Lemme start off by apologizing to anyone who’s just came to my site to read about FPA. There’s plenty of links to FPA related content on the right… The rest of this is for those gamers out there who like to keep their eye on the industry. Really, first and foremost I’m a gamer, and I believe that the most important part of creating video games is having a love and understanding of the medium. So, I figure that posting as a gamer is just as relative to my blog as posting as a developer.
Anyways, about E3 ’08. Pretty disappointing eh? No matter what I tell myself, I still, I suppose by some terrible habit, act like E3 is still what it used to be. If you’re a serious gamer who likes to keep his eye on the gaming pipeline, E3 could be a lot like Christmas morning. In reality, it’s now about nothing more than talking numbers and bullet points for the shareholders and mainstream news outlets.
That’s really the truth of it. My inner gamer wants to claim how full of fail all 3 press conferences were, but come on, E3 isn’t what it used to be. Nintendo announced their next big thing, and if you haven’t heard about MotionPlus, I’d look into it, because it’s awesome. Aside from that, they’re being Nintendo and not announcing games until a month or two before they ship, just like Apple does.
Technically, I am part if the gaming industry, but being on this side of the fence is still pretty new to me, so I still geek out about game announcements just like I used to, so that’s why I’m even writing about it in the first place, haha. I still tend to root for Nintendo, but I have to remember that E3 in no way represents their full target audience. The E3 PRESS CONFERENCE is for the casuals, sneaky behind the scenes interviews done by gaming sites are for us ‘core gamers.’
Besides, Nintendo works on a little bit of math that goes something like this:
Casual games = $$$
$$$ = Zelda, Metroid, Mario, etc.
So as far as I’m concerned, Nintendo can make and sell as much casual software as it wants. Besides, that leaves a big empty space for other developers to fill.
Yeah… don’t really know why I choose this post to actually put that disclaimer up on… guess it finally just hit me how many people come to this site every day, and that this really is my site as well as just a blog…
Expanding on that, let’s face it, video games don’t compare at all to Real Life®.
No Starcraft 2? Psh!
I heard Real Life got infinitely delayed…
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Uh-oh. That can’t be good. Now I have to make my own.
you shaid notin bout Halo 3 announcement delays? do you not care???
Halo 3 announcement? I’m pretty sure that game is already out.
It’s Bungie’s next game (which could or could not be a Halo game). I’m thinking that it is; but at the same time they’re also working on something new.
Actually i believe that it IS about halo 3. somtin about a new Multiplayer feature announcement. so i was trying to say.
Well, there’s been no evidence that it has anything to do with Halo 3. The announcement was most probably on Bungie’s next game (although if it has anything to do with the Halo-universe remains to be seen).