Anyone else absolutely despise the way the industry is moving?

[spenderzz]

It's funny, because with all the talk of handhelds being doomed, handhelds really shone this E3. Nintendo's conference was completely clownshoes, but they showed a lot of awesome 3DS games that I am extremely excited for. I have always been a big hater on the PSP, but I was sold on Vita by Sony's conference.

I know some people weren't impressed by Sony's conference, but it was exactly what I wanted to see. There may not have been many huge surprises, but it was solid core game after solid core game. Microsoft was pretty much what I expected, a few good looking non exclusives, Halo, and a bunch of garbage. I was firmly in the Xbox camp at the beginning of this gen, but Sony is just destroying them now. If the Party system and cross-game voice chat they showed off for PS Vita makes its way to PS3, which I can't imagine that it won't, I don't see a single reason to even own an xbox at all, personally.

I'm a lifelong Nintendo fan, and I want to love them more than anything, but they really did a disservice with their Wii U presentation. A bunch of talk about a controller that appears stupid, no mention of online, no mention of a projected launch lineup, and a bunch of footage lifted from other systems. Yawn.

If you don't like handhelds, I can see how this E3 left you disappointed, but I don't think there is anything to worry about. I mean, Sony showed that they can increase focus on motion controls and still provide a lot of core game experiences with a traditional controller, Nintendo is doing what Nintendo has been doing for a few years, and even Microsoft, who have clearly gone all-in on the casual market, showed some core games in their conference. Traditional games are never going to die, and I think some developers are finally figuring out how to at least integrate the new control schemes into core games. The voice integration on Mass Effect 3 looked great, MediEvil for Move looked really good, etc. The kind of games you (and I) like to play aren't going anywhere, regardless of whether there is more casual stuff being released or an increased focus on alternate control schemes.