The Director gives us his random musings on the non-first day of the show. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/editorialArt.cfm?artid=23266 So I'm checking my email on Monday morning, waiting for anything important to come across the wire in terms of our L.A. team getting into the EA, Ubisoft, or Activision events that day. Karlie sends me a random missive with the subject, "No time to crop, and no words reqired". I notice that there's an image attached, so I download it and behold...
I can only describe this as "stupefyingly awesome". To think that there's a run-down liquor store in Inglewood, California that's my namesake is just too good to be true. And in Inglewood, of all places! As Dr. Dre has told us, Inglewood is "always up to no good". Amen! I hope this place sells t-shirts. Next time I'm in L.A. I'm definitely going to stop by...in the daytime.
Oh, there was video game stuff going on? It was hard for me to notice, since EA and Ubisoft hardly had any Nintendo content in their press conferences. Their fitness offerings were nothing unexpected (although I thought it was cool to be able to upload your EA Sports Active 2 stats online), and there's another Raving Rabbids game...gotcha. Outside of that, nothing much to report on the Nintendo side of things. I must say though, that woman showing off Bulletstorm with Cliff Bleszinski likes to CURSE. Geez, you don't need to have a potty mouth to prove you're one of the boys!
I have yet to listen to the podcast from last night, but I can't wait to hear the ribald tales of the Activision event...err CONCERT. I checked out the pictures this morning and subsequently picked my jaw up off the floor. Usher, Soundgarden, David Guetta, N.E.R.D., and Will.i.am all performed live. What the hell? No wonder they don't have a booth on the show floor this year...they blew all of their budget on that show! Maybe we'll see more of this in the future. I can't say it's a bad way to handle things. It certainly generates buzz.
Microsoft's press conference was more of the same in many ways: more Halo, more Gears, more Forza, more Xbox Live doodads. Kinect just isn't that compelling to me outside of Child of Eden, and I'm not going to pay the rumored $149.99 asking price just to play one game. The Wii's MotionPlus bundles are so cheap nowadays that I just can't see any audience picking this up over a Wii, especially when there's games like Wii Sports Resort, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii out there. Just not gonna happen.
I'm much more interested in Sony's Move, merely because I hear its motion control actually makes sense in "H4RDC0RE" games like SOCOM. If you're going to ape the Wii's control scheme, at least apply it to games that are underrepresented on the Wii to a certain extent. That might get Wii owners to consider trying it out. My guess is that Move will also be cheaper than Kinect, which is always good. I also hate the name "Kinect", which has nothing to do with this train of thought, but hey, it's my editorial.
In only a few short hours the Nintendo Press Conference will begin, and Reggie will stride across the stage like a colossus and begin taking names. Cammie will start putting more smiles on more faces. I shall start drinking. And we all shall rejoice!
Enjoy Day One everybody!
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