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Imma let IGN tell you cause I’m not reporting anything Nintendo unless they start making real games.
New Everything
At E3 2008, Nintendo’s legendary master designer and recognized international superhero Shigeru Miyamoto said that the Mario and Zelda teams had reunited and were actively working on their next projects. Vague, but enough for us to throw parties. He also admitted straight up that Pikmin 3 was in development. More parties on our side. Miyamoto later commented that he liked the foundation that the company’s Tokyo studio laid down for Super Mario Galaxy, but wished the concepts were taken farther. With so much critical praise and equally strong sales, we think a sequel to Galaxy would be ideal, and timely. Meanwhile, we know from separate interviews with long-time Zelda director Eiji Aonuma that he is once more involved in the next major Wii title and it’s bound to use MotionPlus in some capacity. We would not be shocked if Galaxy 2, Pikmin 3 and even a teaser for the next major Zelda debuted at the big conference this June.
Motion Plus
Nintendo trumpeted the benefits of Wii to the casual crowd at last year’s E3 — maybe not the best move given that the attending audience consisted of slobbering hardcore fanboys. Soon afterward, global leader Satoru Iwata apologized for not showing more ‘core’ titles. We think the Big N will correct that glaring oversight at this year’s exhibition. We already mentioned Mario, Pikmin and Zelda sequels, but expect to see more traditional software to complement the big guns. Games like Cosmic Walker, Takt of Magic, Dynamic Slash and Sin & Punishment 2, for starters. We fully anticipate that at least one if not more of these titles will showcase the gains of MotionPlus to the core in the same way that Wii Sports Resort does to the casual.
More Dumb Shit to Buy
Okay — a bit of an open-ended prediction, we admit. The point is, with slowing sales in Japan and the sluggish economic climate around the globe, it might finally prove time for Nintendo to offer Wii buyers a couple of incentives. A price drop is a possibility, especially since the cost chasm between competing high-definition consoles is no longer so wide. Yet, at least outside of Japan, Wii and DS continue to sell very well — the two systems remain at the top of sales charts every month. There’s still life in them. For that reason, the publisher may opt instead to do what it always does to increase demand: offer new colors or develop some kind of attractive bundle. Black and silver are the obvious choices for colors, but Nintendo showcased Wii in all sorts of primary hues, including red, green and blue, when the system was unveiled. As for a bundle, Nintendo has traditionally included hot new releases in console packages, but with the ridiculous shelf life of Wii Fit and the high price of the peripheral, we would not rule out a Balance Board bundle without an overall price hike. That’d be a great value.
DSi
The Big N’s Virtual Console Wii service has proven to be an easy cash cow for the company. Take catalog titles, untouched, and put them up for sale. Easy money. It’s only a matter of time before Nintendo offers a similar feature for its connected DSi via the DSiWare service. Imagine that you connect to DSiWare and can click on ‘Portable Generations’ to download classics from various portables, including Neo-Geo Pocket, Atari Lynx, SEGA Game Gear, Wonder Swan, and the obvious Nintendo systems like Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. For a small fee, you could download and play through the Golden Sun series on Game Boy Advance, Capcom Vs SNK: Match of the Millennium for Neo-Geo Pocket or even the cult-favorite two-button real-time strategy game Warlocked on Game Boy Color. These, and all of the iterations of Nintendo’s own big games that have persisted through the generations.
Sony Rumors
PSP Go
This is now confirmed. This really need to be a phone. Its looks like one.
P3 Video Service.
To little to late for us. This would have been big when P3 1st started or when 360 released there service. At the same time, They need this at E3.
PS3 Slim
PS3 Needs a price cut, not a new model of there system. Sony lost a billion last year. Cut your system price and sell your software. A used 1st generation PS3 is $450 at gamestop. Sony you have issues.
XBox 360 Rumors
How will Microsoft reinvent it damn near perfect system.
Xbox 360 Motion Control:
Not the greatest ideal in our books. The Wii is not really doing well with this so why would Xbox come out with this.
Metal Gear 4 and 5 to 360
There was alot of talk of Snake coming to Xbox earlier this year. Yea that was shot down by the release of the IPhone app. Now the talks are back up, and the countdown on the website ends before E3 starts. We will see.
New Services.
This is something I would love to see come to light. Give me a new storefront, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, 1 Vs 100, a internet browser, Serius Radio, Apps, and different ways to play my 360. If Microsoft wanna take over the market, this would be huge.
The Streets at E3: Game Trailers
Alpha Protocol
A Boy and His Blob
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
DJ Hero
Madden 10
Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Mass Effect 2
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3
Mafia II
Some Sonic Racing Game
Halo 3: ODST
tekken 6
PSP GO Comfirmed
from IGN.com
Sony’s E3 press conference might still be days away, but it would appear one of the company’s biggest cats is out of the bag — the PSP Go is real.
Yes, for some reason the latest episode of Qore is live and features host Veronica Belmont speaking in the past tense about E3 and getting a private demo of the PSP Go from SCEA Director of Hardware John Koller. Want the deets? Well, imagine a smaller PSP-3000 where you slide the top portion up to reveal the D-Pad, Select button, Start button, and traditional face buttons. The screen is going to be 3.8 inches, the unit is 44 percent lighter than the PSP-3000, there’s no UMD drive, there’s a Memory Stick micro slot, it’s Bluetooth compatible so that you can use a headset and link it to your cell phone, and the unit packs 16 gigabytes of flash memory.
As if that news wasn’t huge enough, the episode of the show features our first look at LittleBigPlanet Portable in action (the screen is in tight on Sackboy and packing a lot of color) and Koller says that there is a new Metal Gear and Gran Turismo coming to the PSP.
In terms of the family tree, Koller said that the PSP Go is not replacing the PSP-3000 but that both units will live in harmony on retail shelves — although he did say that Sony likes 10-year lifecycles so the PSP Go should have a bit longer life than the PSP-3000. Still, Koller said the company plans to continue to support both downloadable and retail-based games. Belmont asked if there would be different games for the Go versus the traditional PSP; Koller responded that the units will have a similar catalog to begin with, but with time, he expects there to be some differences — like maybe developers making smaller games that are shorter experiences.
Want to get your hands on the PSP Go? Koller said that the unit is expected to ship this fall.
E3 2009 Is Tomorrow!!!
Hells Yea. The grand daddy of them all is back. Well, the step uncle that stays in his room is back but, it still one of the biggest events of the year. Yes we are talking E3!!
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have all be tight lipped about what they got up there sleeve this year, but there are somethings we are wishing and looking forward to at the convention. This may turn out to be the most exciting E3 ever.
R.I.P to Dolla
We have just received some breaking news. Akon’s former “Konvict Music” artist, Dolla was apparently killed in The Beverly Center in California. We will have more information as the story develops..
