So then, it finally happened. I predicted this move back during Super Mario World days (I just thought "it's just the next step up isn't it?).
Flying into worm holes eh? What weird wild alien species exist in his universe? I suspect suction cup aliens and crazy go nuts stuff, and also maybe the borg, I dunno. I hopes we get to go back to the Star Road.
Watch the movies. Super Paper Mario: a 2d sidescrolling platformer for the Gamecube! With a cross of 8-bit and Paper Mario style art!
press.nintendo.com has more screenshots, some of which appear to be 3d... looks great, check those out too. Awesome... :)
DK Bongo Blitz is a bongo-based racing game. Kind of odd... reminds me a bit of Kirby Air Ride, and that's not a great thing -- that game had promise, but was too simplistic and had no campaign or depth. Let's hope that this one is better than that.
Oh, and of course there's also Baten Kaitos 2 (Baten Kaitos: Origins, now) and Twilight Princess (though the Rev version is almost certainly going to be better...) also on Nintendo's first party GC lineup, but we knew about those already.
-so many games coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Lumines Live, Super Contra, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Galaga, and more, more, more. Wow. Over 100 partnerships with companies like Namco, Konami, Sega, and many more.
-Forza 2 announced for a Fall release. Looked god damned impressive.
-Alan Wake exclusive to PC and 360
-Gears of War shown again. Wow...just wow.
-Camera shown
-Grand Theft Auto 4 coming to the 360 October of 2007. There's some confusion as to whether it's exclusive or just a timed exclusive. I'm betting on the later.
EDIT: Simultaneous release on PS3 and 360.
-HD-DVD add-on shown (about 1/3 the size of the 360, no price announced. Will be available this holiday season)
-Live will work with Cell Phones and Computers using Live Anywhere.
a lot of exciting details you could read up on at IGN, Gamespot, Eurogamer, Xboxyde, Teamxbox, etc if you care. As far as the pre-conference goes, Microsoft took first place (blew the lid off everything), Nintendo coming in a good second (they showed some good stuff, but still too much secrecy), and Sony was just pitiful.
Coolest part of the show? The fact that the videos were available right when the conference started. Seriously, some people were watching the Halo 3 trailer off of Live before it was shown at the conference. Same with Fable 2, Forza 2, Alan Wake, and others. love MS.
The Vista thread gave me a cool idea. Although we aren't really want for topics during E3 I didn't want to forget this. The way it works is you give me a word or phrase to search for on my computer and I'll show you the results. The search uses metadata so music lyrics, pictures, videos, and interesting things may come up. I'll use "lazy" as an example:
Two SKU's for $499 and $599, Sony's online component looks exactly like Xbox Live, and the they ripped off the Wiimote by adding in tilt sensors to the Dual Shock 3.
As far as I can tell from what I've been reading, all those great things about Vista that were supposed to make it worth getting are either being pushed to the version of Windows coming AFTER it, or being ported to XP due to their great demand.
Except for the visuals, those should be... shiny...
So why should I bother updating? Security? Turns out MS is trying to update security but is doing it the classic "very annoying and demeaning warning dialog" way.
MS, either get these issues fixed or I'm just not going to bother buying your new OS. It's too expensive to justify that sort of money on it, and since you seem to be planning on releasing an XP version of things like the Windows Defender, IE7, and DirectX10 anyway, my future games are going to be working just fine in XP anyway.
Quote:$249 Price tag
Virtual Console (we knew this)
3d Controlle (we knew this)
ALWAYS online (console is always online, even when OFF)
Built in speaker on the controller
Quote:-No improved graphics on Virtual Console (as in, they aren't redoing the models, doesn't talk about framerates and such).
-TG16 will have it's 1st party games out at launch, 3rd party will come later as demand increases.
-Estimated prices for the VC are "a few dollars for NES, $5 for SNES and $10 for N64"
-VC games are pro-scan enabled.
-$250 "seems appropriate"
-More 3rd party exclusives than the Cube
Quote:-Zelda is 80% complete, delay was for graphic tweaks, wii functions and because they want the game to be measured on a scale of 1 to 120 instead of 1 to 100.
-NO SWINGING THE CONTROLLER for the sword, you just press a button. There are some cases where you will swing though. Reason = you'll get tired too fast
-Controller does sound effects
-Widescreen on the REV only!
-Navi is only when you play on the REV.
-Something with online is planned but no battle mode.
-More dungeons than OOT already
-More items too
Quote:Metroid Prime 3 - No launch for you! 2007 release
Godzilla (atari) and Snoopy vs the Red Baron (namco) announced
Quote:Mario Revolution - Fall 2006
Smash Bros - Fall 2006
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