Comments on: E3 Day 2: The Sony Keynote of Becoming Microsoft-y http://everyday-gamer.net/2008/07/17/e3-day-2-the-sony-keynote-of-becoming-microsoft-y/ Gaming and Life Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: justin http://everyday-gamer.net/2008/07/17/e3-day-2-the-sony-keynote-of-becoming-microsoft-y/comment-page-1/#comment-18 justin Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:45:24 +0000 http://everyday-gamer.net/?p=15#comment-18 It's kind of funny that Sony has Xbox Live envy because where Sony moved forward to catch up to the more evolved online that Xbox has, the Xbox kind of took a step back by cutting out their streamlined interface in favor of a Nintendo-ized version of the Playstation Cross Media Bar. Don't get me wrong, I love the Sony XMB...but the new Live interface sucks. It’s kind of funny that Sony has Xbox Live envy because where Sony moved forward to catch up to the more evolved online that Xbox has, the Xbox kind of took a step back by cutting out their streamlined interface in favor of a Nintendo-ized version of the Playstation Cross Media Bar. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Sony XMB…but the new Live interface sucks.

]]> By: Matt http://everyday-gamer.net/2008/07/17/e3-day-2-the-sony-keynote-of-becoming-microsoft-y/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Matt Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:31:43 +0000 http://everyday-gamer.net/?p=15#comment-17 Eh, Sony hugely disappointed me. I was looking for an excuse to get a PS3 (I am spend happy lately, odd odd...) and they did not give me one. They have XBox Live envy, and it shows badly. And did you hear? They had this great idea that there can be accomplishments in games, recorded to your online profile... Achievements, if you will, that mark your 133tness as a gamer... Absolutely new original invention they just thought of a month ago or so, only possible on the technology in the PS3. Trophies they call them, and no other system has ever had anything like it in the history of man. NOBODY HAS TROPHIES NEXT QUESTION PLEASE! Ahem. It was sad. I hoped for so much more. And yes, Sony at home Secondlife-like thing is coming, really, probably by the time the PS4 is out we are pretty sure it might be almost in alpha. Come on Sony, you can do better, damnit! Nintendo, I think, is going in the wrong direction. They are forgetting that their casual audience is fickle, and when the machine has sat in the corner for a few months collecting dust because they moved on to snowboarding or guitar lessons or pottery it will not pay to have ignored the core audience who are actually going to buy games and maybe even buy the next Nintendo system. Gimmicks and fads don't work long term. MS, well, they were MS. They had the big announcement, I suppose, and yes it was major. But otherwise it was about what you expect from the 360. They should have allowed Bungie to make its announcement. Too bad MS destroyed the computer gaming industry in the psychotic desire to make a viable console... But that was set in motion long before the 360, I guess. Oh well, we still have Dawn of War II coming, that looked pretty good. Anyway, in the next 6 months I can see myself getting a 360 and/or a PS3 (even though I have access to both and a Wii via my roommate...) and/or a DS, perhaps. Not saying I will, but I almost certainly will get one of them. I already have the newest thin PSP, and there is no chance of me ever owning a Wii unless they really change the way things are going. And the PS3, well, I will probably only get it if I can get a decent emotion engine 60gig, because I have tons of PS2 games I have never played and would really like the ability to play them. We shall see. Eh, Sony hugely disappointed me. I was looking for an excuse to get a PS3 (I am spend happy lately, odd odd…) and they did not give me one. They have XBox Live envy, and it shows badly. And did you hear? They had this great idea that there can be accomplishments in games, recorded to your online profile… Achievements, if you will, that mark your 133tness as a gamer… Absolutely new original invention they just thought of a month ago or so, only possible on the technology in the PS3. Trophies they call them, and no other system has ever had anything like it in the history of man. NOBODY HAS TROPHIES NEXT QUESTION PLEASE! Ahem. It was sad. I hoped for so much more. And yes, Sony at home Secondlife-like thing is coming, really, probably by the time the PS4 is out we are pretty sure it might be almost in alpha. Come on Sony, you can do better, damnit!

Nintendo, I think, is going in the wrong direction. They are forgetting that their casual audience is fickle, and when the machine has sat in the corner for a few months collecting dust because they moved on to snowboarding or guitar lessons or pottery it will not pay to have ignored the core audience who are actually going to buy games and maybe even buy the next Nintendo system. Gimmicks and fads don’t work long term.

MS, well, they were MS. They had the big announcement, I suppose, and yes it was major. But otherwise it was about what you expect from the 360. They should have allowed Bungie to make its announcement. Too bad MS destroyed the computer gaming industry in the psychotic desire to make a viable console… But that was set in motion long before the 360, I guess. Oh well, we still have Dawn of War II coming, that looked pretty good.

Anyway, in the next 6 months I can see myself getting a 360 and/or a PS3 (even though I have access to both and a Wii via my roommate…) and/or a DS, perhaps. Not saying I will, but I almost certainly will get one of them. I already have the newest thin PSP, and there is no chance of me ever owning a Wii unless they really change the way things are going. And the PS3, well, I will probably only get it if I can get a decent emotion engine 60gig, because I have tons of PS2 games I have never played and would really like the ability to play them. We shall see.

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