The most interesting thing to come of this whole thing is that now -- only a day after the revelation -- people all over the Internet take the rumors as absolute truth. Now, even if it comes to light that Mr. Gerstmann was fired for killing children or eating kittens, since so many of the denizens of the 'net have latched onto the rumors as reality, they have essentially made their perceived reality THE accepted reality simply by force of numbers.
As a result, there's nothing but accusations and angry villagers ahead for Gamespot and Eidos.
And philosophically speaking, perhaps this gives evolutionary, biological credence to the archaic practice of some cultures who ate the hearts/brains/blood of their enemies to absorb their strength.
I mean, that idea had to come from somewhere, right? What better inspiration than a subconscious knowledge of the human organism's own basis in the biological structures of other, lesser entities?
With the death of the original E3 -- and the issues that brought its death about -- game companies decided the whole thing was a huge waste of cash.
While PAX subsists on the reputation of its creators and their friends to draw in ridiculous crowds of what are functionally fanboys and GDC will always survive as the high-brow convention almost aimed directly at press and developers, there simply isn't room for a convention that just appeals to the general public. Microsoft knows it, Sony knows it, but of course Nintendo is trying to leverage its new "games for everyone on the planet" image to draw in Ma and Pa MidwesternFamily so they can show off the latest iteration of whatever they want you to point a stylus at this time.
It will be successful for them assuming they actually show off something new, but I predict this will be the only year the show actually occurs.
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The most interesting thing to come of this whole thing is that now -- only a day after the revelation -- people all over the Internet take the rumors as absolute truth. Now, even if it comes to light that Mr. Gerstmann was fired for killing children or eating kittens, since so many of the denizens of the 'net have latched onto the rumors as reality, they have essentially made their perceived reality THE accepted reality simply by force of numbers.
As a result, there's nothing but accusations and angry villagers ahead for Gamespot and Eidos.
Agreed.
And philosophically speaking, perhaps this gives evolutionary, biological credence to the archaic practice of some cultures who ate the hearts/brains/blood of their enemies to absorb their strength.
I mean, that idea had to come from somewhere, right? What better inspiration than a subconscious knowledge of the human organism's own basis in the biological structures of other, lesser entities?
With the death of the original E3 -- and the issues that brought its death about -- game companies decided the whole thing was a huge waste of cash. While PAX subsists on the reputation of its creators and their friends to draw in ridiculous crowds of what are functionally fanboys and GDC will always survive as the high-brow convention almost aimed directly at press and developers, there simply isn't room for a convention that just appeals to the general public. Microsoft knows it, Sony knows it, but of course Nintendo is trying to leverage its new "games for everyone on the planet" image to draw in Ma and Pa MidwesternFamily so they can show off the latest iteration of whatever they want you to point a stylus at this time. It will be successful for them assuming they actually show off something new, but I predict this will be the only year the show actually occurs.