Today was a sad day in the history of gaming, very few game announcements, sub par shows, and just a complete lack of the wooing that gaming does for me.
This afternoon, the Microsoft Conference - All started out well with videos showing gameplay of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Metal Gear Rising. a bit of Halo:Reach.. Then... Microsoft couldn't keep away from Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal, about 80-90% of their entire conference was showing what it could do, but in the process, it revealed Kinects flaws, lag of around half a second, lots of the Kinetic demonstrations seemed to be prerecorded, such as the Joyride gameplay footage where the woman would be swinging her arms back and forth but the car stayed on a perfect straight line, the Forza 4 footage, where the man stepped back but the camera angle went to the right, he quickly corrected himself to follow the camera. Eventually the conference came to an end, and Microsoft announced the new redesigned Xbox 360, obviously to try and steal some of the PS3s momentum. This conference was so terrible, I felt ripped off and I don't even own an Xbox 360 This gets my FAIL rating on the E3 2010 Report Card.
Electronic Arts - Ah Yes, Good Ol' EA, Never letting us down to give us a few games to look forward to. They have announced a nice Medal of Honor with amazing looking multiplayer, Bulletstorm, Gun Club, Kinect StarWars, and my favorite, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, which goes back to the NFS roots with police chases. For this, the EA conference gets a B+ on the E3 2010 Report Card
Ubisoft - Ubisoft, Ubisoft, Oh what can thy offer us in epic proportions? A wii vitality sensor knock off? YES! A Laser Tag knock off? YES! A game that failed long ago and getting a revival even though no one really cares about(Driver)? YES! How about a fitness game for Kinect that was also shown during the Microsoft conference and using the exact same script? OH GOD YES! But AuTo! What about the good? Well my dear readers, how about some Ghost Recon, some Rayman AND ASSASSINS CREED BROTHERHOOD???? YES YES OH YES! *ahem* Even though these three games are beautiful, they just cannot make up for the lackluster performance and boring conference, Ubisoft, I am sorry to say, but you didnt hold my attention after the Assassins Creed gameplay, and for that, you get a D+ on the E3 2010 Report Card.
Stay Tuned For Day 2! Can Sony and Nintendo turn this mess around into something spectacular? Well, if they dont.. I can officially say there will be a game market crash, all thanks to novelty control schemes
The PC system requirements for Star Wars Galactic Racer are officially revealed. Check minimum and recommended specs to see if your PC can run the new Star Wars racing game.
The specs are really approachable for a lot of pc players. Hope the game turns out good.
Total sales for Nioh 3 have surpassed one million units worldwide, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team NINJA announced. It reached the one million mark faster than any previous Nioh game.
Sony Interactive Entertainment's next console, the PS6, will not be digital only, according to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden.
Not trying to be rude, but I think Layden has absolutely nothing to do with Sony for almost a decade at this point.
I don't even know why people doubt its gonna support discs too. Of course it will. Once Sony realized they could sell it as an add on, the whole conversation is moot at this point. Because Money. I doubt they will ever stop supporting disc.
And their competition has no such add-on for their digital consoles, meaning if you got the cheap one for christmas, there's no hope of upgrading it to be able to play your old games. I'll gladly take the $100 add-on approach to that.
If this gen is any indication there will totally be a digital only PS5 model. Let's not kid ourselves here. There's going to be 2 SKU's again.
I think what he's saying is that there will still be options to upgrade the digital only model to include a disc drive, much like the current PS5 slim.
No I'm fairly certain they will do what they do now, 1 sku with an expansion slot for a drive. It simplifies production and gives people the option to get a drive later if they want.
I would be fine with a BD drive add-on they started with the slim if it means more power for a more affordable price. better yet, if they allow it to use the PS5 BD add-on by default. it's not like the games run from the disc anyway, and it's totally doable. would be a huge win-win situation for both Sony and gamers
that tomorrow is better than today...It can't get any worst tomorrow right? Wait a second, Nintendo is tomorrow...sh1t. I was very disappointed in MS press conference today.
time for sony to jack e3 away
This years E3 is exactly as underwhelming as every other E3 in history.
It seems that Microsoft really is just running out of steam. Every year their E3 gets worse.