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akuma587 on 21 July 2008

I may have just missed them, so I invite you to point them out to me, but I really don't recall very many announcements. I think the major game developers have had adequate time to react to the Wii's popularity, come up with game ideas, and design a healthy percentage of these games by now. I was told by many people on this site to wait for E3 to see these games.

Recent third-party announcements I have seen:

Dead Rising (Wii) (Previously a 360 exclusive)

I Am Alive (360/PS3/Wii/PC) (Bizarrely announced just days before on everything except Wii but then announced for Wii at E3?)

SPRay (Wii)

Feel free to add any other ones you have seen at E3 or in the last couple of days.



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sc94597 on 21 July 2008

Most of it was just new information on already announced games. Like everybody has been saying E3 isn't too big for announcements anymore. The I am alive game was announced for the wii aswell as the hd consoles. Probably because of all of the people attacking Ubisoft on their forums. I think there was an srpg announced for the wii aswell. I forgot the name though, but it is a ps2 port. If you are interested in 3rd party wii games I could make a list for you. I think there will be more stuff at TGS though, since the wii is pretty much the only healthy platform in japan. (not counting handhelds)



graywolf96 on 21 July 2008

e3 is over, isnt it?



Dno on 21 July 2008

thats so true.... this is a bit crazy for all the 3rd party games still being on ps360 after wii has been killing everyone esle.



famousringo on 21 July 2008

SPRay and I Am Alive are pretty much it. Most everything else was known beforehand, though there had been little seen of many titles before E3, such as Castlevania Judgment and Mad World.

Actually, now that you mention it, I can only think of 1st party announcements for the HD consoles too. FF XIII on 360 is the only third party announcement I can think of for HD consoles, though I admit I wasn't paying that much attention to their lineups.

Edit: Oh, if you want to include the last few days, apparently that Sonic and The Black Knight game is genuine.



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jlauro on 21 July 2008

Last couple of years there is very little announced during E3. Most are announced at least a couple of weeks to a month just prior...

That said, even if you count the month just prior, I was expecting a little bit more...

Including the preceding month, another wii title is Spyborgs and of course the Raving Rabbids title.



akuma587 on 21 July 2008

I Am Alive was announced before E3 but the Wii version was announced at E3...yet the two events were only days apart, which seems really bizarre to me.

http://kotaku.com/5023908/jades-next-game-+-i-am-alive

I am not counting the previous month because I was told by A LOT of people to wait for E3.

Neither of the HD consoles have had a dearth of third-party game announcements, so it didn't really matter that many weren't announced at E3.

What is SPRay? I haven't heard of that one?



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

sc94597 on 21 July 2008
akuma587 said:
I Am Alive was announced before E3 but the Wii version was announced at E3...yet the two events were only days apart, which seems really bizarre to me.

http://kotaku.com/5023908/jades-next-game-+-i-am-alive

I am not counting the previous month because I was told by A LOT of people to wait for E3.

Neither of the HD consoles have had a dearth of third-party game announcements, so it didn't really matter that many weren't announced at E3.

What is SPRay? I haven't heard of that one?

SPRay looks like an action-adventure/platformer. It reminds me of a mix between mario sunshine and zelda. I can't find the thread with the gameplay video, but if you go to gametrailers and search for it you should find it.

 



viewtiful_jon on 21 July 2008

Did any third partys announce anything apart from XBLA and PSN?

Cant really say it was just Nintendo who suffered from a bad E3.



jlauro on 21 July 2008

I agree, none had an impressive E3 with the possible exception of FF going multi which is cool for 360 but nothing great (PS3 still gets it first in Japan), but was the most unexpected (IMO).

I guess if the 360 and PS3 had a bunch of announcements with the wii not having any, then I would be a little more concerned for the wii instead of just disappointed.

(I haven't even picked up Mario Kart yet, so it's not like I am running out of games to get yet...)