With The Game Awards, Playstation Experience, and Nintendo Directs, are E3’s days numbered? Should company’s forego expensive booths and keynotes for direct-to-consumer shows? And was The Game Awards better than last year’s VGX?
Plus, we discuss all the news of the week including Street Fighter V, world premieres from The Game Awards, the new games unveiled at the Playstation Experience, and much, much more.
Plus, Colin and Brian give their hands-on impressions of The Crew, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Game of Thrones Ep. 1: Iron From Ice, Monopoly Plus, and Secret Ponchos.
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The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
It's hard to say. I'm not sure if it will be obsolete. But one thing is for sure, it is starting to lose its influence in the game industry.
With the companies doing their own mini shows not to mention other shows like Pax, Gamescon, and TGS, that leaves E3 with less content than it may have had if these events didn't exist.
No. E3 is a press event. Which is not to be confused with a consumer expo. And GameCom is a consumer event that grows every year.
No, it's not going to become obsolete, because E3 has something more going for it than just the event itself.
E3, in and of itself, has become a sort of "yearly milestone" for the gaming industry.
It's not so much about how the events that happen during that time take place anymore; Nintendo's way of doing E3 for the past couple of years, with growing success each time as they mixed both in-person appearances and digital content on top of unusual stage performances like the Smash tournament, shows that just doing an on-stage show isn't the only way E3 can, or even should, be done every single time.
No, E3, now, has become more of an event that symbolizes what I like to think of as a traditional "gamer's holiday".
Regardless of what or how is brought to the show, when gamers hear the words E3, what comes through foremost is a sense of it being "that time of the year again".
A time when we become eager with anticipation, because we KNOW that it's the scheduled time in each year where we expect to be seeing many of the biggest and most influential showings from our favorite companies.
I mean, think about it; how many times, during discussions about what to look forward to on our favorite consoles, have we heard someone utter the words "just wait till E3 comes around again!"?
More than enough times, I'd think, to get across the point that E3 has transcended a mere event.
It's become, as I said before, a landmark in every year where gamers have become accustomed to anticipating the biggest bits of news and reveals for their beloved hobby.
It's not just a show; it's a yearly hype-raising phenomenon.
A land-mark where the industry's big-wigs gather to try and show us why we stick with them, and an event that basically just celebrates the games that make our hobby as wonderful as it is.
Granted, some years are better than others, and all 3 companies have had their stumbles at various E3's, but it's the spirit of E3 that allows it to continue to live on.
The promise it brings of new games and new reasons to stand up, smile, and say;
"I'm glad I'm a gamer!"