[aldo_14]

sony are more than capable of force feeding their audiences with great big spoonfulls of BS. 


anyway, what's at discussion here, is not whether a not a game has an old mulleted fart with a gun in his gob, or whether microsoft's heating system has better games than sony's new toaster, or whether or not your new nintendo just wii'd on the carpet, it's about the games quite frankly, and if somebody can show a screenshot without making a snide comment, or a failed attempt at humor, or references to how spectacular a game is and/or how crappy it'd be without any bias whatsoever, then it'd be a nice discussion.

Now, my assessment on things:
Sony:
they have some nice looking games coming out, nice looking, but i'd actually wait until they're actually released here, and i'm able to actually look at them before i personally decide whether they're bullshots or not. few final fantasy games, one MGS, misc shooters and whatnot, sounds like a reasonable first release schedule for the PS3. glad they got rid of the batarang, too.
note: MGS4 sounds to be the last of the series, and Raiden it seems has taken the cyborg ninja mantle from gray fox.

Nintendo:
Since they changed their console's name in a marketing masterstroke (free publicity is a wonderful thing), nintendo just go and do what they what they always have done, their own thing.. the wii remote's ability to sense motion, would bring a nice, active role to gaming, like swinging a sword, tennis raquet, or drawing a bowstring, just remember to hang onto the remote.

Microsoft:
the second big juggernaught of the console gaming world, it looks like they're gonna go all out, as per usual, with the 360's release titles less than spectacular (GRAW was great, but not earthshattering, IMO), gears of war, and other little tidbits, and even though it's denied to even exist, i'm holding reservations on "halo 3" it might suck, yet it might not, the proof is in the play, naturally.

PC:
now, the big winner is of course all the PC titles that've been announced, supreme commander, Dark crusade, the new FEAR, just to name a few, this end is worth getting giggly over, IMO, because, it's the PC, and it has something for everyone (who can afford the gear to run modern games), the question being, will they all shape up to expectations?

one thing that i've learnt, screenshots are all good and fine, but in order to grab an informed opinion on a game, you haveta sit down and actually play the damn thing, eyecandy maketh not the game, there's been quite a few "pretty" games that have failed to meet expectations when it comes to the gaming.

I can't really comment at the mo because it's too early, but the PS3 to me doesn't have that impressive a lineup.  Like the X360 when it launched, there's not really anything I'd buy one to play.

I would expect MS to announce/preview Halo3 at E3, though, to try and deflate Sony as much as possible.  Although AFAIK Bungie were supposed to be working on a different IP, which would raise some...questions about the whole scenario.  I'm looking forward to the Nintendo briefing tonight, though, in the hope of getting an actual euro release date for the DS Lite.

[Dough with Fish]

Time for some Nintendo lovin'

First off, Super Mario Galaxy

Secondly, this one I can't wait for... YOSHI'S ISLAND 2!

[Deepblue]

Yoshi!!!!111222

[Dough with Fish]

One more piece of DS goodness, Super Paper Mario DS So far I have only seen the Japanese site here with the screens, so I got no real info on it. But still!

[aldo_14]

right, I can't find where the hell I posted this (as a rumour) previously - too many bloody threads! - but the Wii 'classic' controller is confirmed; http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/e3_2006/wii/controller.html (see bottom).

http://www.gamershell.com/news/30138.html; DS trailers.  Been looking for this (Starfox DS for ages).

[Ulala]

"New Super Mario Bros" looks pretty fun, and I hear it's really well done. I'm really looking forward to Starfox DS and possibly Kirby DS as well. Can't go wrong with Yoshi's Island. Super Mario Hoops looked fun, and I'm sure it'll do a fantastic job of taking advantage of the DS's online play through Nintendo WiFi. Not sure about Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, although it would appear to have an A Link to the Past feel to it, which interests me. These, and the brain games, hopefully a new innovative Tetris someday soon..
I never thought I'd bother with a handheld again, but looks like I was wrong. 

[Deepblue]

DS Lite looks too good to pass up right now.

[Grey Wolf]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl, featuring Metaknight, Pit, Zero Suit Samus, Pit, and Solid Snake.

[Mefustae]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl, featuring Metaknight, Pit, Zero Suit Samus, Pit, and Solid Snake.

Aaaaaaaaah yeeaah...

[Ulala]

DS Lite looks too good to pass up right now.

Indeed it does.

[aldo_14]

DS Lite looks too good to pass up right now.

Indeed it does.

Of course, if you're in Europe like moi, you're a wee bit screwed.  Me, I'll have to 'convince' the next person I know going to the states to grab me one....

[Ulala]

In the US, the DS Lite will be out in a few weeks, seems like Europe shouldn't be far behind. I'll cross my fingers for ya.

[aldo_14]

In the US, the DS Lite will be out in a few weeks, seems like Europe shouldn't be far behind. I'll cross my fingers for ya.

Bugger that, buy and send me one! 

I've heard end of July / start of August suggested, to coincide with the new Mario games' release.  Although I guess that depends on the demand levels elsewhere; I've no doubt we'd have seen it sooner in the US / Oz were it not for the astonishing levels of demand in Japan.

[Rictor]

New Golden Axe! Wheeeeee!
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/707/707410p1.html

But it's only for consoles. 

[karajorma]

New Golden Axe! Wheeeeee!
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/707/707410p1.html

But it's only for consoles. 

First thing I've heard from E3 to even get remote interest from me. I miss the old style beat/slash-em-ups. The whole genre descended into Street Fighter/MK/Tekken style 1 on 1 combat and apart from Gauntlet Legends never appeared to have the slightest interest in coming back out again.

Fact that it's console only relegates this back to the only slightly interested pile. Unless this starts off a whole new trend of "proper" beat-em-ups I'm not interested.

[Deepblue]

Dissapointment ahoy! Yoshi's Island 2 is being devloped by Artoon.

[Mongoose]

I don't know if anyone here would even care about it, but I've just heard that Uru Live is going to be revived through GameTap.  Great news for Cyan, and for all the fans; for the past four years, they've not only kept the game alive through fan-run servers, but they've also managed to create a vibrant, and even alive, online world.  For anyone who hasn't heard of Uru, it's like nothing else out there; it's almost an MMO-adventure game set in the Myst universe.  I haven't gotten involved with it myself up until now, but hearing this news really makes the $10 per month seem worth it.

[aldo_14]

Spong (so take this with a grain of salt) have a number of rumours on the Wii pricing justnow;
$250 launch price (bit more than expected, maybe, but still by far the cheapest; I guess this would imply a UK price in the region of £200?) - there's a school of thought that Nintendo didn't release the price at E3 to wait and see what the other 2 were doing.
VC games; a few $ NES, $5 SNES, $10N64 (I think I might grudge rebuying games I owned before, but it's not too bad considering the price of budget console games - I think Yoshis Island would be worth £2.65 - hopefully UK prices would retain the $ cost so we can take advantage of the strong exchange rate)

Anyone glancing through games sites will notice that Ken Kuturagi has been saying that the PS3 is really too cheap because it's Blu-ray. Yep.  Say no more.

An aside is that DS + Wii connectivity is confirmed.  Provided they don't do something completely and utterly pointless and stupid like use it for a rear mirror in driving games (yes, I'm looking at you Sony), this could be the dogs' danglies.

As another aside; apparently the queue (there's a video of the opening-time stampede doing the rounds) for the Nintendo stand at E3 (where they had the playable Wii of course), utterly dwarfed the Xbox360 / PS3 queues and was purportedly something of a record.  Which shows, at the very least, Nintendos' strategy is grabbing a lot of attention.

(EDIT; yes, there was a gigantic queue for a Wii.  Groan)

I'm still trying to find any sort of rumour for the UK DS Lite release date, which is how I stumbled onto the bunch of crap at the top of the post.  What's wierd is that I've been posting almost entirely about Nintendo, and it's really down to no other thing at E3 grabbing my attention in as much a way.  Perhaps because Ninty had a proper-big-blackout on news, perhaps because it's genuinely the most original thing that's been done in gaming in, ooh, a decade?  What's also interesting is that a year, maybe even as close as 6 months ago, I thought the PS3 was the most interesting thing on the horizon, and now I think it's in deep doo-doo.

[Mongoose]

This may be the first time that I'm really considering pre-ordering a console.  I was practically having a fanboy seizure over that Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer last night.

[WeatherOp]

This may be the first time that I'm really considering pre-ordering a console.  I was practically having a fanboy seizure over that Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer last night.

I think anyone who watched that vid did that.

But, on another subject,

Which system's games most impressed you at E3 this year?

DS   2.27%      1446
PC   2.46%      1568
PlayStation 3   26.84%      17079
PSP   0.97%      616
Wii   57.05%      36300
Xbox 360   10.41%      6623
TOTAL VOTES   63632

This off of Gamefaqs, while most of time polls mean nothing, it is interesting to see the Big N win by such a landslide, when was the last time you seen that? But, still I feel Microsoft had the second best showing. With Sony in third.

But, they are really on to something, whether or not Nintendo outsells the other two, the standard has been set, I really do think they have created a Revolution in gaming.