Update: E3 2010 Day 2: Nintendo Pwns and Sony Sucks Again

There’s nothing I can say that can really explain how epic and awesome Nintendo’s conference was. At the top of the list the two most awesome things announced and shown where these two:

Its here and works beautifully (not seamlessly though, I’ll explain further).

Yay! New Zelda Wii game!

See two things to get excited about already. Nintendo was full of surprises. You can say Nintendo won E3 overall. Just about every single thing they announced needed some kind of cheer and applause. The 3DS presentation was one for the ages. Nintendo always comes up with clever stuff, no matter how silly it is. The same can be said for the 3DS trailers that were shown. The 3D was simulated since 3D can’t be shown again when recorded. Its like one of those things you can only see in person. You can view more pics here. Details as follows:

· 3D Switch Button (in case nausea may and probably will kick in)

· 3 Cameras, 2 up front, for 3D pictures, and one at the front for the regular 2D pictures. I assure you it won’t be used as much.

· Analog Stick, also used as a Slide Pad (As shown in this Metal Gear Solid 3DS trailer, yep getting a Metal Gear game too)

· A touch screen they kept utilized in the system

· And possible touch Home, Start, and Select buttons

· And of course the 3D [wide] screen using some kind of black magic

I seriously wish I could see the 3D. There’s no image or video that can show what those people are seeing exactly. It’s some sort of new unique 3D system that’s being used there. Some awesome witchcraft there.

The first game to be announced for the 3DS was this:

Kid Icarus finally returns. Guess there was good reason to wait so long for a new game to appear. And for the new 3DS system which is nice. An appropriate greeting as well. And dude, that’s 3DS gameplay? That is high quality stuff there.

Before this was the Zelda Wii announcement. I thought 3DS was bigger in a way. But Zelda was also awesome.

Mr. Miyamoto-san explains the game (by video and somehow being dubbed much like a Japanese movie), but instead hands it off to a presenter, who sucks:

And then Mr. Miyamoto makes an appearance! Epic stuff here.

Now for more announcements. Tons of Nintendo games were announced. I aint kidding, take a look:

Another Wii party game, with a literal name this time. And somehow this American Family understands Kanji.

Goldeneye was also officially announced. You can see the leaked yet HQ trailer in the previous post. Now time for some Epic Mickey footage. Man, I can’t get enough of Epic Mickey either:

And some gameplay:

Awesome, just awesome. In the gameplay you will notice the cutscenes are different from the gameplay. Its quite beautifully drawn and is meant to be the way it is. Its a nice touch to a great looking Disney game. This will be on my buy list for sure.

Now here come some surprises. A really great secret Nintendo has kept is the next Kirby game. The trailer, also epic, explains all:

A painfully cute game. What's this?! Another surprise!?:

I totally didn’t see this coming. Jesus, things like this really take the wind out of you when you see so much epicness in one sitting. A slew of 3DS games were announced to make an appearance, although they may not be launch titles. The most important include: Resident Evil: Revelations, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Street Fighter IV, and Metal Gear Solid Franchise. More epic stuff. A Nintendogs for the 3DS was announced, and +Cats. Because they just go well together don’t they? You could also watch Hollywood movies on the 3DS, in 3D! Clever. Before the show was over a surprise has arisen. A ton of girls appeared with 3DS’ were attached to themselves and were going to about each person in the room so that they can preview the 3DS for themselves. Oh, lucky people….

That was it for the Nintendo Conference. Sony was, well, only about a couple of things were worth mentioning. Sony may soon abandon the PSP as the only title announced was Patapon 3. Very disappointing. What was surprising was this:

Why Valve, why? Can’t you see how much Microsoft (kinda) and Nintendo is kicking so much Sony ass right now? I mean, its cool, but why can’t the Xbox 360 get some Portal cube hearts….

Playstation Plus was also somewhat of a surprise. It was rumored Playstation would get a kind of Xbox Live service, and they did and its worse than Xbox Live. Oh, how low can one system sink? Its only going to get worse. The service for a year is $49.99, and 3 months is $17.99 (Xbox live is cheaper). Apparently you get tons of free content and discounts on stuff, but if people pay, more things will be PSPlus exclusive. It will get worse I can guarantee that. And I also heard that the DLC you buy with Plus is only available as long as you have the subscription. Come again? Even Xbox Live doesn’t pull that crap. Yep, online will soon be no longer free. What a sad day for Sony. Its probably because of all the money they lost on PSP Go’s and PS3s. Well, new Xbox 360 it is.

Oh, and this was announced:

Killzone 3 was also shown in 3D. And there’s not much else worth mentioning. Sorcery did look a bit promising, not enough to entice the Playstation Move on me though. Kevin Butler, Playstation’s Human Mascot, made an appearance which was the only epic thing seen in the whole show. His speech was impressive. Take a look if you wish. I understand if you hate him though. You can either like him or hate him:

I especially like the zingers he makes towards Microsoft. They had it coming.

That’s it for Sony. Like I said, disappointing and just a bit horrible. Nintendo recently made some new announcements which include new 3DS games. And they are remakes of old Nintendo 64 games! More awesome stuff.

Starfox re-returns! Also take note, this is a demo. Yes this is being played at E3 as we speak. Not sure if that’s all the touch screen will be used for, I certainly hope not, but still a remake is still awesome. More screens here.

This is more of a rumor than an announcement, but holy crap! Its Zelda: Ocarina of Time remade for the 3DS! Kotaku explains it was found when rummaging around Nintendo’s E3 site.

And here are the rest. First pic is Paper Mario 3DS, Mario Kart 3DS, and Pilot Wings for the 3DS. Finally, since Wii never got it, I might as well settle for the 3DS to get Pilot Wings.Pikmin is till making its way for the Wii, but apparently wasn’t E3 ready. Well, thank you Nintendo, for giving us the future. Sony…I can’t even look at you anymore. For shame.

Time for a shiny new Marvel vs. Capcom 3: FTW trailer:

Two Wii’s, A Movie, and A Web Log

Excuse the mess. I’ve been trying to find a good blog theme, but I have yet to find one to fit Inside The Briefcase and have yet to suffice. I thought this one would be fine, but apparently a banner doesn’t fit in this one. So sadly I must move on to another one. Unfortunately I am also limited on blog Template’s, but all will be better soon. In the meantime; The gaming world is left restless today because of this:

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The PlayStation’s motion controller has been officially named PlayStation Move today at GDC. Kinda disappointed by that. I kinda like the Arc prototype name better. Then again I have never been looking forward to this. I really dislike the design and the whole concept. I can tell you why its exactly like a Wii. Well for one thing they announced a nunchuck like peripheral. Totally similar, except for the fact its got a D pad, two buttons, a PS button, and its wireless. Wii has a wireless nunchuck and it works just the same. It may not be official, but its still just a copy. Even in today’s conference their own words were “Think of it as a Wii nunchuck.” Words that should never have been said since its basically saying it is a copy of a nunchuck.

Here’s another similarity: It uses the PlayStation EyeToy in order to track the movements of the Move. The Wii uses the same concept. It has a sensor bar and can track the movements of the Wiimote from the bar. You aren’t fooling me Sony. I know you copied the Wii, don’t try and sneak your way out of this one. Just because you have a ball on top of your motion controller doesn’t make it any different.

And another: Wrist Straps, although not really major and they don’t seem to be so anal retentive about keeping the strap on as much as a Wiimote.

Now for some differences: There’s a ball. It’s quite unnoticeable and a bit distracting. It also changes color. The reason for that is it changes color depending on the situation on the screen. So if your curious it will be shipped in different colored balls? It will not. Its just the effect the ball has. It also changes depending the color of the room. If it doesn’t have a certain color, the ball will change to a color the room does not present. Its pretty freaky sounding to me. Apparently the ball has emotions.

There’s other differences, but I feel isn’t important from where I read since the Wiimote can do basically anything the Move can do. Wither it be from third party products or the like, the Wiimote thought it first. So now apparently the Wii is now in HD and is called the PS Move. And I predict soon Sony will get a lawsuit in the near future.

This is also why Project Natal has a much better concept than PS Move. The games they previewed at GDC were so gimmicky, it was really such an awful showing for me. I suspect a better future for Xbox 360 than PS3.

• Some fans were outraged yesterday as people thought (because of Fox News’ poor and premature judgment) that John Krasinski, yes that John Krasinski, was Marvel’s favorite to be picked to be Captain America. Turns out, Fox News is always wrong.

Now the favorite was previous Fantastic Four member Chris Evans. Its a better choice. Even if he is a pretty cheesy actor. The only reason I accept this is because Fantastic Four is now being rebooted. And I in no way, can see Jim Halpert do an Action movie after being his Jim Halpert self on The Office. There was no way. It never sounded like a serious choice to me. Well Jim’s out and now we are left with three choices. Human Torch being on the top. The others: Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Garrett Hedlund (He’s Flynn’s son in the recent Tron Legacy trailer).

• Did I say A movie? Because I really meant two, but then the title wouldn’t have worked. So really nothing worked, but lets continue: Christopher Nolan is apparently rebooting Superman. But he won’t direct it. He will only work on the script and produce it. Either way I trust in Nolan and Superman will be good. But I’m more of a Batman guy, so:

David Goyer and John Nolan is also finishing up the script for Batman 3; stating officially John Nolan is working on Batman 3. Even if Warner Bros. doesn’t want to admit that yet. Nolan also stated for the record that this will be the last Batman movie. Its sad to learn this, but its better to finish something than to see it continue and not being able to work its magic anymore.

Chris Nolan probably sees this too. He said he wants to finish it and of course like most of his movies, I will be there to see one of his masterpieces finish in amazing fashion. Nolan also mentioned: key surviving characters from previous movies and actors who played them will be back in the final installment. That rules out Joker coming back then. Another mention he stated was that another villain won’t be added to the franchise. Damn.

It may mean Two-Face isn’t dead though. Although I don’t know how it will play out with current villains, I still believe in Christopher Nolan.

Also a Superman/Batman movie won’t happen. Oh, well.

• On a final note I thought a post this video…for steam punk fans. Enjoy!:

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