Well, it's E3 this week, and like many other gamers I have been keeping up to date with the buzz of the industry. I'm not going to post facts about new consoles or anything, I mean, who wants to come here for a news source!? Suffice to say, I will post my opinions on the upcoming entertainment mammoths.
Xbox 360 was the first of the three consoles to be revealed, albeit on the shitty MTV extravaganza. The 30min advert packed show provided us with a brief glimpse of the console shell, 10 seconds of game play footage and some happy hobbits talking to professional no life gamers and the invaluable opinions of the all knowing pimp my ride team. Fantastic, luckily I downloaded this monstrosity and could skip all the shit, such as the Killers performance. Of interest was Perfect Dark Zero. Of what I could glimpse I was excited, things looked nice and really I was just happy to see that the game physically existed. Upon reflection, the graphics weren't amazing and at no point did I feel myself saying 'wow'. Moving on to the OurColony.net video, "a flipped and goosed" version of the MTV show that gave a little more information; I began being excited about the prospects of the new live features, the video interactions, the new controllers, the wireless features, the three core processing power and the USB device outlook. However, being a gamer, the principle error in the unveiling of the Xbox 360 system coverage was the distinct lack of GAMES. Nowhere to be seen were game trailers, game footage, game announcements, game development. Aside from the EA developments (tweaks) and PDZ, I've seen nothing. If I am buying a game console, the most important thing to show me are the games, who cares about Xbox live if the only game to support it will be Microsoft Solitaire 3D. So, while in the few days running up to E3 I was excited... the thunder has since been stolen, by Sony.
Playstation 3, welcome chang3. I was awake in the early hours of the British morning to listen to the Sony conference and the unveiling of their new system. I watched the two hour convention with awe. I'm not a particular Playstation fan boy, yes I own a ps2 but my favourite console of the current generation is easily the Xbox. I wasn't too stoked about the ps3, I had subconsciously ignored the hype associated with it. In watching the conference I had no real expectations, I'd heard of the cell processor but nothing of its capabilities. When the 2 teraflop performance power of the cell, the graphics processing of the nvidia RSX, the high bandwidth ram and bus, the 7 wireless controller capability, the 1080p support and the backwards compatibility were announced there was a gleaming grin across my face. Then I saw Vision Gran Turismo, Motorcross and Killzone trailers, I saw the real time Unreal Tournament processing power and I was astounded. This is a console I so dearly want. I have absolutely no care for the Xbox 360, despite their release of the sequel to my favourite game, Perfect Dark. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on the raw power of this machine, whatever the price. And I may just have to get a PSP to complement it.
Nintendo
Revolution. Not much on this yet but I'm hearing
some significant buzz concerning "touch" patents, a revolutionary controller
and backwards compatibility. I have faith in the innovation that is Nintendo
and I look forward to their future announcements (Mario 128? Please).
