E3′s major announcements have been made, and observers are busily trying to work out just who “won” the event – most indications seem to suggest Nintendo dominating or at worst tying with Sony.
From some western gaming forum sources, as picked up on by 2ch:
From Nico:
1. Microsoft – 4.8%
2. Nintendo – 81.3%
3. Sony – 1.7%
4. They all sucked – 12.2%
The reasons for Microsoft’s literal release circus being ill-received are obvious, although just why Sony’s pathetically anemic announcements of the PS3mote and the marvelous news that PSN users can finally pay for access proved so impressive to western ears is not clear – manly Killzone action was perhaps the clincher.
Nintendo on the other hand presented an undeniably impressive lineup to go with its 3DS announcement, enthusing Japanese in particular.
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Top 10 Most Followed Seiyuu
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Wondrous As Ever
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“Post The Highest Level Cosplay Ever!”
“Share The Cutest Cosplay Ever”
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“Why Do Girls Always Have Such Cute Rooms!?”
Ranka Lee Wedding Dress Cosplay by Tomia
Shoko-tan’s Madoka & Ika-chan Cosplay “Excessively Cute”
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My opinion:
- Microsoft: sucked ass. Didn't announce any new games we hadn't heard about yet, except Codename Kingdom. Kinect had only 1 interesting game: the Rez sequel. Big failure.
- Nintendo: great conference. They announced game after game, most of which are going to come out this year. The 3DS also seems interesting with many games that interest me.
- Sony: pretty average. Not a whole lot of announcements. Too much focus on 3D even though no one has such a TV. Heroes on the move, Sorcery, the shooting game and Twisted Metal... These games don't appeal to me at all (except for the last one). The price of Move is insane ($50 for the Move itself, $30 for the naviagtion thing + the camera).
i'm a total M$ fanboy and PSP fanboy but Nintendo blew me away this year. I'm eager to get my hands on everything they showed. Except kirby which is teh ghey.
why cant anyone say that nintendo won because of the most =O showings, the sony stuff was just too obvious, a stupid 10 year old could predict sequels from the blockbusters dah.
And Nintendo did more =O because it grabbed us by the ass and revived old franchises, soooo
The diference here is that sony bets on its recent stuff and nintendo does it with the old.
And fuck that sony jiji thats why i hate sony soo goddamn cocky.
loool if nintendo made tv's sony would be in much deep shit, reminded that sony doesnt live only from the ps3.
i dont have anything to say about microsoft ... its just bah ... thank Cloud that valve is developing for apple and i wish they all follow the example and stop making games for crapy bill gates bug central... for Cloud's sake even the xbox has bugs ...
Uncharted 2 and Halo 3 are your big arguments for console based gaming? Good fucking grief Charlie Brown, the whole gaming industry needs to be shut down now if that's the case.
hello? zelda, golden eye, donky kong, mario sports, kirby? they were all news of new games for the wii
^ You sir deserve one internet ^^
Everyone makes it sounds like GB owns everything. :V
Well, maybe it's not a complete lie?
What is the source of this "western gaming forums"? Is it Gamespot? Ign? Any other main gaming sites of note?
Only 323 votes in the poll? What kind of crap website has only so few votes. Oh yeah, probably some no-name Nintendo fanboy forums. Hahaha
that pie-chart looks like a pacman. And guess who is about to be eaten.
I give you 200 internets, sir.
Because Move and Kinect re old news
So the Japanese are fawning over Nintendo.
Anyone surprised by this raise your hand.
No hands eh? Shocker. In any event, the 3DS looks awesome, but we all knew Nintendo would dominate the handheld market. Nintendo however is going to be fighting tooth and nail with Sony and Microsuck for the console market and that's going to be the interesting fight
lol fighting over fps games...........didn't see much jrpgs or action games.
That was the first thought in my mind once I saw the 3DS!
Nintendo clearly won by a long shot, while neither Sony nor Microsoft showcased jack squat. Actually, Microsoft did show off their new ugly trimmed down system, but as with all XBOX360 news, the only thing anyone cares about is that system isn't suicidal anymore.
the suckest was M$ nuff said i don't know that kinect could fail so big...
I concur that Microsoft's E3 PC was by far their worse, not just out of the "big three" but of all time.
Can't quite tell which one was the best because I didn't sit through the entirety of either Nintendo's or Sony's, just watched the former's first part and the latter's last couple minutes, so I missed the 3DS debut and the paid PSN's announcement, although I catched the exclusives to Portal 2, the new Assassin's Creed and Mafia II, and the new Twisted Metal looked mighty good.
Sony '06 and Nintendo '08 say hi!
Sony Bravia 3D TV... 5000$
Sony Playstation 3 Move bundle... 400$
Sony 3D glasses... 160$
Sony stealing their fan's money... Priceless
I'm interested in Gears 3. Truth be told, I liked the campaign of the first 2. Kept me interested the entire way. It was much better than Halo. I wasn't happy at all with Halo 3 or ODST so why would I care about Halo Reach?
The rest of the show was stuff for Natal. I'm not interested in Natal and that fucking little girl demonstrating Kinectimals grinds my gears TO THE MAX. And it's not because she named a tiger Skittles, though it doesn't help.
There was also a lot of fake acting. Who were they trying to fool exactly? It's a presentation! Don't act like it's not!
i've been following handheld nintendo GB>GBC>GBA>GBASP>NDS>NDSL>NDSi
I stopped at DSiXL since it was just a bigger DSi.
3DS is the next thing!
And I'm going to buy the Kinect. It looks very interesting, nonetheless. I don't know why it suddenly needs to be bashed on so hard.
Nintendo announced 3DS and a number of games.
Microsoft announced New 360 Model and a number of games, and Kinect.
Sony went into detail about PSMove and a number of games, and re-announced commercialism for the PSP.
To be honest, from what was presented and what is planned by these three majoring competitors, I think Sony is going to have the hardest time keeping up. As much as it's denied, the Move is pretty much the same as the Wii controller. My bias view on this is that Sony's trying to get people to eliminate the Wii as an option by doing what they're doing. I honestly think it's going to be a fail.
The new Nintendo 3DS is definitely going to sell. The new LCD technology is finally being brought to gaming, and to think it went hand-held first! This will not just sell, it will probably be revolutionary.
The new 360's sole purpose is to eliminate the ever-so-common RRoD overheating problem. I'm sure that with the high amount of physical cooling improvements, they will succeed. The Kinect will be a revolutionary change for User Interface control for entertainment, and gaming. The featured possibilities surpass the abilities of the other consoles.
Meh.
@hyra911
PCfag much?
"No hands eh? Shocker. In any event, the 3DS looks awesome, but we all knew Nintendo would dominate the handheld market. Nintendo however is going to be fighting tooth and nail with Sony and Microsuck for the console market and that's going to be the interesting fight"
I hope you're not talking about sales...
I think it just depends on what you like.
M$ = The same exclusives, that you know will be remade over, and over again. Mainly Halo, and Gears they will Milk that Shit!
Nintendo = Most of the same Exclusives, Marios, Zeldas, Metroids, etc. But Nintendo usually brings something new to each one, that makes it different from previous titles unlike M$ in my oppinion and usually builds games from the ground up. The 3DS was fawking awesome, anyone who says otherwise with it's game lineup GTFO! The only problem with the Nintendo thing is the online. It just needs a new online like either xbox live or psn and it will rape faces.
PS3 = They are trying different technologies with the Wii Rip off mote which actually from what has been stated is superior to the Wii's motion controls. Don't hate on it just because they are trying to improve on it, even if I my self hate motion controls. As for them going 3D it's something neither console has done. Even if 3DS will be a 3D handheld.
360+PS3 = both have games, that are impressive nintendo won't be receiving because of the Wii's capabilities.
-Mortal Kombat
-Dead Space 2
-Trinity Universe (ps3)
-Silent Hill 8
-Crysis 2
-KillZone 3 (ps3)
-Metal Gear Solid Rising
-Blazblue CS
-Splatterhouse
-Dead Rising 2
-FEAR 3
-Assassin's Creed:Brotherhood
-Little Big Planet 2 (PS3)
-Portal 2 (fuck yeah!)
-Castlevania (Hideo's!)
-Batman Arkham Ayslum 2
-Bioshock 3
-Atelier Rorona
So guess what guys Nintendo isn't the only one who got them games! lol
Sony 43%?
LOL
Total bullshit. Nintendo clearly took the fav...Sony wasn't even half as good as MS. They didn't show SHIT.
True. They did only show three things but you have to admit, the technology behind Natal is pretty impressive. Even if it does bomb as a gaming device it will be applied to something else. This is Microsoft after all and they can always build it into the latest OS with computers specially made to use them.
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Big E3 conferences in a nutshell.
Nintendo won. Deal with it.
Did nintendo forgot they have another console too? I didn't saw any news for Wii
Nintendo is still keeping Japanese games JAPANESE where as Sony is westernizing everything.
We wanted games, and Nintendo gave us more than we can chew. The Sony Conference was quite impressive as well. 2010 is going to be a great year for gaming.
you know, i watched the microsoft press live, and i wish i would have just gone to sleep, did they ever blow balls.
here are what, 4 shooting games and fable which is no longer an rpg (peter said that himself in an interview) i honestly couldn't give a shit about any of the games besides rising, and than, go out casual the last 3 years of Nintendo conferences... wow.
i actually said this right after it. i wonder whose press con will be more casual Microsoft nor Nintendo. and i was banking on sony for the awesome this year.
than nintendo, it had a strong start, and the whole fucking time i was wondering, when the casual circlejerk was coming. and it never came, sure they took a few minutes here and there for casual games, but nothing i couldnt handle.
and than sony, see the only way sony was going to win was to game after game that i liked, but they had fucking skits, and allot... they were funny, but i dont give a fuck about funny, i want awesome. that said, the valve thing was hilarious, "the vp of sharpening things"
realy the only way sony was kicking nintendos ass is to show off a refined sword fighting game.
but wht the fuck sony?
i have watched videos, i have seen games require 2 ball controllers, and the ball controller only comes with 1? and the stick controller is separate? i didn't even know there were 2 kinds, i just thought that some games didn't require a ball so they took it off for them.
and the fact its 50-60$ for 1 controller, and probably 80 for 2 balls and a stick, pisses me off to, with not games bundles, (or i missed something)
microsoft 2 out of 10 (2 for the riseing awesomeness)
sony 7 out of 10 (less skits, more games next year)
nintendo 9 out of 10 (only because i cant see the 3d effects over the internet)
Gears 3 and Halo Reach certainly are not pea-shooter shooter games. They're some of the biggest games of the industry and they look fun. I do think they wasted too much time pretty-ing up Kinect, but the core games are there. Also, it's not like 360 is devoid of games. A lot of awesome stuff on the 3rd party side for both 360 and PS3.
Consinder that EA partner with Sony and Microsoft partner with Activison.
I am guessing Nintendo Partner up with Capcom or Sega?
Nintendo 3ds look's cool but I want to know about the graphic speed if an actual game really smooth movement.
I loled before i could open this page, but having a 12% on "they all suck" is a bad thing, which is true, day 1-2 of E3 really blew balls, Nintendo had to save E3.
>The WORST the WORST not the best the "WORST!"
It took me so freaking long to figure out what this was saying. Punctuation is a useful tool, children.
English has punctuation?
According to Yahtzee, no.
Nintendo Owned E3 :D though Sony would have won if they partnered with konami to do a zone of the enders 3 collaboration and a Final fantasy Versus XIII gameplay would be nice still tokyo gaming show is around the corner :)
I think the PlayStation brand will no longer exist when ZOE3 comes out for the XBox 360.
lol no just no zone of the enders will be exclusive for the ps3 as long as Sony collaborates the same way as they did in MGS4. then u could dream ZOE for the xbox same as dreaming for MGS4.
This article is flawed.. PSN users won't have to pay for access.. people are stupid if they think that, everything thats free right now will remain free.. PSN plus will be a subscription on top of that which will give exclusive demos, betas, free games, and much more.. The only reason people are going crazy over the 3ds is because they haven't actually seen it up close and how glitchy it can be.. The "3d" has a very small sweet spot in which it works.. I guarantee once most of you get your hands on it you'll think differently
I for one don't care too much about the 3D, when I get one the switch will probably stay off. I'm just impressed by the graphical capabilities of it.
Microsoft during E3:
The game demo controlled the "testers" instead of players controlling their avatars..
Nintendo stole it. You would not have known it from there botched display of their new Zelda, but they eventually came out guns blazing with titles such as:
1. Goldeneye
2. Donkey Kong Country
3. Kirby
4. Mario Sports Mix
The 3DS sealed it with a display Kid Icarus that put Sony's PSP display to shame.
I was wincing during the whole Zelda presentation... They really should have anticipated the infrared interference.
But yeah, no doubt about it, the 3DS was E3's showstopper.
still everything was just going back in time.
Who is better, Shakespeare or Twilight?
Exactly.
nintendo's wii didnt do so hot cuz of the controller problems. it was embarrasing. but the 3dds made everyone crapped themselves. plus the presentation was hella awesome. sony did there thing like they always do. plus they had kevin this time. apart from him, it was pretty much average. to my suprise the move was hella accurate. i swear its amazing.
Ugh, stupid fanboys, E3 is not a contest! Can't you just be happy for the games announced for your system?
The shattered prestige of two great companies suggests otherwise.
If you're talking about just the big 3, only Microsoft failed.
Sony will do much better than before, and Nintendo will continue to do better than Sony and Microsoft(by reselling everyone's childhoods, as always)
So Microsoft reveals a motion device it means it's a failure
If Sony reveals a motion device it's considered a success.
Wow. Sure is fanboy.
I'm out of job currently. Does being a fanboy get paid a lot? ...what? You're not being paid to defend a brand? screw that, i'm back to begging on subways.
if he was being a fanboy, he would've been more "omg, M$ sux. sony 4 life." all he did was express his opinion, though he did state it as if it were a fact. either way, i own a 360 and i gotta agree that microsoft failed. so does that make me a ps3 fanboy?
agreed XD I'm looking forward to the 3ds and the games announced for it!
Love Plus 3D? ^_^
shouldn't someone scream "3D pig disgusting!!" at this point?
That would be a win of epic proportions.
"Love Plus 3D" will shatter our "3D vs 2D girls" concept :S
You see Hand-held market is booming because everyone wants something small that can play big games.
the E3 is as much a contest as a class presentation is. You will have the best and the worst by the end of the day like it or not.
Well, you can't have something ending up as "good" without having something that ends as "bad".
Ratings are overrated! Yeah.
It's always fun to have something to argue about. :V
damn, Microsoft never stood a chance?
Microsoft sucks, but they did ok. They had to waste this year because the current games were being developed at the same time as Kinect. If they can integrate Kinect into a few of their flagships in time for next year, they will be solid.
Their mechanical elephant that they used in their 'presentation' never stood a chance...
Personally speaking, I thought MS did pretty good. I wish there wasn't the Kinect since it doesn't seem to entice the core gamer in me, but it still had a new Halo and a new Gears and a teaser for a future Forza and all the other conferences for other 3rd party companies featured lots of cool games that will come out for PS3 and 360.
I have to admit that Nintendo's 3DS is making me quite excited, but I think the PS3 and 360 had solid showings in their own right. Can't freakin' wait for the new Star Fox, Gears of War 3 and Gran Turismo.
Nintendo was the obvious one here the 3DS looks amazing and the new wii games lots of fun there
Nintendo is a genius. First they establish the Wii as a console for casual gamers so that now, even when the xbox360 can be bought for the same price and do more stuff casual gamers still prefer the Wii. Then when Sony and Microsoft try to go for the casual gamers Nintendo unleashes this lineup impressing the hardcore gamers trying to make them want a Wii (helped by the nostalgia factor).
It seems they figured that hard core gamers will keep on waiting for good games and so they decided to aim first at the casual market. Maybe they even figured they could turn a few casual gamers closer to hardcore gamers.
Bwahaha, Nintendo the kiddy console manufacturer appealing to the hardcore gamers? That's a good one.
They tried to do it by bringing Resident Evil to the Gamecube. Then they tried the same trick with No More Heroes for the Wii. It's too damned funny watching Nintendo fail every single time.
Yeah, right, the new DS appealing to the hardcore crowd. Heh heh.. that'll be the day.
it's not a kiddy console, there are a lot of games for hardcore gamers. the only ones failing are sony and microsoft by trying to introduce there crappy motion controls and there own kiddy games. it's way to fun to see microsoft fail, especially since kinect is $150.
And then they tried it with Twilight Princess, and then they tried it with Red Steel, and then they tried it with Metroid Prime 3, and Super Mario Galaxy, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Monster Hunter, and...
oh look at that, the Wii's sales figures have blown the PS3 and 360 away. By "hardcore gamers" did you mean "blood and gore addicts"? Because that's really the only category that the Wii doesn't appeal to... unless you count MadWorld.
nintendo?
now that sucks
Fuck you _KuRo_.... Just Fuck you....
While the three of them (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) and their fanboys are busy going at each other's throats, the PC master race is having tea and cookies and lamenting how the consoles are shitting on gaming in general.
And everything is right with the world.
How's Uncharted 2 on your PC? . . . Oh Wait. Ummm, Halo 3? Fuck, that's not on PC either. Well, you get Ubisoft ports, right? Oh, you have draconian DRM restrictions for your games? Lets see. Well, Nintendo always makes fantastic games. Oh, right. Not on PC either. Well, hey! You guys have World of Warcraft and Team Fortress 2, right?! I suppose that's enough.
Seriously, PC fanboys need to drop the holier than thou attitudes. Every platform has their strengths (even the iPhone), but none are without their weaknesses. Other than Valve/Steam and Blizzard, no one is championing the PC anymore. PC gets a lot of second hand console ports that are either half-assed, buggy, or play better with a controller - so you might as well get 'em on a console anyways.
PC used to have advantages when technology was advancing at a pace faster than most could keep up. You were playing Half-Life while the rest of the world was playing Crash Bandicoot in awe of how good the game looked. But it's not 1999 anymore. The PC's best looking, biggest ball-busting game came out nearly 3 years ago and has yet to be surpassed on the system. Meanwhile, Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 look better than the best PC game and it's on a console.
I'm not trying to say, "PC sucks! Get a console fags!", but really, there's not a lot of advantages to gaming on the PC as opposed to a console. We get it. Steam is awesome and Blizzard makes amazing games. But that's no reason to think PC gamers are on some higher plane of existence.
TL:DR
You can't look up Porn on the Consoles so they lose big times and they also have H-novels, where have you been man? Oh yea hiding under your Console Rock !!!
Its called the internet
Ya, have fun with Civilization V. I'll be playing Zelda.
"While the three of them (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) and their fanboys are busy going at each other's throats, the PC master race is having tea and cookies and lamenting how the consoles are shitting on gaming in general.
And everything is right with the world."
And, thus, it was decreed: "God shall smite the pcfags!"
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I have all 3 systems and I have both a PSP and a DS...
But I don't play them on a day-to-day basis since I'm too busy being on the PC...Playing Touhou while downloading Guro-Hentai, Futa-Loli, and Shota-Trap Crossdressing doujins...
truly what the computer was invented to do.
Oh man, I love PC, those 3 and they consoles can f*ck them self in hell for all I care.
"They all suck - 12%"
I lol'd. Whilst lamenting the fact that those 12% were right.
I wonder when a Portal 2 article's gonna show up. Not that I haven't seen the trailers~
PC masters are sorrowed by the lack of fanboyism and the abuse of pirating. Why do you think Valve brought Portal 2 to the PS3? Think again...
That why there's emulators so we can play everything on the PC.
Haha, try play the PS2 at your PC.
It will be impossible.
Even the no$gba is still impossible to emulate completely the DS. Even with zoomer!
That is the GAME OVER for emulators.
No emulator will be able to play almost 3DS 100% like visual boy advanced for GBA.
That why there's emulators so we can play everything on the PC. It doesn't matter if it wasn't released for the PC we'll get to play in the matter of months or years. Piracy for fucking ever
@Hyra911
>Implying people don't have to replace their PC's or at least upgrade select parts which ultimately almost eclipse the cost of some consoles, just to play the newest games at decent quality, once every few years anyways.
Not to mention, most people are way too dumb to upgrade their own computer and just buy price gouged pre-built boxes. For the average user, the PC is either a hassle (have to learn computer upgrading and building, and still spend almost similar amounts of money) or completely cost ineffective (because you pay $500+ on a prebuilt PC whose specs aren't guaranteed to even work that well for the games in the first place).
Yup.
"pirating is killing the computer business."
Pirating isn't killing jack shit. That's the words of corporations, made up to scare people into buying their games.
If you actually believe pirates fuck up any industry whatsoever, you're a bigger idiot than Agnes Chan and her goons.
PS2 emulation is actually rather advanced. Wii emulation is near perfect as well.
But still, you raise an interesting point...
and wii is emulated in 720p and 1080p i find it hilarious.
however here is the thing, to emulate you need 7x the power. by the end of ps3 life it will be done. actually, ps3 will be a little sooner, one core of the ps3 is drm, once that is striped it lets you emulate with less.
Yes but pirating is killing the computer business. The computers are far more powerful than any console, and it's cheaper to create games in it. Yet more and more producers tend to turn to consoles instead of computers. And that is sad. If pirating kills gaming in the computer, there will only be console gaming. And that's really bad...
All I can think is most people don't have the luxury to run after the consoles which keeping release new and more expensive type each year while PC being more useful in general.
Fanboy'd.
Nintendo won with tit power. Well, sex sells. ^_^
Wasn't there a gameboy pocket as well? I'm sure that I've got one of those kicking around somewhere.
I want NDS3D!!!
I've been following Nintendo since the GB > GBC > GBA > NDS > 3D!!
Nintendo FTW!
^ win
You forgot the Virtual Boy, which I also have!!!
Hahahahaha...
(Watches Virtual Boy Box)
Haha...ha...
...
Why??? Why??? Why did I fell for it??? Why???
(Goes to a corner and thinks in what he did)
Me too!! I've been following the emulators since the GB > GBC > GBA > NDS > 3D!!
"...just why Sony’s pathetically anemic announcements of the PS3mote and the marvelous news that PSN users can finally pay for access proved so impressive to western ears is not clear – manly Killzone action was perhaps the clincher."
Because of people like this bright gentleman _KuRo_ here that enlighten us with his acute analysis based on factual investigation.