| Squilliam said: Im not following the concept of not being impressed by a the Xbox 360 remodel due to the fact it was leaked a mere day before. The people on Vgchartz and elsewhere are silly, they are like kids who hunt the house looking for presents and unwrapping them for Christmas and then acting all pissy because there aren't any surprises... In any case theres no reason why you should buy the redesign unless you really want to. Theres nothing forcing you and it was never their objective to get everyone who has an Xbox 360 to buy a new one for no reason. I disagree with some of your reasoning on the Sony E3. In my mind they were pre-owned by Nintendo before they even walked in the door. Had they not come last it wouldn't have seemed as bad handing out 3D glasses to journalists who had just been wowed by the 3DS and they wouldn't have been as bad talking about the PSP which just had its grave dug. They talked about some good games however it was weaker than last year and they spoke a hell of a lot more shit than they needed to for longer than they should have. Microsofts press conferrence wasn't terrible by any means. You live in America, do you not watch sports? ESPN is probably even bigger than Netflix for the Xbox 360. They gave a name and release date to Kinect and unveiled the Xbox 360 refresh which gives people everything they have been wanting for the last 5 years in a quiet, energy efficient and smaller design. They showed off a few new games like Forza and Cryteks teaser whilst introducing 3 pretty cool Kinect apps. The Dance, Fitness and Kinectimals applications were all very good and showed off the abilities of the interface to do things the other consoles could not and they were confident enough in their voice recognition to do it in front of a noisy room of cynical journalists. The Core games are coming! They can't present everything at E3 and leave nothing for Gamescom in August. So they intend to announce the final price and core games at a later date because they wanted to get word out on their key mass market titles earlier in the year. The fact that they left Fable 3 off the menu at E3 has to tell you something becuase its their best known game which is going to utilise the Kinect interface. The fact that you didn't like the games they showed doesn't make them bad games or mean that they had a bad E3. |
Software, software, software. These services aren't going to make a difference in terms of being able to sell more units quicker. Kinect is the only thing that could do anything, and that's going to hinge dangerously on whether consumers respond to it as a gaming interface (its future as a pure interface is up in the air, but its gaming applications don't entirely look up to snuff so far)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
