E3 2005

[AareDub]

Originally Posted by PapaGeorgio For those of you intrested in watching the actual confrences you can see them here. http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3live.html As of right now Playstations and Xboxs are up. Nintendo should be up in a few hours. I watching both Playstations and Xboxs confrence. Playstation one is more details and semi-boring. Focusing more on specs and stuff. Xbox was made to keep you intrested while you watch. I liked how Playstation did theres though, although I wasn't that intrested in the specs it showed more what it can do with examples. Xbox was more, we are going to have a lot of games on Xbox 360 lets show one example. Didn't focus as much on the system as Playstation did.

It's funny how two people can have the exact opposite impression of the same thing. I though the Xbox conference was a little on the boring side, while the PS3 one kept me interested throughout. I guess its just the fact that I already knew most of the stuff being announced for the 360, while the PS3 was mostly new info.

Overall not too terribly impressed with the Nintendo conference. The backwards compatability seems to be the only interesting feature and I have my emulators for that.

I'll probably end up with all 3 systems because I'm a consumer whore and am willing to shell out the cash, however PS3 looks like its going dominate this time around.

[The Diva]

Originally Posted by AareDub It's funny how two people can have the exact opposite impression of the same thing. I though the Xbox conference was a little on the boring side, while the PS3 one kept me interested throughout. I guess its just the fact that I already knew most of the stuff being announced for the 360, while the PS3 was mostly new info. Overall not too terribly impressed with the Nintendo conference. The backwards compatability seems to be the only interesting feature and I have my emulators for that. I'll probably end up with all 3 systems because I'm a consumer whore and am willing to shell out the cash, however PS3 looks like its going dominate this time around.

Yeah totally what he said. I personally still feel they don't need new consoles just yet as the three still have life left in them but you know, what can ya do. Also, everyone is so up about the backwards compatibility with them all yet on PS2 I hardly ever used PS1 games on it because afterwards when I tried a PS2 game 97% of the time it gave me trouble loading them up, may have just been me. Which brings up the whole disc read error thing and problems Sony has had with the PS2, I mean is it just going to be the same thing over again? Maybe worse considering how much is going to be packed in that thing?

I personally think Microsoft has a good shot at hanging themselves with the whole graphics thing. While not a graphics whore I would prefer it to be more a focus in my gaming machine instead of being able to hook almost totally unrelated objects to them (that goes for all of them). It feels less and less like game consoles and more like this whole digital hub that could turn my coffee pot on at 6:30 and turn the lights off at 10, I want it to play my games, not run my life. If anyone sees the point I'm trying to make here just jump in at any time and explain it because I'm not one for connecting my thoughts and words together that great.

Also on a sidenote: I think the 360 is damn ugly