My Sony E3 Grade

I'm ready to get flamed...but. The Sony Press Conference was the most boring of the bunch. I'll get that out of the way first.

Having Kevin Butler saved them a bit, his appearance seemed to be there just to appease the fans and fill some time up.
The Sony conference seemed dated, because the Nintendo and Microsoft pressers were before Sony's. So saying thing's like "Sony is leading the way with 3-D" was kind of out of place. Seeing as how Microsoft and Nintendo are going a different route.

To start with we get the Killzone 3 footage. I noticed or thought it was pre-recorded gameplay footage. Why do I think this? Because it never showed a side by side of the guy playing and split screen it with the game on screen. Every other presser had this and even the Sony one had this, just not on Killzone 3. The actual gameplay if you didn't know it was Killzone 3 you would have thought it was just a bland, generic Shooter to be honest.

I also heard the word 3-D around 100 times. It made my head hurt to be honest. Even yesterday I said to Sony fans. Expect 3-D to be pushed because Sony has Billions invested in the tech and stand to lose a lot if it fails. Expect to see Move. Which is exactly what we saw for most of the show. 3-D and Move.

On to Move, we got a price. Now if you want the full Move experience it's going to cost you $150, true the one wand piece is only $50 but if you need the whole setup it's going to cost you $150. Not to mention if you want to add controllers it's going to get expensive. I think Microsoft did the right thing in holding back their price on Kinect, because now they can put together a good bundle and I can definitely see a Kinect/Xbox 360 bundle being cheaper the the PS3/Move $400 bundle.

From what I saw the Move is more accurate then the Wii mote, but not as accurate as Kinect. It seemed to lag behind. I can see this being an issue with using it online as well to be honest. Also I a certain a person using a standard controller is going to have the advantage over someone using Move in an online game.

The Harry Potter looking Move game looked okay, but pretty typical as far as graphics and effects go.
Then we get a Multiplatform Tiger Woods Golf Game? I scratched my head on this one, I know they want to show Move but why a Golf game? I would have rather seen a 1st party game or something like that.

The pacing on Sony's show, especially the first hour and fifteen minutes seemed really, really slow.

Kevin Butler did some good comic relief, but in all honesty if you are going to make fun of the other companies, at least make sure your company has the better show first k?

The kid from the movie "Role Models" was a solid addition to try to market to the American Audience and a way to try to show "Ethnic diversity" among Sony users.

Overall their weren't many surprises and I certainly wasn't surprised by anything, they did have the Valve guy out at the end talking about a game sequel to a game I've never even played. It wasn't even exclusive or anything. I think Sony kind of traded places with Microsoft and bought some DLC timed stuff and some "Limited edition" things, but overall I was surprised that a company that has 16 1st party developers didn't really have many games to announce?
I kind of called that a while ago, they were going to push Move and 3-D and not much else.

Some of the stuff they used, like PSN numbers were not fully explained, they just used them to make themselves "Look good" 80 million registered users is not the same as 80 million unique registered users. 80 million users on PSN is easily explained, I mean 35 million consoles and I would say only 65% go online, so they are adding all the different PSN's people create. Personally I have 10.

Overall I think nobody can "Win E3" but Sony was unimpressive.
I heard how Move was going after "Hardcore gamers" and then we see it works with Killzone 3, which was the only "Hardcore game" I saw listed, the rest weren't even available to preview and the names and trailer made them look a lot like...PARTY GAMES.

SO both Move and Kinect have 1 "Hardcore game" apiece. Killzone 3 and Forza 4 respectively.

We heard nothing on Socom 4, Resistance 3, Uncharted 3, Infamous 2, Yakuza 4, Demon Souls 2, Agent or anything rumored to be unveiled by Sony. Unless I missed something at the very end we saw nothing on GT5 either? My feed cut out at the very, very end though so I could be wrong.

I don't think after Sony's E3 they have much in the way of bragging right over anyone. Nintendo IMHO had the best show. I'll get more into that on my Nintendo blog.

*-Good-*
LBP2
Killzone 3
Move price
Kevin Butler

*-Bad-*
Move price $150 for the whole thing is a bit much, $400 for a bundle, not sure how they expect to sell this to a Wii crowd who pays half that and have Mario and Zelda.

Slow paced
3-D
3-D
3-D
3-D
3-D
3rd party multiplatform is worthy of stage time now?
Nothing shocking, nothing big happening.
Average show IMHO

I give Sony a B-