E3 in a Single GIF
I’ll have a post containing the actual best videos from E3 tomorrow, and I’ve further explained my thoughts on the big three in a post here, but this is the simplest way by far to sum up how the event went.
In my opinion, and others apparently agree with me, the big three fumbled terribly, and as such, Ubisoft won by default by simply not being terrible. Nintendo had the most to prove, which is why their failure is perhaps the worst of all. Pikmin? Pikmin was your enormous launch game announcement?
And I’ve always just loved this GIF even before it was modified for E3. F***ing Mario Party, man.
lol this is retarded. Nintendo > Ubisoft.
Nintendo had the worst showing in E3 history. Nintendo either doesn’t care about appealing to a core audience, or has forgotten how.
lol you’re retarded. In two years Nintendo will be joining Sega in the afterlife. Unless they have something HUGE going on behind the scenes nobody will give a flying fuck about the WiiU, not even Nintendo fanboys are excited about it.
I actually thought it was a pretty good year! The last of us looks incredible, watch dogs, assassins creed 3, beyond (new quantic dream one), tomb raider… To name a few. There are some new IPs and some are genuinely exciting to me!
It seems Nintendo will focus on 3DS this year and hopefully will have something for next year.
@Sams
the Watch Dogs demo was ran on a PC, don’t expect it to look that good on consoles (announced for ps3 and 360 as well.) That view distance for example, certainly don’t expect that among other things – they’ll need to sacrifice a bit to get it onto consoles, just as CDPr had to do with the Witcher 2, for example.
Same applies to Star Wars 1313 is memory serves.
E3 gets less and less relevant every year, the real gaming conferences are things like PAX
i may not agree with your tv reviews (except for GoT) paul, but you definitely know how to make game reviews/reports. awesome article in forbes.com as always.
smartglass is ok, its a cool add on, a touch interface for 360 games, most 360 owners probably own an android or a smartfone anyway.
vita is cool too, but not as practical as smartglass. psn network is growing, and more exclusives for the ps3 so thats great.
nintendo was the weakest in e3 in my opinion. i mean, pikmin 3 thats it?? plus a bunch of old titles released last year?? wii fit u looks like a joke, and so is nintendoland. they were there to sell us the wiiu, but its like nintendo wasnt even trying.
Are Ubi still using their awful DRM?
I personally think that Microsoft and Sony were trying to see what the other was going to do and now we have no hints at a new console from either of them. It was both a well played scheme and a horrible mistake.
The main problem with Nintendo was the lack of price and release date for the WiiU. Pikmin is a good game, but we also had to remember that last year was pretty full for Nintendo franchises, and we don´t want another company using their IP’s as yearly money making schemes till they die right? Also, is a new system, so I bet you anything that Nintendo will kick ass next E3 while Microsoft and Sony are presenting a new console. Thinking about it, next years E3 is going to be pretty strong overall.