I have to admit I'm disapointed by E-3 ! Nothing really striked me ! Nothing really original...
Of course Elder Scroll and some other but... I mean all those games were pretty much without any originality !
Again? Going by the measure of games sold that didn't ship with the system, they didn't win last time. The Wii's biggest problem in the market is that people don't buy games for the thing.
I will say the same thing I said above: what more do you want from it? Motion controls have already been done, 3D has been done; what "original" things can they do?
Like something that didn't have the Wii name, because it doesn't resonate with me as a somewhat avid gamer.
I'll grant you that it's a terrible name, but that's a silly thing to base the "originality" of a console off of . I mean, we also have the Playstation 3
I haven't been keeping track of that. GameReactor said that. They may have based that on amount of consoles sold.
I think the Wii is the easiest console (of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Playstation III) to pirate games for so that might be why.
The Wii sold the most consoles because a lot of people who don't normally buy consoles bought one. But those people also didn't buy very many games. The attach rates are by far the lowest in the industry.
Let me explain my opinion for the Iphone:
1st if you calculate the price of games of 3DS + 3DS games + getting a phone and a plan +(and/or) Mp3 player, I think it will still be a higher price than Iphone + plan + games you're going to buy.
Then, it's true, there's been plenty of rip off of flash games free for pc but again, you probably don't own an Iphone because there's infinity blade, secret of mana, soon chrono trigger, some very good action rpg + square enix original rpg like final fantasy or 3d ones which are very good, chu chu rocket (wich was a dreamcast game), ultimate mortal kombat 3, street fighter 4 (a light version compared to the original but still gameplay is very good), there's Tyrian (old shooter game but one of the best), Worms 2 armaggedon, a freelancer clone, Carcassone, Catan (try to find these on 3ds)... Well, the list can just go on and on and for that reason I think that the Iphone is superior to the 3ds because there's a lot of poeple willing to develop apps for the Iphone and you'll see games you won't see on any console and that are far more addicting than the ones who will be developped for 3ds or Vita.
The battery life of an Iphone is decent too, even you play big games (even if it empty it more quickly) and as I already said, there's more application with one machine.
Right now, the Iphone is truely a threat to every portable because people realize this more and more and console constructor are afraid of it so they try to find stuff to make it identic to the Iphone.
As for equivalent to Zelda, there is one ! ^^ There's an equivalent to Zelda 3d and equivalent to Zelda 2d !
There's very good FPS on the Iphone too ! With Gameloft, we have equivalent of Nearly anything even World of Warcraft ! So yes, the Iphone has fantastic games =D And there's also lots of original games very addicting like Tiny Wings or Angry Birds and Cut the Rope.
For platformers there's already a couple and there's truly original reflex games too that could be compared to Mario but it's true that many of those pearls are hidden in the appstore and you've got to make a couple research too before finding your happyness.
So yes, 3DS and Vita are and will be inferior to the Iphone for all those reasons IMHO.
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For the Wii U, they didn't try to make it more powerful, they, as said above, took the DS and the WII and merge them together. But the Wii, Kinect and all those stuff, are annoying in the long run ! Fun at first and you get addicted for a while but then you're like : I'm annoyed to move in front of my TV just to play a game when I just want to sit, play and relax.
I would add that they already developped a drawing table for the Wii, so it's not really new like they want us to believe.
It's not a bad idea but too much gimmick kills the gimmick ! You know what I mean ? While it's fun, I don't think that's really what the consumer wants.
I actually found this E3 to be one of the most boring of any E3 I've looked forward to, and it failed to deliver anything of any real "oomph".
While the Wii U was interesting, Nintendo are failing to learn from their past mistakes. When you have something new, come out and and actually say "Here are the games to get excited about." While I love my 3DS, they shot themselves in the foot by showing off dozens of titles and failing to deliver basically all of them. And they're doing it again. What games are you making? However, I like the idea of the tablet controller - far more interesting than anything else on show, even though it's basically an iPad, only good.
Microsoft continued its downward spiral into Kinect hell, and offered nothing to look forward to. If you want me to buy a Kinect, show me a game that uses it and isn't a fucking dance game. Forza 4 is the only Kinect game that looks decent - and Kinect is optional. I want an indepth game, not a three hour wave-fest. I want something I can get into and enjoy, not something I have to wait for my friends to want to play to get my monies worth. This is the second year in a row where Microsoft have failed to deliver. Halo 4? You lost me with the jetpack - and considering that it was a teaser trailer, that's not a good sign. Gears of War 3? Sure, but I knew I was buying that when I bought Gears of War 2. Where were the first party titles that make me glad to own an Xbox 360? Where was something new? Alan Wake 2 would've excited. Instead, we got child actors and bad dialogue. You get more one try next year Microsoft, then I'm jumping ship.
Sony delivered the sombre tone everyone expected, and yet it still disappointed. A new handheld? Ok, sweet - what can it do? Oh, it's a pocket PS3. If I wanted a PS3, I'd have bought one back when they didn't have a two hour battery life. Touch screen controls? They were sweet when I bought my DS. Two analogue sticks? That's how your competing with the established dominance of Nintendo? At least it doesn't support a whole new disc format designed to fuck you for AU$400.00. Oh, and please give up on 3D Gaming. Seriously, it's over. The issue isn't the price guys, and the fact that you think it is, is sad. Get rid of the glasses and headaches and you've got a shot at something. Until then, my 3DS is the only 3D I'm tolerating.
If anything, this E3 proved one thing: consoles are creatively bankrupt. PC Gaming is back where it belongs: being home to all of the games that make you go "fuck yes." For a a good half-dozen years, consoles had the upper hand. What did they do with that position? Waggle controls, $15.00 map packs, 11 Call of Duty titles, literally dozens of useless plastic accessories and an endless cycle of brown and bloom.
E3 2011 is the year console gaming was buried, and PC Gaming crawled from it's grave and yawned.
I have to disagree. The iPhone 4 costs AU$800.00, has horrendous controls for anything that remotely resembles an actual game and is more concerned with micro-transactions than gameplay. While there are some terrific mini-games on there, the iPhone is for people who aren't actually gamers. I'll take a remake of the Ocarina of Time and my free copy of Excitebike over anything the iPhone has to offer. Shit, I'll take Chains of Olympus and Peace Walker over anything the iPhone has to offer. The iPhone is for people who buy into Apple "You buy our stuff because your better" marketing, and pretend to be a gamer. Your high score on Flight Control is worthless. Your experience in Hyrule lasts a life time.
I thought they actually had learned from that mistake. Like you said, with the 3DS they showed a lot of amazing games, but the first one of those didn't come out until Sunday, leading to a lot of disappointment with the launch. Nintendo seems to be trying very hard not to announce a bunch of big first party games until they're sure they're ready. I do think they should've shown something more than a Zelda tech demo, but gamewise I think they're handling this a bit better than the 3DS.
Half of the games you mentioned in your lists are ports of games already existing on other platfroms. If I wanted to play WoW, I would actually play WoW, not an iPhone knock-off on a tiny screen. Angry Birds, while fun, is hardly original. Games like that have existed for years (and they are free). I have an iPod Touch, basically the same thing, without having to pay for it again every month.
? What on earth are you talking about? Nintendo most definetly made it more powerful than the Wii. It kind of has to be to be able to do High Definition, or to be able to have the same games as the 360/PS3.
The whole point of the Wii U's controller is to make it more like a traditional controller so you can sit on your lazy ass in front of the TV...
Finally, an actual controller to replace the Wii Remote and the other pathetic excuses for controllers its got right now.
I wasn't too impressed with much at this year's event.
Torchlight II looks awesome though.
Wasn't the wii just a gamecube with a fancy controller?
I think ninty have made a smart move. Hardware is plateauing and the Wii U will be powerful enough to last a good long time. Motion control will clearly never be precise enough for anything but gimmicks. The DS has demonstrated clearly that a personal touchscreen can have tons of uses.
The Wii & Kinect only sell to people who don't like video games and want an expensive, more flashy looking version of kerplunck for "family occassions" that sound nice in theory but which no one enjoys. If those people enjoyed games they would have bought stuff like deadspace extraction, okami, boom box... but they didn't.
Wii U will be able to handle any of that audience whilst doing everything technically ninty needs it to do. With better online support and integration of other features it is a strong candidate for the first attempt at a "home media system" that integrates big screen gaming, small screen gaming, web browsing, purchasing, online play, films, TV into one family sized system. the success of apple's walled garden where everything "just works" has shown that this is what people really want.
i'm not saying i like it, but i think it will be a big success.
"Enjoy it" and 'want more' aren't the same thing. I got my dad NHL Slapshot for the Wii. He loves it. Plays it all the time when people come over.
Does that mean he wants any other game? Nope. Couldn't possibly care less. He's happy with what he has.
That's the problem with the Wii/Kinect. This audience simply doesn't want or need to own very many games, they're happy with just a couple. That's a bad audience to make games for when the FPS crowd will buy a new one every month.
Exactly, that's why they're trying to make a more general, integrated entertainment system that can do that AND everything else in an integrated way. I think it's a very smart idea.
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