{"id":1340,"date":"2009-06-03T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2009-06-03T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:51:50","slug":"e3-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/e3-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"E3 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my thoughts on this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/e3insider.com\/\">Electronic Entertainment Expo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/live\/projectnatal\/\">Project Natal<\/a> was interesting. I&#8217;m skeptical about the granularity and consistency of controls and the lifespan of the product on Xbox360. I assume that it&#8217;s a test-bed for next-gen technology and that we won&#8217;t be seeing a fluid integration into the Xbox platform for many years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/video\/e3-09-lionhead-milo\/50016\">Milo<\/a> really doesn&#8217;t interest me. I want a game to entertain me, <em>not<\/em> the other way around. As an aside, I&#8217;m surprised to have not seen sensational news stories along the lines of &#8220;Peter Molyneaux wants you to play with young boys&#8221;. See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seaman_(video_game)\">Seaman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aPENA1Bpm68\">EyePet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/01\/xbox-360-getting-full-retail-games-delivered-on-demand\/\">Games On Demand<\/a> was the most interesting thing to me. However the pricing really has to be lower than retail stores for it to float.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft seemed to be more focussed on future technology (user interface and content delivery) than upcoming titles. It feels like Xbox360 is winding down. They are churning a lot of sequels preparing to test various ideas that may make it into the next console\/platform.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, I feel that Microsoft are overpromising and will definitely underdeliver. Project Natal will only really be suited to a certain set of &#8220;full body motion&#8221; games and Milo will fail to manifest into a mass-market consumer title (although aspects may appear in Lionhead&#8217;s future titles).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sony:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony felt a bit more measured than Microsoft. They are (obviously) also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=th8_zKa0DKk\">pursuing motion tracking<\/a>, but draw on their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EyeToy\">EyeToy<\/a> experience to recognise that controllers still have a place: &#8220;Can you imagine playing a shooter without a trigger?&#8221; It&#8217;s also clearly under development and not presented as the be-all-end-all of gaming. I guess part of their EyeToy experience is an appreciation for the <em>actual<\/em> market for this sort of input device.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/02\/psp-go-first-hands-on\/\">PSP Go<\/a> feels like an end-of-line product (much like the PSOne or GameBoy Micro). It&#8217;s great to see the UMD removed, more online integration, and the size\/weight reduced&#8230; but it&#8217;s just a natural upgrade\/redesign. Likely timed to compete with DSi and iPhone 3G. Personally, I&#8217;ll wait for the PSP2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nintendo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meh. (Maybe they have nothing to prove.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After seeing what&#8217;s coming out, here are the games that I&#8217;m most looking forward to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5276160\/the-last-guardian-is-team-icos-latest\">The Last Guardian<\/a> (Final chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ico\">Ico<\/a> trilogy!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Professor_Layton_and_Pandora%27s_Box\">Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/video\/e3-09-god-of-war\/50267?e3i=1\">God of War 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To end this post, here&#8217;s a video of The Last Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WqvIITrYdyo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It looks like it&#8217;s going to be all PS3 and DS for me in the near term. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em>BTW: Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/diomades.blogspot.com\/\">Diomades<\/a> for posting summaries and his thoughts on this year&#8217;s E3. I&#8217;d like to hear what others in Perth think about news that came out of E3 as well.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my thoughts on this year&#8217;s Electronic Entertainment Expo. Microsoft: Project Natal was interesting. I&#8217;m skeptical about the granularity and consistency of controls and the lifespan of the product on Xbox360. I assume that it&#8217;s a test-bed for next-gen technology and that we won&#8217;t be seeing a fluid integration into the Xbox platform for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/e3-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E3 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}