15 July 08 - 18:23E3 = big letdown
It's that time of year again, when the big video game companies get together at E3 and announce all the cool stuff that we have to look forward to... except this year, the whole thing was a big waste of time. Here are the highlights:Microsoft:
- We're in your Square Enix's getting your Final Fantasies. (Final Fantasy 13 is going to Xbox 360 as well in North America & Europe).
- We get Portal 1.5 as XBLA Exclusive (woohoo)
- More of the same... blah blah blah
Nintendo:
- We're finally releasing Wii Music that we told you about years ago (when the Wii was launched).
- Our controller isn't very good so we're adding ANOTHER accelerometer to it to make it MORE accurate.
- More Animal Crossing (that we've know about for months).
- Grand Theft Auto "Chinatown Wars" for DS (are you kidding me?)
- More crap for soccer-moms.
Sony:
- Home is going to be available (whenever the hell we finish it - but not soon)
- Little Big Planet (that we showed you last year) still isn't ready.
- Look at the movie download service (distraction from lack of games)
- We're still making PS2 stuff (cause people actually own THAT console)
- We're going to drop the 80GB model and put the 80GB hard drive in the 40GB (no Backward Compatibility) model for $399 so it LOOKS like a price drop, but really we've just killed any hope of playing PS2 games on a PS3.
- More PSN games like "Fat Princess" & other crap.
Ubisoft:
- More animalz gamez that end in "z" and a line of Webkins-clones plushies with "z"'s in them.
Harmonix:
- "Rock Band 2" kicks "Guitar Hero 4 World Tour"'s ass.
Good times. I'll add more if/when anything new is announced.
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