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The news post accompanying this comic is a rather good read, and can be found at http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/6/16/

 

To sumarise it

"[Nintendo] don't have anything to prove, they're on top of the heap in home and portable by a ridiculous margin, so they spun open the valve and drowned an exultant audience in product. They had an array of targets before them - the dizzying breadth of the communities they serve - and they had offerings for each that thwunked in with elven precision. There's almost nothing to discuss, unless you want to talk about the ability to take three dimensional pictures of your junk"

 

"one may secure Playstation Move for $50, which omits the cost of the Playstation Eye, the newly christened "navigation controller," and the second Move controller so many demos seem to incorporate. What is the true cost of the experience?"

 

"about Kinect, either. The ideas are all there, but they aren't crystallized into an wide array of strong products."

 

I think it's a decent reading of it all - although I would like to point out (before I get flamed) that a lot of price totalling that occurs about the PSmove is similar to that employed to discredit the Wii - I think we all remember the 'you need 4 wiimotes 4 nunchuks, 4 WiiM+, 4 classic controllers, 4 gamecube controllers, 4 balance boards and a ludicrously expensive system to charge the wiimotes using fusion power, oh and we'll ignore the fact that many of these things are bundled with games for the same price as a normal game' arguments.

 

Anyway, discuss but please keep it civil :) And say whose E3 showing appealed the most to you personally (Nintendo for me btw)



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scottie said:

 

"one may secure Playstation Move for $50, which omits the cost of the Playstation Eye, the newly christened "navigation controller," and the second Move controller so many demos seem to incorporate. What is the true cost of the experience?"


OMG THATS SO TROLLING!

well...thats what all the fanboys told me when i made a thread about it anyways...



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The first panel is garbage. Of all the things to make fun of about Microsoft's conference, ESPN is not even in the top 25.

The third panel is alright but a little uninspired.

Second panel nails it just like Nintendo nailed Sony and Microsoft's coffins shut.



badgenome said:

The first panel is garbage. Of all the things to make fun of about Microsoft's conference, ESPN is not even in the top 25.

The third panel is alright but a little uninspired.

Second panel nails it just like Nintendo nailed Sony and Microsoft's coffins shut.

 

Yeah, I agree with that - but in the comic they have to exaggerate for humurous effect to some degree - the news post is much more focussed on what the big 3 actually focussed on in their conferences



badgenome said:

The first panel is garbage. Of all the things to make fun of about Microsoft's conference, ESPN is not even in the top 25.

The third panel is alright but a little uninspired.

Second panel nails it just like Nintendo nailed Sony and Microsoft's coffins shut.


Well to be fair its the first out of the many things to use that doesn't deserve its own full comic and likely will in the coming weeks.

OT-  I love this comic, I die laughing every time I read it.



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MaxwellGT2000 said:
badgenome said:

The first panel is garbage. Of all the things to make fun of about Microsoft's conference, ESPN is not even in the top 25.

The third panel is alright but a little uninspired.

Second panel nails it just like Nintendo nailed Sony and Microsoft's coffins shut.


Well to be fair its the first out of the many things to use that doesn't deserve its own full comic and likely will in the coming weeks.

OT-  I love this comic, I die laughing every time I read it.

I dont dint find it funny, I never find their comics funny

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