Lessons Learned from E3 2011

[Potable_Toe]

I largely agree that this E3 didn't really have any surprising announcements outside of PSV price, but even that didn't blow me away because all I could think about was the potential monthly fee associated with it. Other than that though Sony didn't show much in the way of unknown or new or 'exciting' looking games (in my eyes) and all of their big hitting game shows were titles we already knew about. My biggest gripe about their conference was the complete lack of enthusiasm, particularly Jack Tretton he looked like he wanted to cry through the whole thing... probably because of how dull he is.

Microsoft had similar problems as far as unknown or surprise announements but people have been very hard on them saying many untruths about how very little first party content was shown and, falsely, that it was all "childish Kinect games". If you actually break it down they had 7 first party games shown, and a number of 3rd party exclusive games or game content shown and four big multiplats too, the problem was many of them had already been known/seen previously to a certain degree. In my eyes their biggest failure was in making me disappointed that Halo 4 got announced which is something that shouldn't be possible. I guess though that being somebody who is just waiting for a reason to get Kinect many things at the show had me pretty excited. You must also give them credit for actually being enthusiastic about their show. The Don 'geeky Cruise' Mattrick always looks too smug for his own good.

Nintendo should have won with ease considering they had a new home console to show off and reveal, instead all they succeeded in doing is creating quizical looks, by showing off what many thought was actually just a peripheral for the Wii and completely ingnoring the console, personally it didn't confuse me but it did annoy and disappoint me that they ignored the console itself. Other than that they pissed off loyal Wii owner by announcing nothing new and only showing one game for it, Zelda Skyward Sword, after a percievably long winded orchestral performance... even if I did enjoy the music I couldn't help but think "C'mon you're wasting my time here". they did however deliver some good news in the way of a few big hitting first party titles for the 3DS, but a couple of those may or maynot make it this year which is news we don't want on a system like the 3DS that currently lacks much in the way of must have titles. I have never liked Reggie, his face needs to meet a fist...