My thoughts on E3 2010

E3 is done now and a lot of decent stuff has been announced (mostly nintendo) but i thought i'd just give my thoughts on this.


Microsoft:

They had some interesting concepts on thee new kinect thing which sounds odly like Knex (which by the way is awesome). I actually liked the kinect thing but it just felt a bit gimicky, even more than the wii's gimick which was genuinely pretty cool. Some good games were anounced but nothing ground breaking. Metal gear rising looks good but that will also appear on other consoles aswell. Fable 3 was also shown and i think that could be pretty darn good.


Microsoft also unveiled there remodeling of the 360 which looks great, but has pretty much given the fnger to everyone who bought a 360, then shelled out for live, then bought the £60 wi-fi thing, the headsets and the 60gb hardrive. The new 360 looks great and includes WI-FI built in with a 120gb hardrive. Something that should have been included from the start.

Looks slick and apparently will be the same price as the elite, which i highly doubt. In all fairness i think the microsoft presentation sucked a lot, as they brought stupid new remodeling, very few first party games, and the natal.



Nintendo:

By far the most well thought out and easilly the best presentation and company at E3.
Nintendo announced a whole new ton of games, but above all that they finally announced the vague 3DS that has been in limbo for a while. they showed us the crazy ass new model with a look at the new analogue stick, 3D slider and a crazy video of people getting OmNomNomed by the console.

ALso they announced some awesome games, including the brand new legend of zelda:skyward sword. This looks pretty much awesome, and is looking to be a cross between wind wakers shell shaded textures and surroundings with a link very similar to twilight princesses link. It looks fine, and a lot of new things have been added: 1-1 motion controls, bomb rolling and SWORD BEAMS. It's shaping up fine and no doubt the game will be awesome on release, and will yet again enthrall millions with it's amazing quality of gaming.

(Remember that pic, Yeah?, it looks nothing like the game shown at E3)

Also revealed was project sora, a game thats been left in video game purgatory for a while now. This ended up being Kid Icarus : Uprising for the 3DS which most likely will be a launch title. It actually looks really good as the graphics on the 3DS could be like the gamecube graphics.
Another bundle of games were shown , including a super cute version of kirby called, kirby's epic yarn Youtube it, it is looking like a classic already. They also showed us the new mario sports mix and wii party. Which look a bit cool and a bit meh respectively.


Playstation:

I never really watched the playstation keynote, bt i saw the new move in action, it looks okish but is terribly over priced and looks really lame. except the fact they unveiled a game featuring sly, ratchet, clank, daxter and jak, all in one game. could be awesome.
Also revealed was portal 2 on the ps3 which actually isn't all that surprising as it could easilly make valve more money.



All in all it was a great E3, and allthough nintendo came away with the win 360 and PS3 owners may have a great few games coming out son aswell.

But the truth is the only thing we can all say right now is that in the next 6 months are wallets will be a lot more lighter.