Niten_Ryu

Right... All the conferences were bad, but Sony and EA were probably lest bad. MS was so bad that it's probably worst I've seen since the e3 started doing videos about 'em (I did visit few e3 events in the 90's, but format of the show was different). So far from I don't think I'm interested of the any of the game new reveals. New Assassins Creed and Farcry 3 (if there are no enemy respawns) maybe, but from Steam holiday sales. Also much hyped GTA 5 (or GTA <insert city here> ) reveal didn't happen. Oh well, I'm not certain it would have been available for the PC anyway, just like Red Dead Redemption or LA Noire.

ewwww... That's one hideous image. Nintendo shares fall was much deserved. Their press conference was a mess.

Gamecube didn't sell that well. They still made profit but it only sold about 21 million units worldwide during it's lifetime. It lost to Xbox and especially to PS2.

I'm the opposite. I think I see jaggies even when there are none. Worst are those CGI scenes and animations from various science TV programs. I always think designers did something wrong on the rendering pileline

Hahah... that's new "console"? Epic troll from the big N So both MS and N managed to troll me.

That Mario Kart was time machine. I'm posting from 1996!

If PS Vita is so cheap, I wonder why didn't they make phone version out of it too. Top end smart phones are twice as that much... heck, simple phone functions would have been really cheap to include to the system. I'm not going to carry to 2 devices with me, no matter how awesome PS Vita is.

Yup, Frostbite 2 engine is really nice. I'm kinda suprised that they managed to do something like that this late in console generation (then again, videos could be PC only).

Didn't CEO just say that they won't to bring celebrities to their event.. now there's rappers and NFL players. I guess it's trademarked

Nooooo.... quicktime events in Need For Speed!

MS to gamers *troll successful* Ken Levine now on http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/e3-live.html

Now that was one horrible e3 event.

If this kinect crap is future of gaming... I'm outta here!

What the hell.. Ryse? I can't belive guy acted like he had sword and shield... and then he kicked his TV. Bah.. Halo remade? It's only one console generation old.

lol, kinect Mass Effect 3... you read the text and say it out loud. So stupid.

http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/e3-live.html pre-show is on

Yeah. I wonder what kind of brand value Halo have now that Bungie is gone. Halo Reach (and that stupid ODST) was already "milking it". Generic Space Marines - developed by unknown.

It's that time again. Get your E3 bingo cards and drinking games ready. Belive the hype! CGI trailers! Casual non-gamers! http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/ Schedules and stuff via Neogaf

I'm kinda happy about that Activision chose to do the "unthinkable". Now we really see how popular the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare brands are. In the other corner we have Battlefield 3, with great Frostbite 2 engine, beautiful movement animations, (at least some) optimazations for the PC version, free to play and in the other corner we have Modern Warfare 3. If Activision win, they'll certainly deserve it. But if they lose and burn Call of Duty and Modern Warfare brands into ground, they'll deserve it even more I haven't played multiplayer FPS competitively since the early 2000 so I don't really care one way or the other. I'll buy my FPS cheaply from Steam sales and only play singleplayer campaigns.

Tour of duty in GTA games. Finished Episodes from Liberty City (tBoGT is one of the greatest games all time in my book), started GTA San Andreas but didn't want to continue it because graphics are so damn ugly (need to take few months break from more modern GTAs) and controls clunky. So I started another GTA 4 run. Wish I had better computer in order to use fraps. Let's play or walkthru would be fun to make for the youtube (then again, not like there's shortage of those). I really like modern GTAs, they get better the more you play 'em. I think this is my 6th run in GTA 4.

It's too bad that US and Canada are such backwater nations when it comes to internet speeds and download caps. EU, Japan and Korea would be more then ready for download only consoles. I mean I use Steam for nearly all my games these days and I don't even bother to check how many Gb they need. 5, 10, 20+ it's all the same. DL is always done really fast. MS can't be happy with current situation. They certainly don't want to pay Sony for Blueray, HDDVD is obsolite, download only not possible because north america, new techs to replace blueray still in development... I wouldn't be suprised if this issue is one of those things that might delay the release of MS next gen console. Not that I expect the situation to be any better in 2014 or 2015.

And the Jersey Shore has been renewed for another season, your point? Point is - Why work hard for your money? If there's enough players for the Dragon Age 2 "quality", why would EA waste money to develop something that might cost way more to make and might not get increased sales to justify that cost. I mean I expected Dragon Age 2 to crash and burn but EA managed to dupe a good number of players and retailers to buy their game. 2 million units moved with barely any effort. It's perversily impressive. Like the success of Jersey Shore

This is common viewpoint and direct result for AAA PC gaming being (almost) dead. Crysis was released 2007, Xbox360 is 2005 tech. So from technical point of view we already hit the wall 4 years ago. I'd say The Witcher 2 (on the most powerful available PC right now) is something that could be expected from optimized next generation consoles. Even your friend would see the difference in textures, lighting, level of detail in character models and such. But if you show the The Witcher 2 on low settings and it'll probably look just like the 2005 tech console game. I just finished the Episodes from Liberty City run and started another GTA San Andreas run. Damn the graphics are ugly on that one. It was released for consoles in 2004 and for PC 2005, so a typical late console generation game. There is a huge difference in visual quality. Obviously as closer we get to the so called "photorealism" or "hyperrealism", the closer we get to dimishing returns on visual quality. But there's still a long way to go, as good as the Witcher 2 look like, I don't think anyone mistake it for the lastest Pixar movie or Weta's work in movies. One thing is certain - In this generation art direction and aesthetics are already way more important then technical aspects of the graphics. It's even more true in the next generation.

Personally I think it's bit different this time around. Xbox360 and PS3 game developers already use high resolution textures and models (like from Zbrush) and then downscale 'em to fit consoles pitiful memory. Just normal quick and dirty type of PC port hackjob is enough for the first games of the new console generation. It's highly unlikely that Sony will do something as radical as Cell was in this generation. And even if they do, developers are already experienced with multicore programming (unlike in the beinning of the this generation of consoles). It's true that first games won't be able to show to full power of the new consoles but it's been always like that. And current high end PCs are already more powerful then anything that MS or Sony can do on the console front. No matter when new console generation is released, most developers will continue to support this current generation. It'll most likely to be PC / new MS / new Sony version and Cafe / Xbox360 / PS3 version. Well, maybe not PC for Rockstar games

Similar situation has shaped my experince too. Except it was VIC-20 and c64. All kids from the street gathered to one house and since only 2 (max) could play at the same time, it meant that most had to watch. Or take turns. To this day I still probably watch more games then play 'em, thanks to youtube, let's plays, multiplayer battles and speed runs. All my RL friends who still play are garbage at 'em and it's too frustrating to to watch 'em fail even in simple tasks