E3 News & Notes

Eightdevil+ wrote:

Looks good but those touch buttons worry me. I’ve had a few things with them and they all eventually started having sensitivity issues. The HDD being proprietary once again makes me think of Apple.lol

So basically new Zelda uses a lot of the same controls as Wii Sports resorts. Which was quite nice once you get the hang of it.

Nintendo beat MS hands down this year.

Beyond any shadow of a doubt. Though, it wouldn’t have taken much to do so. xD

I feel like I’ve stepped into some bizarro world where MS was showing nothing but casual crap and alternative controls, while Ninty was showing actual cool, real games and an awesome new handheld console.

TYKES!!! All of the new stuff from Nintendo!

My two anticipations are Zelda: Skyward Sword (Of course!), the new Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Donkey Kong Country Returns… (tykes…)

Really, I’m not all too hot about Kirby’s true Wii debut, tykes… I was really expecting his copy abilities to look awesome on his next game, but I can adapt with the yarn thing, I hope…

Oh, and Golden Sun, ss well, tykes. Looked really good…

Here comes Nintendo. Better hang on to something people.

–The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii announced and demoed!! (Wiimote/Nunchuk usage/demo of controls and new items like the Whip and Beatle): 2011
–NBA Jam coming to the Wii
–Mario Sports Mix (Wii): 2011
–Wii Party announced (13 party games/70 minigames for user Miis): Holiday 2010
–Just Dance 2 announced (8 player): Fall 2010
–Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS): Holiday 2010
–Goldeneye 007 (exclusively for Wii): November 2010
–Disney Epic Mickey announced and demoed (Wii)
–Kirby Epic Yarn trailer (Wii): Fall 2010
–Dragonquest IX (DS): July 11th 2010
–New Metroid Other M trailer: August 31st 2010
–Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii): Holiday 2010
–Nintendo 3DS revealed! (3.5 inch upper 3D widescreen with a slider to control depth, updated graphics, analog censor, slide pad, play 3D movies from hollywood studios, full 3D images without glasses, 2 camera lenses to take 3D pictures, etc)
–Project Sora unveils itself to be Kid Icarus Uprising for the 3DS.
–Nintendogs + Cats (3DS)
–Revealed that there is lots of 3rd party support for the 3DS

I’m really looking forward to the new Zelda game, that new Kirby game and Golden Sun.

I’m most stoked of all about the 3DS and Kid Icarus game on it.

Hopefully Sony will not just focus on the MOVE. Though I have a bad feeling they will. Maybe get a few Sony games ,but really I expect focus on the MOVE. I could see focusing if it was something really amazing ,but in the end its been done before.

psychopuppet wrote:

This was a complete continuation of the epicness of 2009. Absolutely happy to be a Wii owner right now.

psychopuppet wrote:

I’m sure there’s going to be least a modest chunk of the Move demoed but the real meat will likely be Infamous 2, Killzone 3 and much more awesomeness.

didn’t sony use the interactive visual control using the eye toy?

Sony was a hard press conference to keep up with but I accomplished it for you people.

–20 PS3 games in 3D by March 2011
–Killzone 3 “Hellgan level” demoed in 3D: February 2011
–Killzone 3 to have PS Move functionality at launch
–Games to be in 3D include The Sly Collection, Motorstorm Apocolypse, eyepet, MLB 10 The Show, The Fight Lights Out, Tumble, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat, Gran Turismo 5, Shaun White Skateboarding, NBA 2K11, Tron Evolution, etc
–Sorcery “Move” demo: Spring 2011
–Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 “Move” demo
–Heroes on the Move announced
–Standalone SP Move controllers will run for $49.99 while PS Move “Navigation” controllers will run for $29.99
–Playstation Move Sports Champions bundle–$99.99
–PS3 Sports Champions Move Bundle–$399.99
–PSP games include Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker, Invizimals, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, The 3rd Birthday, Ace Combat Joint Assault, Gravity Crash, Patapon 3, Piyotama, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, etc
–Over 70 PSP games to be out by November
–The Tester Season 2 on PSN this fall
–Little Big Planet 2 “New competitive modes” demo
–Playstation Plus program announced
–15-20 PS Move games at launch; 40 games by the holiday 2010 season
–Metal of Honor Limited Edition announced! This will include a remastered version of Metal of Honor Frontlines. Exclusively for PS3: October 12 2010
–Dead Space 2 demoed (continuation from Microsoft)
–It was announced that DS2 and Dead Space Extraction will be PS Move compatible
–Portal 2 trailer: 2011
–Final Fantasy XIV trailer
–More Playstation games coming out include NCAA Football 11, Start the Party, EchoChrome II, True Crime, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Castlevania Lord of Shadows, Dead Nation, DC Universe, etc
–Gran Turismo 5 trailer
–Infamous 2 trailer
–Twisted Metal announced! “Online Team Deathmatch” demoed (exclusively for PS3)

You forgot to mention the appearance of Kevin Butler! =o

It was pure win. :'3

The Kevin Butler speech kinda saved sony’s conference, not a whole lot to be excited about, except of course Twisted Metal. I really hope their saving the big guns for TGS coming up later in the year.

Nintendo 3DS, day 1 purchase.

There were a lot of 3DS games they didn’t actually announce during the presentations, but instead put up on http://e3.nintendo.com/3ds/, like:

Animal Crossing
Mario Kart
Paper Mario
Starfox 64 3D
Professor Layton

Not included on that website is the http://ds.ign.com/objects/077/077881.html

Sony’s conference was pretty bland imo, I wish I’d just skipped out on all but the last quarter of the show. InFamous 2 and the new Twisted Metal look awesome.

Move looks pretty gimmicky, much less so than the Kinect though. Sorcery looked like a pretty solid game.

If the Heroes on the Move game turns out to be any good, I may considering investing in it–Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, and the Jak and Daxter series were among my favorite platform games of all time.

Wow, I missed it this year! Bummer, thanks for posting the stuff guys.

Rai wrote:

Would have to disagree, I was absolutely amazed by PS3’s Move demo and how it was so precise, much better than Wii or kinect(imo). Especially with how it will be used with SOCOM, Killzone 3, Resident evil, and a few other fps’. The fact it will actually be able to control a sword and shield for dungeon crawlers is also amazing to me. I just cannot wait for this, the immersion into dungeon crawlers will increase by so much, ill find myself having been playing games for days before I notice.

The fact Killzone 3 will have 3D ability will blow my mind, expecting a lot of seizure cases to pop up this coming year as well :laugh: .

MrBoomba wrote:

[quote]Rai wrote:

Would have to disagree, I was absolutely amazed by PS3’s Move demo and how it was so precise, much better than Wii or kinect(imo). Especially with how it will be used with SOCOM, Killzone 3, Resident evil, and a few other fps’. The fact it will actually be able to control a sword and shield for dungeon crawlers is also amazing to me. I just cannot wait for this, the immersion into dungeon crawlers will increase by so much, ill find myself having been playing games for days before I notice.

The fact Killzone 3 will have 3D ability will blow my mind, expecting a lot of seizure cases to pop up this coming year as well :laugh: .[/quote]

3D does seem kind of cool, but won’t you need a 3DTV to play it? I know I won’t be buying that, since I just got a new HDTV about a year ago, and Cracked.com - America's Only Humor Site | Cracked.com. I really hope this 3D buzz ends soon, because paying $5,000 just to see optical illusions which have been around since early cinema is downright silly.

The only bad thing about the 3DS is that it will sell well, further giving the entertainment industry the idea that 3D sells, when in fact the system would sell just as well without the gimmick.

Flat screen tv’s were very expensive to start with. Give it three years, and the 3D televisions will be down to the $1000-3000 dollar price range, depending on size and special features. It is a bit early to have to much out for 3D televisions, but the tide is coming.

The way it is beng shown i’m not fully sure if you will actually need the TV for the 3D. My guess is no, but that is probably just my hope and low budget speaking, lol.