@texastitan123 I bought the Vita to play video games, and I've been satisfied with mine so far. However, who wouldn't want more awesome for their device, especially something that should have been there from the get-go?
@inaka_rob Dude, stop. It's a gaming industry trade show, not a general entertainment show. Otherwise there'd be Blu-Ray players and Roku boxes and crap on there. Microsoft is turning away from gaming, and doing so at their peril.
Well, aside from starting the show with a show-stopper, they failed to have a show demo of Gears of War: Judgement or Forza Horizon. They seemed to want to get the hell away from video games as fast as possible to talk about Kinect and multimedia novelties. Sorry, but I don't see SmartGlass doing much of anything, and will likely fade away. Also, their struggles to make software that can sell well for the Kinect is making that peripheral look more and more like a Wii-type bubble, something people buy because it's popular but then don't buy games for.
The biggest problem here was Microsoft's continued insistence on moving away from video games. It's absolutely confounding, especially considering they show stuff at CES, where the non-gaming focus would have likely been more well-received.
Really, the only thing I get here is that games don't really matter at this point. Not that they have to speak to me all the time - the 360 is clearly the lead console - but if this is the direction they take the new hardware in a year or two, they're going to have trouble with early adoption.
I gotta disagree. Nintendo's pandering works for those indoctrinated Nintendo fans who were going to buy the system regardless, but it's not changing the detractors' mind. Nintendo needed to change the minds of people who were miffed by the Wii, convince them that Nintendo had something other than nostalgia mining. They needed to be the Nintendo of old, the Nintendo that created and nurtured these franchises to start with. Nintendo just seems content to rely on their pandering, and while that will give them great success because they always do. But this isn't going to put Nintendo at the front of the games industry.
@reindertot I'm with you, bro. I can't believe Shaun is so shocked that studios that have been together a long ass time would have their own footprint. When you work with people for a long time, bonds of familiarity and comfort are established, and people start figuring out what one another like. "Innovation," is the result of creative freedom, but it is also the result of asking "what if?" The "what if?" question is clear in Watch Dogs and The Last of Us, and that's what makes these games so heavily interesting. It's what's going to make Bungie's first post-Halo game interesting.
The fact is that, be there new ideas or not, it's a huge risk to put out anything that doesn't have an established name on the box. That's part of the reason Nintendo's been so reticent to do so for more than a decade, and why MS and EA are terrified to do so now.
Sony and Ubi Soft should be commended for their willingness to step out and take that risk so late. Instead, we have cynical media bastards trying to rain on the parade because it doesn't lend credence to their narrative.
@heroesfan261 The key word here is CONSTRUCTIVE. Too often on the internet isn't very constructive in its criticism of things. Review-bombing, return campaigns and the like are the unfortunate norm when it comes to expressing disdain online.
I'm not saying that was what prompted BioWare or Bethesda, but I think the internet as a whole is a poor source of critical expression.
That said, it's insulting to compare a gameplay enhancement in Doom 3, which is probably the result of accomodating level redesigns, with story-related alterations. The customer may not always be right, but at the same time, one size does not fit all.
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