I'm sickened by Nintendo's presentation thus far and am even more worried for our industry's future.

All of Nintendo's video's and commentary focused on the aspect of "fun" and enjoyment of players who were shown forcing smiles to demonstrate their joy.

It is this obsessive focus on throwaway entertainment and fun that is destroying the possible artistic merits of videogames. No videogame showed at Nintendo's E3 thus far boasted a deep though provoking storyline or an inspiring art-design or emotional value. They were merely hollow games for pick and play entertainment. Nothing deeper, nothing you can take anything more valuable away from.

Sure the movie industry is driven by throaway entertainment as well but it still has it's Immar Bergmans and others who create thought provoking, artisticly inspired pieces. Nintendo's presentation did not show any commitment to anything comparable in videogames.

nintendo wins E3!!!

For real. Go away, Nintendo! Take your fun and get out of here!

It's Ingmar Bergman, btw.

Stupid fun, always threatening my hobby.

Heh, at least it was interesting unlike Microsoft's(when you take away the FF announcement).

Damn you fun! Damn youuuuuuuu!!!!!

op, are you at odds with smiles?

Add that to the 1:1 motion from the new add-on "MotionPlus" damn you Nintendo!!!!!

Now give me my 1:1 light saber game...

Seriously, Nintendo's stuff looks like SO much fun this year. They've already won E3 and their conference is just getting started.

I'm very excited about Wii music. I'm also very excited about Shaun White Showboarding. Amazing -- the balance board is fun as are snowboarding games.

The new Wii-mote addon looks very amazing. I can't believe how fun the sword fighting looked. That's going to be sweet for light saber games.

wow the sarcasm in this thread is saddening. You people must have never picked up a dovstoyevski or watched a Hitchock and don't want to see anything comparable in games either.