Twilight Princess was shown off at E3 2004? Nintendo's press conference on Tuesday will be something on the order of two dozen of those 'holy shit!' moments, all strung together. Fanboy tears will flow. Nintendo will make some surprising announcements about online for both DS and Wii. The 'nunchuck' attachment for the Wii will also have an accelerometer inside it -- it won't be able to detect the position of the controller relative to the screen, but it will be able to detect tilt."
Although I am not a gamer myself, I've had a couple of consoles along the time and am very pleased with the 'nunchuck', as is clearly, to me, the most natural controller ever.
Nowadays is hard to find someone that has never played with a console, but, back in the day, when the nes was the rage (no ataris for us Europeans!) almost everybody who was playing for the first time... o first month in some cases... actually moved phisically the controller as like they where trying to 'push' the Italian plumber, or the Contra fighter, or whatever.
I'm in no way a nintendo fanboy, but I hope it works.
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I am just wondering how many people will be following the Nintendo conference, whether via webcasts or the usual website news (mind that F5 key!). Will it be the "largest" event related to gaming on the net?
I think every gamer, whether a Nintendo fan or not, is eager to see the Wii in action.
The megaton cometh?
Well E3 last year well...sucked...it sucked due to Microsoft getting the indutry changeing to a new console way the hell too soon and they let just about anyone in last year. Stocking clerks, joe-gamer, cosplayers, ya know...people that should be reading gameing sites who really have nothing to do with the industry. As such, far too much stuff was "behind closed doors" and the quota of "swag" to "tits on legs" was far out of puportion. *shoots Gizmondo and Nokia and evil glare for starting the problem* This year however is a launch year which is going to get each of the three companies in a bit of a war for attention shall we say? 360 didn't launch last year (they showed a few games on G4s) and they are going through a "relaunch" right now because it's doing so badly (there is a market outside the USA). I certainly hope it's as good as the last launch year we had. I just hope I'm not deaf afterwards again (2000 was the last launch year I think...E3 has gone downhill ever since...I almost went home after the first day last year).
I'm tired of media types berating the access normal people can get to what's supposed to be a tradeshow. Trade-show, IE: for vendors and retailers, and more specifically for vendors to trade ideas, and even more specifically to pitch products to retailers. That's not what E3 is anymore, but that's beside the point, and media access is to blame for that change.
In all honesty, as a tradeshow stocking and retail clerks have more of a right to be there than anyone with a press pass. They might, however unlikey this may be, actually influence an ordering decision through the internal processes of their companies. And people with a press pass have no more right to be there than the general public. E3 isn't about that anymore, as evidenced by the fact the media gets special access. It's now an event which includes and is somewhat about the general public and the distribution of information. You can bitch and moan about the innefficieny of information distrubution due to the tenious ties needed to get in, but quite frankly I'm sick of all the E3 is going downhill crap. The media is entirely responsible for that.