| Slimebeast said: MS won hands down - 2009 Holidays full of AAA titles. Potential in motion control future. Nintendo second. Sony weak third - Extremely thin on big games for 2009. Too much focus on PSP |
I am sure PSP is one of their products :)
Most people bash Sony for not putting more effort on PSP and when they do they get bashed for it as well. You really can't please everyone.
For the palystation brand they had some amazing new games announced. They had the longest conference and still did not mention some of the biggest games coming soon (R&C e.g. ).
When I watched Microsoft conf I thought it was the best. When I saw Nintendo conf I thought this is the best conference "they" have had for several years, much improved from last year's fiasco. Close second to Microsoft since they announced several new games for core gamers. NEw Metroid, New Mario, SMG sequel. DS was shown some love too.
Then I watched SOny conference and I was blown away, several new games , TeamICO game (which ws rumored and leaked ) was shown, NEw MGS and Resident Evil games were announced for PSP. FF13, 14 and God of War were dated. I for one am glad they are not all in the same holiday season, I go broke everytime as there are so many new games released at the same time. I guess Sony realized with MGS 4 that releasing in March can help console sales as well.
I was wowed by PS3's motion control scheme as I think it will be usable in games. Microsofts NATAL is a new UI and not much more. How it is going to be used in games is yet to be seen and quite frankly the racing game looked boring, it also has potential to be tiring and frustrating. Just put out your hand like it is holding a wheel and move around for 5 minutes and then let me know how you feel about NATAL.
I liked Microsoft's conference because of games and not because of NATAL. MGS, Splinter Cell, Assassin's creed, Halo ODST, Mass effect 2 were amazing. Considering teh fact that general consensus on most forums (that I frequent) was Microsoft did not have many new games coming this year. I was very impressed.
I was underwhelmed by Alan Wake, critics seems to love it but just looking at the trailer it did not seem amazing to me. Condemned and condemned 2 looked better IMO. Maybe I will feel different when it comes out.




































