| thx1139 said: I am talking about everything that went on at E3 not just the press conferences. OK so I was on vacation last week and only paid partial attention to E3. I have watched the MS E3 presentation and seen many of the other 360 announcements made by MS and others post the presentation. If it wasnt shown, but we know its coming I will not mention it. I wont mention multiplatform (I dont mean what may show up on PC) even if they have console specific features. For 360 I see the following showcased titles (all week) Gears 3 - September 2011 Many new XBLA titles. So I contrast that with the stuff I heard about for PS3 and Wii. Wii
So what did I miss? |
What you're missing is that essentially nothing was new , overly exciting or interesting from the 360 camp. It was a lot more of the same. Don't mistake that Sony or Nintendo had particularly awesome press conferences, just that they atleast announced some new hardware,software that related to it's core owners and as a whole offered more to that sect than Microsoft. Contrast that with the 360 (Who is targeting essentially 20% of their userbase or less with new super casual Kinect titles (That don't look even very good) and feeding the other 80% of their userbase with re-hash titles.
Case in point :Ryse - 2012 (Looks potentially interesting)Dance Central 2 - Holiday 2011 (Probably the one big app for Kinect, but dancing games certainly aren't mainstream).
Kinect Sports 2 - Holiday 2011 (Potential to be interesting)Gears 3 - September 2011 (Big Hitter title looks great).
Forza 4 - October 2011 (Solid racing title but necessarily Gran Turismo stature either.)
Halo CE Anniversary - November 2011 (Even more Halo? Allegedly not run on Reach engine, made by people who made TimeShift. Certainly not necessarily something to go crazy over (Just because the Halo namesake is stamped on it).
Halo 4 - 2012 (Halo not made by Bungie with essentially no information on it, Reach released not even a year ago..Halo overload much? Looked tossed into the mix just 'because its Halo and people will eat that up'. Not playable, not showable, nothing... Just letting you know Halo 4 exists. )
Kinect Star Wars - Holiday 2011 (On the rails, looks pretty mediocre)Kinect Disneyland Adventures - November 2011 (100% kid friendly)Sesame Street - Fall 2011 (100% kid friendly)Fable: The Journey - 2012 (On the rails, looks mediocre)Minecraft - Winter 2011 (Fun game but certainly not some 'Killer App'. More of a game that's fun to toy with for a period of time, certainly not some full-fledged app or game).
As for Sony :
Resistance 3 - Fall 2011 (Pretty middling title similar to Forza).
Uncharted 3 - Fall 2011 ( Very similar to Gears of War)
Twisted Metal - Fall 2011 (First appearance of this franchise this generation)
Starhawk - 2012 (New IP with strong multiplayer element)
Sly Cooper 4 - 2012 (First appearance of this franchise this generation).Dust Remastering of several popular titles
Papo & Yo (PSN)
Heist (PSN)
Journey (PSN)
Pixeljunk Sidescroller (PSN)
Good pricing announcements.
This is with several games in the backlog that weren't even shown that we aren't sure of one way or another. (Last Guardian, Possibly GoW 4?, Final Fantasy Versus, The Agent)
This all completely neglects Vita and cross-platform play possibilities with PS3 (Opening more software options). I don't like handhelds either, but that new hardware does have increased PS3 potential and took up time for the press conference that could have been used to show future teaser trailers.
The big disappointment in my eyes of MS press conference was primarily Kinect-Children games / Cash-in on the rails games and the only thing else is the announced (4th / 5th Halo FPS releases this generation...6th usage of the IP this generation). The third release of the Forza franchise this generation and the third release of the Gears franchise this generation. The problem I think many are having with this, is that what does Microsoft have to release first party beyond Halo/Gears/Forza/Fable? And with them all being announced it seems like that's all we've got.
