Seeing as there were so many people live blogging the event, there wasn’t much point in little old me posting obsessively about this year’s E3. But in case you missed them, here are the highlights from this year’s kinda tame E3:
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On the Sony Front
The major announcement was that the 80GB PS3 would be getting a $100 price drop in September… along with losing PS2 backwards compatibility.
SCEA CEO and president Jack Tretton promised that PlayStation Home would be well worth the wait and that gamers’ patience would be “more than rewarded” when the public Beta opens later this year… and that EA, Ubisoft, LucasArts, Activision, and Nike (yeah, the shoe people) were all partnering with the service.
From Nintendo
A new Pikmin title is in the works…
As is Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS…
Along with a port of Dead Rising for the Wii…
So is “Wii Music”… the casual version of Rock Band, where you flail you arms about wildy. There are no points and no way to “lose”… it’s more of a toy than a game. It will sell millions. Moving on…
The Wii-Remote is getting a new add-on called Wii MotionPlus to improve it’s motion-sensing sensativity, and Will debut with Wii Sports Resort.
The Wii is also getting WiiSpeak, an add-on that sits on top of the sensor bar and provides voice chat capability.
And From Microsoft
Final Fantasy XIII will be ported to the 360! OMFGWTFBBQ?!
NBC and Universal have entered into agreements to provided content for Live, as has NetFlix.
A new Live interface is coming this fall, with a new GUI, avatars, and a My XBOX channel.
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All in all, not the most interesting E3 on record. Sony and Microsoft showed a lot of stuff we already knew about, and Nintendo harped on about casual gaming. Is it me or was this whole thing a bit of a letdown? Oh well… Maybe TGS will do better.
Nikki Blight: is still trying to find that damn princess... when she's not writing fresh code for the217.com.
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